SWARNER COMMUNICATIONS & PR

We hope you will follow our Joint Base Lewis-McChord virtual chamber of commerce site to stay abreast of business related topics that impact the South Sound military community.  We post several times a week.  Feel free to participate.

It's here - the Weekly Volcano officially launched the new Weekly Volcano Happy Hour App last week to great applause.  This system is really cool - you download it to your phone, and no matter the time or day, it tells you where happy hours are going on in the South Sound at that moment.  PLUS, when you travel, it shows you the happy hours from those towns too.  You can get the app HERE.  CHEERS!

Today marks the start of our new package program that combines all of our great media and marketing sources into one program.  While we have different levels, the most basic package includes ALL of the following:


Listings on www.jablam.com

Listings in JaBLAM's Daily Email Blast

Ad in weekly JBLM newsletter

Ads in both JBLM Spouses and JBLM Singles magazines

Ads on northwestmilitary.com (banners, embeds & video)

Booth space at our Military Events

Inserts (direct mail) into base housing

Flyers at the events we attend to support the military

Ads in The Ranger & Airlifter newspapers, or the Weekly Volcano newspaper

Daily email updating you on marketing and social media ideas

You receive all of this for one low monthly price.

To learn more about our Star Marketing Program, call us at (253) 584-1212.

On Monday, we had over 2500 people vote that day in our Tournament of Pizza.  1,400 on Saturday.  Our daily average is over 1,000.  Check out the contest here.

It's a big year for the Capt. Meriwether Lewis Chapter of the Association of the United States Army, and as well as for Swarner Communications.  In the upcoming awards for AUSA's 6th Region, which covers AUSA chapters in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and North and Central California, the JBLM chapter took nine awards, two of which go to our organization.


Ken Swarner, co-owner, will receive the 2011 President's Medal, while The Ranger newspaper will be recognized for the 6th Region Public Service award.

Swarner Commuications has been a member of AUSA for nearly 30 years.  Tom Swarner, past owner now retired, was a two-time president of the JBLM Chapter.  Currently three Swarner staff hold positions in various sub-chapters, plus Ken Swarner is currently the Sub-Chapter President for DuPont.

Read more about the 6th Region awards, plus see the other seven winners from JBLM HERE.

On April 1, we begin a new era in media and marketing at Swarner Communications & PR.  We are unveiling our new Star Marketing Program — an offer that combines all of our traditions in print and networking with our advances in electronic publishing and social media - one package, one price, and no hassles!

For years we have reached our readers through a robust system of media and marketing, and now that exact program is available to our clients looking to capture a significant piece of the massive military market in the South Puget Sound area.  Thirty percent of paychecks come from Joint Base Lewis McChord.

The Star Marketing Program is affordable.  It's a one monthly price for 14 strategies (higher packages receive 19 strategies and more of everything).  SEE THE RATES HERE

We are thrilled and proud of the Star Marketing Program.  It's our opportunity to give the business community access to all that we have worked tirelessly to build.  

Swarner Communications is offering a couple opportunities for business to connect with its readers at no cost.
1. ALL AUSA & AFA members are eligible to list their military discounts for free on JaBLAM.  This offer is good for the rest of 2011.
2. The Weekly Volcano unveils its new Happy Hour App in April with a kick-off party (stay tuned to this page for details).  If you have a happy hour in your biz, email the details to publisher@ftlewisranger.com - it's free of charge!!  Soon, your listing will show up on the App we'll make available for download across the South Sound.

Our weeklyvolcano.com and northwestmilitary.com have now reached the 50,000 unique visitors mark for the past 30 days.  And that's just unique visitors.  How about 154,011 page views?  We are proud of our team that keeps our sites active and engaging!!  And we continue to look for unique ways to touch our readers here in the South Sound.

Vote for your favorite pizza joint in the South Sound HERE