September 2015
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p. 2.............................. New Members EverDry Waterproofing Conley Insurance Agency Mighty Mick’s Hard Workouts UBS Financial Silverling Financial
p. 2......What’s Happening in Hilliard— Columbus Young Professional Panel p. 2.......................Business After Hours September 9 - Orangetheory Fitness p. 3..... Taste of Hilliard & Business Expo p. 4......................Spotlight on Business CompManagement p. 4.......Want Your Business Spotlighted in the October Newsletter? p. 5.......Pictures from the 2015 Taste of Hilliard & Business Expos p. 5............Business After Hours August 27 - The Goat p. 5.......................Business After Hours October 7 - KEMB A Financial Credit Union p. 5..........................Member Renewals p. 5...................................Member Bits p. 5.................... Member Anniversaries p. 6... The Hilliard Chamber Membership Challenge: September 1st – 30th p. 6......................ACOPEC University – Personal/Professional Development Workshop October 24 p. 7.............Cuba Trip Information Night: September 29 Inserts: • 2016 Cuba Trip Brochure/ Registration Form • Sponsorship form for Hollyfest Arts & Crafts Show
e are very excited to have Derek Grosso, Executive Director of the Columbus Young Professionals(CYP), be our speaker at our September 18 luncheon to bring us the update on the millennials and what they are up to in our area. With nearly 20,000 registered members, CYP holds the distinction as the #1 largest YP membership organization in the United States. Membership is comprised of young professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, students, artists, teachers, realtors, and more who live, work, and/or study in the greater Columbus, Ohio region. CYP Club members are among the most active, educated, and career-focused 21-45 year olds in the city. The CYP Mission:
“Our mission is to offer connections, access, and value for our members through professional and fun events, quality athletics, and community impact.” We will be meeting at Heritage Golf Club, 3525 Heritage Club Drive, and reservations are required. You may make them by going to our website, www. hilliardchamber.org, calling the office at 614.876.7666, or by completing the form on page 7 of this newsletter by September 15th.
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Sponsorship Opportunities for the Hollyfest Arts & Crafts Show
t is hard to believe that the Hollyfest Arts & Crafts Show will be here in three months, but the planning is in full swing. We have sponsorship opportunities for your business to be part of this premiere event in Hilliard! Over 6,000 people attended the show in December, 2014 and we continue to see an increase in attendance every year. There are different sponsor levels available for you so please see the sponsorship form at the end of the newsletter which explains the benefits. The show will be Saturday, December 5 at Hilliard Davidson High School.
New Members EverDry Waterproofing
UBS Financial
Glenn Farison 4271 Weaver Ct. North • Hilliard, OH 43026 614-634-6229 • www.everdrycolumbus.com
Lindsey Gaynor 180 Market Street • New Albany, OH 43054 614-939-2203 • www.ubs.com/fa/lindseygaynor
Ohio’s only complete interior and exterior basement and foundation waterproofing company.
UBS Financial Services Advisor with 15 years in delivering comprehensive financial planning for individuals and businesses. Services include retirement, succession and estate planning. Advice. Beyond Investing.
Conley Insurance Agency
Patrick Conley 3600 Main Street • Hilliard, OH 43026 614-484-0300
Silverling Financial
Michael McMeans 3031 Castlebrook Avenue • Hilliard, OH 43026 614-898-6100
We are a full service insurance agency established in 1992.
Silverling provides full-service financial planning by a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER
Mighty Mick’s Hard Workouts
David Eagle 6194 Parkmeadow Lane • Hilliard, OH 43026 614-535-5317 • www.mightymickshardworkouts.com A fitness business that uses a combination of bootcamp type workouts with some elements of cross fit to help people get into great physical condition.
What’s Happening in Hilliard — Columbus Young Professional Panel
beer tasting included! Mikaela Hunt will be the emcee with the confirmed panelists being Libby Gierach, President/CEO of the Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce; John Marschhausen, Superintendent of Hilliard City Schools; David Meeks, Economic Development Director for the City of Hilliard.
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he CYP Club, in partnership with the Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce and Credit Union of Ohio, and other local partners, will host “What’s Happening in Hilliard” on Tuesday, September 15 to allow young professionals to discover a bit more about the current and future developments in the city of Hilliard – and meet some movers and shakers who are making it happen – all hosted at the fabulous Heritage Golf Club. There will also be a complimentary local
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Agenda:
5:30-6:15pm – Networking Reception with complimentary beer sampling featuring Homestead Beer Co.; 6:15-7:30pm – Hilliard Panel and Q&A; 7:30-8:00pm – Open Networking.
You may RSVP through the Hilliard Chamber website, www.hilliardchamber.org
Business After Hours September 9 — Orangetheory Fitness
oin us at Orangetheory Fitness, 3959 Britton Parkway, to connect with chamber members on Wednesday, September 9 from 5-8pm. For your enjoyment there will be a DJ, food, chair massage and rowing demonstrations. Please RSVP on our website so we can prepare for this fun event.
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Taste of Hilliard & Business Expo
Business Expo Sponsor Special Event Assistance by - 9 Trees Landscape Services; Vargo Companies Media Sponsor -
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he sixth annual Taste of Hilliard & Business Expo was held at the Makoy Center on August 5th. Over 1000 people attended the 3 hour event and the feedback about the event from those who had booths and those who attended has been electric. One lucky person was the winner of $100 in cash!
Bags Provided by -
of Hilliard at Mill Run
Primrose School of Hilliard West
Restaurant Vendors: #froyo, Applebee’s, Average Joe’s Pub and Grill, Britt’s Sweet Shop, Carriage Court of Hilliard, Cate’s Steak & Barbecue, Chick-fil-A, Crumbz Cakery, Culver’s, Daruma Steakhouse & Sushi, Domino’s Pizza, Flyers Pizza & Subs, Heritage Golf Club, Jet’s Pizza, Little Caesars Pizza, Makoy Center, Max & Erma’s, McDonald’s, Mill Run Gardens & Care Center, Outside the Box Catering, Pulp Juice and Smoothie Bar, Rusty Bucket, Sam’s Club, Solar Café, Steak Escape Sandwich Grille, Submarine House Bar & Grill, Texas Roadhouse, The Goat, The Little Ice Cream Shoppe, The Olive Tree Café
The public had the opportunity to vote for their favorite food and the results were: Best Appetizer: Heritage Golf Club – Truffled Mushroom Bruschetta Best Entrée: Texas Roadhouse – Hand Cut Filet Best Pizza: Flyers Pizza & Subs Best Dessert: Crumbz Cakery
Thank you to the committee, including Co-Chair, Jill Gerschutz of Credit Union of Ohio and Co-Chair, Melissa McKenzie of Darby Glenn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center who planned the event and to our awesome volunteers!
The entire list of those businesses and our sponsors who participated follows. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this event be such a success! Presenting Sponsor Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsor - Sam’s Club
Primrose School
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Business Vendors: AAA Travel and Insurance, Active Travel, ADP, AIG Financial Network, Altercare of Hilliard Post-Acute Center, Inc., Anthem, Apollo Pro Cleaning Restoration, Avery Animal Hospital, Avery Pointe Apartments, Baker & Associates Insurance Agency, Bella Capelli Salone & Day Spa, Buckeye Physical Medicine & Rehab, Camp Bow Wow, Champion Real Estate Services, City of Hilliard Recreation & Parks Dept., Civista Bank, CME Federal Credit Union, Credit Union of Ohio, Darby Glenn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, DogWatch Hidden Fences of Columbus, Edward Jones-Timothy Payne, Epling Law Office, Ever Dry Waterproofing, FASTSIGNS, First Service Federal Credit Union, Healthcare Clinic at select Walgreens, Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce, Indiana Wesleyan University, JC & Co., Lardiere McNair, LLC, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Mapfre Insurance, Math Plus Academy, Max Muscle Sports Nutrition, Mayfair Village Nursing Center, Moo Moo Express Car Wash, National Church Residences, Nationwide Insurance-David Stanley & Associates, NovaCare Rehabilitation, OhioHealth, PNC Bank, Power Shack Fitness Centers, Primrose School of Hilliard West, Security Plus Insurance, Smile Hilliard, Springleaf Financial Services, The Laurels of Hilliard, ThisWeek Community News, Top 5 Team at Keller Williams Consultants
Spotlight on Business...
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ompManagement is a full service third party administrator for workers’ compensation specializing in premium discount programs, claims management, cost containment, client education, safety & loss control and unemployment consultation.
clients over $120 million in premiums paid.
CompManagement is proud to be the workers’ compensation partner of the Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce and work closely with them to provide you, their member, with solutions to minimize your risk, lower your costs and take care of one of your most valuable assets – your injured workers.
We have been serving Ohio employers of all sizes, from large corporations to small familyowned businesses, and in virtually every industry classification since 1984. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio with additional service teams in Canton, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo and Youngstown, we represent nearly 30,000 employers across the state.
If your organization is not already participating in this member benefit and would like to receive a free, noobligation savings analysis from CompManagement, simply request online at http://resources.compmgt. com/AC3/GroupRating.aspx?Organization=Hilliard AreaChamber. You may also contact Rejeana WoolumNapier by email at Rejeana.Woolum-Napier@ sedgwick.com or by phone at (614) 359-2403.
Over the course of the last thirty years, our highly seasoned management and operations teams have made it their mission to become the industry experts in all matters concerning workers’ compensation in order to assist and educate our clients in selecting premium discount programs that will garner the most savings. Through our program consultation, use of cost containment strategies and best practices, and the expertise of our colleagues, we annually save our
For more information about CompManagement, you can visit our website at www.compmgt.com, follow us on Twitter (@compmgt) or connect with us on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/ compmanagement-inc.).
Want Your Business Spotlighted in the October Newsletter?
friend who joins the chamber and we’ll spotlight your business in our October chamber newsletter!
Greetings, members!
As a chamber member, consumers are more likely to choose your business over a competing, non-member business. At the most basic level, membership brings credibility to your business and increases your overall presence in the community.
Why join the chamber? One reason specifically is Save Local Now. Digital marketing is a challenge for every small business, and it’s our job to level the digital playing field. By being a member of our chamber you have exclusive access to SLN, a FREE member marketing platform built to maximize your online exposure (and increase sales!). The SLN platform allows you to enhance your digital footprint, create content, and share that content where it really matters: online, on social, and through email marketing.
That being said, we’re having a “Refer a Friend” promotion! This will help us expand our local reach and reinforce the value of joining the chamber. Refer a
If you haven’t signed into your SLN account to enhance your listing, we encourage you to do so. SLN is constantly boosting SEO efforts for every member profile.
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www.riderfinancial.com or www.rrfgbenefits.com • Retirement Planning • Retirement Planning • Life and Disability Insurance • Life and Disability Insurance • • Group Health Insurance includingthe theChamberPLAN ChamberPLAN Group Health Insurance –– including SCOTT P. RIDER, CLU CFBS AEP SCOTT P. RIDER, CLU CFBS AEP Planner CHRIS REINKE, Financial Financial Planner CHRISREINKE, ChFC CASL CASLCLTC CLTC MARTIN BRETZ, CLU CLU ChFC MARTINL.L.BRETZ, ChFC MBA MBA J.D. ARCHER, CFP CFP CLU CLU ChFC J.D.ARCHER,
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Reach out to the chamber for details.
Pictures from the 2015 Taste of Hilliard & Business Expo
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Member Renewals
e appreciate your continued support of the Chamber’s work on behalf of the business community. We appreciate you being a chamber member! Thank you to the following members who have re-invested as of press time: Giant Eagle-Hilliard Rome Rd.
Member Bits
Cooperative Business Services, LLC (CBS) has collaborated with nine credit unions to invest in Columbus 2020 and build upon the publicprivate partnership focused on regional growth in Central Ohio.
Member Anniversaries The Chamber would like to recognize our members who have continually supported the purpose of the chamber and its activities. The following members have invested in the chamber for ten or more years as of September, 2015: 26 years Thomas S. Rankin, D.D.S. – Tom Rankin 15 years Central Ohio Transit Authority – Belinda Taylor
Business After Hours October 7 – KEMBA Financial Credit Union
13 years Wellington Village – James Hurley
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heck out the newly remodeled KEMBA Financial Credit Union, located at 5555 Renner Road in Columbus! Come and connect with others on Wednesday, October 7 from 5:00-7:00 pm. Enjoy some great food from Average Joe’s and adult beverages! You can register for this event on our website.
11 years Allstate-Martin J. Mitchell Insurance Agency, Inc. – Martin Mitchell Reception House at Raymond Memorial by Schmidt’s – Sarah Meade 10 years CME Federal Credit Union – Crystal Gatchel
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The Hilliard Chamber Membership Challenge: September 1st – 30th
COPEC University – Personal/ Professional Development Workshop October 24
reate and post a promotion for your business with Save Local Now (SLN) three times per week for the month of September (don’t forget to share it to social media and through SLN’s free email marketing!).
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FREE for HACC Members
he Hilliard Chamber is helping to provide the community a personal and professional development workshop on Saturday, October 24th at Improving Enterprises-Easton in Columbus from The prize: Participating businesses will automatically 9:00am to 3:00pm (doors open at 8am). Choose from be entered into the Membership Challenge drawing. one to five classes, over 20 classes to choose from, all The winning business will be spotlighted as “Member free with your chamber membership! Topics include of the Month” and the Chamber will promote that career development, financial wellness, business business on social media, the chamber website, and management, young professionals, human resources the chamber newsletter. and more! Breakfast and lunch will be provided by The fine print: The promotion will run from September Sunny Street Café. 1st through September 30th. The Chamber will receive The cost is FREE for chamber members and $25 for post analytics via SLN to reward those businesses non-chamber members. Chamber members should use participating in the challenge. discount code ChamberH when registering. To learn more and register, visit copeceducation.org/university. The result: More people will SEE your business online, on social, and through email. Track incoming customers and share your success with the chamber!
Please see the flyer at the end of this newsletter for further details!
Post a job opening to HACC Website
Looking to add to your team? Post a job opening on the Chamber website! It’s as easy as logging into the member center, click on the job openings link on the dashboard, click on the create job posting button, enter the information and then click on submit for approval.
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Be a Chamber Luncheon Sponsor!
any of our chamber members have sponsored a luncheon and have found it to be worthwhile! We have spots available in 2015 for YOU to sponsor a luncheon. The cost is $200 which enables you to have two complimentary lunches, be able to speak for three minutes before the membership, have items at each person’s place setting; an 8 foot table for your display; your logo on our webpage linked to yours; and be promoted in the newsletter.
Peace of Mind. We Deliver. video production business theater graphic design print production web/interactive www.alliedsources.com
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Cuba Trip Information Night: September 29
Chamber Luncheon Friday, September 18, 2015 Heritage Golf Club 3525 Heritage Club Drive 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Speaker: Derek Grosso, Executive Director for the Columbus Young Professionals Cost: $18.00 for members and $21.00 for prospective members and guests. Payment is required at the time the reservation is made. You may use this form or go to www.hilliardchamber.org to register. Any reservations made after the RSVP deadline date of May 12 and walk-in registrations will be charged the higher nonmember rate if we are able to accommodate them.
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e are hosting an information night on Tuesday, September 29 at 6:00 pm at the Hampton Inn & Suites, 3950 Lyman Drive, so that you may learn more about our trip to Cuba. Signups are already occurring for this trip and there is limited seating for it. Enjoy a tour of Cuba for eight days, seven nights from May 18-25, 2016, including hotels, meals, day trips and airfare from Miami! This tour will feature people to people discussions, interactions and unusual visits such as: the seaside town of Caibarien, the Sugar Mill Museum, the colonial town of Remedios, the Che Guevara Museum and Mausoleum, a Tobacco Plantation and Cigar Factory, meetings and visitations with artists, meet a Cuban baseball player, Hemingway’s Farm, Old Havana and more. . .
Name(s)__________________________________ Company_________________________________ Number of Reservations: __________ Amount Enclosed ____________ Charge my: Visa ___ MasterCard ____ American Express ___
The price of the trip is $3,799 per person (double occupancy). Do not delay as space is limited and at this price the trip will sell out quickly! You can see how wonderful this trip will be by viewing the brochure on our website, www.hilliardchamber.org This trip is open to everyone in the US and you do not need to be a chamber member.
Card Number ________________________________ 3 digit V Code______ Expiration Date __________ Card Holder Name____________________________
LinkedIn Group for the Chamber
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he Hilliard Chamber of Commerce has a LinkedIn Group which we would encourage you to join! As LinkedIn is the professional platform of social media, we want to connect you to others in generating meaningful conversations about business issues. Please look for our group and become a member.
Billing Zip Code ____________ ___________________________________________ Card Holder Signature
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Mail to: Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce, 4081 Main Street, Hilliard, OH 43026 or call the Chamber office by Tuesday, September 15, at 876-7666, FAX 876-3113, or E-mail to
[email protected].
Board of Directors:
CHAMBER CONNECTIONS
Jeremy Felix, PNC Bank Jill Gerschutz, Credit Union of Ohio Keith Lewis, JC & Co. Curt Niekamp, OhioHealth Bonnie Nyikes, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Calhoon Company Melissa McKenzie, D arby Glenn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Timothy J. Payne, Edward Jones Stacie Raterman, Hilliard City Schools Bobby Sneed, Heritage Golf Club Bobby Wright, N2 Publishing
Central Ohio Business Resources Small Business Administration www.sba.gov Ohio Chamber of Commerce www.ohiochamber.com Small Business Development Centers of Ohio www.odod.state.oh.us Small Business Development Center http://www.entrepreneurohio.org Service Corp of Retired Executives www.scorecolumbus.org The Women’s Business Development Center (614) 222-6700
[email protected] Conway Family Business Center of Central Ohio www.familybusinesscenter.com Central Ohio Better Business Bureau www.centralohio.cbbb.com
Staff:
Libby Gierach, President/CEO Jess Woolley, Administrative Assistant Email:
[email protected]
Check out our Website: www.hilliardchamber.org
Calendar of Events Friday, September 11 Connections and Coffee Scrambler Marie’s 3939 Britton Parkway 8:00 am-9:00 am
Tuesday, September 15 What’s Happening in Hilliard Heritage Golf Club 3525 Heritage Club Drive 5:30-8:00pm.
Friday, September 18 Chamber Luncheon Heritage Golf Club 3525 Heritage Club Drive 11:30am-1:00pm
Tuesday, September 29 Cuba Information Night Hampton Inn & Suites 3950 Lyman Drive 6:00pm
Put Your Events on the Community Calendar
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ou have the opportunity to let everyone know of seminars, luncheons, open houses, fundraisers, non-profit activities, etc. that your business is doing by putting it on the Hilliard Chamber’s website! It is very simple—on the website, go to the Events tab and the first drop down is Community Events Calendar. Just complete the form and once it is approved, your event will be up for all to see!
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Connections and Coffee
on’t forget Connections and Coffee will meet on Friday, September 11 from 8:00AM to 9:00AM at Scrambler Marie’s, 3939 Britton Parkway in Hilliard. The group meets for coffee, networking and information sharing. Come with lots of business cards! 8
