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BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 04:46 PM Oct 2013

Please vote for me and bring our factory home to Arkansas!

Dear fellow ASAHers

I would really appreciate your help. I recently entered a contest sponsored by Chase and Google to win a grant for $250,000. This would allow us to bring our factory back to the US.

You may not know about our company, so here are some of the details. My partner and I have been in business together for about 28 years. He is a really fab artist and designer. One of his mediums is holographic foils and this where our company comes in. Our website is www.TheRainbowMakers.com please take a look, we design and manufacture our own products. We sell all over the world. One of our butterfly mobiles hangs at the top tea house on Mt. Everest and one of our 3-D mobiles hangs in the NASA weather station at the south pole. Our mobiles have been in dozens of movies, the latest is The Great Gatsby in the ball room scene.

So anyway, about 8 years ago, we moved our manufacturing off shore because of my mother's illness. I wanted to spend more time with her and 4 years ago we moved to Arkansas. Our little town, Eureka Springs, is a wonderful tourist town, but there is little else for employment. When we had our factory in Willits, CA, we employed between 30 and 40 people. I think we could do that again. But, of course there is no way we can do it without financial help. This grant would make it possible. All I need are 250 votes by November 15. Right now we only need 235 more! Would you please help?

Voting takes place through your facebook account. Here https://www.missionmainstreetgrants.com/business/detail/34894 is our voting page. If you get to some weird place. Our zip code is 72632 and our name is The Rainbow makers.

Thanks for your help. Please tell your friends. Time is very short and we need you!

I am cross posting this in a couple of forums for max exposure, please don't think I'm spamming

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Please vote for me and bring our factory home to Arkansas! (Original Post) BlueToTheBone Oct 2013 OP
Any way to vote if you don't have a facebook account? Squinch Oct 2013 #1
No, isn't that a bummer! BlueToTheBone Oct 2013 #2
I will, and I wish you luck and success! Squinch Oct 2013 #3
I agree. The conventional wisdom BlueToTheBone Oct 2013 #4
I am like you I wish facebook (so freaking public) WOULD DISAPPEAR...if there onecent Oct 2013 #7
Thank you! But two of my relatives have agreed to go into facebook and cast votes. Squinch Oct 2013 #8
Will do! Good luck! K&R n/t OneGrassRoot Oct 2013 #5
Thanks OGR! BlueToTheBone Oct 2013 #6
I voted for you. demgrrrll Nov 2013 #9
Done! Howler Nov 2013 #10
... BlueToTheBone Nov 2013 #11
How's it going? hermetic Nov 2013 #12
We're at 66 right now. BlueToTheBone Nov 2013 #13
Here's an idea hermetic Nov 2013 #14
oooh, great idea! Rooting for you, Blue, but like many others magical thyme Nov 2013 #15
Voted and you had 166, so it is going up! Tumbulu Nov 2013 #16
We have 175 votes. 75 needed to become eligible BlueToTheBone Nov 2013 #17

BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
2. No, isn't that a bummer!
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 06:10 PM
Oct 2013

This seems to be about new media. But you can tell friends that might have an account. You could email them the link? We have 18 votes now! only 232 to go!

Squinch

(50,949 posts)
3. I will, and I wish you luck and success!
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 06:13 PM
Oct 2013


It would make a big difference in many lives if you get your factory opened.

BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
4. I agree. The conventional wisdom
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 06:22 PM
Oct 2013

says for every manufacturing employee, 10 others are needed to support that one employee...shippers, store clerks, material suppliers, restaurant employees and on and on.


onecent

(6,096 posts)
7. I am like you I wish facebook (so freaking public) WOULD DISAPPEAR...if there
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 10:47 AM
Oct 2013

is anyway you can email me to send an email...
consider it done.
pm it to me and I will handle it.
thanks

BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
13. We're at 66 right now.
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 11:14 AM
Nov 2013

We were there last night when I went to bed and haven't moved this morning. We're setting up some face to face places this weekend with a laptop and hopefully will pick up another 15 or so. We calculated that if we get 17 votes a day, we'll meet our minimum. Of course, I'd love more!
Thanks for asking!

Here's the link if you can think of any other place to askk.
https://www.missionmainstreetgrants.com/business/detail/34894

We even know the building we want to rent.

hermetic

(8,308 posts)
14. Here's an idea
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 11:23 AM
Nov 2013

Look for Eureka Springs on FB, most towns have a page or 6, spread the word there. Best of luck!!

Tumbulu

(6,278 posts)
16. Voted and you had 166, so it is going up!
Fri Nov 8, 2013, 01:04 AM
Nov 2013

Hoping you get your votes!

And thank you for making beautiful things!

BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
17. We have 175 votes. 75 needed to become eligible
Fri Nov 8, 2013, 07:37 PM
Nov 2013

It's really tough. I've asked every person I know personally and have been asking across the internet. I'm afraid we won't make it. What a shame because it could mean so much to our little burg.

But, I'm waiting until mercury retrograde has ended on Sunday and maybe the momentum will build and we'll have the votes we need by next Friday.

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