How Did These Chamber Professionals Get Free Webinar Training

Chamber professionals, are you rocking social media at your chamber of commerce? Or do you feel like you, and your staff, could be doing it a little better? Are you finding it at least a little tough to keep up with the changes and best practices? Even the savviest of social media loving chamber professionals, [...]

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Are You Offering Chamber Info-Casts Yet?

Have you heard of Chamber Info-Casts? If you love bringing your members together to network in-person, then Chamber Info-Casts might be for you. If you love providing your members business training, then Chamber Info-Casts might be for you. If you love providing in-person networking and business training at no cost to the chamber, then Info-Casts are definitely for [...]

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The Latest Email Marketing Tips For Chambers

Are you using email marketing at your chamber of commerce? I am sure you are. But it sure can be complicated, can’t it? There are so many email marketing questions to be answered Let’s run through just a few of the questions: Should your chamber’s email marketing newsletters be one column or two? Should your [...]

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Do You Understand the Chamber Business?

There are a lot of ways of trying to make sense of and understand the chamber business. We all have our sets of life experiences that help us to figure out the world we live in and our role it. For me, it was being the owner of 4 retail stores over the course of [...]

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Are You Aware of These Chamber Ideas, Insights, And Strategies?

In this industry, you had better be getting pretty good at finding and trying out new chamber ideas. After all, if you stay static too long, in this day of rampant change, you quickly start to look a bit ratty. The last thing you want members and prospects thinking about your chamber is that it is old [...]

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Check Out The New Chamber Member Webinars

Have you implemented Chamber Member Webinars yet? As a former Chamber of Commerce President/CEO and now an industry author and consultant, I can tell you times are changing fast. Bringing on new programs, such as regularly scheduled member webinars, is a change that is critical to your long term viability. Source Here is an example of the [...]

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Did Your Hear About the World Chambers Conference?

Are you familiar with the World Chambers Conference? Are you a chamber of commerce volunteer or paid chamber staff? This video is for you. Watch this interview with Cambridge, Ontario Chamber President/CEO Greg Durocher to hear what he learned (and his insights about those lessons as it relates to North American Chambers) from his recent [...]

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Insights and Tips On Creating Strategic Alignment at Your Chamber. An Interview with Cathi Hight.

In this video interview with chamber expert Cathi Hight, we discussed, among other things, the necessity for chambers today to create strategic alignment between their program of work and their goals. This strategic alignment doesn’t happen through circumstance. It requires thoughtful change management techniques and strategies that include staff, boards, members, and stakeholders. Receive advice [...]

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What You Need To Know About Institute

Chamber professionals, are you familiar with Institute (Institute being shorthand for Institute for Organization Management)? As you will hear in this chamber interview, Institute is a nationwide professional development organization focused on helping chamber and association executives grow as professionals. It can lead to receiving your CCE or CEA certification. You can also, after completing the [...]

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You Must Innovate or Perish. Ideas and Guidance for Chambers.

Chamber industry leader Danny Hearn, IOM, CCE is sounding a serious wake-up call for chambers, a call to innovate. He is pushing for innovation and change due to, among other things, The Coming Jobs War and the dramatic generational shifts that are upon chambers and their members, as called to light by Sarah Sladek through her [...]

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