Aug 7, 2015

Advertising on Merredin Today Website Merredin Today website has the capability for classified advertising, but do you need or want another place to advertise For Sale, Wanted, Real Estate, Jobs etc. We can organise promotions via facebook as well as through the website so that you get a good coverage for your product or service but there is quite a bit of work involved and it would incur a fee. This fee would be minimal if there were a lot of ads and unlike media advertising it would only be a one cost per ad, it wouldn’t matter if your item sold immediately or it took a year, it would cost the same. Comment below and give us some feedback...

May 15, 2015

local woman fires scathing attack on Destination Merredin Advertising.   The Destination Merredin meeting at The Shire offices, was a lovely and considerate get together to thank everyone for their amazing efforts during the ANZAC and Destination Merredin weekends. The Deputy Bec McCall formally thanked the town for their hard work and enormous effort preparing for and during the events and acknowledged the closeness of the community. We were in awe of the statistics she shared… 6,600 poppies of various mediums were made 400 people were involved in making these poppies. Some groups are still making poppies for next year. It calculated to over 2000 hours work by our community, if each poppy took an average of 20 minutes to make A teacher from the college mentioned that the students had showed a lot of excitement and were very proud of their town and the display of poppies. One lady, in a scathing attack complaining that Quote “No one, No one, absolutely no one knew anything about Destination Merredin.” She went on to say that “advertising on websites and facebook were a complete waste of time, no one saw it”. It seemed a strange comment and said with such fury. It could only be an unjustified personal attack on shire staff who gave their heart and soul for this event.   This is only my opinion and observations of the advertising for the event: I saw it advertised in the Mercury several times. Courtney also supported it with online features with The Mercury. I heard it on the radio lots of times, Anthony was amazing. It was on Destination Merredin website It was on The Shire website The Shire facebook pages sometimes more than every day for at least two weeks. Destination Merredin Facebook. ‘Merredin Today’ Website and event calendar. Merredin Today Facebook advertised the events daily from the calendar of events. It was on The Shire big sign on the road. It was in the notice board on the main street. I also saw material sent to my letterbox.   That’s just the advertising that I noticed, there is probably lots more as well. The person also complained bitterly that the big sign on...

May 14, 2015

Super IGA Merredin sold after 27 years. Brett and Rhonda and family are saying goodbye to serving us after 27 years. The supermarket has sold and the new owners have taken possession. The McNabb family have supported this town for a very long time in many different ways going back nearly 30 years, they, with others in the town were instrumental in supplying fresh produce to locals. They taught our teens good work ethics during their introduction to working life and earning money. They have always supported staff members being part of emergency services and causes, allowing them to leave whenever was needed. Sporting clubs were never refused assistance with sausage sizzles, raffles and food for fundraising dinners and competitions ran for years giving money back to shoppers every week. Like many people in town, I have worked for the McNabb family and found them to be very business smart bosses with many different sides to their approach. They were tough at times especially when protecting their business practices, wouldn’t put up with people who didn’t work hard for their pay and held excellent customer service to the highest regard. It really wasn’t difficult to work out what they wanted in their staff, and you give them that, in return they were loyal, kind, supportive and compassionate employers which I personally hold a lot of respect for them both. Whether you knew it or not, Brett and Rhonda were the customers best friend, you were always right. Thank You Brett, Rhonda and the McNabb family for the past 27...