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Anyone looking for a last minute gift idea as a reward for being so very cool, please start your searches here:
www.homestead.com/robotart/ [any of these little fellas will do]Beats soap-on-a-roap.
WBV
Apparently our SPAMMER friends (and you know who you are) have 'revved' up a new batch of friend greetings. Even the spammers are lazy in the summer. Cant you guys think of a new gimmick for me to click on and give you all my credit card information?
Subject Line:
Family member sent you a greeting card from hallmark.com!
I know this is fake because:
Lord wont you please make SPAM go away.
WBV
Every once in a while something happens around these parts that I feel compelled to brag about. This week it is our team's 1st place finish in the Reno Tahoe Open Pro-Am. Let me go on a rant, then i will come back to kissing trophies.
If you aren't familiar with the Reno Tahoe Open [RTO], you should get familiar with this great PGA Tour event. The RTO has been a Pro-bono a client of Fuze for several years. We handle all their digital marketing (websites, online systems, ticketing, email marketing, hosting, etc.), and this event is one of the best produced events in the area in spite of the fact that: it probably takes the biggest amount of scrutiny, gets the least notoriety, and, every year has to fend off rumors that "it's not going to make it". To support my sentiment here, In today's RGJ - the primary local news rag - John Smetana wrote an article that is simply perfect and accurate. He says:
In the past two years, nearly two-thirds of the players who made the 36-hole cuts in the three major U.S. championships were RTO golfers. Seven of the top 12 finishers in the U.S. Open and six of the top 12 at the Masters this year were RTO alumni...So, this week provides another chance to watch in person a future major championship winner or Ryder Cup player (and some past). Pity we can't give you their names right now... [read full article here]
He simply could not be more dead on in his article. Come on Reno, get behind this event. One good reason? How about the fact that this and the Reno Rodeo [questionable] are the "only major professional sports league regular-season events in city history"?? I am proud to be a sponsor of the event, and I encourage other businesses to consider supporting the event (at least by attending) as a sponsor when you are torn between this or picking up the tab at yet another pankake breakfast schmooze-fest.
We [Fuze et al] love this event, and the people who put it on and thats why we get behind it every year. Jim Kline, and Rich Green are about the best guys you can ever meet [do business with]. Honorable, honest, dedicated, and realistic, these guys year after year put together a mega event with TWO FULL TIME HEADCOUNT, a crap-load of volunteers, great sponsors, and a little agency support from Fuze, BBC, and RKPR. If you see the magnitude of this event, you will see how big a feat this is.
Anyway, back to ME ME ME. I am pleased to announce that our team, captained by the baby walrus Kevin Stadler, locked in a 3 way tie for 1st place in this year's Pro Am. We walked, yes walked Montreux in 100 degree heat [with my dad as my caddie], and despite my half-assed contribution, our team managed to work our way to 17 under par [55] and take home the crystal! Kevin was a great pro to play with - like playin with of my buddies - and man can he swing it. It was a great day, and winning sure made playing hookie from the Fuze mothership worthwhile.
OK, enough about me. Don't believe the rumors about the demise of this event, or that its hard to park, or that no good golfers show up. Its all BS. Take a day [or 2], drive up to beautiful Montreux, ride in the air conditioned shuttle that drops you off at the first tee box, take a wine walk, oogle houses you'll never afford, and watch some of the up and coming stars of the PGA Tour make shots that you wont believe. Support this event won't you? Tivo it and watch yourself doing rabbit ears behind your bro-sif's head on camera.
I'll make it easy for ya: Buy RTO Tickets Online Here
Best wishes to the RTO and its volunteers for another successful year. And THANK YOU for putting on such a fabulous, first-class event. Please invite me back to defend my title :-)
Tee it up. Hit 'EM straight!
WBV
