<div dir="ltr">Hi Kevin: Alberta Main Street has had good luck with both Small Business Development Seminars and Mixers. Happy to find a time in January to connect. 1/14 or 1/15? Ann<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:35 PM Kevin Teater <<a href="mailto:kevin@downtownbeaverton.org">kevin@downtownbeaverton.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_3870781286517369657WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hey friends,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Do any of you have really successful networking and training opportunities for your downtown businesses? What has worked? What has not worked?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We find that our downtown businesses do not know each other, and they would like to be better connected. We are wanting to create the environment for these people to get together and have an informal social time, followed by a brief and very focused training opportunity. Our Chamber of Commerce is doing something similar, but it won’t be hosted downtown, and the more I think about it, the more I feel it is important to have in our downtown community. Training opportunities could include topics like: taking quality Instagram pictures, an intro to organizing Quickbooks, or how to create a social media plan.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I would love to schedule a phone or Skype call with those of you who have been through this before to talk about these things in more detail.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks all!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Kevin Teater</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><br><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Executive Director</span><br><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Beaverton Downtown Association</span><br><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">12625 SW Broadway Street</span><br><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Beaverton, OR 97005</span><br></span><a href="mailto:kevin@downtownbeaverton.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">kevin@downtownbeaverton.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><br><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">(503)332-5419</span></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div id="gmail-m_3870781286517369657DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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