What if you have a chamber member who sells their business? Who owns a chamber membership–the business or the individual? This is something you need a ruling around before it comes up. Here are the options that the chamber of commerce professionals group talked about recently: Options for Who Owns a Chamber Membership Ownership […]
How Do You Conduct Chamber Board Elections?
Chamber board elections don’t all follow the same rules when it comes to how they do them and when. Here is some information on the different ways to conduct them and the many moving pieces. 4 Variations on Chamber Board Elections Recently, on the Chamber of Commerce Professionals Group on Facebook a chamber exec asked […]
Advice on Navigating Disaster Recovery at the Chamber
I’m writing this post from the road, having left my home in St. Petersburg, Florida to avoid the dreaded Hurricane Irma and seek higher ground. I evacuated twice. The first time I packed my 10-year-old boys and 50-pound dog into a car without air conditioning in 92-degree heat and we trekked up the interstate […]
Advice on Moving Away from the Traditional Chamber Model
Chambers generally have good name recognition. People may not know what they do but they do know of them. Sadly, many chambers have to fight the reputation of being an out-of-date organization for businesses. Some people think they’re a government entity. So how do you shed this reputation and build one of a modern, […]
Recognizing Your Chamber’s Annual Sponsors
There are things in life that are undeniably unfair. Salaries for one. One career helps many people and makes next to nothing, while an entertainer earns the equivalent of the GNP of some small countries. We may grumble about this lack of equity but it changes little. Where you can’t manage iniquity is in […]
Tips on Improving Your EQ for the Chamber Pro
If you read any kind of self-improvement business articles, you’ve undoubtedly stumbled across the concept of EQ versus IQ but if not, here goes. EQ, otherwise referred to as emotional intelligence, is now being lauded as more important in leadership roles than IQ or the measure that has traditionally indicated intellectual abilities. A high […]
12 Chamber Content Ideas for Fall
I like to do these round-up type posts every season because content ideas can be hard when you need them, like looking for the perfect black dress. When you need it, nothing fits your taste. When you don’t, you see dresses everywhere. That’s why the first part of making the chamber content hunt easier […]
