Frank J. Kenny's Chamber of Commerce Industry Blog

Need some fresh new chamber newsletter ideas? Newsletters are a great way to stay in touch and help your community (members and beyond) get to know you better but if they’re boring or ineffective, you’re wasting your time. Instead … It’s worth the effort to get creative. Chamber newsletters can be an effective way to […]

Most businesses have a hiring problem right now. And as chamber pros, we’re scrambling to give them good directions. Here’s a big list of creative employee recruitment strategies that businesses can use. Feel free to repurpose or borrow from this article and share ways they can recruit on your chamber blog or your chamber newsletter. […]

We can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel–and as opposed to the old saying–I don’t think it’s a train. So let’s talk about mingling after COVID. Infection and death numbers have decreased, while vaccinations are increasing. And we’re seeing some creative marketing approaches to keep increasing vaccine coverage such as lotteries […]

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time shaking your head (that’s SMH in text speak) these days. People are making decisions I find hard to understand (outside of basic economic principles of supply and demand). But there are a lot of valuable lessons we can learn in the wake of another episode […]

Chamber marketing is a big topic. But I’m going to tackle it. I’ll give you the vital basics and you can use this as a primer for your chamber marketing strategy. I’ll also help you understand the terms marketers use and what they describe. There are a lot of redundancies in the marketing categories and […]

Chamber Pros: This article is written for you to borrow, modify and use in your chamber blog. All images are royalty and attribution free from GetStencil.com. COVID negatively impacted most of us. We lost our jobs; some of us lost loved ones; some of us had to put our careers on hold while we took […]

Is it time to create your own Chamber TV “channel” and take advantage of our binge-watching culture? Gen Xers and Millennials may be the last generations who will remember eagerly waiting for the right day and time to watch their favorite show. Some of us might’ve even changed plans “back in the day” in order […]

Chamber committees are a strong way to organize, engage, and interest volunteers. It gives them specific work and leadership opportunities that are good for your chamber, the community, and even the volunteer’s resume. While forming a committee just for committee’s sake is an act of unrewarding bureaucracy, creating the right committees that serve your members […]