NewsMarch 2011

Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring

Business Development DirectorChuck Fleming

Marketing SpecialistsSara KelschDana PritschetStephanie SinnerKatie MeierKrista Harju

For more information on any programs, visit:www.prideofdakota.com

Annual Meeting

Williston Showcase

Wholesale Show Planned

ND Agriculture Departmentnow on the air

Featured Company: Mojo Roast

Featured Store:Gifts from the Heart

In This Issue

Pride of Dakota News

Attend the Pride of Dakota Social and Annual Meeting!Mark your calendars! The Pride of Dakota Social will be held at the Double-wood Inn following the POD Day at the Capitol on Tuesday, March 29. This is a great time to socialize with your fellow Pride of Dakota members as well as legislators from around the state. In addition, the Pride of Dakota Annual Meeting takes place Wednesday March 30.

There is an exciting and exceptionally knowledgeable group of speakers at this year’s annual meeting. Their sessions will provide many opportunities for you and your business to grow. In the breakouts you will have the opportunity to hear about financial opportunities, learn how to further develop your business, and a panel of experts will also give creative marketing ideas. During breakouts there will also be an option to record videos and radio interviews for the URL radio show.

As a group, Pride of Dakota members will hear from the President of the Me-dora Foundation, Randy Hatzenbuhler, get expert advice for social networking from Scott Wild, and more!

This lineup of speakers has the potential to give you the knowledge to make your business exactly what you envision it to be. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Pride of Dakota is going to be in Williston! The first Pride of Dakota Spring Showcase will take place Saturday, May 7 at the Williston Armory. Showcase hours are 10 a.m - 5 p.m. This year’s show is a one-day show.

Registration contracts have been mailed and will be received on a first come first serve basis. We are excited to expand our showcases west and want you to be a part of it!

If you haven’t filled out your registration send it in as soon as you can with $50 for the 10’ x 10’ booth space. For more information call Sara at (701) 328-4766.

Pride of Dakota is heading to Williston!

Wholesale Show Just a reminder that the Pride of Dakota Wholesale Show takes place on April 20, 2011!

The Wholesale Show will take place at the Ramkota Hotel in Bismarck. This is a great opportunity for compa-nies looking to place their products into new stores and for those considering the wholesale market.

This show will target wholesale buyers from gift, food and other retail shops as well as tourist attractions in the state. We will send invitations to over 500 buyers throughout North Dakota.

The show will run from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. In addition, from 5- 7 p.m. there will be a business social. We will be inviting business leaders, corporate buyers, restaurant owners, chefs and more to attend and view your prod-ucts and provide you the opportunity to network with them. The cost to participate in this event is $50.

For more information on this event, please contact Sara at 701-328-4766 or email sakelsch@nd.gov.

March 29 Pride of Dakota Day State Capitol

March 29 Pride of Dakota Social Doublewood Inn, Bismarck

March 30 Pride of Dakota Annual Meeting Doublewood Inn, Bismarck

April 20 Pride of Dakota Wholesale Show Ramkota Inn, Bismarck

May 7 Pride of Dakota Spring Show Williston

May 25 Pride of Dakota Night at the Redhawks Fargo

July 25 Pride of Dakota Day at the ND State Fair State Fairgrounds - Minot

July 27 Pride of Dakota Food & Wine Experience State Fairgrounds - Minot

Upcoming Events

Tune in to North Dakota Now, our new weekly Internet radio show on your computer! It airs every Wednesday at 11 a.m. on the locally-owned Internet station, URL Radio.

The program’s website address is http://northdakotanow.podbean.com. The station’s website is www.urlradio.net. You can also listen through a link on the Pride of Dakota website – www.prideofdakota.com.

The weekly program includes a newscast, feature stories on Pride of Dakota member companies, updates on department activities and other information. North Dakota Now is produced in-house by NDDA’s Business Development Division. If you are interested in being a Pride of Dakota featured member, contact Katie Meier at mktg@nd.gov.

Social NetworkingPride of Dakota has a Facebook© page, Twitter™ account, WordPress blog, and YouTube account. Our Facebook fan page reaches nearly 4200 people daily with feature stories about our members, status updates and feature videos.

If you want your company to be featured on Facebook, please take the following steps:1. Call or email us to be the featured com-

pany of the week. 2. Fill out the “Tell us about you” form and

email, fax or mail it back to us.3. Let us know if your company has been

in the news.

Email Sara at sakelsch@nd.gov. with quse-tions.

North Dakota Now

Pride of Dakota Featured Company: Mojo Roast

Pride of Dakota Featured Store: Gifts from the Heart

A new pot of coffee is brewing, five miles south of Westhope, and it’s not your average cup of “Jo.” Mojo Roast is a one-of-a-kind coffee shop, offering coffee lovers a new experience: personal coffee roast-ing. Each order is roasted to the customer’s personal specifications at the time it is placed. Once a customer is grounded in their favorite flavors, a roasting log is created and filed for future reference.

Owner Jo Kahlifa believes life is too short for bad coffee. A great day starts with a great cup of coffee; a great coffee starts with a great bean. Mojo Roast offers specialty grade Arabica coffees, which make up only five percent of the world’s coffee market. In addition

When something comes from the heart, it has a special meaning. A group of friends in Jamestown want to share in that special meaning and have a store for oth-ers to do just that.

Gifts from the Heart started in 2006 when a group of friends decided to set up a holiday shop in a local cof-fee shop. They gathered just enough local products to sell over the holiday season. The holiday shop was a success, and Gifts from the Heart was formed one year later.

Gifts from the Heart is a cooperative of crafters, home based businesses and retail buyers. Each vendor rents space and has assigned weekly hours. This store

to her commitment to high quality, Khalifa is strongly committed to social responsibility. Most of her organic coffees are fair trade, bird-friendly, shade-grown, and Rain Forest Alliance certified.

For more information or to find a nearby retailer, visit www.mojoroast.com/index.php. If coffee is not your cup of tea, make sure to check out Jo’s other products!

And if you’re interested in new and flavorful dessert recipes, visit celebrity chef June Pagan’s website – http://junepagan.com/links.aspx – for recipes incorpo-rating Mojo Roast products.

is open six days a week but has no paid employees.

Gifts from the Heart offers a variety of one-of-a-kind items. Each vendor has different products to offer from

baked goods to quilts and run-ners. Shoppers can also find baby gifts, purses, Pride of Dakota products, jewelry and decorative knives. Their stock changes with the seasons. An in-house embroi-der can put names and designs on just about anything.

Carrying a variety of Pride of Dakota products sets them apart from other retailers and shows their loyalty to the state they love.

Stop and visit Gifts from the Heart at 109 1st St W in Jamestown or call 701-952-1166.