Fantastic news! Remember the post we had a few weeks back about being nominated for Small Business of the Year?
Well…we won! We are truly honored by by this award, and we want to thank all of you for your support! We have truly been blessed by God, and for that, we are thankful!
We’d like to take the time to congratulate all of the other winners:
Industry of the Year – Blue Grass Army Depot
Business of the Year – Pattie A. Clay
Educator of the Year – Tommy Floyd
Agricultural Award - Jim Dause
Bernease Walters Beautification Award – Ecton & Shannon; WGT
Wallace Maffet Award – Phillis Adams
Minority Business of the Year – Luxury Pet Service
Howard Neal & Collier Dedication Award – Pat Olds
Community Service Award – Scott Johnson; Bechtel Parsons
110% Award – Jerian Shaw
Ambassador of the Year – Adam Poff
Again, congratulations to all of the winners! We humbly thank each and every one of our customers and friends who have supported us! The city of Richmond is filled with outstanding business owners and leaders, and we’re truly honored to be listed alongside them!
The quality of business truly reflects the quality of people.
We’ve just received some awesome news! Surge Promotions has again been nominated as one of three finalists for Small Business of the Year by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce! Whoot! We were fortunate enough to be nominated last year, and so to be nominated again is simply incredible! The other two finalists are Gillum’s Sports Lounge and Boardman Family Chiropractic! The 25th annual Commerce Awards will be held in the Keen Johnson Ballroom at EKU on January 21st, beginning at 6:00 PM. We’re extremely excited and we look forward to seeing all at the banquet!
Remember when you used to buy the lame-o, taste-like-cardboard cereal because it had the rad toy inside? Sure you do. There were many times when I got in trouble for dumping half of the box out so that I could retrieve what would become about 3 1/2 minutes of play time. Then I would get bored and throw it away.
Well, we have a similar thing for our customers…only ours are so much cooler, words cannot even contain the awesomeness!
So, instead of attempting to explain how flippin’ sweet they are, I’m going to leave a large blank so that you can pause and ponder the epicness of our gift!
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Excited? You should be. So what are these marvelous little knicknacks of joy? Squeezies stress relievers! They’re both fun, and practical (I now feel as though I’m writing an infommercial)! We know how crazy life can be, and so we decided to help out our customers by giving them something to squeeze the living daylights out of!
Every single box of shirts receives a squeezie. Note that we said that each box receives a squeezie, not just each order! So, if you order 300 shirts you get around 4 or 5 squeezies, depending on the shirt sizes. We can only fit so many shirts in each box. And we know what you’re thinking. No, we can’t pack your order with only 3 shirts per box to get maximum squeezage.
So, if you’re really stressed, you should buy more shirts, so that you can get more squeezies! Unlike that nasty cardboard cereal with the junky prizes, our gifts are awesome, and our shirts don’t stink. I still wouldn’t recommend eating them.
Our employees are awesome. They’re hardworking, fun, folks who deserve a little recognition every once in a while–but not too often 
So, in order to do this we’ve decided to have our first annual Surgie Awards ceremony!
Here’s what ’s going to happen…
Nominations will be created during the next few weeks, with each of us writing down ridiculous/funny (or ridiculously funny) awards for one another. Then, on December 21st we will have our mega-awesome awards ceremony, where the top nominations (chosen by Devon and Matt) will be awarded to each employee! We’ve already begun nominating up a storm, so Matt and Devon have a lot of reading to do!
If you’ve seen the Dundie epidode of The Office, you know how this thing will play out , only our ceremony will be…Surgier (I think I just made up a new word). We’re even going to have trophies, with the award title engraved on the front! How sweet is that?!
Needless to say, we’re pretty excited about this, and we look forward to sharing the results with you!
Did we get your attention? Well we don’t lie! You read correctly; we’re having a contest of sorts where you can be entered to win a free T-Shirt!
Here’s how it works…
We have a condundrum. We are looking to create a new promo shirt for ourselves, and our graphic artist, Jered, has created six super-sweet designs, and we can’t narrow it down to which one we want! So, we place the decision in your hands! That’s right! You get to vote on which shirt design you like the best! On Friday, December 11th we will tally the votes and see which design wins it all. We will then print that design for our next promo shirt!
We will randomly select ten winners out of those who voted using extremely complicated methods of theoretical statistics. Basically, we’ll draw the names out of a hat.
Those ten winners will receive a free T-Shirt, courtesy of Surge Promotions!
You may be asking, “how in the world do I vote?” Well all you have to is leave a comment on this blog with your name (first and last) and the number of which T-Shirt design you want to win! You must put your first and last name in order to be placed in the drawing (because we won’t know who you are)!
So get to votin’ friends!
To see each design side-by-side in fuller detail, click the image above!
And to see each shirt on it’s own, click the following links!
Shirt 1 Shirt 2
Shirt 3 Shirt 4
Shirt 5 Shirt 6
Recently Surge was named Business of the Month by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. Devon made an appearance on the Chamber’s monthly news show, Chamber Today, which runs locally on Time Warner Cable’s Government Chanel 12. You can view the show here as well:
mms://media.eku.edu/mdr/media/richmondchamber/Chamber_Today_02_25_09.wmv
Matt accepted the award at the Chamber Luncheon which featured guest speakers from EKU Athletics. Thanks to the Chamber for the honor!!
Surge Promotions just received the good news that we have been nominated for Small Business of the Year! Other nominees were Erikson Chiropractic and Kolor Kreations. We wish everyone good luck and we’ll see you at the banquet January 29th!
