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November 17, 2025

Planning Your Own Year-End Signature Event

While many chambers use December to host member appreciation events or holiday mixers, they’re often competing with attendees’ booked schedules. From school events to family obligations, work parties to gatherings with friends, it’s hard for your members to fit the chamber in. That’s why you have to do something to make them feel like they […]

Article by Christina Metcalf / Redirected / chamber best practices, Chamber event, holiday events, member engagement

October 27, 2025

7 Smart Ideas to Optimize Your Chamber’s Business Expo

Chamber-hosted business expos are hot events that bring your businesses attention. Or do they? On the Chamber Pros community recently, one chamber pro inquired about hosting a business expo and asked for advice. Although business expos are a chance for local businesses to show off what they do best, connect with potential customers, and build […]

Article by Christina Metcalf / Redirected / business expos, chamber best practices, Chamber event

January 29, 2024

Help! Our Chamber Event Check-in Is a Mess

It’s all about experiences these days and sadly, experience begins at a potential attendee’s first thought of your chamber event. It begins with your invitation and marketing. But the place most people pay attention to is the physical event. And the first taste of your physical event is most often check-in. If your chamber event […]

Article by Christina Metcalf / rewrite / Chamber event, event check-in, events

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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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