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09/07/2010 - 4:30pm - 6:30pm
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10/05/2010 - 4:30pm - 6:30pm
MetroIBA Organizing
Join MetroIBA Now
Click here to join MetroIBA! The Metro Independent Business Alliance is open to independent businesses and supportive citizens from the entire Twin Cities Metro area. Founding membership dues are $100 for member businesses and $50 for citizen members. Your check can be made out to MetroIBA, 785 Goodrich Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105. (If you've already registered a user account, edit your user information and check the member box to join).
MetroIBA 2010 Board Election
MetroIBA members: please submit your ballot for the MetroIBA Board of Directors by March 1.
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Promote MetroIBA: Handout, Signs & More
Handout
He's also put together a quarter-page handbill promoting the name and website: download handout (PDF - 1.3mb).
MetroIBA Logo Decal
We also have static-cling window decals for your car or window. If you didn't receive one of these when you joined, contact us to request one.
Link to MetroIBA.org
MetroIBA Bylaws
ARTICLE 1 - Name and Purpose
The name of the Corporation is Metro Independent Business Alliance and the purpose for which it is formed is to help the Twin Cities Metro Area maintain its unique community character, provide continuing opportunities for entrepreneurs, build economic strength, and prevent the mass displacement of community-based businesses by national and international chains.
ARTICLE 2 - Membership and Dues
2.1 Membership
The organization will have members.
2.2 Classes of members
Big-Box Swindle Author Stacy Mitchell to Speak
The Metro Independent Business Alliance (MetroIBA) invites the public to a talk by Stacy Mitchell, author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses (Beacon Press), at 7 p.m. Saturday, November 11, at the Weyerhaeuser Chapel on the Macalester College campus, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul. Mitchell’s talk will be followed by a reception and book signing from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the basement of the chapel. Admission to the event is $5.00 for members of sponsoring organizations and $7.00 for the general public.
Membership Drive Extended
Just to give you a little more time to gather your wits about you, we're extending the membership drive a couple of weeks. You now have until Thursday, June 29 to qualify for the free ad in the next Passport by recruiting the most new members. We're also moving out the day of the Independents Week Celebration: it's now on Saturday, July 8. Same place though: Black Dog Cafe, Saint Paul.
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We Have a Winner!
Jon Novick of Fast and Furless in Saint Paul’s Macalester neighborhood is the winner of the “Wheel of Fortunate Small Businesses” game! With only the “E’s” showing, Jon correctly surmised the remainder of this inspiring quotation from the management guru Peter F. Drucker:
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
(Well, that’s certainly true, isn’t it?) For his puzzle powers, Jon wins a free ad in the upcoming MetroIBA membership directory, the Passport.
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
(Well, that’s certainly true, isn’t it?) For his puzzle powers, Jon wins a free ad in the upcoming MetroIBA membership directory, the Passport.
Announcing MetroIBA’s June 2006 Membership Drive!
Calling all member businesses! Bring in the most new members between now and Thursday, June 15, and win a free ad (a $200 value!) in the new edition of MetroIBA’s Passport, our chic, exclusive directory of the coolest locally-owned, independent businesses in the Metro area.
To give those potential new members an incentive to join, tell them that they too will be entered in a drawing to win a free ad.
But the fun doesn’t stop there! Everyone within the sound of this announcement is invited to play the “Wheel of Fortunate Small Businesses” game. Hidden behind the asterisks below is a semi-famous, inspirational quotation about what makes a business successful. For each new member business that joins during the membership drive, one letter of the quotation will be revealed.
To give those potential new members an incentive to join, tell them that they too will be entered in a drawing to win a free ad.
But the fun doesn’t stop there! Everyone within the sound of this announcement is invited to play the “Wheel of Fortunate Small Businesses” game. Hidden behind the asterisks below is a semi-famous, inspirational quotation about what makes a business successful. For each new member business that joins during the membership drive, one letter of the quotation will be revealed.
Give us Your Slogan Input
Please give us your thoughts on a MetroIBA slogan! Check out the "Brainstorming" section under the 'Forums' link.
Or link to: http://www.metroiba.org/slogan
Thank you.
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Unchained Twin Cities Movie Poster
Help us spread the word about the Unchain Twin Cities event, a showing of the documentary film Independent America. Print out a copy of the flyer and post it around town or send to friends:
Independent America showing on November 19: Poster (PDF file)
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