Sandy Barton is the President at the Greater Magnolia Parkway Chamber of Commerce. In this episode, Sandy shares her experiences with us around building/rebuilding a Chamber. Sandy joined the Greater Magnolia Parkway Chamber of Commerce in 2017, shortly after efforts were made to combine two existing Chambers in the Magnolia area into one Chamber. This effort brought some challenges with some mindset and logistical changes as well as some opportunities to chart a new course while taking the best attributes from the previous two Chambers.
One of the great programs that Sandy shares with us is their new member ambassador program. This allows the Chamber ambassadors to pair up with new Chamber members as a mentor for the first year of the new businesses membership. This allows the new member to learn about the many benefits that they receive as a Chamber member. This program also gives the new member a friend to look for at Chamber events. The ambassadors get to choose which businesses they would like to mentor and often times the two businesses will be complimentary to each other and support each other very well.
Sandy is going a great job to get the Chamber’s message out into the business community and to build the trust of the local businesses to know that the Chamber supports them and will be there for a long time to come.
For those of you who would like to get in contact with Sandy, she can be reached by email at sandyb@greatermagnoliaparkwaycc.org or on her cell phone at 936-520-6828.
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Great show! I am very grateful for Sandy and all she does in, on and around our Greater Magnolia Parkway Chamber of Commerce.