July is Our Broomfield’s Birthday Month. We are SIX this year!
I was thinking about the evolution of Our Broomfield over the past six years and height marks inked in pen on a door frame to measure a child’s growth came to mind. The marks from year to year clearly illustrate increasing height, but I often wonder about the things that happened in the spaces between that drove that growth. Maybe the spaces between rings in a tree trunk is a better visual. Either way, I think we did a pretty good job watering, feeding, and nurturing our child/little tree last year.
We had a big year. Here are a few highlights:
• In partnership with Pat Monacelli and the Broomfield Area Chamber, we published the third annual Broomfield Area Chamber Guide.
• We partnered with Hope Davis – Country Insurance to rigorously expand our social media presence.
• I hired my daughter, Megan Mayes, full-time to handle more of the day-today operations so that I could focus on outreach and strategy.
• We expanded our content partnership with the City and County of Broomfield to continue to provide the ENTIRE community with the most critical local information each month. Thank you Jennifer Hoffman!
• We partnered with various Broomfield organizations including the Broomfield Historical Society and the Crescent Grange to present valuable local history programming.
• We supported more than a dozen local non-profits by sponsoring events, highlighting programs, promoting activities, directly funding, and volunteering our time.
• We started a new column about Broomfield living at home, written by my sister, Andrea Wallace.
• Tammy Degenhart partnered with several local business leaders to launch the NoCo Community Mixer! Each month Tammy and Brent Paine – The Brent Paine Group, Rhonda Fisher – ServiceMaster Restore, and Hope Davis – Country Insurance, present a free, local networking event to gather Broomfield area citizens and businesses, as well as folks from communities in the greater Broomfield area!
• And this month I am proud to announce the relaunch of our website!
We just pulled the curtain on the new www.ourbroomfield.com with our digital partner Kaylan Barry at KBCO Enterprises and we are very excited about the massive potential to expand our reach and connection power for our readers and advertisers online! More on that next month.
The business climate remains challenging from month to month and I do not take for granted any advertiser or any single ad! Thank you to all of our advertisers and partners! These businesses allow us to continue to mail to 38,000 Broomfield area homes each month, providing the greatest information and marketing reach of ANY local provider. Simply put, if you want to know what is happening in Broomfield, THIS is the spot – for ALL of Broomfield – no matter your neighborhood, demographic, or social status.
Thank you to our readers! I love meeting you week in and week out at community events around town and learning why you like Our Broomfield!
But none of it happens without my amazing staff! Thank you Tammy, Stacey, Megan, and all of our writers! You are the lifeblood of Our Broomfield.
Happy Summer, Happy 4th of July, Happy Birthday! Happy Everything!
Thank you for your continued support and thanks for reading,
Tina
