"Come on, you've just got to open up your business right here in Guntersville"

 

Introduction
 Business is growing in our lovely area. Your team has been hired by the Chamber of Commerce to come up with a brochure that will show companies how great it would be to open up their business right here in Guntersville. We're depending on you so let's get started.

 

 

Task

Your team is in charge of creating a "Lake Guntersville Brochure" This brochure should convince businesses to come to Guntersville.

1. The following information must be included in your brochure:

Convincing information that would make a business want to locate in Guntersville.
Some great pictures of activities that are going on in Guntersville.


2. You must also interview someone who has lived in Guntersville for over 20 years. A quote from that interview must be included in your brochure

3. You can also include some of the following information:

•Information about our parks
•Information about our historic sites
•Sports and recreation information
•Activities in the general area around Guntersville
•Shopping information
•Information about transportation
 

 

 

Resources


Select 5 of the links below for
information for your brochure

Guntersville                Development

Chamber                Schools

Snead State                Golf

Buck's Pocket                State Park

Art's Council                 Real Estate   

Conner's Island                Shopping

Wholeback Stage                Historical Sites

 

Here are the steps for collecting your information:
•Do research to find out what is special about our area.
•Find pictures to help create interest ("A picture is worth 1,000 words").
•Select a quote from your interview (Make sure that it will help convince a business that Guntersville is a great place to be).
•Create your brochure.

 


Here are the steps for setting up a brochure in Microsoft Publisher:

•Open up a "new document"
•Go to arrange and select layout guides.
•Change all 4 margin guides to zero.
•Change your columns to three.
•Go to "insert" on the "upper menu bar" and select new page.
•Click on OK.
•You are ready to go. Your brochure has a front and back and 3 column guides to help you put in text and graphics.
 

 

 

 

Conclusion

Thank you so much for all of the work that you did. Our community owes you a debt of gratitude. We hope to send these brochures to some local companies to show them what special abilities that the students in Guntersville possess. You have been a tremendous help to all of us.

Now that you've had some practice making brochures, how about a travel brochure encouraging tourists to spend their vacations on Long Island. You could start with a catchy slogan and continue from there. Good luck! Maybe the pictures below will give you some helpful ideas about our marvelous island.
 

Evaluation