Marsha Booth

With today's economy, we business owners have to help each other out and I am a big advocate of business relationships or business partners.
A recent example was our office meeting last week we were invited to a local shop called Whitt's End. It is a boutique of home and garden things and has a unique variety of products that is sure to come to mind when shopping for that hard to buy for person in your life.
We were warmly invited with coffee and pastries and heard Ginni (the shop owner) tell the story of how she came to open Whit's End. We felt right at home and discussed how we could help each other by using our circle of influence and work together toward a common goal. Ginni surprised us all with some great gift certificates we can pass on to our "New in Town Clients" and discussed ways of using "extra space" to build community relations for the small businesses. Whitts end will soon be hosting classes for Staged So Right's Sheila O'Mara where you can see where items you can purchase right there at Whitt's end can give your home that special touch to make it appealing to buyers in today's market.
At the close of our meeting, I think everyone left with a brighter outlook and a bag or two of items we just couldn't live without. For you Realtors out there, Whitt's end has gift certificates too for that extra special closing gift! Stop by and tell them you read about the shop in my blog and you can receive a special offer just for my clients and friends!

Here are a few photos of our office meeting! Can't wait to see where our next "Networking Office Meeting" takes us!

As a fairly new Team we are always looking for fun ways to interact with our community and recently Hardin County's Repair Affair was brought up at one of our meetings. Repair Affair is our community coming together to make a difference for our low-income elderly and disabled citizens who need help making repairs to their homes. With both skilled and unskilled volunteers, minor repairs and safety issues are mostly addressed.

The event is to be held Saturday June 6th, 2009 and what is needed are the following:

• Teams of skilled and unskilled volunteers from businesses, churches, etc. to come work on the planned day.
• Contributions are needed to purchase materials to make the needed repairs.
• Your friends or neighbors who are in need of some assistance repairing or winterizing their home or help with a safety concern, give them an application.
  

The day of the event, volunteers receive a T-shirt and a lunch is provided by other volunteers. It is a great way to bring our community together and get to know your neighbors and share your knowledge.

Our team at Marsha Booth & Associates of Remax Executive Group, Inc. has issued a challenge to all other Realtors in our area to form their own team for this event. We hope to get all the different real estate companies involved that day to help support our community. So if your team hasn't signed up yet, email Marsha Booth at marshabooth@remax.net or Sandy Wallace at sandy_wallace@earthlink.net and get your team started. We are excited to do our part and would love to work beside any of you!

You can find more information by visiting the website http://www.hcrepairaffair.org/

We are excited about the upcoming Seminar Living Beyond the Golden Years where several topics will be discussed such as:

Non-Medical Home Care
Home Health
Staging for Seniors
Allegro-Assisted Living Choices
Nursing Home Resources
Preferred Memorials
How to Out Live Your Money

Are you and your loved ones prepared for life beyond the Golden Years? You may not know it but there are local agencies and service that are dedicated to the welfare of the Season Citizens of our community, so this Free Seminar is available to share information and resources to assist you in preparing for the inevitable. Everyone ages, why not do it securely?

Join us Wednesday March 11, 2009 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM at The Allegro, located at 108 Diecks Drive, Elizabethtown. Seating is limited so please call to register 270-765-4414 As soon as possible.

I belong to Brian Buffini's coaching program. My team decided to Blitz with me. We have had so much fun reconnecting with our friends (clients). Not only have we caught up with what is going on in their lives. We have reminded them that we are never to busy for their referrals! Oh, by the way I am never to busy for yours!

On the first day we snow and ice! Not a problem some of us used our phone, emails, and braved the outside elements to due pop-bys. Mine was great it was ice scrapers (lol). I had a good excuse with the weather what a perfect item of value.

My team did a total of 96 pop-bys not including our phone calls and notes we mailed.

We even was BLITZED by Birgit Stubblefield (Century Mortgage) and Sheila O'Mara (Staged So Right)

Wanda and Cindi enjoyed the extended stay with their friends (2.5 hours!)

If you are blizting in 09 let us know how it is going for you. We are on a 3 month journey.

This week is phone call's

Oh, by the way I am never to busy for your referral!!

Marsha

Sometimes we forget that we live in a giving America. My family and I attend a small church Gospel of Grace in Hodgenville KY. On Saturday we had a meeting with the Mission Construction Team from CrossPoint Baptist Church of Argo, AL. What a blessing this group is and to be around. You can tell how God's is working blessing families and communties. Our church was selected as 1 of their projects this year. The Team will arrive in KY June 8-12, anticipating 175-200 volunteers in Hodgenville during the project. A team will arrive over the weekend to prepare for the arrival of the group. They should have 80-100 working on the building, others will prepare their meals and some of them will be involved with the caring and entertaining the children. This is a family project for their church. What a blessing I sold the church their land, the pastor his home and land beside his home. All of this land is located beside each other. The church we attended was across the street from my home. After attending for awhile appx. 40 members decided to make the move and start a new church, they spent sometime in an old store in Toniville, through it growth they needed to find a larger place. So they are using the back of a feed store having real pews is getting closer. Everyone is invited to attend church service June 11th at 7 pm. My real reason for this blog that if you spent your day in front of the national media you know how bad it is, well step away and see what good is happening in front of you. You decide your own attitude. I hope to keep everyone update on the future and excitement of this church.