Nov/Dec issue of Neighborhood Notes Newsletter
The November/December issue of our newsletter has been distributed in the Pearl District residential buildings. It’s only our second issue, but it has improved nicely from the first issue in September. The great thing about a neighborhood newsletter is that as the participation grows, so does the quality of content.
In this particular newsletter–for those of you who aren’t familiar with it–we partner with the residential buildings in the Pearl. We don’t simply buy a bulk mail permit and ship it out to every mailbox. Instead, we meet with the Board of Directors of each Pearl homeowners association and ask them to endorse distribution of our newsletter in their building. In addition, we offer each board the opportunity to create an insert to the newsletter that contains news about their building. Basically, it’s a mini-newsletter. They supply the content (by a certain deadline) and we format it. Our advertising partners make it possible for us to publish the newsletter at no cost to our readers. Should homeowners associations, apartments or businesses choose to print copies, they do it at their own expense.
If you have comments about the newsletter–your likes or dislikes–please comment below. We’d love to get your feedback.
Randy Oathes replied:
Hello Lynnette!
My wife, Nancy, our Bassett Hound, Rocky (Balboa!) and I have lived in the Marshall-Wells lofts for 4 1/2 years.
My sister, her husband and their two dogs, my nephew, who is the executive chef at Paragon, his dog, wife who works at Cafe Mingo, all live in the Pearl, and my wife’s sister lives on 25th and Thurman.
We enjoy countless neighbors and friends here as well.
We love it here and patronize local businesses regularly.
Two different people directed me to your website today as a means to share my son’s new, best, and free website- ehelpinghand.com. to the Pearl District community, etc.
ehelpinghand.com is better than craigslist, angie’s list, classified’s and yellow pages for customers and service providers.
Although we are new the site is growing every day and we are merchant of the month in two area banks and we are scheduled for two more.
We are proud sponsors of Portland State University Softball.
A local newspaper recently wrote an article about eHelpingHand.com and my son which is also available on the website.
Could you help us in navigating the best ways in which to spread the word about eHelpingHand.com?
Thanks for your help!
Randy Oathes
503-970-5077
November 29, 2007 at 6:35 am. Permalink.