Communty Marketing “Branding” Seminar Attended
A couple people from the Horizons group attended a seminar in Philip recently that looked at how small communities can market or brand their community. Dr. Milan Wall from the Heartland Center in Nebraska presented some very useful information on taking the assets your community has and building on them to solidify our future. He showed some success stories and tried to related those examples to things pertinent to each community. The idea is to build on things your community has - be it the Stock Show and Rodeo, the SUE exhibit, our new Community Center, the Western Lifestyle, or a multitude of other assets we have and show them off to the world. Creating success with current assets will carry over and fuel successes for other things the community wants or needs. One thing that we came away with was that you can even market your people and the lifestyle and that is something we have - good people and a wonderful lifestyle. Faith is a respected community and has always been know as a community of “Can Do” people and that is a tremendous asset! Meetings like these seem to remind you of what we really have - I would challenge everyone to take a moment to think about what we really do have (which is alot) and then maybe think of how we can use those things to our advantage and fuel more things. Every person in our community can be our best promoter - if asked about Faith are you a promoter?? Or do you say nothing is going on and things are doom and gloom?? If you think nothing is going on then you’ve ignored the requests to attend Chamber meetings, Council meetings, Fire Dept, Stock Show, Church functions, School Board, etc. etc. etc…., you’ve missed the youth athletic events held 3, 4, or five nights a week and you missed the One Act plan just presented. Take 2 minutes and look at what we really have(email if you need suggestions, we’ve made a LONG list) and the next time someone asks about Faith really tell them what’s here and what we have - be just as proud of being from Faith as Faith is of having you!!!!!!