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Anissa Starnes Joins YGM as Chief Impact Officer
Anissa Starnes, IOM, is joining the YGM Total Resource Campaigns, LLC, team as Chief Impact Officer, YGM President and CEO Jason E. Ebey, IOM, announced today. “We are beyond thrilled to have Anissa as part of the YGM team,” Ebey says. “Anissa has the respect of chamber professionals across the...
There is Always Time for Goal Setting
Do you make resolutions every January? Do you keep them? Do you sniff your nose at the silly people who make ‘resolutions’ but do the exact same thing with ‘goals?’ Goal setting is useful at any point in the year. It’s common for people – and businesses – to set...
TRC Talks: A Year In Review
As we work with chambers across the country, one of the things we tell chamber professionals is to try new things. Do not be tied to the way you have always done things, and we hold to that at YGM as well. “It’s been a full year at ‘TRC Talks’...
TRC Talks: MADE Magazine – An Innovative Approach to Workforce Development
“We can’t think of 2021 without thinking of workforce shortages and workforce development initiatives that we need,” said Jason E. Ebey, IOM, CEO and Principal Consultant of YGM Total Resource Campaigns. Lindsay Keisler, IOM, CCEC, President and CEO of Catawba Co. Chamber in North Carolina says workforce development is at...
A Secret Shopper Shares Customer Service Tips
As chamber professionals, you are in your member business establishments routinely. But have you ever wondered what impressions those businesses make on their customers when the employees don’t know those customers personally? In retail, customer service is a valuable tool. Our November ‘TRC Talks’ guest, Alysia A. Cook, PCED, IOM,...
How Will the Facebook/Meta Name Change Affect You?
As Facebook is moving to Meta, we all are wondering how this affects us and our chambers and our member businesses. This will obviously be an evolving process, but for now, we have created the below document to help you, as chamber professionals, share information with your member businesses. We...
‘I Am the Chamber’ Initiative Makes Waves
Sometimes the best way to encourage support of your chamber or organization is not to encourage support of the organization itself but of its members. That’s the idea one chamber takes each year for Support Your Local Chamber Day with their 'I Am the Chamber' initiative. The Greater Vidalia Chamber...
Continue Providing Covid-19 Leadership
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label="row"] [et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] None of us could have imagined when the Covid-19 pandemic began that we would still be dealing with the challenges of it today. But that is the reality of the situation for you and your members, both as business owners/leaders and as individuals....
Sponsorship Successes Celebrated
Chamber professionals are known for adhering to a strict “R&D” operating procedure. If you don’t know R&D, you are either outside of the chamber world or brand new. “Rip Off & Duplicate” is one of the best ways to gather new sponsorship ideas for your chamber. Another way to gain...
60 Sponsorship Ideas in 60 Minutes
YGM recently sponsored one of our favorite workshops – ACCE’s 60 Sponsorship Ideas in 60 Minutes. This is our fourth year to sponsor this workshop, though this was the first time the workshop was conducted entirely online. We were delighted with how well the workshop went and with the interaction...
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