Wyoming Business Association

04/08/2019

We are looking for a few more volunteers that wouldn't mind helping us out during the shred event on April 27th!
One to three hours.
Bonus, you get to bring your stuff first thing and guaranteed to get it in the truck ;)

Bring a friend, it's more fun that way!

12/02/2018

Congrats Cowboys!!

Wyoming is marking its first championship berth since 1977

11/24/2018

Happy Small Business Saturday!

11/21/2018

Tag a Wyoming business worth knowing about for Small Business Saturday!

11/13/2018

Have you seen the new children’s book that was born from the goal of more local shopping? Well then, today’s your day! Read on...

👉 The idea behind the book Good Morning, Wyoming, began with Councilmember Sarah Stankorb Taylor, who heard from business owners in Wyoming that they could use more foot-traffic.

“It was this puzzle—how can we get more people in the doors, create some new enthusiasm around frequenting our Wyoming retailers?” says Stankorb Taylor, who also works full-time as a writer and is raising two elementary-aged kids of her own. “I know how important family is in Wyoming, and I thought if we could create a treasure for kids to incentivize parents and grandparents to stop in somewhere new or somewhere they hadn’t been in a while, that might be helpful encouragement to shop and dine even more often in Wyoming.”

Good Morning, Wyoming, a kids’ book about Wyoming that speaks to what we all love about our home has just gone on sale at retailers around the city.

11/08/2018

Check out this coverage of the businesses above Gabby’s Cafe!

Everyone in town knows Gabby’s Cafe. We’ve all had meals there with our families. But some in town don’t know that there is a thriving business suite on the floor above.

11/05/2018

Friendly Reminder: There are no meet-ups scheduled for November or December 2018.

Get on our email list, join our group, or watch this page for details about the January meet-up where we'll enjoy a New Year party and vote for new WBA Board officers!

10/26/2018

Tag your favorite Wyoming, Ohio business 📝
Maybe they have a storefront, maybe the don’t. Tag ‘em and help start the word for Small Business Saturday.

Small businesses are a key to a vibrant community. Don't forget to show your support on , Nov 24, and every day. Learn more: www.ShopSmall.com

10/20/2018

To all members and friends of the Wyoming Business Association,

A letter of the state of WBA from Dan Crask, outgoing COO:

This past week, the WBA board had our final meeting of 2018 to sketch out a way forward for 2019, or until the next WBA board decides otherwise. The changes we are putting into place are pretty big, and so I wanted to give you a full rundown of the details. Here we go:

• The November and December WBA meet-ups have been canceled.

• All speakers for meet-ups scheduled into May of 2019 have been notified that we are dropping the speaker series, and they have been thanked thoroughly for their time and interest.

• In January we will have a New Year Party and WBA Board elections. Look for an email and Facebook posts with details.

• Beginning in 2019, WBA will move to a quarterly meet-up format, with meet-ups scheduled for January, March, June, September, and December.

• WBA will still meet on the second Wednesday of the month but will move to a lunch or after-hours time, dropping the mid-morning time altogether. Format, location, etc. for each meet-up will be determined before each quarterly meet-up by the then WBA board.

• Access to meet-ups will be paid, either by annual memberships or by per-event tickets,

• Minimum RSVPs will be needed to ensure a quarterly meet-up takes place.

As a board, we made these changes after 12 months of requesting input from members via mass emails, Facebook posts, Facebook Group posts, polls, and word-of-mouth about what Wyoming business owners and non-profit stakeholders want out of a business association. The feedback was next to nothing.

Couple that with attendance dropping from 70+ in February to less than 10 in October, as well as the lack of interest in Civic Center Co-Working, and we see a Wyoming business community that is not actively interested in this kind of monthly connectedness right now.

The reasons for this are purely anecdotal. From what I hear and see from among B2B businesses, we are experiencing an economy many have not seen since the booming 1990s, and we are simply drowning in business growth. That is a common theme — no time due to growth.

Another reason may be due to timing: The mid-morning time slot is a solopreneur’s sweet spot of productivity, and we did not move meet-ups accordingly to an after-hours time slot.

This would be an opportune time to let the WBA board know if lunch is a good time to meet, or, if like many solopreneurs, you have working lunches, which would make after-hours best. Do please let the board know.

The roles of CFO and COO will be voted on in January. As of this writing, there are no interested persons in these roles, so if you would like to have a say in the direction for WBA’s future, volunteering for the board is the best way to go. Please let me, Sherry Sheffield, Dino DiStassi, or Wendy Magee know if you are interested.

Just as every business and non-profit must pivot to accommodate changing times, so does the Wyoming Business Association. Serving as its COO for two years has been an honor. I have no regrets and look forward to hearing of what comes of these changes for WBA in 2019.

Sincerely,
Dan Crask
WBA COO 2017-18

10/08/2018

Later this week (Wed., Oct. 10), WBA welcomes IT Ally’s Michael Fillios to talk about future-proofing the tech our business’ use.

But what does that mean to the Wyoming-area small businesses? Or solopreneur?

Here is a great primer for Wednesday’s meet-up.
Hope to see you there!

Does your small or mid-size business need an IT Fitness Program? To help determine the answer, consider the following: Have you built the muscle to protect and defend against cyber threats? Do you have the agility to meet changing customer needs? Are you lean enough to optimize value from your techn...