John Wondrasek is a successful web designer from the Chicago area. He has in-laws here in Macomb, so whenever he would be in town to visit, he would come here to Cafe Aroma, get some food, some coffee, and some wi-fi and work on his designs. He's been encouraging us to get a website & offering to help since the day he started coming. He's always been eager to share good ideas and desiring our success. One day as he & I were chatting about the possibility of him doing a website for us, he asked me what I thought of a logo he was designing. Know who it was for? Jelly Bellies. I thought, This guy is kind of a big deal. And oh yeah, other clients on his resume include Target, Ace Hardware, Aldi and other companies of that caliber. Wow. Way our of our league, right?! He's amazing, but we could never afford him!
(Well. Here's where the story gets really good.) He keeps pursuing us. While I'm a little intimidated & trying to wait until we can scrape some money together to start even thinking about a website, he let's me know that he's not that concerned about the money. He wants to see the cafe thriving, and he knows better than anyone how important it is for a business to have a good website. He wants to move forward with the plans for the site, and we can pay him whatever we can afford. He's used to making thousands on a site (and he earns every penny), and he offers to build us one for whatever we can afford.
So he's been hard at work putting together this beautiful site for us, and in turn, we're hard at work raising money to try to pay him a fraction of what he's worth. We thought, what better way to raise the money than making music! So, all of our "house bands" (as I like to call them) are playing tomorrow night in a show: Never Say When, Liz Thielemann, Matt Weiss, Leith & Kindsay (I'm in that one :)), and more. Suggested admission is $5. All proceeds will go to John. We'll also be doing a 50/50 raffle, door prizes, and a portion of the night's sales will go to the cause.
Come join in! Come take in some great music while being a part of a great cause.
Website Benefit Show
Friday, November 13th
7:00-11:00PM
University & Lafayette, Macomb IL
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