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June 27, 2008
Tip #15. Have an
Advertising Budget. Create a 12 month budget
for your advertising expenses. It will control your
spending and provide an excellent planner for next year.
Tip #16. Use a Cash
Flow Chart. A cash flow chart is a compiled
projection of your financial statements, and allows you to
anticipate cash on hand..
If you missed his previous tips, read
more about Tom Shay and his book 100 Profits+Plus Ideas for Power Promoting
Your Retail Business.
Florida
Agency to Hold Meetings
on Safety Issues for Liveries
June
27, 2008
The
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be
holding three public workshops to which all persons are
invited. The
purpose is to obtain input from livery operators
(businesses that rent or lease boats to the public)
regarding safety materials and training procedures.
This is to establish size and contents of boating
safety information to be displayed for all-non PWC liveries
and establish size requirements of boating safety
information to be displayed at PWC liveries.
The location for each public workshop is listed
below.
DATE
AND TIME: Tuesday,
July 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-3 p.m. (CST)
PLACE:
Florida State University
,
Panama
City Campus, Auditorium, 4750 Collegiate
Drive
,
Panama
City, FL 32405
DATE
AND TIME: Wednesday,
July 9, 2008, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Conference Room,
3200 N.E. 151 Street,
North Miami
,
FL
33181
DATE
AND TIME: Thursday,
July 10, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
PLACE: South
Florida Water Management District Office, Shingle Creek
Conference Room,
1707 Orlando Central Parkway
,
Orlando
,
FL
32809
Please
contact Ms. Shelly Gurr or Ms. Ashley Dockery, Boating and
Waterways Section, at (850) 488-5600 for further directions
or information.
Changes
to OR Summer Market Events
June
27, 2008
There
will be a number of changes at OR this year, including the
new Paddlesports Lounge, hosted by PIA and the Trade
Association of Paddlesports (TAPS).
The lounge be a gathering spot for the paddlesports
world and a showcase for new products.
If you have a new product that will be introduced at
the show, we’d like to feature it!
Here
are some guidelines:
1.
Only one product per brand will be featured.
2.
Product must be entirely new.
(Please don’t bring us last year’s model now
featuring a new color!)
3.
Only signage that is attached to the product
(hangtag, sticker, etc) will be considered.
4.
The deadline for notifying us of the product you
want featured is July 18.
5.
We will be creating a schedule which will be
forwarded to all the vendors to advise you of times to drop
off your product.
6.
Space is limited, so please respond early. We’ll
do our best, but we cannot guarantee that all products will
be displayed. Boats
will be rotated daily as needed to accommodate as many new
models as possible.
Information
on new accessory product should be sent to Nikki
Rekman at nikki@gopaddle.org.
Please include any basic data that might be helpful
to us in knowing what the product is.
We don’t need names, just a description (pfd,
touring kayak paddle, drytop, etc.)
Information
on new boats should be sent to Joe
Pulliam at
pulliam.joe@gmail.com
. Please
include only the type of boat (kayak, canoe, inflatable,
etc) and approximate length and width.
This
is a great opportunity to increase exposure for your new
product! Please
let us know if you have questions.
We look forward to seeing you at the new
Paddlesports Lounge!
Congress
Moves to Safeguard the Wild Rogue River and Other
Oregon
Treasures
June
27, 2008
According
to the group American Rivers, tributaries of the lower
Rogue River and other recreational hotspots in western
Oregon
will be permanently protected by the “Oregon Treasures”
legislation introduced recently by Representatives Peter
DeFazio and Earl Blumenauer and Senator Ron Wyden.
The
legislation will protect 143 miles of Wild and
Scenic
Rivers
in the lower
Rogue River
watershed, an area of unparalleled recreational
opportunities. These rivers also provide clean, cold water
that is important for salmon and steelhead. Based on the
threat of harmful logging along these tributaries, American
Rivers named the Rogue one of
America
’s Most Endangered Rivers earlier this year. Read
more.
Women's
Whitewater Canoeing Heading to 2012 Olympics
From Belleville
News-Democrat by Rod
Kloeckner
June
27, 2008
Colleen
Hickey is on the fast track to the 2012 Summer Olympics in
London
, and she's using a canoe to get there.
The
19-year-old Okawville native is currently the No. 1-ranked
women's whitewater canoeist in North
America after winning
the Pan American Slalom Championships in
Charlotte
,
N.C.
, on April 27.
Competing in
the C1W (single woman canoe) discipline at the 2008 U.S.
Olympic Team Trials for Whitewater Slalom, Hickey and two
others were named to the U.S. National Team for their
performances.
If not for
the infancy of the sport, Hickey would be heading to
Beijing
,
China
, in August to represent her country at the 2008 Summer
Olympics. However, the 2012 Olympics will be the first
opportunity for women to compete in whitewater canoe.
Read
more.
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