Welcome
to the September 2007 issue of the
Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce
Newsletter.

 In this Issue


 Did You Know?

Some fun is coming to the Mountain!
September 15th, Saturday ~ Mountain Spirit Institute's SUNFEST: Holistic Health & Sustainability; Have Fun & Learn, 10 AM - 5 PM; FREE ADMISSION; Live Music; Vendors welcome; No cover charge for event. Booths, workshops and therapies will focus on healthy, sustainable living and healing modalities such as Massage, Yoga, Whole Foods, Social issues, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Solar Energy, Bio-Diesel Technology, Yurts. Nature-based activities, such as Mini Solos, Outdoor Skills, Hiking through Mt. Sunapee's Old Growth Forest. Live music sponsored by The Sunapee Community Coffeehouse. Proceeds benefit the institute's scholarship and educational programs aimed at expanding the consciousness of cultural diversity and living sustainably on the earth. For further information about our Mission Statement and Core Values, visit www.mtnspirit.org. Mount Sunapee Resort, Route 103 (Newbury); Call 763-2668 for more information; www.mtspirit.org/sunfest.html


 August 2007 Business After Hours

Many thanks to the Appleseed Restaurant in Bradford for hosting the last Business After Hours on August 27 and taking us for a beautiful cruise around Lake Sunapee on the MV Mt. Sunapee II

Photo credits Debbie Campbell, Beyond Design


 Next Business After Hours

Joint BAH

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Ribbon Cutting at 5:30 at 23 Main St.,
immediately followed by  a Joint Business After Hours
at the Newport Opera House with the Newport, Grantham
and Claremont Chambers to celebrate the  relocation of the Sullivan County United Way. Please RSVP to Rob Bryant at 603-526-6575

OUR NEXT BBH AND BAH!

SEPTEMBER 11: Inn at Danbury
The Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce invites you to get an inside look at our local businesses through "Business After Hours?"

Please come mingle with chamber members on Tuesday, September 11th at the Inn at Danbury, a short 20 minute - ½ hour drive from I-89 exit 11.
Simply drive east on Route 11 to Route 4 north and follow for 7 miles to Route 104.  Turn right at the country store and proceed up 104 less than a mile to the Inn on your left.

Join us on the 11th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM for light hors d'oeuvres and wine/beer and entertainment by Jim Hollis, playing classic Rock & Roll and Beatles songs and more; Cash Bar for cocktails;

Don't miss this opportunity to network and enjoy an evening of hospitality! Please RSVP by September 10th to 526-6575.  See you there !

Call us at 526-6575 for information on how you can promote your business.


OCTOBER 23:
The Friends Program in conjunction with the New London Inn is offering a BBH from 8-9:00 a.m. Terry Kneeland, local chapter director, will be explaining and touting this wonderful program for kids and adults. The Inn is sponsoring the breakfast. Check out the blurb below:

Mentors Needed for Local Children
One individual can make a significant difference in the life of one child. The Friends Program needs adult volunteers (age 18 and older) to mentor children, ages 6-17 in the Kearsarge region. Volunteers are needed to spend 1-2 hours a week in a one-on-one relationship with a child to provide support, encouragement, a listening ear, and fun!   Volunteers choose to meet with a child at a local school or take a child out in the community. Volunteers are needed for children at elementary and middle schools in: Sunapee, Bradford, Warner, New London, Newport, and Grantham
For more information contact: The Friends Program at
Top Photos courtesy of Paul Howe Photography

 Executive Director's Update

We are gearing up for next month's Chowder Challenge!
Prepare yourself for the Chowder Challenge coming up on Sunday, September 30th in Sunapee Harbor ! Sponsored by the Sunapee Parent Teachers Organization and the Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce, it could draw several thousand people!
We are still looking for Sponsors and Chowder masters!
Call 526-6575 for more information !

 Member Focus

If location is one of the most important factors when considering a business, then Innkeepers Karen and Bill Carruth are lucky individuals indeed! Their 1806 Inn is the local lodging located  the closest  to Mount Sunapee Resort, a place well-known to hikers, skiers, snowboarders, and others in search of adventure and incredible panoramic views.

A short stroll through the gardens and beyond and visitors find themselves standing on the shore of one of our local treasures-the beautiful Lake Sunapee State Beach. Also a short stroll away are local restaraunts, some shopping, and a world-class spa!  The 1806 Inn is a great place to stay any time of year with springtime opportunities including biking as well as the solitude of the local walking trails, and lets not forget New Hampshire's sensational fall foliage! With both the Mountain and the Lake so close at hand, you can rest assured that there are always a variety of events for guests to enjoy.

Prior to their present duties as innkeepers, the Carruuths owned and ran a bookstore, and their love of literature followed them to the 1806, where each of their five guests rooms bears the name of a prominent New England author.

For more information about this wonderfully cozy and inviting place to stay, take an online tour at www.1806inn.com or please give Karen and Bill a call at 603-763-2040.


 What on Earth is a Breakfast Before
Hours and a Business After Hours?

BBH and BAH are two of the greatest opportunities to meet, greet, network and market local businesses and organizations.

Breakfast Before Hours is often sponsored by inns and restaurants in-house or by organizations and businesses that do not have enough space for a BAH. It usually runs from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and includes a light breakfast for $5.00 per person (the cost of breakfast). There is a speaker either highlighting their business/organization or giving our members valuable information on you-need-to-know topics. BBH is an outstanding networking and marketing opportunity for members and sponsors.

Business After Hours usually extends from 5:30-7:00p.m. and is held by businesses and organizations generally in-house. They offer hors d'oeuvres and beverages to their guests and show off their place of business. There generally is no speaker. BAH is also an excellent networking and marketing opportunity for Chamber members.

Any Chamber member is free to sponsor either a BBH or a BAH. Simply call Ingrid of ISee Consulting at 369-3422 or Bernie of Huberts at 526-4032 and we will be more than happy to help you schedule the best date. We try to schedule one BBH or BAH per month and are now booking into the new year, so please call one of us soon!
 Business Joke of the Month

Memo Degredation

Memo from CEO to Manager:
Today at 11 o'clock there will be a total eclipse of the sun. This is when the sun disappears behind the moon for two minutes. As this is something that cannot be seen every day, time will be allowed for
employees to view the eclipse in the parking lot. Staff should meet in the lot at ten to eleven, when I will deliver a short speech introducing the eclipse, and giving some background information. Safety goggles will be made available at a small cost.

Memo from Manager to Department Head:
Today at ten to eleven, all staff should meet in the car park. This will be followed by a total eclipse of the sun, which will appear for two minutes. For a moderate cost, this will be made safe with goggles. The CEO will deliver a short speech beforehand to give us all some information. This is not something that can be seen every day.

Memo from Department Head to Floor Manager:
The CEO will today deliver a short speech to make the sun disappear for two minutes in the form of an eclipse. This is something that cannot be seen every day, so staff will meet in the car park at ten or eleven. This will be safe, if you pay a moderate cost.

Memo From Floor Manager to Supervisor:
Ten or eleven staff are to go to the car park, where the CEO will eclipse the sun for two minutes. This doesn't happen every day. It will be safe, and as usual it will cost you.

Memo from Supervisor to staff:
Some staff will go to the car park today to see the CEO disappear. It is a pity this doesn't happen everyday.


 Tell Us how we are doing!
Have a comment, An idea?
or something you would like to share with us?
  Other Chamber News

 Workshops and other Business Events

Thursday October 4th, 6-9 pm
Super Size Your Business Results Workshop
The Sunapee Area Business Group and Raising Granite Business Solutions, New London MicrocreditNH Groups invite you to  Join Ted Gorski, an Executive Coach from Get Your Edge and a certified Guerilla Marketing Coach, in "Super Size Your Business Results".  This 3 hour program is dedicated to "pump" your business with extraordinary results. In this workshop, you will learn:
How to implement fusion marketing relationships.
Ways to Profitably Prospect.
The 16 competencies of Guerilla Marketing.
Techniques to create a "killer"sales pitch.
Seminar is open to MicrocreditNH members and non-members.

Please call Heather Turner at 603-938-2433 for more information and registration,  Monday - Friday M-F 8 am - 6 pm business hours only please or email forfeng@tds.net for a registration form and registration information.
Please register by September 28, 2007. We are sorry but we cannot accept walk-ins to this event


 Pass the Word
Spotlight on things to do and see in the area.

Bradford Bog, Bradford, NH
Description: Located in a secluded area of central NH, Bradford Bog affords the rewards of silence and solitude in addition to an up-close view of one of the state’s northernmost Atlantic white cedar swamps. A variety of natural community types occur at Bradford Bog, and some of them, like the inland Atlantic white cedar swamp itself, are considered exemplary. From the trailhead south of the road, a boardwalk leads through densely forested swamp out to a small wooden observation tower overlooking an exemplary medium level fen system. Atlantic white cedar, hemlock, and spruce are all common in the forest, whereas black spruce and larch are the dominant trees out on the semi-open peatland. Several species of showy wildflowers bloom along the trail in the spring and early summer.

Directions: From Rte. 9 in Hillsborough, go northwest on Hillsborough Center and East Washington Roads about 9 miles to East Washington, the northeast on East Washington Road about half a mile. Park on the right and take the trail in to the swamp. Along the way several faint, unmarked side trails spur off into the dark cedar swamp. These are well worth the short excursion as here you will see an even lusher forest floor of mosses and decaying cedar trunks. The distance one-way is approximately a quarter of a mile.
(from the NH Division of Forests and Lands, Natural Heritage Bureau)


 Don't Forget!
The Chamber provides Information Booth Coordination between Newbury, Sunapee & New London
The seasonally-manned booths provide a FREE venue
for members to leave brochures and business cards
for public acquisition.
 Retail/Customer Service Marketing Tips

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
- Og Mandino

Deliver An Elevator Speech That Grabs Attention and Has Them Begging For More!

Don't Rely on Marketing Brochures to Do Your Selling for You  click here to read more!

Create a welcoming environment for your customers:

Good customer service can begin as simply as saying “hello” to customers the second they walk in your store. By greeting customers when they first enter, you send a message that you recognize them and appreciate their business. Even if the employee cannot help the customer right away, or even if the customer is just there to browse (for that visit, at least), a warm welcome sets the tone for a good experience in your store.

Few things can be more off-putting to a customer than being completely ignored while in your shop. Not only is ignoring people bad customer service, it’s downright rude.

-From Retail Marketing Tips at the American Marketing Association, read more here!


 Internet Business Marketing Tips

Two great online newsletters to subscribe to:

Denny Hatch's Business Common Sense

Marketing Sherpa Practical Case Studies & Know How


 Internet Business Scams

Don't Get Swindled by Scholarship Scams

Avoid Mortgage Rescue Scams


 Newsletter Deadlines

Deadline for submitting things for the chamber newsletter is the 22nd of every month. If you are a chamber member and you have news for the newsletter or you would to write an article or submit a photo,
please EMAIL US!

 Chamber Board Meeting Schedule

The next chamber board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 8:00 am at Sunapee Cove in Georges Mills. Chamber members are encouraged and invited to attend.


 Motivational Quote of the Month

Success is not to be pursued; it is attracted to the person we become. ~ Jim Rohn


 Ad Rates

Only chamber members may advertise in the
chamber newsletter.

Business Card ad (31/2" w X 2" h) $35.00
Quarter Page ad (31/2" w X 41/4" h) $60.00

Online ads can link to the person's website if they have one, Please provide your website address.
Advertising ads run for a month in the main
monthly newsletter then run online in the
newsletter archives.
Ads will have underneath (this is a paid ad).
Ads need to be print and digital ready.and submitted by Email or on Disk in JPEG format
in at least 300 DPI.
Deadline for submitting ads for the chamber newsletter is the 22nd of every month.

EMAIL US! or please bring your ad on CD to the Chamber Booth and give to Executive Director Rob Bryant

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Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce

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Newsletter articles contributed by Bernie Wesoja (Huberts), Ingrid Braulini (ISee Consulting)
and Heather Turner (Forfeng Designs)
Many thanks to Aryn Hoke from Echo Communications  for providing print issues of this newsletter to the chamber booth.

Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 532, New London, NH 03257
 877-526-6575 • 603-526-6575