Join Chamber of Commerce for a Regional Search?

by a searcher from Weber State University

1 year ago

I’m conducting a regionally focused self-funded search and think that joining the local chambers of commerce would give me facetime with successful business owners in my region. I’m not sure how this would be received by the members/if it’s worth the time and membership fees. 

Do any of you have experience with joining a COC for this reason or any other input/advice with this strategy? Thanks in advance!!

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admin from Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

Hi, ^Searchfunder member‌: With many organizations, you can get pretty good bang for the time spent by just showing up to events. Given all the outreach you'll need to do, you may wish to reserve joining an organization for situations where (a) you can only attend an event if you are a member and/or (b) you plan to do sufficient work with the organization to both raise your profile and to have a beneficial impact for the organization. For situation (a), let's say the organization does an annual awards dinner where any every person of substance is going to attend, then it's probably a worthwhile investment. For situation (b), you want someone on the blah-blah committee to tell a prospective seller, "I've met ^Searchfunder member‌ and they've got a great attitude and have done an amazing job on blankety blank."

Here's ^Searchfunder member‌'s advice on doing a geographically focused search: https://www.searchfunder.com/event/view/613

1 year ago | like reply | 1 like

searcher from Iowa State University of Science and Technology

Joining chamber of commerce does have a company fee associated with it if you didn't know.

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