CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COLUMN: Chamber has numerous ways to provide you – The Stanly News & Press

I’ve experienced the possibility to share the Stanly County Chamber of Commerce information to a couple of groups lately, which made me feel it would be a very good time to share it with the SNAP viewers in our regular monthly column.

The Chamber provides volunteer prospects, networking options, help with advertising and marketing and so substantially extra. If which is not plenty of, signing up for the Chamber is also a good way to make a variation in the financial growth of your local community.

As with quite a few issues in today’s earth, motives for signing up for a chamber have modified more than the a long time. Even so, the price of chamber membership remains a fantastic expenditure and delivers possibilities for you to mature your business enterprise as perfectly as your skilled community of contacts.

SCCoC strives to advise our members of what is likely on in our group, as properly as notify the local community of what is going on with our associates. The Chamber utilizes several approaches to communicate our message and the messages of our customers, like our weekly e-newsletter, local community occasions site on stanlychamber.org, social media sharing and promotions. We partner with the SNAP for a month to month column and 107.3 FM and 1010 AM WSPC often share our chamber updates and occasions.

We advocate fostering partnerships and collaborations among our member organizations, as very well as developing partnerships as the Chamber of Commerce. Lately, SCCoC partnered with various other entities and municipalities. The metropolis of Albemarle, Stanly County Economic Improvement Fee and the Stanly Community School Little Company Middle labored with each other to host a PPP2 seminar in February. Just final week, SCCoC served on a panel dialogue for the city of Locust Economic Progress Workshop. We proceed a near partnership with the SCC Tiny Company Heart and the Stanly County EDC.

In Stanly County, we have so numerous fantastic companies we want to assist enhance and endorse what these businesses do, and not compete with the identical style of choices.

SCCoC continues to be a dependable source for referrals. People in search of data about our local community and/or organizing to relocate or stop by the county often arrive at out to SCCoC. Requests for referrals have improved around the yrs as perfectly, not all are by phone. We now get requests as a result of e-mail, our internet site and social media. The site itself serves as a referral resource with our online searchable membership directory.

SCCoC customers acquire gains of their membership via chamber plans these kinds of as our Initially Positive aspects Insurance plan Mutual Staff Payment method and use of the Chamber of Commerce brand for advertising and marketing. Members can also utilize marketing and advertising and marketing possibilities via SCCoC publications this kind of as maps, directories and social media. Members can also share occupation openings on the chamber web-site and our e-newsletter.

Your Chamber has quite a few programs you can get involved in as a member or an worker of a member. SCCoC customers give the Leadership Stanly program month-to-month applications are prepared by experts in economic advancement, federal government, general public products and services, transportation, education and learning and other fields. Individuals acquire a wealth of understanding about Stanly County as nicely as developing experienced interactions.

SCCoC Ambassadors provide as volunteers for the Chamber at gatherings, aid keep current customers and recruit new members. Chamber member businesses get value by collaborating in the Ambassador Application as their employees represents the member organization in the higher group.

The SCCoC presents quite a few options for your business enterprise and you independently. If you want to make a big difference in Stanly County, share your abilities and voice to an founded firm like the SCCoC. We can raise your information and your reach.

Sandy Selvy-Mullis is president and CEO of the Stanly County Chamber of Commerce.