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Volunteering

an article written for Harleysville Soccer Clubs newsletter, by club president Chris Ryan. Quite articulate and well put! I understand why people don’t volunteer. It’s easy to do, there’s no sign-up required and you don’t have to worry about embarrassing yourself doing something wrong. Not that long ago, I felt the same way you probably do now (heck, I still find it hard to volunteer for some things, like painting one of the rooms in our house.) I remember being at soccer signups five years ago when the man behind the table asked me if I’d like to coach my son’s team. I thought, “What, are you kidding, me coach? I haven’t played since high school. I wasn’t even that good.” But it only took the plaintive plea from my then six year old son, “Please Dad, you’d be great” to get me to even consider the idea. Hesitantly, I printed my name on the volunteer portion of the registration form. My last thought was, “Great, now how do I get out of this?” Nothing fills one’s heart with dread

Learning about the Harleysville Community

So we are continuing to settle into our new digs over at the second store . Slowly, more samples are arriving, more and more customers are starting to trickle in, and we are starting to become a part of the community; all important factors in opening our second store. We are even learning new things, as if that never happens. For example, in the course of reading up on the area and its thriving community in hopes of learning more about the people who use our products, I stumbled upon a neat, well written newsletter and learned quite a bit about our local soccer organization, Harleysville Soccer . The club, run by all volunteers, fields 110 intramural teams a year in addition to its travel and TOPS programs, and they also run a soccer day to showcase the skills of the players in the organization. The soccer day has become so popular it has grown to two days this year. Amazing considering it is all done with volunteer support. These people devote countless hours to all kinds

The culture of praise in the workplace

Heard this on NPR today, and thought it was pretty interesting, or at least interesting enough to share with you. It was about our, or my generations need for praise, not just in the workplace, but for life in general. Maybe it's just because I sell products that help people recognize achievement, but I do not see this as a bad thing. One caller said that we should blame Mr. Rogers, but again I can't see why we need to blame anyone. People need recognition . It doesn't need to be over the top recognition, but a pat on the back goes a long way for most all people. Even adults like getting recognized for a job well done. We are a society that thrives on motivation and in this day and age, we need to do whatever we can to get the most out of our human resources. These are the biggest asset of any company and should be watched closely. People make and sell the things. People make relations and believe in the products they are buying and paying the prices they

Bux-Mont Awards opens second store. Location: Harleysville PA

We are finally open!! hooray. The hours of the Harleysville store are as follows: Monday: 12:00 - 6:00 Tuesday: CLOSED Wednesday: 12:00 - 6:00 Thursday: 8:30 - 7:00 Friday: 8:30 - 7:00 Saturday: 9:00 - 1:00 Please come check out our showroom, it is very big and contains the latest and greatest in not only awards and recognition items but also any of a number of promotional products to help your business or organization promote yourself. We are constantly looking for ways to improve add value to our products for you, and to do this we are constantly looking for opportunities to utilize technology. We recently started a website that enables you to build your own trophies online that has been well received by you, and we are constantly training our staff on the many new technologies we employ here to better serve you.

Eastern Regional Wheelchair Basketball Championships

Now I know what you are all thinking and before you say anything let Ime say, it's been REALLYYYYYY busy, and I am sorry!!! I know I don't get here as often as I should, and I know you are all probably worried sick and I apologize. And now that is out of the way, let me get to the point. We here at Bux-Mont Awards enjoy the finer things in life, and we realize that there are some of these things that not everyone knows about. So we are going to tell you about a couple of things we enjoy that we think you would enjoy too. This said topic of the week is the Eastern Regional Wheelchair Basketball Championships . Wheelchair Basketball is one of the most intense sports that we have seen in the past few decades. And I am not just saying this because my brother plays for the Magee Rehab Sixers ; I am saying this because these guys can play! If anyone can get down to Jersey this weekend to watch the tournament, you won't be dissapointed. Same premise as the sport tha

We made it!!

Well, okay, maybe we didn't make IT, but we made it, in a way. Maybe I should explain. When I said we I meant Bux-Mont Awards , and when I said it, I meant the Bucks County Herald. The Herald was kind enough to feature us in this weeks business section, and just when we were planning to announce the opening of our new store. So if you are a local and into the Herald, you should check it out, it's a pretty good article eloquently written by Mr. Joe Ferry, the editor of the paper. I will post a pdf link on our website under news, so be sure to take a look.

New Things!

I know it has been a short while since you last heard from me, but hey, it's a lot of work being the premiere recognition provider in the area. A lot of people need to be recognized for a lot of things, and there are only so many of us here at Bux-Mont Awards and so many hours in the day, so what to do. Unfortunately one must make sacrifices in order to get all the work out the door and those sacrifices come in the form of not writing as often as I would like. My apologies. So about those new things. It is a new year, actually it is February now (wow who knew it could go so fast), and with that new year came a new blog, actually it is two new blogs, with another one coming soon. We have blog for everything and a couple of them might even contain something you want to read. This blog here, for example, is for anyone who wants to keep up to date on things that happen in the world of Bux-Mont Awards and the recognition industry. Like our new blog(s); another thing new