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How Sweet Are Your Sponsorships?
As soon as October hits our calendars, it seems like everyone begins the discussions of pumpkin spice and sweaters. While the season of changing colors is my favorite time of year, thoughts of falling leaves and crackling fires quickly fade to the sound of four children begging for new costumes...
Improve Your TRC Communications
Are you planning your fall Total Resource Campaign (TRC) now? One of the first things on your timeline is most assuredly to plan your communications with your members and community. In the YGM TRC world, you know that all communications and promotions should be centered around your members. If the...
TRC = Strategic Plan
“We have a strategic plan. It’s called ‘doing things.’” – Herb Kelleher No offense to Mr. Kelleher, known to many in the business world as an American icon, most businesses (and chambers alike) need a more structured plan than simply ‘doing things.’ As we move forward, chambers are going to...
The Best Engagement Plans Start Close to Home
If you have been involved in a Total Resource Campaign with YGM, then you know that we talk a lot about engagement. Everyone in the chamber world (the business world in general) knows that we all work with and engage with a wide arrange of people and constituent groups. And while...
Motivated Volunteers Rule TRCs
Do your Vice Chairs or Team Captains ever ask what type of people make the best volunteers? As expected, we have tips of all sorts, but sometimes the best tip is to remind your Vice Chairs and Team Captains that anyone with a wide range of business contacts can succeed...
Who is the Best TRC Chair for your Campaign?
If you have ever conducted a Total Resource Campaign, you know that in many ways, they become synonymous with their chairs. When I begin to discuss a TRC with a Chamber and to strategize for it, thinking of who would be an ideal chair is one of the first things...
Get Creative with your Team Motivation
We talk a lot about how important team motivation is with our volunteers, both during the Total Resource Campaign and following the campaign. But it can be challenging to find ways to motivate those volunteers. Finding creative ways can be even more challenging. Even if it sounds cheesy - or...
Sponsorships Target All Businesses
I said recently that sponsorships have a lot in common with Psychology 101 and Maslow’s Hierarchy. Because that is true, it is also true that not all sponsorships are equal. Provide Equal Opportunities While all sponsorships are not of the same value, you do want all of your possible sponsors...
Teams Take First Place
I’ve been talking a lot lately about building a sponsorship campaign and the initial blocks in that process. One of the most important are organized teams. In all actuality, a Chamber really needs two organized teams. The First Team Your first team should be obvious – those who will sell...
Sponsorship Plans: Making the Choice
If your chamber is thinking about sponsorship plans, there isn’t one perfect plan, just like there isn’t one perfect chamber. Your leadership needs to evaluate various types of plans and determine what will work best for your chamber. There are four types of sponsorship plans: Per event Annual bundled program...
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