Legacy Awards Gala

ChamberWest was pleased to honor the following businesses in our community last week at the chamber's annual Award Gala. ChamberWest was pleased to have Miss Utah 2010 - Christina Lowe as our Emcee. These businesses are examples of creating a legacy in our community. Many have invested into new buildings and adding local jobs, others have continually supported the community they are in.

West Valley City Business of the Year: Valley Fair Mall. You can't miss the makeover the mall has made over the past two years. New stores, new restaurants (like chamber member NYPD Pizzaria) and more.

Taylorsville Business of the Year: Nelson Labs. Nelson Labs just built a new building despite the economy and is a fixture in the City of Taylorsville. They'll be adding a number of jobs over the next few months as their business expands. They were one of the business that helped the City of Taylorsville have the highest year in building permit valuations in the history of the city.

Kearns Business of the Year: All Points Home Inspections. Al Rickard and his crew have been growing every year since he started 10 years ago. All Points can perform a variety of inspections in your home to keep your family safe.

ChamberWest Business of the Year: Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center. The KOPFC has been a fixture in Kearns since the early 60s. It now includes 9 pools, park and trail system. Construction continues to build a world class facility as a cover is being prepared to be installed over the outdoor 50m pool for year round swimming fun.

Volunteer of the Year: Asenath Horton is the Volunteer of the Year and has taken our Women in Business committee to new levels. She owns Salt Lake Builders, a Taylorsville business, with her husband, Brock.

Legacy Award: Pioneer Valley Hospital. Since 1980, this hospital has been providing services to our greater community as well as giving back to the community in many ways. Pioneer Valley has one of the busiest ER's in the state and just a couple of years ago built an entire new ER to provide better service to their patients. The hospital has created a legacy in our community over the past 30 years.

We hope you'll come next fall for the 2011 Legacy Community Awards Gala

Blue Ocean Strategy - Where is your market space?

I had the opportunity to attend a conference in Minneapolis this past week. The keynote speaker was Roch Parayre, Ph.D. who spoke on the Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS). The Blue Ocean Strategy is in comparison to the competitive "Red Ocean" where competition is cut throat and only the strongest survive. Blue Ocean is finding your competitive edge and co-existing in the expansive marketplace. An example Dr. Parayre taught was in Ringling Bros Circus and Cirque du Soleil. Cirque has been increasing in value and profitability AND Ringling Bros. is not losing marketshare, it is increasing. In others words, Cirque is a circus but different and they are also marketing to a different segment than Ringling Bros. Both are growing and Cirque is not "taking" from Ringling. They each have their space in the blue ocean...get it?

From www.blueoceanstrategy.com:

"Companies have long engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation.

Yet in today’s overcrowded industries, competing head-on results in nothing but a bloody “red ocean” of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. In a book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne contend that while most companies compete within such red oceans, this strategy is increasingly unlikely to create profitable growth in the future.

Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, Kim and Mauborgne argue that tomorrow’s leading companies will succeed not by battling competitors, but by creating “blue oceans” of uncontested market space ripe for growth. Such strategic moves—termed “value innovation”—create powerful leaps in value for both the firm and its buyers, rendering rivals obsolete and unleashing new demand."

Alan Anderson
ChamberWest

Taylorsville Hosts Veterans Day parade - Nov. 11

The City of Taylorsville in conjunction with the United Veterans Council of Salt Lake City and County announce the 2010 Veterans Day Parade:

WHEN: Thursday, November 11, 2010 @ 11:00 a.m.

WHERE: Parade line-up begins at 9:00 a.m. behind the Taylorsville Pool, 4914 South 2700 West. Route goes from 4900 South on 2700 West, ending by Taylorsville City Hall, 2600 West Taylorsville Blv (5320 South).

Click here to download Parade Application and Parade Route.

Click here to download Veterans Day flyer.

A Veterans Day Program, with speeches and patriotic music will take place at City Hall after the parade (12:15 p.m.). Military memorabilia will be on display. Contact Jean Ashby at 801-963-5400 or jashby@taylorsvilleut.gov to submit photos or other memorabilia.

Updated searchable member database

ChamberWest is pleased to announce enhancements and upgrades to the chamber's online searchable member database. Not only does the chamber list include contact information for the main contact but also buttons for a map, any M2M discounts, and 'star' business status.

New icon graphics are included for these enhancements:

• Map icon to the member business through MapQuest.
• Dollar sign icon which links to the chamber's Member-2-Member discount page.
  
• Star icon which indicates a 'Star Business'. This star status moves the business to the top of the directory listing regardless of business spelling.
  

An example of these enhancements can be found at http://www.chamberwest.org/directory for Chambers of Commerce. Notice that ChamberWest is located at the top with its star status and has a discount in the chamber's Member-2-Member program. Try it out...

If you want to add a M2M discount of your own, please enter it online at http://www.chamberwest.org/m2m

If you want to have 'Star' status which places your business listing at the top of the category, the cost is $36 per year. The ChamberWest.org website sees more than 1,000 visits per month as calculated by Google Analytics. The ChamberWest searchable directory is the 2nd most viewed web page after the home page.

ChamberWest heard on KTKK AM630

ChamberWest is pleased to announce a new radio show on KTKK radio that began Monday. The program is a partnership with 7 chambers of commerce and The Valley Journals. Each chamber has their own program every Monday on KTKK AM630.

ChamberWest is currently scheduled to be "on-air" on Monday, September 27; Monday, November 8; and Monday January 3, 2011. The chamber will bring in a member with a unique story about business, have a prize drawing partway through the show and announce information about West Valley City, Taylorsville and Kearns businesses.

Please tune in to KTKK AM630 beginning Monday and hear what our local chambers are doing to build Utah's economy. If you are a ChamberWest member and have items we can give away to listeners, please contact the chamber office by Thursday prior to the airdate. The chamber must have your promotional items by Noon on Friday to be included in the program.

If you have a unique small business success story, please send the story to the chamber for consideration. As the chamber only receives 6-7 shows per year, the chamber cannot guarantee use of your story on-air. What we can do is promote our member businesses during the prize giveaway.

Flyer about the KTKK radio show in partnership with the Valley Journals