The Chamber of Commerce Executive Director's Package or How Can You Get Paid if You Don't Find the Money?
 | jackddeal Part of the "executive package" is that the Chamber of Commerce executive director must raise money to pay herself. |  |
| | jackddeal Hence, the ubiquitous job postings for Chamber Executive Directors. | |
| | jackddeal As their cash flow has diminished, the Chambers' ability to hire and retain good staff had diminished as well. | |
| | jackddeal So in effect the Chamber Mixer became a big "let's sell to ourselves" exercise, as rarely do non-Chamber members attend the mixers. | |
| | jackddeal New Chamber members were told to bring their "pitches" and stack of business cards and hand them out at the mixers; a true sales fest! | |
| | jackddeal The badly maligned "Chamber Mixers" would help serve this referrals networking function. | |
| | jackddeal In the 'old days' most of the better local businesses were members of the Chamber of Commerce but today that is no longer the case. | |
| | jackddeal Actually this Chamber referral source idea died in the 1970's and 1980's and was in reality not a member benefit by 2000. | |
| | jackddeal local consumers were looking for businesses and a good way to find reliable businesses was through the local Chamber's member list... | |
| | jackddeal The "Buy Local" programs have simply become obsolete as the concept of local has lost its meaning. |
