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Your messaging – website, Facebook page, print, TV and radio ads – tells people what you do well. And yet, it doesn’t seem to be working. Why? Maybe you’re missing the key element of messaging: the call to action.
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks.
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If you’ve noticed a lot of medium-distance flyball outs from Valley League hitters this year, and not nearly as many home runs as in previous years, well, you’re onto something. Hitting numbers are down across the league and across the spectrum, from the banner year for hitters that was 2012, which seems upon analysis to have been very much an outlier, but also even from more statistically consistent years in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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During two enrollment sessions in June, older adults with limited income will be eligible to receive $40 in coupons to purchase fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and cut herbs at the Staunton, Verona, and Waynesboro Farmer’s Markets this summer, thanks to the Farm Market Fresh for Seniors Program jointly sponsored by Valley Program for Aging Services (VPAS), Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, and Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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The Waynesboro Generals honored former player Woody Huffman, who played for the team in 1950-1951, before their game against the Woodstock River Bandits Thursday night. The Waynesboro Kiwanis Club and The McClung Companies donated $500 in Huffman’s name to the Buddy Ball program in Waynesboro.
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The Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce hosted its Economic Development Business At Breakfast at the Holiday Inn Staunton Conference Center on Wednesday.
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What do you need first on your business Facebook page to draw business to your business – likes, or posts? Answer: yes. Which is to say, you need likes and content, and you’re hurting yourself business-wise if you wait for one or the other to come around.
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The area at the foot of the western slope of the Blue Ridge was ripe for development in 1889. First, mining speculator Richard N. Pool chartered the area as Ingalls City. He was quickly outmaneuvered by Jacob Resse a Pittsburg industrial who saw the area as the next steel capital. He bought up the land and the famous Lithia Spring and laid out the plan for Basic City. With great hopes and vision the newly incorporated town set out to create the future.
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Cancer Prevention Study 3 (CPS3), a national study by the American Cancer Society to better understand the lifestyle, environmental and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer—and so eliminate it as a major health concern—will be hosted locally in September by Augusta Health and the Waynesboro YMCA.
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Richard P. Bell, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Staunton, this morning addressed select high school students attending the 71st session of American Legion Boys State of Virginia being held this week at Radford University.
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