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How to Create New Members Out of Thin Air

How to Create New Members Out of Thin Air

Did you know that 43% of Americans plan(ned) to start a business in 2022? One third of them would be first time entrepreneurs. Once they start their businesses they are potential new members. But what if your chamber didn’t have to wait for them to get profitable or even get started before you became valuable to […]

How to Improve Employee Morale at Your Chamber of Commerce

How to Improve Employee Morale at Your Chamber of Commerce

There’s a local wine bar I like to visit in the town where I live. I enjoy going there and speaking to the owner who’s always behind the bar. He gives me a personal perspective on business – from consumer sentiment to employee morale across town – things you don’t always get from highbrow reads […]

18 Lunch & Learn Topics for Your Chamber

18 Lunch & Learn Topics for Your Chamber

One of the many benefits of chamber membership is the learning that is available to members. That learning extends to every employee and can be quite a valuable selling point if the Lunch & Learn topics and webinars you offer are important to member businesses and their employees. But how do you find those enticing […]

Is Your Chamber Competing with Member Events?

Is Your Chamber Competing with Member Events?

Businesses are doing their best to build an audience and brand and trying to become a larger part of their customers’ lives. They have to. What worked years ago, isn’t working these days. With labor shortages, product/part shortages, and the ever-growing competition on the internet, businesses are having to try things they’ve never done before. […]

8 Family-Friendly Event Ideas for Chambers

8 Family-Friendly Event Ideas for Chambers

Pre-pandemic, Australian millennials were attending more and more daytime, family-friendly events on the weekend than ever before according to Eventbrite research. I’m assuming this is true for the U.S. and that the trend has resurged post-pandemic because it seems like people these days bring their children to everything. Maybe it’s because of their schedules and […]

Get Inspired Again: A Guide for Chamber Leaders

Get Inspired Again: A Guide for Chamber Leaders

Burn out is a common topic of conversation these days. Everyone feels it, at least occasionally. But it sabotages success and drains teams if you can’t get past it. You want to get inspired again and again. So where do you find the inspiration to keep going? Keep reading. We’ve compiled a few creative ideas […]

12 Ways to Help Your Community Deal with Inflation

12 Ways to Help Your Community Deal with Inflation

I received an email the other day and I clicked to open it immediately. It had a subject line I haven’t seen in many months. “New price drop.” I couldn’t contain my excitement. A cost that is actually going down? After we’ve had to deal with inflation at record-levels month after month? This was almost […]

26 Chamber of Commerce Gift Shop Ideas

26 Chamber of Commerce Gift Shop Ideas

T-shirts, hats, coasters and postcards. The “standard” gift shop items. Is it time to upgrade? One of our chamber pros recently asked our Facebook group for some fresh chamber of commerce gift shop ideas. Their chamber in question doubles as a visitor’s bureau and she wanted some creative products to add to what they are […]

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Frank Kenny is a successful entrepreneur, chamber member, chamber board member, chamber board of directors chair, and chamber President/CEO. He now coaches chamber professionals, consults with chambers, trains staff and members, and speaks professionally. He helps Chambers and Chamber Professionals reach their goals. See full bio.

Christina R. Green teaches chambers, associations and small businesses how to connect through content. Her articles have appeared in the Midwest Society of Association Executives’ Magazine, NTEN.org, AssociationTech, and Socialfish. She is a regular guest blogger on this site and Event Managers Blog. Christina is just your average bookish writer on a quest to bring great storytelling to organizations everywhere.Visit her site or connect with her on Twitter @christinagsmith.
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