Momentum - Business to Business Online Magazine MOMENTUM October 2017 | Page 10

Small Biz Tips For Hurricane Harvey By: Steven Reddy, Select Marketing [email protected] Last month we all experienced a natural disaster that we now know, and forever will know as Hurricane Harvey. It has impacted the entire southeast quadrant and gulf coast counties of Texas. Our community and our Chamber of Commerce members were especially impacted. While the storm is gone, the results and damages of the storm will linger for years to come. Our economy has taken an enormous hit which is having a ripple effect into areas, people, and businesses that were not damaged by Hurricane Harvey. You can’t drive anywhere that you won’t see piles of storm debris curbside. Some businesses are still boarded up and temporarily out of business. “The Raceway” gas station and “Kelly’s” restaurant on Hwy 518 near Calder are examples of this. Their employees have nowhere to work and so starts the ripple effect. They get behind on their monthly bills and the ripples begin to touch other businesses. It’s daunting and requires all of us to understand. And Help! Things have changed and we had better be aware of it. As a group we are powerful . . . . Individually not as much! Help your friends, help your neighbors, help your Chamber. Some local businesses are not in a position to renew their Chamber Memberships. See, here come those ripples again. If businesses are unable to renew their memberships it will have a negative impact on OUR Chamber of Commerce and its ability to promote and advocate for League City. I was at our Chambers “Breakfast with the President” this week and Steve Paterson announced that our Chamber is accepting donations of any size to help some of our fellow businesses renew their Chamber Memberships. You can do this anonymously if you like. It will be a wonderful way to help stop the ripples from Hurricane Harvey. Our community needs to stick together and be positive about our future. Let’s all help a little . . . or a lot if you are able, so we can get everyone’s life back to normal, sooner rather than later. 9 MOMENTUM / October 2017 Most of us have heard of the “Golden Rule”. It comes from the Bible, Mathew 7:12 and directs us to “do unto others as we would have them to do unto us”. Now is the perfect opportunity to do that. Let’s help someone that really needs it. I promise you that your helping hand will be appreciated. League City Strong! From the Chamber: With the recent, devastating effects that Hurricane Harvey had on our community, some of the members of our Chamber Family weren’t able to renew their membership. Because of this, we have implemented the Adopt-A- Chamber Member program. For a fee of $300, or $25 per month, we will find a member in need, or you can refer a business to us. We will never publicize the business in need, we will only publicize  your business for being an “adopter” at your request.  You may also request to remain anonymous. As a THANK YOU, we will give you one complimentary full page ad in MOMENTUM and put your logo with a link to your website on our website. If interested, please CLICK HERE to complete the form online OR contact the Chamber office at 281-338-7339