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Allen Smith, President & CEO of OneSpartanburg, Inc. joins us for this episode in our 2021 ACCE Chamber of the Year Finalist Series.
As this episode goes live, the Chamber of the Year winners have been announced and OneSpartanburg, Inc. was named the Category 3 ACCE Chamber of the Year Winner!
In our discussion, Allen shares details about the two program synopsis that were submitted with their Chamber of the Year application.
The first program that Allen shared is about the revision, reimagining, and rebranding of their organization to become OneSpartanburg, Inc. Previous to this change, the Chamber, EDC, and CVB were siloed into their respective areas of work and they did not recognize their competitive advantage joining the forces of these departments together. This was a 16 month long journey of changing mindsets and responsibilities to become more effective. The decided that “Chamber” sounded too exclusive to part of the rebrand was a name change as well.
The second program that Allen discussed was their business recovery taskforce that was coined “Bring Back the Burg“. This 34 person steering committee established 19 benchmarks that would measure recovery from the negative business and economic impacts from the pandemic. In June of 2021, they shut down this taskforce because they had already met 18 of the 19 benchmarks. On top of that, they have seen $1.2 Billion in new investment since January 1.
Allen encourages listeners to have a plan for your Chamber that is based on data to best serve the needs of your community.
If you would like to connect with Jim about anything he discussed in this episode you can see his contact information below:
- asmith@onespartanburginc.com
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