A common question from small-business owners: “How do I celebrate my company’s anniversary?”<\/p>\n
One way is to create an interesting 20-minute presentation about your industry, or how people can solve a problem related to\u00a0 your industry or in their own small businesses,\u00a0 then offer to speak for free at the hundreds of service clubs, chamber of commerce groups and club meetings in your community that are looking for speakers.<\/p>\n
The media seldom write stories about a company’s anniversary unless there’s a good hook. Nancy Juetten’s Main Street Media Savvy Blog\u00a0<\/a>tells the story<\/a>\u00a0of Alice Cunningham of Olympic Hot Tub Co. in western Washington state, who\u00a0\u00a0spoke to the\u00a0North Seattle Community College Network Breakfast<\/a> last year about why it’s important for business people to make their\u00a0products and services easy to buy, own, and refer.\u00a0 Alice\u00a0didn’t know that\u00a0freelance\u00a0writer\u00a0David Volk would be among the guests in the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n David pitched Alice’s story to the editor of a new\u00a0spa industry trade magazine. This month, she and her husband,\u00a0Blair Osborn, are on the cover\u00a0of the debut issue of\u00a0Spa Retailer Magazine<\/a>\u00a0under the headline\u00a0\u201c$10 Million Woman: Why Alice Cunningham Left the U.S. Labor Department for the Spa Business.\u201d<\/p>\n But that’s not all.\u00a0The Madison Park Times in Washington wrote a similar story\u00a0August 3:\u00a0 \u201cSoaking in Success: Madrona Couple Enjoys Getting into Hot Water with Their Hot Tub Business.\u201d<\/p>\n If you’re nervous about speaking, join your local Toastmasters<\/a> group to learn platform skills. If you want to\u00a0become a professional speaker and charge a fee for your presentations,\u00a0join the National Speakers Association<\/a>. If you don’t have time for those group but need more help with speaking, check out Tom Antion’s free articles for speakers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A common question from small-business owners: “How do I celebrate my company’s anniversary?” One way is to create an interesting 20-minute presentation about your industry, or how people can solve a problem related to\u00a0 your industry or in their own small businesses,\u00a0 then offer to speak for free at the hundreds of service clubs, chamber\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[246,46,518],"class_list":{"0":"post-25172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-chamber-of-commerce","8":"tag-event-promotion","9":"tag-public-speaking","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40886,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172\/revisions\/40886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}