Deadline is Tuesday for tradeshow booth reservations

If you are thinking about having a booth at the 10th Annual Area Business Connections Tradeshow, to be held at March 27 at Idaho Falls High School, the deadline is this Tuesday (March 13).

As part of the annual Mayor's Business Day, the show offers area businesses and organizations the opportunity to display their products and services to a wide number of people. It will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. in the high school gym.

There will be prizes, including an iPod Touch and $500 in cash, for anyone who visits  every vendor booth.

Signing up gets you:

• a 10-by-8-foot booth with standard draped back wall and side
• an 8-foot table with two chairs
• Internet and electrical access
• a listing in the flyer and program directory
• a listing on Powerpoint to run during the Grow Idaho Falls Luncheon Presentation
• live mentions on Riverbend Communication radio stations during event

Click here for an application: http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109493549661&s=2718&e=001YD-RMmIb9AEgkR0DPTleFXyFmJwkAARTzUSebdo1OzqVQABE93iYujnZWSYMJBF-JBl8KciQaOyYm0wb5ftgqIVb5ZlyMmwOFIvY3ovnfGZ3VwWx4XXYlPoYb8801Og4yAVt6poPXMD-Y7yqBkHOEqrKCbZQoFDoRf9RBNnBwddeJdQJuiTaz11ArcOzDUHzJNNvfZUNYR8=

For more information, contact Kerry McCullough at the Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce, (208) 523-1010 or kmccullough@idahofallschamber.com

I.F. dentist building new office

Considering how few foundations have been poured in the past three years, we thought it might be worth sharing this picture, taken Friday morning on Elk Creek Drive next door to AmeriTitle. This is the site of the new office Morgan Construction is building for Dr. Michael Elison, an Idaho Falls dentist now practicing at 3656 Washington Parkway. Elison's practice will occupy half the building and the other half will be leased.

Chesbro's marketer to speak at Idaho Falls Ad Federation lunch

Cory Kerr

The Idaho Falls Advertising Federation will have its monthly luncheon Thursday at Stockman's Restaurant at Snake River Landing. The guest presenter will be Cory Kerr, marketing directory for Chesbro Music.

Kerr recently won a 2011 Diamond GEM Award for a 3D direct mail piece titled “Backyard” For a look at him and his mailer click here: http://ifadfed.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/march-15-lunch-learn-with-cory-kerr/

He plans on sharing his story on how the mailer was done, and to offer tips and instruction on how to put together winning sales pieces that won't go “straight into the round file”.

Sign in for the luncheon is 11:30 a.m., followed by club notes at noon. The presentation will be from 12:15 to 1 p.m. The menu is your choice of a chicken salad or BBQ pork sandwich.
Cost is $12.50 to members and $15 to non-members. R.S.V.P. with Tina at 524-1777 or tina@mightymcs.com.

International Isotopes opens distribution deal with California company

Idaho Falls-based International Isotopes has teamed with Alpha-Omega Services of Bellflower, Calif., to be its exclusive worldwide distributor for a new line of radioactive material transportation containers. The deal comes after approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which came last week.

The Type B (U) containers come in three sizes and five different models, addressing a wide range of applications and meeting all of the most current International Atomic Energy Agency regulations for the safe transport of radioactive material. They are suitable to replace many models of radioactive material containers, used by the United States government and commercial interests, that lost their approval for use in October 2008.

Steve T. Laflin, International Isotopes' president and CEO, said getting NRC approval was a long and expensive process dating back to 2007. But the capability to transport "normal form" radioactive materials in addition to "special form" materials brings a significant advantage and "the elegance of their design makes them simple to use and easy to maintain," he said.

INIS will immediately begin taking orders for sales or long-term leases, with the first container deliveries expected by September 2012. Interested parties can learn more at the company's web site, www.intisoid.com.

International Isotopes Inc. manufactures a full range of nuclear medicine calibration and reference standards, a variety of cobalt-60 products, and provides a wide selection of radioisotopes and radiochemicals for medical devices, calibration, clinical research, and industrial applications.

Reader seeks business opportunity; anyone care to help?

In the BizMojo Idaho mailbox this morning:

Mike DeFord <defordrace@gmail.com> wrote:

Good morning Paul. My name is Mike DeFord I have read your site daily for the past 6 months or so, you do a great job. It is one of only three sites that I MUST visit everyday.

 

The reason for my email is that I have recently walked away from the world of corporate marketing ... I am in a position to start or take over a business here, my problem is that all of the traditional methods that I have used to find business opportunities in the past do not seem to be used by business owners in the Idaho Falls area. Do you have any resources that local business owners are using locally to list, sell their business?

 

Thank you for the time.

Naturally, I'm flattered by the praise, but now I'm calling on BizMojo Idaho readers to weigh in with any ideas or suggestions they might have. Post them here or send them directly to Mike. I'm very interested in the power of social media as applied to B2B interactions

P.S.: I'm sort of curious what the other two sites were.