• Chamber Talk Blog

    A blog from your local Chamber of Commerce.
    Monday, November 2, 2020
    Optimize These 7 Easy Things to Maximize Your Google My Business Listing

    Most people will agree Google is a large part (dare we say owner?) of the internet, at least from a marketing perspective. That means whether we like it or not we have to try to play nicely with the giant search engine. One of the easiest ways to get on Google's good side is through ensuring Your Google My Business listing is optimized. While it seems pretty obvious how you can optimize your listing there are still many businesses out there that don't do it. And yet it's so easy to make these quick

    Christina R. Metcalf

    Monday, January 27, 2020
    Why You Absolutely Need to Start Using Customer Data (and 4 clever ways to do so)

    Do you have a home assistant? I'm not talking about an Alfred to your Bruce Wayne. No, I mean like Siri, Alexa, or Google home. Have you traded your privacy for convenience? It's likely many of your customers have and if that's the case, their consumer expectations are changing rapidly. If you're not keeping up with them in your business, you're going to miss out.

    Christina R. Metcalf

    Monday, January 20, 2020
    5 Tips for Decluttering Your Office for More Peace of Mind

    I have a friend who used to say “never have more personal things in your office than you can tuck under your arm.” He believed in a fast getaway and joked about never wanting to have to pack up a box and be escorted out of the building. That friend went on to open his own business and I wonder if he kept to his rule being able to tuck all of his worldly office possessions under one arm. If you're like me, you break the one-armed rule with abandon and while you may have piles of papers all over your desk,

    Christina R. Metcalf