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Published September 19, 2023
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Brandon Burton 0:00
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Our guest for this episode is Danielle Fitz-Hugh. Danielle has served as President of the Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce since 2017. Having held over the last 16 years positions as president at the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce. Prior to the chamber profession, Daniel spent 13 years in the financial and hospitality industries in Charlottesville, Virginia market. She is known for bringing synergy energy and growth through her leadership at the helm of organizations. Danielle currently serves as a fellow for the US Chamber business leads fellowship and as chair of the Virginia association of Chamber of Commerce executives. She has been recognized as the nominee and recipient of several industry awards throughout her career including the 2016 chamber Executive of the Year by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce executives. Danielle’s involved locally and serving on boards of multiple organizations in her community. Danielle is an IOM graduate and received degrees from Averett University and Piedmont Virginia Community College. Danielle is passionate about youth development and spends time organizing officiating and coaching for the Chester church basketball league for 300 Boys ages seven to 17 each year teaching leadership team building and groupthink through sports. Danielle, I’m excited to have you with us today on chamber chat podcast, I’d love for you to take a moment to say hello to all the chamber champions that are out there listening and share something interesting about yourself so you can get to know you a little better.

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 3:39
Yeah, thank you so much Brandon for having me and Hi to all of my chamber family. Across the country we do become our own little family and lean on each other for support and help when we need it. We will send out a lifeline so hi to all of you guys that I’ve sent lifelines to over these many years. And I think the last question was something interesting although you mentioned it in my bio, so most do not know that I coach and referee and run a basketball league and so I will tell you what my husband says is I get a whole new wife for about three months every year because you put on this you know this different hat when you are shepherding and pouring into you and leading them to learn team sports and work together and come up with something that’s called this game of basketball so it’s it’s it’s I don’t know any and I run and I do it for boat mostly boys, but 98% are all boys. And at least in the mid Atlantic region as best I know I might be the only woman running traditionally all boys in this league. I’ve had a few people reach out to me. So that’s pretty unique, although outside the chamber industry that we’re talking about today. You

Brandon Burton 5:00
Yeah, no, that is unique. And kudos to you for doing that. I know, I got a glimpse this year my wife took on being the volleyball Commissioner for our volleyball league in our community. And there’s a lot of work on the back end of that. And if you’re, you know, putting on the league and coaching and doing it all and that’s it’s a lot of work beyond your your day job. So

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 5:23
yeah, I don’t coach as much anymore. But I do love to referees. Yeah.

Brandon Burton 5:30
Well, tell us a little bit about the Chesterfield chamber give us an idea of the size of your chamber scope of work staff budget, just to kind of give us an idea of perspective wise, before we get into our topic today.

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 5:44
Yeah, so the Chesterfield chamber. Next year, we’ll celebrate 25 years. And we’re just around a little under 600 businesses that are members of the chamber and about a half a million dollar budget annually, I have four and a half employees, that includes myself, and we break our staff up because all chambers are very different and kind of how they lay out their work. We have a salesperson or business development manager, then we have someone that handles our marketing, and events programming. And then we have a member relations person, which is really a retention position that works with our members and making sure they’re using the benefits. We’re on a tiered membership level. And so we make, we should make sure that the investment level that they want to use is being taken care of. So they renew, and then a bookkeeper and myself.

Brandon Burton 6:40
Yeah, that engagement aspect is so huge with me, each part is important. Don’t get me wrong, but is there’s nothing worse than it’s time to renew. And they say I didn’t get anything out of the chambers. You didn’t take him. Right, right. Right. Right. So making sure they know, everything the chamber has to offer and really get the full value out of it that

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 7:01
that’s exactly right. That’s exactly right.

Brandon Burton 7:03
So are you guys primarily traditional chamber during doing a tourism economic development? What, what kind of work are you involved with?

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 7:11
Yeah, so we don’t do traditional tourism or economic development. However, I serve on our local EDA, so I’ve kind of got this two part hat that I wear here in the Commonwealth. And so in our county, you know, I work we work really closely with our locality in a variety of ways. You know, we clearly in all of my communities have been this way, you know, we want to be partners with our local economic development, our regional economic development engine and statewide so that they can get businesses here. And we can take care of them because we want to make sure that we provide opera opportunities for our community to work and live and do business here in Chesterfield.

Brandon Burton 7:59
That’s great. So I am looking forward to our conversation today and our back and forth and setting this up, I can tell you have a passion for helping businesses build and be successful and, and really building strong businesses throughout your community and, and we’re going to be focusing our discussion today around leveraging opportunities to build businesses and tapping into some of Danielle’s experience and I’m sure some stories that she’ll be able to share with us that hopefully, it’ll be very relevant to other chambers that are listening today. So we will dive in deeper in that conversation as soon as we get back from this quick break.

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Brandon Burton 11:29
All right, Danielle, we’re back. So as I mentioned before the break, today, we’re talking about leveraging opportunities to build businesses. So I know just from some of your background that you shared with me that this is something that’s important to you, as it should be to any chamber executive, right? That should be kind of a passion for us to see, see the businesses in your community thrive and grow and, and really enhance the lives of people throughout your community through successful business. But I would love to hear from your perspective, what type of approach you take when we talk about leveraging opportunities to build businesses.

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 12:11
Yeah, so I really look at it as a two fold of education. So we have community that may or may not be in the background, understanding the day to day need for businesses in our community. And so every community out there has a little bit of that nimbyism that not in my backyard, don’t build it here kind of thing. And that’s not unusual. But I look at businesses, you know, I’m going to reference something and I should give credit, I’m going to give credit to Greg Fairchild, who used to be at the Taylor Murphy Institute at University of Virginia. So he has this theory around whales and dolphins as it relates to business. And so whales would be something like Amazon coming into your community. We just recently announced Lego coming into our community. So it’ll be the first Lego manufacturing facility in the country will be here in Chesterfield. And as they’re coming on board, you know, that will be a large development. I mean, again, who doesn’t want Lego in their community, right? But there are other types of big whales, right? And so I look at the big whales of yes, we need the big whales, but it is really the spool of dolphins that create the community. And those spools are dolphins are your mom and pop T Shirt Company that’s making you have a branded shirt on Brandon. That’s chamber chat. It is your commercial cleaning company that needs to go out there and get contracts. That’s your caterers, it’s your retailers? Those are your businesses right in your community that need the larger employees, larger companies so that they can build a full lifecycle of an opportunity of business opportunity. And so when you think of, Okay, do we want Lego or Amazon in our community so that we can have auxilary businesses then come? Because you don’t want a business desert? I’m sure many of our listeners have driven through a community and you’re going well, where’s the enterprise that there was some big business that left but if you have one whale or two whales in your community, and then you build 50 6600 Dolphins, when that one whale might leave, you still have all the dolphins. And so for me, what really creates opportunity is helping all those dolphins figure out how they can plug in, how can they get their next contract. Are they certified do Do they need to get MBE certified, swim certified, I mean, all these different things to make them the best candidate for their next piece of business.

Brandon Burton 15:09
Right? I love that analogy with the whales and dolphins and, and really in today’s environment, these dolphins can support these whales, you know worldwide really? I mean, that’s exactly right then tap in and get them educated and connect them. It helps having a big whale in your community for sure. But it’s not a deal breaker anymore, right? Like, that’s exactly right, and be very healthy, even without the whale in the community. Yeah, we’re seeing that in a neighboring community to where I am right now, where Universal Studios has announced that they’re bringing in a kind of a smaller scale, like a kid oriented theme park. And you know, for the city, it’s a huge economic development win, right? I mean, you’re bringing in a lot of tourism dollars, you’re bringing in a lot of jobs employment. But the whole idea of not in my backyard, there’s neighborhoods that back right up to that, and I, I can empathize with them. Like, I don’t know that I’d want a theme park in my back. But all the dolphins that that will bring that that will feed that that will really sustain that city for a long time. There are some trade offs and of course, infrastructure that needs to go along with it and the whole nine yards. But

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 16:25
yeah, I mean, infrastructure, education, I mean, money for schools, I mean, every community wants to have the most money going into school budgets, right and localities or are funding those budgets at a high level and in business helps that, right. So nobody wants their home taxes, you know, to go up or their business taxes to go up. But I mean, but the more enterprise you have in a community, the more opportunity to lower your household costs. But it also helps communities have sustainable employee employment. So that, you know, your wife has time to go out and volunteer as Commissioner of a volleyball group. You know, if you’ve got to think and struggle about how to keep the lights on, then you don’t have the time to go out and volunteer, and, or even have the resources to support or sponsor teams, and so forth. So we really look about look at it as an opportunity to provide community so that they can go back and build their community. So we like to say, we build business. So you can build a community

Brandon Burton 17:36
like that. I like that a lot. So I think as far as these whales go, for a large part, and I’m easy to talk about Amazon’s and Lagos and they, they kind of have the business part figured out, right? I mean, if we can create a welcoming environment to welcome them to our community, more power to us. But I see us focusing more of our attention on the dolphins Suzy talked about making sure they’re plugged in and trained. Can you talk to us more about your approach with these dolphins and how you go about finding the NA, I mean, we’re using this as a kind of a parallel, but these dolphins are the smaller businesses support bigger businesses and support your community. So how do you go about finding them learning about what they need addressing those needs, just the the day to day grit, I guess of what it comes down to is supporting these businesses?

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 18:28
Well, in our community, we really are about building relationships, and building a community to help you grow organically. So, you know, we really preach the match message of inclusiveness from a business perspective. So our small businesses, which we you know, most communities are small businesses, you just hear more about the large businesses, right. So you know, our smaller businesses, we really are working to make sure that they’ve got their financial house in order. And if they don’t hear the tools through our programming to help them keep their financial house in order, especially when they’re going out after contracts. I mean, really understanding sort of that cash flow model that, you know, you may not be getting paid the same week, because you’ve got to invoice and are they net 30. Net 45, that 90, you know, depending on how they’re working with their contracts on being able to leverage lines of credit so that they can offset that cash flow, demand and stay open and pay employees and that sort of thing. And then building their long term marketing and branding strategy. And through some of our, you know, member partners on what that looks like. So, yes, you have the contract now, but let’s look at what’s down the road for six months, two years, five years from now. So really working with businesses and phased approach So that zero to two year phased approach, you know, the entrepreneur who has a passion who started the business who’s hustling. And you know, I, like I love an analogy killing what they eat when you’re hustling as an entrepreneur. So they’re in the market, and they’re running on that little hamster wheel. So we work with them on building capacity. And then okay, they’re making some money, they’re ready to kind of take that next leveraged approach. And then you’ve got kind of those two year to five year businesses who nail can go after some significant contracts of business for the long term and put some things into place. And we really want to, you know, launch their businesses. So by the time they get to that five year mark, that they are the name that comes up in conversations when thinking about their services, their goods, their products, and the next piece of business that’s on the table. And so we work really hard with our chamber member partners on that education so that they can build not just the business today, but really a sustainable lifetime business.

Brandon Burton 21:07
Right. So I know, as businesses join the chamber, they join for a variety of different reasons, right? Maybe it’s just what they see on the surface, you know, maybe they have a friend and they hear about your Gala. And they really think that’s anything or they’re in it for networking or whatever. So you have this member engagement person on your staff to help share with the full array of services are? How besides having that member engagement person? How do you make sure people are really fully participating? Or at least knowing about everything that you have to offer? And how do you offer some of these things? So some of the education some of the you had mentioned marketing and branding, branding strategies? Are these in person kind of seminars? Are they? How do you what’s your approach?

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 22:02
So So Brandon, I might disagree with you just slightly, I might say businesses join for one reason. And that’s to make money. Sure. And the other pieces is how we deliver that. And so for us, we deliver it in a phased approach. So, you know, Brandon at chamber chat, decides they want to join the chamber, they’ve heard amazing things as you all do about your chamber. And they do and they decide to pull the trigger I’m going to join. So what our onboarding looks like is you’ve joined, we now team you up with an ambassador, which is pretty traditional, across our industry, that Ambassador is a member just like you are, who now walks you through all the things that they think are important for you to get involved with. And they stay with you for a year and build this tight community of relationships with you. They meet you at events, they talk to you about different programs, and really create a roadmap for your engagement, and things that you can do, because we do more than just what one member would want. And I tend to tell people all the time, you can’t do everything, because you got to do other pieces of your business, but really work with them on building that roadmap. And then at about the 90 day mark, my member relations person, my engagement person, you know, sets up a meeting with them, and says, Hey, because we’re tiered, which means you don’t just join the chamber, you join and you tell us how you want to engage with us? What value of engagement Do you want. And so based on how you’ve said, when you’ve invested on how you want to engage with us, our member relations person is saying, Hey, you said networking and marketing is important for you as a new business, because you’ve got to get your name and brand out there were 90 days and we still have some pieces that you haven’t done yet. Let’s schedule them for the next nine months. Because sometimes what will happen is a member will join. They forget the thing that bought them to the chamber. Or they only do that one piece, we have a 200 person luncheon every month. So it’s like putting on a gala every month. And so a lot of members join because they want to come to that one that one event. But we do so much more that our member engagement person will say, here is your list of 30 benefits, you know, whatever that list is, let’s go ahead and schedule them for the whole 12 month of this annual investment. That way, you’re not forgetting about your membership. We’re key and we’re also making sure that we keep your brand in front of our members for the whole year versus delivering all the benefits in the first 90 days, six months, four months, whatever that timeframe is so we’ve the engagement person really works with each member on those benefits and getting them across messaging for the whole 12 months of their annual investment lifecycle.

Brandon Burton 25:09
I think that’s a brilliant idea to sit down and say, here’s the main things that would be of most value to you, let’s get them on the calendar, let’s make sure you show up, let’s make sure you participate and be fully engaged, you know, to the extent of what you need for your business to succeed, to meet those expectations.

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 25:28
And we do have, and we do have, like many organizations, we do have some automation that we can do with that to some sort of like a drip automation, to remind certain tiered levels, that these things are coming up, we’ve got some concierge service, and that related to our member engagement person, so much like a concierge at a hotel would work with the hotel guests on making their reservations for the theater, or the next show, we have some concierge services built into our memberships. So at certain investment engagement levels, larger companies are whales, right? They might have someone that manages all of their benefits at that company. And we have some concierge services that allows them to work with us. They’re not going into the system, they don’t have time to log in. We take care of all of that for the for them.

Brandon Burton 26:25
Yeah, that’s so smart. As you’re explaining how you guys approach this, I see all these little rabbit holes that I can go to, for example, and we don’t need to go way down this road. But as your member engagement person reaches out and is helping to plan out the year with each of these members. Is the idea of sponsorships for any of these events ever brought up? Or does that responsibility fall on somebody else within your organization, or just I’m sure people listening here, this is great to schedule this out. And you can give them the opportunity to sponsor you know when or do these things?

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 27:06
Yeah, so we take a little different approach to sponsorship, we actually work with a national company called Why GM, Jason EB giving him a shout out. And we run sponsorship once a year for the whole year. And here’s the reason why we work with our members to match their need to fit in front of the right audience with the opportunities that we have. And it also creates space where we’re not going back to members several times a year going, Hey, we’ve got this program. It’s amazing. Do you want to sponsor we make one ask, we talk about what their marketing budget is for the chamber, we work we have volunteers that help us with this campaign. And then we take their marketing budget, much like we do their investment benefits, and spread them out for the year, we take their marketing budget, and spread out opportunities for the full year. So we’ve been doing this for three years. And it really does do an additional piece is that chambers are not chasing money to find the sponsorship to do the work that they want to do that our members are really telling us in front of the year. What are what things are important to them with their checkbooks, they’re sponsoring the things that make sense for them. So if you’ve got this program that you’ve been holding on, you’ve got you know, the sacred cow that you’ve been holding on to, and no one is sponsoring it and you’re trying to beg people to sponsor it during your campaign season, then, baby it’s not what your members want. I mean, members talk with their money. Yeah,

Brandon Burton 28:43
no, that’s very true. As we start to wrap up here, I wanted to ask any tip or action item that you may have for listeners who are desiring to take their chamber up to the next level? What might you suggest for them?

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 29:01
Yeah, I would say you know, the retention part, right. Everybody focuses on sales, getting the new members, everyone focuses on sales. I’m a defensive coach. I believe that if I can keep you from shooting, I don’t have to worry about how many shots you make. Right? That’s right. I believe that if I can keep you in. I don’t have to worry about getting the new the new are gonna come. Yeah, right. So so for for for me that one tip is think about how you strategically organize your teams. Because we know we’ve heard it for decades, that it takes less to keep a member than it does to recruit a new member. So we flip the funnel on upside down and we put the funnel of the retention because then if you’re working on retention, you all of a sudden have 600 Cheerleaders that are saying, come join this organization. And so for us, we’ve turned the ownership to the members, it is their chamber to grow. It is their responsibility to refer. Yeah, and we are at 5% referrals on our new members that come in. And so, I mean, that makes my salespersons job easier because it’s a warm clothes, right? We’re not going and doing cold calls anymore, right? There’s a new model out there. So we are so referral base, because we’re telling the members, if you want more people to market network build relations, to bring them to us. If you’ve enjoyed your membership, and you’re getting benefit from it, refer your friends refer your other referral group connections to our chamber. And we’ve built that way.

Brandon Burton 30:57
Yeah, those are great points. And I love the idea of focusing on retention. And if you keep them for the long term, and over time, your membership fees will increase naturally. And your membership continues to grow, because they’re getting value and bringing people in and just the overall health of the organization continues to get stronger, and you’re not focusing on, you know, like you said, killing what you eat, just constantly going after the next one. And each week, you’re able to grow in a healthy and sustainable way. So that’s a great model you guys are following. I like asking everyone I have on the show, as we look to the future of chambers, how do you see the future of chambers and their purpose going forward?

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 31:44
Well, I think we will continue to be innovative. Chambers look different today than they did five years ago. If they don’t look different today, they didn’t make it through the last three years, right. And so we’ve got to continue to take risks, our businesses demand it, and we need to follow their direction. So for instance, when businesses had to, you know, open, chambers need to open so we can service them. And I know, you know, we were made open during this past three years, we look different, right? So we are not stuck to traditional models of what work has to look like, because our businesses are not stuck to traditional models of what work needs to look like. So I think using industry as the model, our chambers across the country need to take the lead because they’re able to shift so quickly. And so should our chambers be able to do there’s no more well, we’ve always done it that way. Okay,

Brandon Burton 33:01
yeah. And there’s a being able to be flexible and make that shift, follow the lead of your members, there’s coming out of the last three years, there’s a lot of, you know, innovations that allow for you to be more productive, to be able to service your members better to be able to connect with them, whether it’s a zoom call, whether it’s a you know, Cal a scheduling, you know, mechanism or app or something ways to connect, that we you know, three, four years ago, we weren’t using on a regular That’s exactly right. And now it really allows us to get a lot more done and be a lot more efficient and in the end, you know, serve our members in a better way. So great, great insight into the future. Thank you so much. Yes. So Danielle, I wanted to give you an opportunity to share any contact information for listeners out there who would like to reach out and connect and learn more about how you guys are doing things that are in Chesterfield, what would be the best way for them to reach out and connect with you?

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 34:01
Yeah, so we’re pretty all of us are pretty active on all social media. You can find us at ChesterfieldChamber.com on social media, we are Chesterfield Chamber VA and as in Virginia, because there are a couple other Chesterfield Chambers in the country. And so since this is a podcast, I’ll make that notation that we are Chesterfield Chamber VA, just follow us like us, you know, follow us on Instagram. And we’ll if you message us there, we will message you and contact you back. Also on LinkedIn, I mean, we are crazy LinkedIn people in our community. So and I will say we also host Blitzer, which is, you know, one of these new pandemic platforms. And so we open it and so occasionally I’ll get businesses from all across the community across the country that will come into it and network because business does not have borders.

Brandon Burton 34:53
Absolutely. Yeah. As we talked about earlier with those dolphins supporting whales outside of your community. So how All right, very good. Well, I appreciate that, Danielle, well, we’ll get your contact information in our show notes for this episodes, people can find it there. But feel like we’ve had a great discussion today brought a lot of value and perspective. And I’m sure listeners are taking some notes and things that they can implement and discuss, you know, making some changes to be more productive in and serving the businesses and their community to build stronger businesses and in turn a stronger community. So thank you for being with us today and sharing your experience and insights.

Danielle Fitz-Hugh 35:32
Thank you for having us.

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