Our First Computer and Business Services (CCC) Location in Suttons Bay Developing Filemaker&trade Database Solutions in Danbury Antiques, another glimpse of Suttons Bay History
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The Lake Leelanau Store for Farm Animals and House Pets. You can probably find every known kind of animal feed at Leelanau Feed and Seed! At Home... in Leelanau
Known Links! crankymen.comtipups.comFishing Leelanau Today Lifestyle known.com is a site about pieces and parts of knowledge and information. Where to find information, who has it, who is selling it, and what is known about that knowledge and information. Most of known.com is searchable. The public, and individual businesses are invited to add information to known.com and sell and buy items on known.com too! Currently this is offered for free! No listing fees, no transaction fees.
known.com is a site about sharing the information we encounter during our every day lives. known.com is about revealing ideas and celebrating people; what they are doing, what is new, what they have and are offering, news celebrating accomplishments and hard work, changes to businesses and lives, new thought processes, new theories, the next 'new thing' and all the parts of our lives that are easy to get excited about and share.
known.com is also a site about books, because we are passionate about books - whether to be entertained while escaping within a wonderful story or as a source of reference. Because most of the answers we are seeking to our questions are contained within books - we believe a book is always a great starting point, from infancy throughout our lives. Pages and pages of great learning starting points. Our purpose with known.com is to make that information known for you.
The quest for answers can sometimes be a simple process of looking something up on Google or on any of the other popular search engines. Sometimes we need a horizon of information, from many sources, a different perspective, more pieces for our puzzle, a complete picture. And sometimes we really just don't know where to begin. All learning begins with a 'not knowing.' We all have to start the quest somewhere.
Our hope with known.com is for this site to be one of your many stops along the way while you are looking for something. Whether it is the beginning, while in progress, or when you reach that "Ha! moment when everything makes sense and your thirst for knowledge and information has been quenched for a bit; until the next time a thought runs through your mind which begins with, "I wonder....." or "Where is....." or "where can I get......."
known.com will always be a work-in-progress. The known.com website is the natural result of the evolution of our flagship business, Known Books.
For over eleven years our bookstore enjoyed being a must-stop destination for tourists and book lovers from around the world (both walk-in and via the internet!). Even though we grew and flourished while on the main street of our tiny resort village of Suttons Bay in northern Michigan, a decision was made during 2006 to make a move across the street to a smaller storefront on the shores of Suttons Bay.
During 2007 we further refined our business model and made one more move, one doorway north, into a suite of offices in the lower level of the Millside Building. With this final move we eliminated regular retail store hours and now concentrate our time and energy on the internet aspects of our business - both bookselling and the ongoing research and development of known.com as an information resource and to facilitate an environment for individuals and business to easily list items for sale, and for site visitors to buy those items! We continue to maintain a suite of shelved books for our regular customers and have adopted the habit of telling every one that they are "always welcome, if the lights are on and the door is unlocked to come on in, we are always happy to sell them something!"
Suttons Bay Fireworks Light the Night Sky over Suttons Bay
The children giggled, laughed, cheered and clapped their hands as they oohed and aahed with every rapidly-launched firework exploding into the night sky over Suttons Bay. The temperature was perfect. The wind was still, and the Big Dipper and other stars in the sky dimmed a bit while the show was in progress. It was a beautiful show like no other show, because it was a show for the children. Just for them.
Multiple boats of varied sizes were anchored in the bay forming a scenic backdrop for those watching from shore. Suttons Bay Marina Park was full and everyone was gathered in their lawn chairs and on their blankets chatting with their friends and neighbors, nibbling on assorted picnic snacks while listening to the excellent music provided by HURST and other local musical talents taking advantage of an Open Mic Night. Jess Hammersley worked tirelessly to assure a perfect sound was carried to the entire crowd.
As usual the crowd was very generous with their donations when the "hat was passed" in support of this annual Suttons Bay Chamber of Commerce Labor Day Event.
A huge thanks extended to the wonderful and generous crowd for making the event a success with their attendance, and to everyone who has thrown their dollar bills and loose change into jars located around the village. Thanks to all the Suttons Bay merchants and business owners who made donations to make this special evening happen. Many thanks to Lois Bahle of Bahle's of Suttons Bay for her leadership and dedication to the event, to Jackie Morrison of the Business Helper for all the great posters and handouts, for arranging the Open Mic night, to Dennis Grant of Camelot Construction and Development for donating the use of their portable stage for the live music performances, to Gary Galusky of Little Finger Auctions for delivering posters and handouts and coordinating the fireworks while working with the local merchants to round out the many donations, and to Jim and Linda Munro, Korner Kottage Bed and Breakfast, for being the driving force to make this event a reality for the children (of all ages) from Suttons Bay and the surrounding communities.
A sincere and heartfelt thank you, to each and every one of you who contributed and made this a successful and wonderful end-of-summer event for our local community.
We're glad you came. We're thrilled you enjoyed the show!
Cheryl C. Cigan
Known Books
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Get Ready!
The Fall Leelanau Wine Tours and Festivals Start Soon!
Come and join the fun in the Suttons Bay Marina Park for the Suttons Bay Chamber of Commerce
Annual Labor Day Weekend Fireworks Display
Bring your friends. Bring your neighbors. Bring your relatives. Bring a blanket and a few snacks and sit back and enjoy the brilliant fireworks display over Suttons Bay.
Own a piece of the night sky over Suttons Bay!
Stop by Fifth Third Bank, Bahle's, The Business Helper, The Village Inn or The Korner Kottage with your donation to help offset the cost of the fireworks display.
The Suttons Bay Chamber of Commerce appreciates your support to make this a fun and memorable Labor Day Weekend tradition for the children from Suttons Bay and the surrounding communities.
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MIND CAPTURE: How You Can Stand Out In The Age of Advertising Deficit Disorder
Gen X author Tony Rubleski skyrocketed to the top of the Amazon.com "Marketing & Sales" charts last week with his new book Mind Capture: How You Can Stand Out In The Age of Advertising Deficit Disorder. This feat was accomplished within hours after the book launched on the popular retail site. MIND CAPTURE also topped the "Movers & Shakers" list which identifies, by category, the biggest gainers in sales rank over a 24 hour period. The book was at the #2 slot for most of the day. When the book was first launched shortly after midnight on the 29th, it ranked #71,298 in terms of all titles online. By late afternoon, it had jumped as high as #140 – an increase of more than 46,000% according to Amazon.com reports.
"Our team sat perched at their computers watching the rankings get higher as the day progressed and I’m absolutely thrilled with our results for the opening day," Tony says. "Americans are starving for good, solid marketing advice and I think MIND CAPTURE delivers that to them. The fact that the books were flying off the shelves, so to speak, is a testament to that."
With MIND CAPTURE, Tony has written a fun, engaging and practical business book that shares real-world, specific strategies to help sales professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners wade through the confusing and changing advertising arena to stand out from the marketing clutter to produce ‘Mind Capture,’ sales and repeat business.
"With the economy continuing to be a daily talking point with the media and by the Presidential candidates and advertisers vying for our attention on social message boards, nearly everyone from our minister to our parents have become bottom-line salespeople, trying to capture our attention," says Tony – who is on a mission to perform a million marketing exorcisms before he hits 40. "And let’s face it, these days we have the attention span of a fly."
Rubleski says the amount of new media options being created creates even more and more confusion and argues that understanding ‘Mind Capture’ and taking a fresh look at your marketing and sales strategy will determine your success or demise in today’s sped up, web based world. Using "to- the-point" techniques and case studies, including the one about a former rock star who used ‘Mind Capture’ to raise money to fund a music CD release, Rubleski reveals:
Who are the best salespeople in the world (hint: many people have them);
How both Presidential parties are using Mind Capture to sway opinions and votes;
Why you must be Google-licous in the digital age;
The #1 mistake 99% of businesses and organizations make in their marketing;
How businesses and the non-profit community can join forces to accomplish their goals;
With resistance to advertising at an all-time high, Rubleski presents the societal forces all businesses and non-profits are up against when trying to communicate and what they must do if they are going to have any chance of being noticed, taken seriously, and believed.
Tony Rubleski is currently the president of Mind Capture Group which focuses on direct marketing consulting, copywriting, advanced public relations and sales and marketing training for business groups and sales teams. He has advised many of the top sales and marketing minds in the world and his work has been featured in such outlets as Bottom Line Magazine, FOX TV news, the Detroit Free Press and Entrepreneur Radio.
On July 21st, Tony began an ambitious 50+ city, national tour.
For media inquiries, interview requests or schedule availability, contact publicist Dianna Stampfler with Promote Michigan, at 269-330-4228 or via email: Dianna@PromoteMichigan.com.
Cory Beuerle
Logged 50 million miles in more than two thousand orbits of Earth at 18,000 miles per hour. First American to undock from the space station in Soyuz spacecraft, first American to perform a spacewalk outside a foreign spacecraft. At the completion of the mission he had spent more time in space than any male American. Signed and personalized copies of his books are available exclusively at Known Books of Suttons Bay.
Leelanau Windows and Doors
Little Finger Auctions
Dan A. Penning, Attorney
Dogs. Dog Clothes - Dog Shirts - Dog Collars and Leashes - Dog Poop Purses - Cool Things for Cool Dogs from Ruffly Puppy of Ruffrageousdogs.com
Your Local Grocer - Your Neighbor - Many Premium and Nationally Known Award Winning Products! - Specialty Products in Every Department!
Potted perennials for your garden landscaping plans from root stock to full size mature plants complete all your garden landscaping needs at Perennial Gardens to Go in Marion, Michigan, a licensed grower in northern Michigan.
Dr. Dona D. Alba of Provement Family Care at 231.256.0606 offers family medical heath care during early morning hours, evening hours and weekends in addition to normal weekday hours. Provemont Family Care accepts Blue Cross Blue Shield, Priority Health Care, Medicare and Medicaid (up to age 17).
A Widely Known Must-Experience Leelanau Destination! A U-Pick flower farm located 7 miles north of Suttons Bay on M-22 in Leelanau County (sign visible along M-22) - Open dawn 'til dusk daily, May through October with 23 beds to pick from with over 40 varieties of annuals and perennials grown. There is a self service shed on premises with jars of water, scissors, etc.
Leelanau Builders, Grand Bay Builders at 231.995.9057, bring over 35 years of home building experience to Leelanau County and northern Michigan. Known in the Pinckney area for over 30 years as Lisbeth Builders. Licensed builders specializing in new homes and renovations throughout Leelanau County and the Grand Traverse Region.
Known by all the Lake Leelanau boating families. Serving Lake Leelanau boating and snowmobiling families in Leland, Michigan
The Fun Gift Store in Northport Behind the Pink Bench known for all their great and fun merchandise including the known and popular M-22 products.
Known as the Historic Romantic Bed & Breakfast in Suttons Bay, Michigan at 231.271.2711. "Every second was a moment of magnificence." 
Three Cottages on the shores of Suttons Bay in Northern Michigan. A known vacation favorite in Leelanau County.
McDonald Quality Services at 248.794.3040, are third-party auditors for three leading certification bodies - VCA North America - Vehicle Certification Agency, ASR - American Systems Registrar, and UL - United Laboratories.
Known as the Oldest Tavern in Leelanau County - Where Good Friends & Great Food Meet
Known as the Flag Maker in Northport, Michigan, Custom Made Flags in Leelanau County - Custom Made Flags in the U.S.A. - The Flag is Still Flying, Northport, Michigan
The Leelanau Yarn Store in Cedar, Michigan is very well known with knitters and spinners alike and is filled with colorful skeins of yarn in a variety of colors, fibers, with spinning wheels in every corner. Where the Leelanau knitting and spinning community gathers.
Northern Lumber in Suttons Bay is the Local Lumber Yard, Hardware Store and Building Supply Source for Leelanau County and the Grand Traverse Area in Northern Michigan. Known throughout northern Michigan as the source of lumber and building supplies.
The Lake Leelanau Store for Farm Animals and House Pets. You can probably find every known kind of animal feed at Leelanau Feed and Seed!
The Home and Cottage Decorating Store in Lake Leelanau where every room is special to welcome family and friends.
Leelanau Cigar Company
The FedEx and UPS packaging and shipping store in Leelanau County. Business supplies, office supplies, artists supplies and copies too! Publisher of The Business Book, The Leelanau Phone Book. 
The Known Source for Advertising Specialties, Custom Imprinted Logos, Promotional Products, Custom Logo Golf Balls from CallMo.com
A Leelanau builder known throughout Leelanau County for their New Home Construction and Remodeling.
Situated in historic Fishtown - Up on the main street in Leland, which is just a quick walk across a parking lot you will be delighted to discover the charming, and historic, fishing village of Leland, Michigan. Leland is known for many things including Fishtown. Take time to stop and explore this vacation site.
Located near the heart of downtown Suttons Bay. Close to Known Books and area shops and restaurants.
South Bay Construction Management Services is the leading St. Simons Island Construction and Remodeling Project Management Company serving the Golden Isles. South Bay Construction is known throughout the greater Golden Isles for their New Home Construction, Remodeling Projects, Rentals, and Island Arrival Preparation and Presentation Concierge Services - They will have everything ready for your arrival.
Every store in the downtown shopping district of Suttons Bay is known in their own unique way. Come and visit and explore (and buy too!).
A listing of all the known stores selling books in Suttons Bay, Michigan. If we have missed your store and the books you sell please let us know at suttonsbaybookstore@charter.net and we will be happy to add your store to the list of known stores selling books in Suttons Bay!
Good Neighbor Organic Vineyard & Winery