John Dilbeck Musings

Dilbeck Marketing has slashed the prices on all our custom printed business promotion products to celebrate the arrival of spring.

In addition to large discounts, we’ve added many new products that you can use to promote your business, organization, or cause. Our entire selection of business cards, stationery, labels, buttons, magnets, bumperstickers, rubber stamps, and many other items are now on sale.

All prices have been dramatically lowered for a limited time.

Our prices have always been competitive, and now they are even better.

Not only have we lowered our prices, we’ve added hundreds of new items:

* Have you been looking for short run commercial print items? We have ‘em! Buy small quantities of custom designed announcements, bookmarks, full-color letterhead, greeting cards, and post cards. They’re printed digitally for fast delivery and outstanding quality and price.

* We’ve added a new class of stock business documents including mailers, LazerStock, VersaSeal, HCFA forms, and integrated products for all your business document needs.

* This is an election year and everyone should vote for the candidate of their choice! You can get the word out with a wide range of affordable election labels that include bumper stickers, lapel labels, name badges, and bend and peel business cards.

We continue to offer a full line of patriotic labels and American flags — now on sale.

Don’t delay! Take advantage of our dramatically lowered prices while they last.

Promote Your Business — A service of Dilbeck Marketing in association with Clickprint.com.

SpringFest 2004

Saturday, May 8, 2004 from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm.

Downtown Murphy, NC 28906

Call Barbara Hughes at (828) 837-6821 for more info.

Come enjoy the Spring Heritage Festival in Andrews, NC 28901 on Saturday, April 17, 2004 from 8:00 am until 3:00 pm.

What will you find here?

Gospel, Bluegrass, dancing, food, arts & crafts, pets to adopt, clowns, balloons, bubbles and tattoos, moon walk, mini train, and fun, fun, fun!

For more information, call 828-321-9553.

Anticipate to Participate

Celebrate Spring with a Fling

It’s a Mountain Thing!

Appalachian Heritage Alliance — Dedicated to the documentation and preservation of Appalachian history and culture, traditional and modern uses of native plants, and wild-crafting — announce their 2004 Lecture Series Calendar.

Join them for dinner, musical entertainment, and educational programs every third Thursday of the month at 6:00 pm in the Topton Community Center, Topton, NC 28781. $10.00 per person.

March 18, 2004 — American Bonsai*

April 15, 2004 — Ramp Romp*

May 20, 2004 — Butterfly and Hummingbird Gardens*

June 17, 2004 — Edible and Medicinal Herbs*

July 15, 2004 — Cherokee Chair Caning and Baskets*

August 19, 2004 — Owl Prowl — Sights and Sounds of the Night*

September 16, 2004 — Ginseng — Conservation through Cultivation!

October 21, 2004 — Autumn Leaves and Winter Tree Identification*

November 18 — AHA Holiday Gift Fair

* This lecture has a corresponding workshop and/or field trip (dates to be announced).

Other programs available to your garden club, civic group, or organization include: Lady Slippers and Other Native Orchids*; Trilliums*; How to Make Soap*; How to Make Dipped Candles*; Appalachian Music and Storytelling; and Landscaping with Native Plants.

Wildflower Walks and Photography Tours by appointment.

Call Donna Looper at 828-479-8642 or Eve Miranda at 828-321-1612 for more information or to place your reservation.

Email: AppalachianHeritageAlliance@hotmail.com

Appalachian Heritage Alliance will present their First Annual Ramp Romp on April 15, 2004 at the Topton Community Center, Topton, NC 28781.

Starting at 6:00 pm with a Ramps and Trout Dinner to be followed by Live Music and an informative program by wild-crafter Wild Bill Elliot: “Ramps: How to find them, how to grow them, and how to eat them!”

$10 per person covers it all. Reserve your place now.

For more information, call Donna Looper at 828-479-8642 or Eve Miranda at 828-321-1612.

Appalachian Highland Games will be moving to a new venue for their 4th annual presentation of Irish, Scottish, and Celtic heritage.

From their web page:

“In 2004, Appalachian Highland Games will move to Andrews, NC 28901. All events will be held in the Andrews Recreation Park. Our new venue is larger, more people friendly, and easier to get to than ever before. Large parking areas adjacent to the Park make for easy access. Parking is FREE! There is ample seating around the securely fenced athletics area. Take a stroll under the oaks and sample the wares of our vendors. Enjoy a variety of acts and entertainment such as sheep herding, Highland dancing demonstrations and singing, youth events and pipe and drum bands. Tour the Heritage tent and learn about the early Scottish settlers whose descendants still populate these mountains, visit with the mountain crafters as they practice ancient skills. Come by the Tartans Museum booth and discover your tartan. Talk to Clan representatives and learn more about yourself and your forbears.”

The gates open at 8:00 am on September 11, 2004. Visit their website for more information about pricing and for driving directions and a map.

The 4th Annual Appalachian Highland Games will be fun for your whole family.

Will Local Search Live Up to its Hype?

The potential exists for more geographic-specific search results and advertising, but meeting Web users’ needs and getting local businesses to advertise remain challenges, say executives of search and online directory companies.

“About 98 percent of the 22 million businesses in the United States are small or midsized, and they spend about $22 billion a year in local advertising, Greg Sterling, a program director at The Kelsey Group, said in an opening address. While these businesses are familiar with buying traditional ads, such as print yellow-page listings or newspaper ads, many remain unfamiliar with search-based ads that involve an auction method for bidding on top keywords in search queries to return a sponsored link.”

[eWEEK Technology News]