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  2011 COMMUNITY INFORMATION PACKAGE

BE A GOOD AMBASSADOR FOR MAYERTHORPE 

Every day, we have the opportunity to ‘sell’ our town and ourselves to others.  Why does this matter?  Why is attitude important? If you’re a business owner, you know that people have choices…they can shop at your store or they can go elsewhere.  The same holds true for perspective businesses and residents…they can locate in Mayerthorpe or they can go elsewhere.

Over the past 18 months, Mayerthorpe has played host, unknowingly, to “site selectors”.  These are people hired by big companies to check out perspective locations for business expansion.  They arrive in a community anonymously and ‘interview’ people informally, casually asking them about the town. They speak to local business owners, staff persons, and residents of the town and its surrounding area.  They then process their findings and make a recommendation to the company that they’re working for as to a viable site for the business. 

 If these site selectors who were in Mayerthorpe spoke to you, what impression did they come away with?  Did you speak with enthusiasm and pride about this community you call ‘home’, or did you knock it down with negative comments and criticisms?  Did you display support for the community and what it has to offer?  Will the site selector recommend Mayerthorpe as the perfect site for, let’s say, a “Tim Horton’s” or for a “Subway” franchise?

 YES!  Site selectors have been to Mayerthorpe and others will very possibly come, representing various types of companies.  So, be a GOOD AMBASSADOR for your town all the time.  You just never know who that friendly stranger is who’s chatting to you about Mayerthorpe.