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A MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF JOURNAL PUBLISHING AND THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
OCTOBER 2015
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OCTOBER
• 3: MICROSOFT EXCEL LEVEL 1,
8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $65 includes book
and lunch (ICC-Belden). For more information on all classes, contact
Becky Kelly, (662) 407-1500 or email
[email protected].
• 6-7: “IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES” career expo at BancorpSouth
Arnea. Sponsored by the Toyota Wellspring Fun at the CREATE Foundation.
The event will provide a better understanding of the opportunities available
after graduation to more than 3,000
eighth-grade students in Northeast
Mississippi and will feature activities
connected to 18 career pathways.
Contact Gina Black at
[email protected] or (662) 842-4521
for more information.
• 6-Nov. 5: WELDING AND CUTTING, (Tu/Th), 5:30-8:30 p.m., $369
(ICC-Belden). For more information on
all classes, contact Becky Kelly, (662)
407-1500 or email
[email protected].
• 8: BUSINESS AFTER HOURS,
EVENTS CALENDAR
Community Development Foundation.
Call (662) 842-4521 or visit
www.cdfms.org
• 12: FORKLIFT TRAIN-THETRAINER, 8 a.m.-noon, $50 (ICCBelden). For more information on all
classes, contact Becky Kelly, (662)
407-1500 or email
[email protected].
• 15: NEWMS WOMEN’S BUSINESS NETWORK will be held at 3:45
p.m. in the CDF boardroom.
• 16: CE WORKSHOP FOR ENGINEERS/LAND SURVEYORS, 8 a.m.4:30 p.m., fee TBA (ICC-Belden). For
more information on all classes, contact Becky Kelly, (662) 407-1500 or
email [email protected].
• 19: FORKLIFT OPERATOR RECERTIFICATION, 8-10 a.m., $25 (ICCBelden). For more information on all
classes, contact Becky Kelly, (662)
407-1500 or email
[email protected].
• 20: BUSINESS WRITING 101,
8:30-11:30 a.m., $35 (ICC-Belden).
For more information on all classes,
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contact Becky Kelly, (662) 407-1500
or email [email protected].
• 20: BUSINESS BOXED LUNCH &
LEARN, Community Development
Foundation. Call (662) 842-4521 or
visit www.cdfms.org.
• 31: MICROSOFT EXCEL LEVEL
2, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $65 includes
book and lunch (ICC-Belden). For more
information on all classes, contact
Becky Kelly, (662) 407-1500 or email
[email protected].
• 29: NEWMS ANNUAL MEETING/conference will be held at the
BancorpSouth Arena North Hall.
NOVEMBER
• 12: TASTE OF TUPELO , 5 p.m.-8
p.m. BancorpSouth Arena
• 18: BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, 3
p.m., Community Development Foundation. Call (662) 842-4521 or visit
www.cdfms.org
IF YOU HAVE a business-related
event in the coming months, email
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OCTOBER 2015
Website aims to promote
economic development
BUSINESS JOURNAL
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has launched a
website, www.YallBusiness.sos.ms.
gov. which aggregates economic,
census and consumer data into one
comprehensive website.
“If you are a business looking to
come to Mississippi, or a business
looking to expand to Mississippi,
YallBusiness does all of your research for you,” Hosemann said.
“YallBusiness is a positive step toward promoting job creation and
economic development. It also offers in-depth research to businesses
never before available in one site
and not available in any other State.”
YallBusiness includes detailed information regarding:
• Registered Businesses
• Banking and Insurance
• Health
• Education
• People
• Agriculture
• Public Lands
• Transportation
• Taxes
•Technology
“More businesses mean more jobs
and more tax dollars for your area,”
Hosemann said. “Individuals can
pin-point a location on a map, determine traffic counts, drive times,
school district information and retail
marketing data. We can even show
how many times people ate at a fast
food restaurant in the last six
months – all in one comprehensive
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Third generation CPA crunches the numbers
BY W. DEREK RUSSELL
BUSINESS JOURNAL
Amanda Angle’s obligations and involvement’s are
like Russian dolls, each a little bigger than the one before it.
When she’s not serving
on the board of the Family
Resource Center, Regional
Rehab, chairman of the
board of the Christian
Women’s Job Corp, taking
part in Business Networking International, Tupelo
Women’s Club, Rotary or
Exchange Club, working as
the most recent chapter advisor for Alpha Delta Pi
sorority at Mississippi State
University or current house
cooperation officer for ADP
at Ole Miss or acting as
treasurer of First Baptist
Church in Tupelo and treasurer of the Oak Meadows
home owner’s association,
it’s a wonder she can remember what her actual
job is.
In case she needs reminding after a list like that,
Angle is a principal partner
at Watkins Uiberall, PLLC
Certified Public Accountants. A job she doesn’t take
lightly, just like every other
responsibility she has.
“We work ridiculous
numbers of hours in public
accounting,” she said. “It’s
stressful, but it allows you to
push the way you need to,
especially with a personality like mine. I need that
challenge.”
Originally from Mobile,
Alabama, Angle wasn’t certain where her path would
lead when she started her
journey at the University of
Southern Mississippi.
“I started out in music,”
she said, laughing. “I was a
vocal performance major
with a voice scholarship.
But then I didn’t meet Mr.
Right before school was out
and I knew I had to eat. So I
went into accounting.”
Mr. Right came along in
the form of her husband,
Scott. The two married in
1998.
“The marriage is now as
old as my career,” Angle
said, smiling.
After working in Hattiesburg out of college, Angle
made several steps on her
journey that led her to
Northeast Mississippi.
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Obstetrician finds new niche in Tupelo
BY MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS
BUSINESS JOURNAL
TUPELO – Dr. Neeka
Sanders’ career delivers
bundles of joy.
“It’s happy medicine,” said
the obstetrician-gynecologist who is the team leader
for the new OB/GYN hospitalist program at North Mississippi Medical Center
Women’s Hospital. “We can
treat most issues, fix problems and everyone is happy
in the end.”
Sanders, 41, has been in
practice nearly 10 years,
working in private practice
in her hometown of Greenwood until moving into her
new role as a hospitalist in
June.
Helping to bring babies
into the world never gets
routine, she said.
“I think all deliveries are
special,” Sanders said.
With technology, parents
typically know if their baby
is a boy or a girl.With 4-D ultrasounds, they even know
what the baby looks like, but
there are always magical
moments when mom sees
the baby for the first time
and dad get teary when they
cradle the new life.
“It’s so special to share
that
with
someone,”
Sanders said.
LOVE OF SCIENCE
Medicine wasn’t Sanders’
focus as she was growing up.
Her mom, who is now a retired circuit court judge,
often teased her that she
was on track to become the
head of housekeeping at Ra-
mada because she was so
focused on cleanliness and
order.
“She would get on to me
for cleaning up in public
restrooms,”
Sanders
laughed.
Then she fell in love with
science – specifically how
the human body works. Her
Greenwood High School science teacher Deborah
Mann ignited her interest in
anatomy and biology
classes.
Her love of science led her
to the Mississippi School for
Math and Science, where
she was classmates with Tupelo physicians Dr. Kristen
Turner and Dr. Malinda Prewitt, and to major in chemistry at Millsaps College.
During her high school and
college years, she partici-
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Dr. Neeka Sanders is the team leader for the new OB-GYN hospitalist program at
NMMC Women’s Hospital. The Greenwood native has been taking care of expectant
moms for nearly a decade.
pated in several intensive
summer science and biology programs.
“Everyone in those programs was pre-med,”
Sanders said. “That sparked
my interest.”
The programs prepared
her for the competitive admission process to the University of Mississippi School
of Medicine.
“Nothing is easy about
medical school,” Sanders
said.
Medical students are in
class from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and study from 6 p.m. to
midnight.
“Adjusting to the schedule
was the biggest challenge,”
Sanders said.
When she entered medical school, Sanders gravitated
toward
family
medicine, which in the
Delta would include obstetrics and gynecology. Her focused changed during her
third year of medical school
when she did her first OBGYN rotation.
“When I caught that first
baby, I called home and said
‘This is it,’” Sanders said, remembering.
After medical school, she
completed her residency at
Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh.
“I knew I wanted to return
to Greenwood, so it was nice
to see a different part of the
country,” Sanders said.
In her private practice,
Sanders loved developing
the relationships with her
patients.
“I enjoyed learning about
their families,” Sanders said.
But she felt the tug to have
a better work-life balance as
she and her husband
LaBrone raised their children, LeBrone Jr., 7, and
Connor, 5.
“Part of the decision to relocate to Tupelo was more
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Speaking her mind
Ole Miss student contributes to major publications
BY ZACK ORSBORN
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OXFORD – When she
was a little girl, Sierra Mannie’s grandfather told her
that her mouth would get
her in trouble one day.
Growing up, Mannie’s
curiosity blossomed with
the help of her grandfather
who encouraged her to
take out the encyclopedia
every time she had a question.
She remembers jumping
up and down on her bed as
a child, frustrated while
watching “Blue’s Clues” because she figured out the
mystery before Steve did.
“I knew as a child that I
was smart and had the ability to speak to people,” she
said. “I have boundaries,
but I also struggled with
self-preservation. I am one
of those people that is willing to throw myself off a
cliff into whatever I think is
a worthy enough endeavor.
I try my best to live as fearlessly as possibly.”
As a budding writer at
Ole Miss studying the classics, Mannie felt the need
to change the opinion section at her campus’s student newspaper, The Daily
Mississippian.
“I always try to get people to write for me that are
normally
underrepresented,” she said. “I encourage people to be as
creative as they can and try
to be humorous and to
have their own voice, but
also to have a purpose in
what they are writing.”
One day, after she realized space needed to be
filled in her section, she
wrote an article titled “Dear
White Gays: Stop Stealing
Black Female Culture,”
which explored culture appropriation in the LGBT
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Sierra Mannie
community.
The next day, she rocketed into the viral atmosphere, starting a dialogue
of opposition and support
on campus while catching
the attention of a TIME
Magazine editor who asked
to publish her column in
the magazine.
After the article appeared
in the magazine, CNN, BBC
Radio, Janet Mock and NPR
booked Mannie for interviews about her article.
“It was a crazy month
after the article was submitted,” she said. “Some
people were really angry
and constantly emailing
me all kinds of b-words.
The saddest part is being
misunderstood. I’m very
vulnerable. I’m just opening up and spilling things
out.”
Since the article, Mannie
has been asked to contribute her opinions to Culture Corner at Medium and
Quartz. She even introduced famed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates when he visited
Ole Miss.
Recently, the LA Times
reached out to Mannie and
asked to her cover the Black
Twitter beat, but she turned
it down.
“I could be working for
them if I was brave enough
or smart enough,” she said.
“But I feel like I’m in the
place I need to be. I had to
go through some emotional healing all year. I had
bad generalized anxiety
disorder, and I was going
through a breakup. I
wanted to refocus on exactly what I wanted to do.”
Mannie plans to write on
Mississippi for her next
contribution to TIME Magazine after noticing how
non-Mississippian journalists skew the state’s image.
“It’s either about Southern Exceptionalism where
you feel the South can do
no wrong, or it’s sweet tea,
bless your heart and football,” she said. “Mississippi
is more complicated than
that.”
Thinking back, she remembers how her mother
shaped her work ethic and
emphasis on education.
“My mom has been
working since she was 14,”
she said. “Since I learned to
read so early, she wanted to
make sure I did well in
school. My mom worked so
much, and she was like, ‘If
my child can do well in
school and I can encourage
her, it’ll be easier.’”
Women in Northeast
Mississippi are just trying
to carve their own way, she
said.
“As a child, I grew up so
poor, but rich in so many
other ways. I didn’t have a
car until I was 20, I lived far
from my friends and I was
a very anxious person. But
in working, I have so much
freedom. What I’ve built
can never be taken away
from me. I’m never alone in
any way because I can
make things for myself.”
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Jackie Benson: ‘I love my City Hall’
BY GINNA PARSONS
BUSINESS JOURNAL
ABERDEEN – Give
Jackie Benson some pompons and a megaphone
and she could easily be the
head cheerleader for Aberdeen’s City Hall.
The petite blonde has
been coming to work in
the historic 1912 building
for 22 years, starting in
1993 as an accounting
clerk, then moving up to
deputy clerk before becoming city clerk in 2004.
“I love my City Hall,”
said Benson, 53. “My job is
something different every
day, which fits my personality. You never know what
you’re going to do.”
Benson’s father was in
the Air Force so she largely
grew up in Columbus,
with a few years spent in
Germany. Her family
moved to Aberdeen when
she was in the ninth grade.
“Aberdeen has a certain
kind of charm,” she said.
“When you come here,
you just fall in love with it.”
As city clerk, Benson
said her first priority is
taking the minutes from
the city board meetings.
“The minutes are the
law of the city,” she said.
“If it’s not recorded in the
minutes, it didn’t happen.”
Other important duties
include collecting all revenue that comes to the
city, selling cemetery lots,
handling employees’ insurance and workers’
compensation and overseeing elections.
“We’re also the complaint department,” she
said. “If your garbage gets
skipped, we pick it up. If a
dog is pooping on the
sidewalk, that’s my problem. You have to be able to
do five or six things at one
time. But I can’t do my
work without the help of
the girls in my office.”
Benson said she’s been
in the basement of the
building and in the attic.
“I wouldn’t ask anybody
in this building to do
something I wouldn’t do,”
she said. “I’ve found
through life that if you’re
going to be fair to one, you
have to be fair to everybody. You treat everyone
alike.”
Not only does Benson
love her job, but she also
loves the building she
works in, with its mosaic
tile, hardwood floors,
sweeping staircase and
massive arched windows.
The front entrance to the
building features two
huge, heavy wooden
doors.
“Recently the lock on
the front door of the building broke and the knob fell
off for the second time,”
she said. “I took the lock
apart on the floor, took
pictures of all the parts
and sent them to a historic
salvage shop in Memphis.
I said, ‘Look, I know this
lock is from 1912, but I
need to know how to fix
it.’”
Some local Mennonite
boys ultimately put the
lock back together and
welded the knob back on.
“It may last another
hundred years or it may
last a day,” she said. “I just
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want to be conscious of
the citizens’ money and
not waste it.”
Benson credits her parents, the late Carolyn and
Jack Pugh, for her wacky
personality.
“You just about have to
be crazy to work here,” she
said. “And some people
think I’m nosy, but it’s kind
of my job to be in everybody’s business. Sometimes they tell me I didn’t
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Family and
GENERAL DENTISTRY
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New Albany resident Jennifer Baker has been a police officer in Tupelo for three years.
Jennifer Baker: Cops are human, too
BY RILEY MANNING
BUSINESS JOURNAL
New Albany resident
Jennifer Baker first wanted
to be a police officer when
she was a child, after
watching the television
show “COPS!” with her father.
“I said, ‘I’m going to be
on that show some day,’
and he said, ‘Yeah, maybe
as a criminal,’” Baker said.
Luckily, she proved her
old man wrong. Baker has
been on the force of the Tupelo Police Department for
three years.
The Texas native started
out in the Navy as a search
and rescue diver for eight
years, in San Diego. When
it came time to re-up on
her time or get out of the
Navy, she left it for a badge
with the San Diego Police
Department.
“They were looking to recruit more females at the
time, and my experience in
the Navy was easy to translate,” Baker said. “I worked
there for about a year, then
kind of traveled around
California like a gypsy for a
while.”
Family brought her to
New Albany. Her grandmother is a longtime resident there, and when her
health took a turn for the
worse, Baker packed her
bags and headed for
Faulkner country to care
for her with her brother.
Baker doesn’t need much.
She lives in her grandfather’s old hunting cabin,
which she is living in as she
renovates it.
“I like being a cop here
much more than in San
Diego,” she said. “We were
so inundated with calls
there that there was no
time to give any kind of
compassion. We just had to
write the report quickly
and move on. Here, we
have time to form relationships.”
The role of a cop is more
multi-faceted than you
might think. Cops see the
worst of people, and start
their day knowing they will
be lied to, but they are expected to be both enforcer
and counselor. One thing
the Tupelo Police Department does that San Diego’s
didn’t is file a report for
every call.
“Sometimes they are on
the most insignificant
things, things we can’t do
anything about, but it’s
worth the hassle to build
trust,” she said. “Cops are
humans, too, and sometimes it’s hard to switch
gears from maybe chasing
someone down and arresting them to taking a call
from a woman who broke
up with her boyfriend and
now he won’t give her her
stuff back.”
While each officer comes
with his or her own biases
and pet peeves, each officer also comes with unique
skills and temperment.
“And the department is
small enough that we all
know each other and can
call and say, ‘Hey, could
you get over here, you
would be better at handling this particular situation,’” Baker said.
It’s rewarding, she said.
Many calls come from people who simply don’t know
how to handle their own
lives. Some, though, are
people who have just experienced a life-changing
event and they need someone with temperance to
lean on, she said.
“Thank God, Tupelo isn’t
the worst place in the
world to be a cop,” she
said. “What we do isn’t riskdriven. I don’t have a quota
of arrests I have to make.
Our job is to make sure the
community is served.
Sometimes that involves
an arrest, but sometimes it
doesn’t.”
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BY M. SCOTT MORRIS
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The book lover
Newsom serves fellow readers at Barnes & Noble
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TUPELO – Human beings have their categories.
People are short or tall,
they’re talkative or quiet,
they buy name brands or
generics.
Here’s one from Julia
“Star” Newsom of Tupelo:
People read or they don’t.
“All of us around here
are avid readers in some
genre, so you’ve got likeminded people working
together,”
54-year-old
Newsom said. “We’re usually dealing with customers who are book
lovers, so that’s fun.”
At the beginning of September, Newsom was
named store manager at
Barnes & Noble in The
Mall at Barnes Crossing.
It’s a good fit because
when she’s at work, she’s
with her kind of people.
“I love reading. I didn’t
when I was a kid, but as an
adult, it’s something I’m
very passionate about,”
she said. “There’s something about it – the smell
of a book, the feel of a
book.”
She moved to Tupelo
from Memphis in the late
1980s to be director of
Camp Tik-A-Witha for the
Girl Scouts. After about a
decade, she left to open
Starting Over Coffee
House, and that was followed by her restaurant,
Two Tone Café in downtown Tupelo.
“It doesn’t matter what
business you’re in,” she
said. “We’re in the business of managing people,
whether you’re selling
books or cups of coffee, or
teaching kids to build a
fire at camp.”
When she found out
Barnes & Noble was hiring
in 2008, she decided to get
a resumé and cover letter
together.
“I said, ‘I play well with
others and I don’t run with
scissors,’ which got me the
interview,” Newsom said.
She accepted the job of
café manager, though she
wasn’t eager to get back
into the food service business. She started work in
September and got the
café up and running. By
January, she was named
assistant store manager.
Books are her life now,
and to a lesser extent, so
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Julia “Star” Newsom was hired as café manager at Barnes & Noble in 2008. She was
recently named store manager.
are magazines, DVDs,
games, collectibles and
the rest.
“In the past year, albums – vinyl – have made
a resurgence, so we carry
those,” she said.
For years, Barnes &
Noble has stocked coloring books for adults, but
they have a far bigger
presence after The New
York Times and Huffington Post ran stories about
their meditative benefits.
“We saw the coloring
book trend happen in
front of us,” Newsom said.
“Overnight, we sold out,
so we started adding inventory.”
Magazines took over her
life for an intense time
during last year’s football
season, when Sports Illustrated released special edition covers featuring the
University of Mississippi
and Mississippi State.
“Corporate told me I
could have 250 copies,”
she said. “I said, ‘That’s not
enough.’”
The parking lot was full
the morning of the release.
She had to institute a two-
copy limit and created an
on-the-spot lottery system
to handle the crowd.
“We sold out in 45 minutes,” she said. “They had
to do a reprint.”
Barnes & Noble started
as a bookstore in New
York, and books remain
the company’s central
focus. Truckloads arrive at
the Tupelo location five
days a week.
“We can see some customers two, three or four
times a week. We keep
them in mind when new
books come in,” she said.
“I love matching a book to
someone. Maybe they say,
‘I’m taking a trip to Europe
and I’m taking a long
plane ride, what should I
read?’ I talk to them and
find a book for them. A
few of them come back
and tell me how it went.
That’s great, when you get
it right.”
Some never stop by the
customer service desk because they know what
they want, but others need
all the help they can get.
“They say, ‘I don’t know
who wrote the book. I
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A publication of Journal Publishing and the CDF Chamber Division – October 2015
A CDF
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OCTOBER 2015
New CDF Members
Amsterdam Deli & Beer
Ms. Ruth Erar
3466 McCullough Blvd.,
Ste. B
Belden, MS 38826
(662) 260-4423
Restaurants & Catering
Bailey Diane
Ms. Kayla Tabler
109 N Spring St.
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 687-2551
Retail & Specialty Shops
Deborah’s LLC
Ms. Deborah Bryant
1001 Barnes Crossing Rd.
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 661-0855
www.deborahsllc.com
Hampton Inn –
New Albany
Ms. Romanda Hampton
320 Coulter Cv.
New Albany, MS 38652
(662) 534-7722
www.ascenthospitality.com
Hotels & Motels
Recovery & Wellness
Spa LLC
Mr. Joseph Elmer
499 Gloster Creek Vlg., Ste.
H7
Tupelo, MS 38801
(662) 401-1193
Fitness & Wellness
The Neon Attic
Ms. Camie Sheffield
339A E Main St.
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 260-5210
www.theneonattic.com
Shoe Country Warehouse
Mr. Corey Chunn
1106 Commonwealth Blvd.
Tupelo, MS 38801
(662) 844-8400
www.shoecountry
warehouse.com
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Mr. Todd Brown
4398 Mall Dr.
Tupelo, MS 38804
(662) 690-8011
www.officedepot.com
Office Supplies & Equipment
West End Catering Co.
Mr. Jack Parker
110 Hwy 6 W
Tupelo, MS 38801
(662) 841-8545
Restaurants & Catering
Community Development Foundation’s
2015-2016 Board of Directors
CDF’s goals and objectives are accomplished through the efforts of members appointed to committees operating under one of CDF’s three divisions: Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development and Planning and Property Management.
2015-2016 Executive Committee
Lisa Hawkins, Chairman
Barry Smith, First Vice Chairman
Scott Cochran, Second Vice Chairman
David Rumbarger, President/Secretary
Chauncey Godwin, Jr., Immediate Past Chairman
Chris Bagley
Kim Caron
Clay Foster
Julianne Goodwin
Zell Long
Jerry Maxcy
Guy Mitchell, III
Sam Pace
Jeff Snyder
Tollie White
2015-2016 Board of Directors
Mike Armour
Chris Bagley
Bo Calhoun
Gary Carnathan
Kim Caron
Grace Clark
Mike Clayborne
V. M. Cleveland
Scott Cochran
Fred Cook
David Copenhaver
Jay Dey
Mike Eaton
Joe Estess
Clay Foster
Chauncey Godwin Jr.
Julianne Goodwin
Robert Haggerty
Doug Hanby
Bryan Hawkins
Lisa Hawkins
Skipper Holliman
David Irwin Jr.
Tommie Lee Ivy
Bob Kerley
Emily Leonard
Gearl Loden
Zell Long
Colin Maloney
Derek Markley
Jerry Maxcy
Robin McGraw
Guy Mitchell III
Buzzy Mize
Ted Moll
Mabel Murphree
Sam Pace
Buddy Palmer
Aubrey Patterson
Greg Pirkle
Jack Reed Jr.
Scott Reed
Eddie Richey
Mike Robinson
Ty Robinson
David Rumbarger
Jason Shelton
Barry Smith
Jeff Snyder
Jane Spain
Gary Sparkman
Shane Spees
Buddy Stubbs
Sean Suggs
Melinda Tidwell
Jason Warren
Jimmy Weeks
Tollie White
2015-2016 Ambassadors Club
Rashni Barath . . . . . . . . . . . .Trustmark National Bank
Kayla Baxter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BankPlus
Jim Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hilliard Lyons
Stephanie Browning . . . .Hampton Inn & Suites Tupelo
Amanda Caldwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BancorpSouth
James Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Renasant Bank
Gail Collins . . . . . . . .Century 21 - Sue Gardner Realty
Sheila Davis . . . . . . . .OSA - One Stop Advertising, LLC
Tracy Davis . . . . . . . . . . . .Rasberry Financial Services
Bill Dickerson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BancorpSouth
Barbara Doles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BNA Bank
Becki Duffie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kelly Services
Veleka Flagg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CB&S Bank
Michelle Freeman . . . . . . . . . .Mitchell McNutt & Sams
April Grissom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WLOV-TV (FOX)
Romanda Hampton . . . . . . . .Hampton Inn New Albany
Dianne Harris . . . . . . .Summit Group Companies, LLC
Toby Hedges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shelter Insurance
Shirley Hendrix . . . . . . . . . . . .R & B Specialty Printing
Jim Jolly . . . . . . . . . .Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
Denise Kennedy-Brown . .Special Occasions by Denise
Len Kester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Exceed Technologies
Justin Kirk . . . . . .U.S. Lawns of Northeast Mississippi
Molly Lovorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C Spire
Jacquie McAlister . . . . . .First American National Bank
Brad McCully . . . . . . . .Sportsman Lawn & Landscape
Katie McMillan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Key Staff Source
Sherry Miller . . . . . . .University of Mississippi - Tupelo
William Mills . . . . . . . . . . . .Mills & Mills Architects, PC
Ashley Prince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .local MOBILE
Angela Rea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hilton Garden Inn
Christy Stewart . . . . . .Franklin Collection Service, Inc.
Karla Strickland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Right at Home
Jacob Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C Spire
Grady Wigginton Legal Shield - Wigginton & Associates
June Wigginton .Legal Shield - Wigginton & Associates
Jeff Williams . . . . . . . . . . .Williams Transfer & Storage
Josie Williams . . . . . . . . . .Telesouth Communications
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TASTE OF TUPELO
Chamber member local MOBILE participates in the 2014 Taste of Tupelo, the Chamber’s regional trade show and premier business networking event. The 2015 Taste of
Tupelo will be held Thursday, November 12 at the BancorpSouth Arena
The 2015 Taste of Tupelo
presented by Magnolia
Business Centre is set for
Thursday, November 12
from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at
the BancorpSouth Arena.
The Taste is a high-energy,
high-traffic event offering
area businesses an opportunity to grow their professional networks and meet
new leads and customers,
all while giving the Northeast MS business community a “taste” of the latest
and greatest services their
businesses have to offer.
The annual business
expo, formerly an invitation only event for Community
Development
Foundation (CDF) members, has extended its
hours and is now open to
the public. The event is
held specifically for the
promotion of local businesses, restaurants, and
caterers, offering more
than 100 businesses the
opportunity to showcase
their products and services
to hundreds of attendees.
Last year, more than 1,300
attendees enjoyed sampling delicious drinks and
tastes while networking
with exhibitor booths. In
addition to local restaurants, caterers, and bakeries, the Taste of Tupelo
will feature exhibitors from
various industries including health-related, banking,
manufacturers,
retailers, educational institutions, and more.
"The Taste of Tupelo is
beneficial to all businesses
big or small," said Judd
Wilson, VP of the Chamber.
“This year, we are excited
to partner with Magnolia
Business Centre in providing the perfect opportunity
for exhibitors to showcase
their products and services
to a large group of people
at one time.”
A Community Development Foundation event,
the Taste is in its eighth
year of providing a business-to-business and business-to-consumer
one-day power sale and
networking event. Exhibitors and attendees are
encouraged to find new
vendors, strategic partners
and clients, all while expanding their visibility
within
Tupelo/Lee
County’s business community. Exhibitors will
offer product demonstrations,
complimentary
samples, and first-hand information about their
goods and services.
The Taste of Tupelo is the
largest exhibition of its
kind in Northeast Mississippi and provides an opportunity to meet with a
variety of companies doing
business in the region.
Whether in search of a
contractor,
advertising
agency, caterer, or interior
decorator – the Taste of Tupelo is a one-stop-shop for
discovering
numerous
local businesses.
Throughout the evening,
attendees will register for
door prizes offered by exhibitors.
Doors to the Taste are
open to the public from
5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Tickets are
available for adults ages 21
or older. For more information about the 2015
Taste of Tupelo or to purchase a ticket, call (662)
842-4521
or
visit
cdfms.org/events.
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THOMAS STREET APOTHECARY
Thomas Street Apothecary celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting. Offering the expertise and experience of nationally known pharmacies, Thomas Street
Apothecary strives to know its customer’s needs and meet them with the urgency
and individual attention your health deserves. Visit Thomas Street Apothecary at
86 S Thomas St. in Tupelo, call (662) 844-0444, visit thomasstapothecary.com or follow them on Facebook.
HOUSE OF BOUNCE
House of Bounce celebrated its grand opening at 110 N Front Ave. in Saltillo. The
30,000-square-foot kids’ arcade offers inflatables, play areas, party rooms, laser tag
and miniature golf, among others. For more information about House of Bounce
contact (662) 869-7353 or follow them on Facebook.
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OCTOBER 2015
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JIM INGRAM COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
INSTITUTE CLASS OF 2015
OCTOBER 2015
AMBASSADOR OF THE MONTH
Grady Wigginton, Independent Associate with
Legal Shield – Grady Wigginton & Associates
was awarded CDF’s August Ambassador of the
month. Serving his third
term as Ambassador,
Grady attended six events
and contacted 38 CDF
members through the
member-to-mentor program.
Congratulations,
Grady!
MEDPLUS URGENT CLINIC
Congratulations to the Jim Ingram Community Leadership Institute class of 2015.
The Jim Ingram Community Leadership Institute is a two-year program designed to
develop community leadership skills and to enhance personal and professional
growth. The program consists of one year of training and one year of community reinvestment.
2015 GRADUATES:
Tommy Abney
Employee Benefits Advisor
Fisher Bottrell Brown Insurance
Fhonda Goss
Assistant Marketing Manager
H M Richards
Jay Richer
General Sales Manager
WTVA-TV9
Amanda Angle
CPA
Watkins Uiberall, PLLC CPAs
Anita Knowles
Administrative Assistant
Minority PUL Alliance
Melony Armstrong
Owner
Naturally Speaking, Inc.
Louis Marascalco
Commercial Lender
Renasant Bank
Tammy Rodgers
Board Secretary & Deputy Clerk
Lee County Board of
Supervisors
Jesse Bandre
Director of North MS
Operations
Exceed Technologies, Inc.
Lane McClellan
Medical Social Worker
Unity Hospice Care
Ben Beavers
Vice President/Branch
Manager-Tupelo
Mississippi Land Bank
Steven Blaylock
Program Manager
North Mississippi Health Services
Rhonda Chrestman
Owner/Sales
Snelling Staffing
Reta Doughty
Realtor/Office Manager
Pinnacle Realty, LLC
Shelly McKee
City Clerk
City of Guntown
Robby Parman
Executive Director
Regional Rehabilitation Center
Pastor Gerald Patterson
IMPACT CDC, INC. - President
Words of Faith Church/Ministries – Founder
Mary Ann Plasencia
Community Liaison
Tupelo Public School District
Greg Thames
Vice President of Commercial
Lending
Trustmark National Bank
Wesley Webb
Broker/Owner
Mossy Oak Properties of Tupelo
In celebration of its grand opening, MedPlus Urgent Clinic held a ribbon cutting.
Open seven days a week until 7 p.m., MedPlus Urgent Clinic provides urgent care,
physicals and wellness care when you and your family need it most. MedPlus Urgent Clinic is located at 874 Barnes Crossing Rd. in Tupelo and can be contacted
at (662) 841-0002, medplusclinics.com or follow them on Facebook.
Jimmy Weeks
Superintendent
Lee County School District
Allie West
Community Volunteer
Charlie White
Tool & Fleet Manager
Casey Industrial, Inc.
Interested in starting a business?
Let the Renasant Center for IDEAs and the MS Small Business Development
Center help you get started. All classes are from 1 – 2:30 p.m.
How to Develop a Business Plan
October 6
October 20
To register for a workshop or for more information, contact Dana Cawthon at
1-800-725-7232 or (662) 680-6988.
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THE CREATIVE TOUCH DAY SPA AND SALON
HOME HELPERS HOMECARE
The Creative Touch Day Spa recently held a ribbon cutting. Located at 2613 Traceland Dr. in Tupelo, The Creative Touch Day Spa and Salon offers full service spa and
salon treatments including haircuts, color, massage therapy, manicures, pedicures,
facials and body waxing. To book your next appointment, call (662) 844-3734, visit The
Creative Touch Day Spa and Salon online at creativetouchtupelo.com or follow them
on Facebook and Instagram.
Home Helpers Homecare recently held a ribbon cutting. Founded in 1997, Home
Helpers is one of the nation’s leading senior care franchises specializing in comprehensive home care services for seniors, new and expectant mothers, those recovering from illness or injury and individuals facing lifelong challenges. For more
information, contact Home Helpers at (662) 910-8589, homehelpershomecare.com
or on Facebook.
to the women of Community Bank!
Bottom row L to R: Monica Wade, Shavonne Collier, Karen Dickey, Lacy Bennett
Top L to R: Zelda Dexter ,Devani Adams, Jordan Jaggers, Ashley Lindley, Holley Meriweather,
Rhonda Bradsher Not pictured Mary Beth Cantrell
We are proud of our
working women.
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for you.
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STROFFOLINO WINE & SPIRITS
AMSTERDAM DELI & BEER
Stroffolino Wine & Spirits celebrated its second anniversary with a ribbon cutting. Offering a large selection of fine wines and premier liquors as well as other specialty
products, Stroffolino’s friendly and knowledgeable sales staff is ready and happy to
assist you in creating the perfect paring for your next meal. Stroffolino Wine & Spirits is located at 3466 McCullough Blvd., Ste. A in Belden and can be contacted at
(662) 260-4558 or on Facebook.
In celebration of its first anniversary, Amsterdam Deli & Beer held a ribbon cutting.
Offering a taste of Europe in the South, menu items include hummus, gyros, pizza,
meatball subs, and Chicago-style Italian beef as well as a deli counter serving fine
meats and cheeses. Amsterdam Deli & Beer is located at 3466 McCullough Blvd.,
Ste. B in Belden and can be contacted at (662) 260-4423 or on Facebook.
“Serving North Mississippi Since 1949”
We encourage
creativity, innovation
and entrepreneurship.
We believe in the virtues of hard work.
Thank You
to each of our employees
for your dedication.
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ICC names District PCDA hosts 39th annual banquet
Workforce Council
BUSINESS JOURNAL
BUSINESS JOURNAL
Several Northeast Mississippi residents have
been named as members
of the Itawamba Community College District Workforce Council for 2015-16.
The members provide
counsel and direction for
ICC’s workforce development programs.
They include Johnny Anderson, human resource
manager for TSUSHO,
Blue Springs; Tab Cherry,
human resource manager
for MTD Products, Tupelo;
Kevin Faulkner, vice president of manufacturing,
quality control and engineering for Franklin Furniture
Corporation,
Houston; Travis Fisher,
human resource manager
for Mueller Industries, Fulton; Dede Franks, human
resource manager for Norbord MS LLC, Guntown;
Beth Frick, director of education for North Mississippi Medical Center,
Tupelo; Glenn Gann,
human resource/purchasing
manager
for
MPI/Leggett & Platt, Houston; Kirk Gosa, human resource director, United
Furniture
Industries,
Verona; Bryan Hawkins,
president, Hawkeye Industries, Inc., Tupelo; Vernon
R. Kelley III, executive director of Three Rivers Planning and Development
District, Pontotoc; Mary
Lemons, human resource
manager for Syntron Material Handling, Saltillo;
Danny McClellan, vice
president of operation for
Southern Motion, Pontotoc; Teresa Montgomery,
human resource manager/sales for Pontotoc
Spring, Pontotoc; Kevin
Payne, executive vice pres-
ident for F.L. Crane & Sons,
Inc., Fulton; Dr. Dieter
Pfeiffer, plant manager for
Grammer, Inc., Shannon;
Scott Richardson, human
resource manager for
JESCO,
Inc.,
Tupelo;
Tommy Roberts, human
resource manager for
Tecumseh Products Company, Inc., Tupelo.
Also named to the council are David P. Rumbarger,
president and CEO for
Community Development
Foundation,
Tupelo;
Charles Russell, president
of Trustmark Bank, Tupelo;
Dennis Seid, business editor of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo;
Skip Skaggs, executive director of the Monroe
County Chamber of Commerce, Amory; Rory Sneed,
manager of compound,
plasticizers and human resources for Axiall Corp.,
Aberdeen; John Stembridge, human resource
manager for Homestretch,
Nettleton; Sean Suggs, vice
president of Toyota Motor
Manufacturing
Mississippi, Blue Springs; Dewayne
Thornton,
president of Tombigbee
Tooling, Inc., Mantachie;
Johnny Tucker, industrial
engineering manager of
Cooper Tire & Rubber
Company, Tupelo; Lewis
Whitfield, senior vice president of CREATE, Tupelo;
Doug Wiggins, Monroe
County
Supervisor,
Smithville; Kebebe Wilson,
assistant manager, human
resources for Auto Parts
Manufacturing
Mississippi, Guntown; Yukako
Yamada, human resource
manager
for
Toyota
Boshoku Mississippi, LLC,
Mantachie; and Harry
Martin, honorary member,
Tupelo.
The Prentiss County Development Association
hosted its 39th Annual
Banquet last month, with
U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly, RMiss, as keynote speaker.
PCDA Executive Director Leon Hays also delivered an update on the
economic status of the
county as well as presented PCDA’s annual
Moose Mansell Award was
made.
In his update, Hays
noted that more than 175
new jobs had been announced in the past year,
and that current unemployment was down to 6.4
percent. More than four
years ago, unemployment
in the county stood at 12
percent. Hays said that
over the past 4 1/2 years,
527 new jobs had been announced, representing
more than $10.5 million in
additional payroll for
companies in Prentiss
County.
Hays said the the county
is experiencing an increase in sales tax revenue
because of the additional
jobs. He also said the
economy is being boosted
by the several new retail
establishments starting
up.
Kelly said he was grateful to represent the state’s
First District. He spoke
about his appreciation of
hard work and partnerships that go into the efforts
of
economic
development, and he
COURTESY
Left, Travis Childers, PCDA board president; center, Marshall Dickerson, Mansell
Award recipient; right, Gerald Williams, incoming PCDA board president
noted that Mississippi’s
community college system had been voted tops
in the nation. Kelly also
talked of the important
role community colleges
like Northeast Mississippi
Community College play
in preparing the workforce
to be employable at facilities requiring more skilled
labor.
The
banquet
was
capped with the presentation of the Doug “Moose”
Mansell Award. The award
is in honor of the late
Doug Mansell who was a
longtime director of PCDA
and who was very instrumental in the growth of industry in Prentiss County.
This award celebrates an
individual
who
has
demonstrated a long term
effort in supporting the
economic development of
Prentiss County in hopes
of improving the quality of
life for area residents.
This year’s recipient of
the Mansell Award was
Marshall Dickerson.
Dickerson owned and
operated a local business
for over three decades. He
has been an active board
member of PCDA for
many years, serving in
many capacities including
PCDA board president
three times. Dickerson has
also served on the
Booneville School Board
for many years, and has
been involved in various
other community activities.
“We have combined
close to 400 categories of
freely available, and someFROM 2
times difficult to access, information from Federal
The website was devel- and State agencies into a
oped by The Geospatial single site that can be used
Group, a Mississippi com- to explore potential areas
pany.
for your business,” said
Gary Hennington, president of The Geospatial
Group.
YallBusiness is a work in
progress and more information will be added to the
site.
For more information on
YallBusiness, visit the web-
site at www.YallBusiness.
sos.ms.gov. The Secretary
of State’s Office encourages
the public to provide feedback and suggestions on
information they would
like to see included on the
site by emailing yallbusiness@ sos.ms.gov.
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Obstetrician
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time with the kids,” Sanders
said.
Now she works two 24hour shifts a week, allowing
her to be more involved at
her children’s school.
“I’m able to drop the kids
off at school for the first
time in my career,” said
Sanders, who anticipates
her family will make the
move to Tupelo in the next
year. “I’m loving this new
lifestyle.”
HOSPITALIST ROLE
Sanders and the other
five hospitalists, who are
part of the national OB
Hospitalist Group, provide
24-7 coverage at NMMC
Women’s Hospital, backing
up private practice obstetricians.
When expectant moms
who have passed the 20week milestone in their
pregnancies come to the
Women’s Hospital, the
OB/GYN hospitalists are
there to evaluate them and
put the plan of treatment
into action. They review
tests, deliver babies, assist
with surgeries and address
complications.
The hospitalists work as
a safety net, so local obstetricians know their patients
have the benefit of a boardcertified obstetrician in addition to the NMMC
Women’s hospital staff,
even when they can’t be
there, Sanders said.
“We work as an extension of our private practitioners,” Sanders said.
“Their doctor will still take
care of them.”
Much of the hospitalists’
work focuses on high-risk
pregnancies and obstetrical emergencies, like
preterm labor. With the ex-
pansion of the neonatal intensive care and the addition of a maternal-fetal
specialist, NMMCWomen’s
has seen an increasing
number of physicians
sending high-risk transfers
from other hospitals, said
Ellen Friloux, NMMC
Women’s and Children’s
Services administrator.
“The OB hospital improves access to high-risk
maternal care through the
region,” Friloux said.
Sanders said she’s impressed with the community electronic health
records, which make coordinating
care
much
smoother and reduces repeated tests.
“We can look at their last
office visit,” Sanders said.
“Their physicians can look
at what’s happened at the
hospital.We’re able to share
information easily.”
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“My first boss didn’t think
women could work and
have kids,” she said. “He
didn’t think anyone could
marry those two together.
I’m driven enough to make
it work. He offered to set up
a home office for me and
then when it came down to
it right before my son was
born, he took back that
offer. There I was, the week
of Christmas, having to resign from that job.You can’t
interview at eight months
pregnant in the accounting
world. People don’t get excited about that before tax
season.”
But that setback led
Angle to another firm
where she prospered for the
next few years, until Hurricane Katrina hit.
“Scott had an opportunity to transfer north and
we decided to move,” she
said.
With a big change like
that, Angle weighed her options on what to do next
with her career.
“I got a certificate to
teach school, but I wasn’t
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don’t know what the name
of it is, but on the cover, it’s
got a guy and a girl sitting
on a couch,’ or they’ll say,
‘The cover is blue.’ That
happens,” she said.
Books from John Grisham, James Patterson
and Greg Iles are always
big draws, and J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series
remains a favorite, though
Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” books have slipped
in popularity.
The fastest growing area
in the bookstore is the
teen and young adult section.
OCTOBER 2015
sure if I wanted to do that or
not,” she said. “Do I teach
school or do I do public accounting?”
Fortunately for her
clients, Angle answered
that question by pursuing
what she knew best – a
trade that runs in her blood.
“My grandfather was a
CPA and my dad was a CPA
as well,” she said. “I’m a
third generation. Who
knows if Luke will get to
carry the torch.”
Angle and her husband
live in Belden with their
now 11-year-old son, Luke.
When the trio isn’t actively
involved in activities at First
Baptist Church – where
Scott and Amanda teach
high school seniors Sunday
school – they like to travel,
take in Memphis Grizzlies
basketball games and be
foodies.
Angle cites all her blessings to God, who she gives
the glory for her and her
family’s life.
“I share that with my
clients,” she said. “He’s the
reason I chose this path and
we’re blessed because of
what he’s done for us.”
Her personal life is full
enough without her career,
but Angle said she has good
teammates that make it
easier.
“I have a good family and
good co-workers,” she said.
“We have a schedule, and
we do it. If it’s on the calendar, I do it. If it’s not on the
calendar, I don’t. It’s that
simple. When you find out
you really have the right job
is when you love it and
don’t consider it to be
work.”
While it’s difficult for any
man or woman to juggle
the number of duties Angle
balances, she said it’s one
she will always struggle
with.
“It’s the ultimate struggle,” she said, “the combination of work and family.
I’ll never not have it. But
people ask me why I love
my job like I do, and it’s just
that simple. I do. It’s the
challenge. Every year you
think it’s going to get better
with the next year. You put
systems in place, but there’s
always something new.
New protocols. New software. It’s the changes that I
love, and that’s the fun part.
Every client is different and
every year is different.”
“That’s something they
didn’t have when we were
kids,” she said.
The Mississippi section
features work by regional
writers. It does good business for the store, especially around Christmas.
“That goes to prove that
Mississippians love their
writers,” Newsom said.
Going old-school, writers like Mark Twain and
Jane Austen still attract
new fans.
“We’ve got all the classics. Those are the foundation of the book business.
They’re still big sellers.
They’re not going away,”
Newsom said. “The cool
thing is teenagers come in
and buy the classics. It’s
not just digital there –
teenagers love the feel and
smell of books, too.”
Much like her regular
customers, Newsom has
to have her books. She has
piles at home, and she’s
come to accept that she
won’t finish them all.
“If I start a book and it’s
not capturing me, I can
put it aside. We all feel that
way around here. Life’s too
short,” she said. “Reading
is so personal. I don’t like
every genre that we carry.
I jokingly say, ‘I live reality
so I read fantasy,’ but
everyone who comes in
has their favorites. I love
that, you know. Everyone’s
different.”
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The truth about advertising agencies
“H
ave you ever seen
‘Mad
Men?’”I
think I have seen
two episodes, but I
am not familiar enough with the
series to discuss it intelligently.
When I receive this question, it is
usually followed by additional
inquiries of what I do for a living.
The only current common frame
of reference I hear is “Mad Men.”
Before this, it was the television
show “Bewitched.”
The fascination with the advertising industry is the final creative since that is what reaches
the public. Coming up with a
campaign is much more than the
creative. It is a lot more than having the right idea. While I cannot
say that TV is inaccurately portraying the process, their goal its
to tell a good
story.
Sometimes facts get
in the way of
drama.
One lure that
marketing has
for me is that I
get the opportunity to learn
TY
other
busiROBINSON
nesses. I have to
understand a
product or service to be able to effectively market it. I get to see the process. For
industries, I get to tour the plant.
Each business has its own language. Each business has its own
personality. Companies are like
fingerprints – they may have a
similar size and shape, but no
two companies are exactly alike.
I enjoy research. I enjoy interacting with others. I like finding
out answers to things that are
new to me. Often I will hear a
question, which may be rhetorical, and I will pull out my smartphone to get an answer. I have
one client who will request, “Ty,
pull out your magic box and find
out ...” I usually find the answer,
though on occasion I have found
it necessary to use the smartphone to call a librarian for assistance.
Creative sessions are fun too. If
we’re not prepared, though, it
may call for more research. The
more knowledge we have, the
more relevant we can be with the
creative. And I use plural pronouns with the creative process
because it is a collaborative effort. In my company everyone is
part of the creative process. As
Tom Robinson, the chairman of
the company, is fond of saying,
“The good ideas will rise to the
top.”
Once the creative is approved,
the implementation phase of the
process starts. The creative has to
get to the customer, and the creative has to get the customer to
act. So here comes research
again. There are a lot of factors
that help determine which
media and which vehicles are
chosen.
A great idea certainly helps a
campaign. As shown, there is a
lot more than just the great idea
that becomes an advertising
campaign.
WHERE A GREAT PERFORMANCE...
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In the Cary Grant film “Mr.
Blandings Builds His Dream
House,” advertising account executive Mr. Blandings (Grant)
spends most of the movie worried about saving his firm’s account with Wham brand ham
when he’s not preoccupied with
his house being built. His job is
saved when he triumphantly
comes up with the perfect slogan
that he overhears his maid say to
the family at breakfast.
It makes for good drama. And,
I recommend the movie. But
that’s not usually how an advertising agency works.
TY ROBINSON is president and COO of
Robinson and Associates, a Tupelobased marketing, advertising and public relations agency.
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