As the first Bluffton University student affiliate of the Bluffton Center For Entrepreneurs (BCE), Re-mark Engineering, LLC has stepped off the well-beaten marketing path to offer clients an effective new ap-proach.
Remark provides small businesses with affordable services using "crowd-sourcing" to tap the skills of talented graphic design and marketing students.
"We invite you to Explore Bluffton!" That's the message of a two-page full-color advertisement featuring Bluffton in the 2011 Lima/Allen County Visitor's Guide, being printed this month.
It the first group advertising effort of 2011, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce helped make the ad possible.
The 48-page full-color guide with a distribution of over 20,000 will include a two-page Bluffton spread. The spread will also show several photos of the community and will promote the Bluffton sesquicentennial.
In honor of administrative professionals, and working women in all walks of life, The Inn at Ohio Northern University is holding a free evening of celebration from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27.
The Inn at ONU is an advertiser in The Icon.
Hot hors d'oeuvres and desserts will be provided throughout the evening and a variety of luxurious experiences will be offered.
Women's Entrepreneurial Network (WEN) - open to women and men - will meet at 11:30 a.m., Monday, April 18, in Jeanne's Kitchen, 112 Vine St., Bluffton.
Linda Everhardt-Kardux, president of the organization, said that the meeting is open to all business owners, sole proprietors, sales people, people thinking about starting a business and people looking for a career change.
Doug Moneer of Lima was in Bluffton on Friday promoting his Super Hero Pooper Scoopers business. The business is an advertiser on The Icon.
Super Hero Pooper Scooper, a pet waste service, is expanding into Bluffton. Moneer, 341 Laney Ave., Lima, is offering the service.
"The benefits from my service is that it saves busy pet owners' time and the hassle of cleaning up their pet's dirty business and it keeps yards maintained from pet waste."
Moneer is now scheduling appointments in the Bluffton and surrounding areas.
