1. Save the Date:
   AEDC's Spotlight on Success, May 20th, Arcata Theater Lounge
2. Great Coverage
   in the Times-Standard
3. Intern housing
   still needed!
4. New Website to be
   launched in May/June
5. Education and
   Outreach Update
6. 2009 Membership Drive launched
   
   
7. Directory
   distribution sites
   
8. Step Up
   Program: Experience for youth, no-cost employees for you
9. Next on the list: Mixers!
10. Reminder:
    Stretch your ad dollars with shared advertising!
11. News and Announcements now archived on-line
    

AEDC's
Spotlight on Success, May 20th

The last Spotlight on Success was a lot of fun, and this one looks to be
even better! AEDC (http://www.aedc1.org)
is a Founding Member, and you're all invited to attend the event. It's
going to be at the Arcata Theater Lounge, which, as a brand
new business in our area, not to mention an exciting overhaul of the
Arcata Theater, should be very exciting. Be sure to call AEDC for your
free tickets, and we'll be there tabling for HumIBA!

The announcement is as follows:

AEDC’s
Annual Celebration of 

Small
Business Success May 20th!

There’s
no getting around it.
It’s been a tough year for businesses all over.  Humboldt

County,
however, is home to a special breed of business owner . . . 
Creative,
persistent and constantly aware of how to do more with less.
It’s worth
celebrating.  

Join
us at the ARCATA THEATER LOUNGE

Wednesday,
May 20th -- 5:30
to 7 p.m. 

Call
for your FREE
tickets at (707) 822-4616. 

Featuring
a special presentation from
the Small Business Administration to

Mary
Keehn of Cypress
Grove Chevre  -- 2009 Small Business Person of the Year  

Local
Food Samples :
Door Prizes :
Music
and Dancing :
Business
Displays and Demonstrations :
Beer
and Wine available for purchase

Help
us shine the spotlight on success!

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Great
coverage in the Times-Standard

Last week saw our press-release on the publishing of
the Local Optionsdirectory
get great placement on page A2, above the fold, in the Times-Standard.
We got a lot of good responses from that article.
Here's the link to the article on our website, which is linked at the
bottom to the original on the Times-Standard website:

http://humiba.org/announcement2009-04-23.html

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Intern housing still needed!

We're excited to have another intern this summer whose work
focus will be on the IBA! Claire Cahen attends Pomona College, a
liberal arts school in Claremont, southern California. Claire will help
HumIBA put on Independents Week 2009 (http://humiba.org/announcement7-9-08.html), assist us with community education and outreach, and help recruit new members.



Please see our announcement for more details:

http://humiba.org/E-Announce2009-04-22All_Intern_Housing.html

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New Website to be launched May/June

Thanks again to Precision Intermedia, we're
going to be
launching a revamped website within the next month! While it will look
basically the same, as a Drupal content-management system, the
functionality will be far superior, including a system which will allow
all listers/members to have access to their listings with a user
name/password combination, a place for you to upload your logos and
images, and, best of all, and auto-generated on-line directory with
tags and keywords that will allow users to search for specific goods
and services.

With the tags and keywords, we can say goodbye to the "I don't know which
independent
businesses have those products" argument for Big-Box shopping! If all
of you are able to compile a comprehensive list of your products and
services to cut-and-paste into the new system, we'll be able to make it
much easier for folks to come
to you for those things. It's not that folks don't want to support
local and indy, it's just that it often takes more research and effort
to find out where stuff is available.

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Education and Outreach Update

Scott and our generous HumIBA volunteers have been
tabling
events the last two weekends. First was the Redwood Empire
Artists, Crafters, and Handworkers (REACH) Spring Fever Festival, and
this last weekend was the Blue Ox May Day event. We've had a few more
businesses sign up for free-listings, not to mention a couple of
members come out of the work. We've been able to speak to a lot of
people about the IBA, and have made some good connections in the
process. The ongoing exposure is helping to get the Hum Indy Biz brand
out there and into the thoughts of Humboldt County's residents.

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2009 Membership Drive launched

Yesterday our listers received an e-mail announcing our 2009
Membership Drive. We hope to grow the organization enough to be able to
hire on a full-time, paid staff member to help us do even more. If you
didn't see the announcement, you can see it on-line, here:

http://www.humiba.org/E-Announce2009-05-05Listers_Membership_Drive.html

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Directory
distribution sites

If you're in need of directories, NuGames in Arcata
has a stock of them, as well as Signature Coffee in Redway. If you
can't make it out there, let us know, and we'll do our best to get you
some!

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Step Up Program: No-cost summer
employees

Reminder: Stretch your advertising dollars!
Shared advertising packages

Want
to
do advertising, but not sure you can afford it? Need to cut back your
advertising, but want to keep your name out there? Remember that, as
HumIBA members, you can participate in our
collaborative advertising packages.  We have both radio,
through
KHUM/Lost Coast Communications, and TV, through Eureka Television
Group. Next on the list is print advertising through the North Coast
Journal!

Check
the details and see samples of both the radio and TV spots here
(http://www.humiba.org/collaborative_advertising.html).

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Old News and Announcements now On-line

Our
old E-News and Announcements are now available on-line, if you want to
refer back to them.  They are available here

(http://humiba.org/announcements.html#Archive:_E-Announcements).

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