The Referral Group Patrick Brannan, Radix Advisors—Chairperson Lunch-time leads group. Members provide business leads to one another. Only one person from each business classification is allowed. No fee for Networking Level and above. Community Connection: a fee of $75 for 1 year is charged for members to belong to this group. Meets 1st [...]
Castle Rock Chamber’s Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony recognizes and honors the best of the best in our business community. Business Awards Nominations are now open! You can nominate your own business or another business. Do you know a business that demonstrated: Job growth and/or has demonstrated resilience [...]
A Reason to Join the Chamber that Only a Handful Think About but Everyone Can Use When was the last time you heard someone say, “I have too many followers and too many likes on my business page.”? Uh, never. I assume. Whether you’re just beginning to get [...]
5 Business Trends Every Chamber of Commerce Must Leverage in 2022 Business trends are important because we need to understand them and leverage them whenever we want to grow our business community. It’s especially vital when we look back to the end of 2020 and how 2021 seemed [...]
You’re Out More Than the Cost of Dues If You’re Not Using Your Chamber Membership The Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce has made several exciting improvements to the “Members Only ”section of the Chamber website that will make it easy for members to take full advantage of their benefits. [...]
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 [...]
30 Creative Ways to Find Your Next Employee Form partnerships. Work with other businesses that have good employee recruitment strategies and that also serve your ideal hire without being a competitor. For instance, a real estate agent may work with people who are moving into town. Those people may be looking [...]
Small Business Saturday Ideas for Restaurant Members While everyone is out shopping and supporting small businesses this Saturday, they are going to get hungry. And when they do, you want your member restaurants to be just as involved in Small Business Saturday as the stores. There are several unique ways restaurants can participate [...]
Working Moms: How the Chamber Can Help Momployees There’s been a terrible, hidden cost of this pandemic for women, particularly working moms. The most recent federal funding bill addressed the need to help women reenter the workforce because so many of their careers (or current positions) were hampered by women having to take [...]
Top Reasons to Buy Local, Eat Local, Go Local BUILD COMMUNITY! – The casual encounters you enjoy at neighborhood–scale businesses and the public spaces around them build relationships and community cohesiveness. STRENGTHEN YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY! – Each dollar you spend at independent businesses returns 3 times more money to your local economy than one spent [...]
