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Brandon Burton (00:00.844)
Hello, Chamber Champions. Welcome to Chamber Chat Podcast. I’m your host, Brandon Burton, and here on the show, I introduce you to people and ideas to better help you serve your Chamber members and your community. Our guest for this episode is Ryan Egly. Ryan is a dynamic economic development and community leadership professional, serving as president and CEO of the Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. In this role, he leads countywide strategy across economic development.
workforce development and tourism, partnering with businesses and government leaders to drive measurable growth. Under Ryan’s leadership, the Lawrence County, under Ryan’s leadership, Lawrence County has secured more than $275 million in private investment and 1,475 announced jobs. He also has overseen the transformational organizational growth, expanding chamber membership from 230 to more than 500 members.
scaling the annual operating budget beyond $1 million and building high performing professional team. Ryan holds a master’s of arts in leadership and public service from Lipscomb University, a bachelor of science in organizational leadership from Middle Tennessee State University and associate of science from Columbia State Community College. Beyond his local leadership, Ryan serves in key statewide and regional roles, including Launch Tennessee’s board of directors,
the Sycamore Institute Community Council, the Tennessee Tourism Committee, the Tennessee Valley Authority Economic Development Rural Cabinet, Secretary-Treasurer of Tennessee Economic Development Council, and Tennessee’s ultimate director for the Southern Economic Development Council. He’s passionate about rural economic transformation, strategic partnership, and building communities where families and businesses thrive.
But Ryan, I’m excited to have you with us today on Chamber Chat Podcast. I want to give you an opportunity to say hello to all the Chamber Champions who are out there listening and to share something interesting about yourself so we can all get to know you a little better.
Ryan Egly (02:09.995)
Absolutely. And Brandon, thank you for having me and hello to all of the listeners out there. I want to start by thanking everyone for the work that you do in your communities. I’ve been in this role for 12 years now. And if someone would have told me that, you know, when I first started that I would have known everything about a chamber of commerce at this point in time.
I would have said you’re crazy just because it’s transformed so much and there’s still so much more to learn. And so I know there are lot of people that are getting into this profession and so welcome to the chamber world. I know a lot of folks have been in the chamber world longer than I have. And I want to say again, just thank you for your leadership. Our organization, as Brandon mentioned, it’s chief roles drive economic development and tourism marketing.
as an economic driver for Lawrence County, Tennessee. And so I say that because one of our major tourism drivers is our Amish community here in Lawrence County. And I bring that up as an interesting fact in that I have a large family. I’m one of eight siblings, I guess. But this interesting fact is that I’m not Amish. So I guess that was just kind of…
Brandon Burton (03:20.686)
There you go.
Ryan Egly (03:22.051)
Kind of a memorable thing. And we’re the oldest, me and my identical twin brother. as many of our, listeners out there, Brandon might expect when my twin brother is out and about, he gets solicited from time to time about everything going on in the community. So I have to have weekly briefings with him to give him some talking points in addition to my boards. So anyway, that’s a little interesting fact about me.
Brandon Burton (03:43.852)
I love it. I love it. I don’t know that I’ve had somebody on the show before who has an identical twin, at least who lives in the same community, because that would be hilarious seeing him go out. Hilarious from my perspective. He might not think it’s so funny, that’s great. I love that. Well, tell us more about the Lawrence County Chamber. Just give us an idea of size, number of staff, budget, scope of work you guys are involved with to kind of set the stage for our discussion today.
Ryan Egly (03:57.591)
Yeah, right.
Ryan Egly (04:13.007)
Yeah, absolutely. So our organization is 77 this year. we are an institution in our community. I’ll start there. Started back, I guess, in the 40s when there was the rise of civic organizations like the Rotary Club and Kiwanis and every community needed a Chamber of Commerce for business leaders to network with one another. In the early 2000s was when we took on more of a primary economic development role from a technical perspective.
And then in 2015, we took on the tourism role. What that meant was basically leveraging additional public resources to help, you know, drive our business climate upward and bring more jobs in. That also, you know, those shared resources between the economic development staff, tourism staff, and the chamber staff really makes a pretty cohesive environment. And so what I like to tell others is that we have a holistic chamber. Now today we have a staff of seven.
Brandon Burton (04:57.87)
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Ryan Egly (05:12.431)
I’m very proud again. I’ve been here 12 years. I have a director of economic development that handles all of our industrial recruiting, business retention and expansion and our manufacturing portfolio. I’ve also recently announced that our controller has been elevated and promoted to the chief operating officer. So her job is to really run the day to day operations of the chamber. Of course, keep
Brandon Burton (05:22.126)
Thank you.
Ryan Egly (05:35.183)
our board in line and provide some sustainability in the event that let’s say I get hit by, well, let’s say I hit, win the lottery and, know, don’t come to work next week. But yeah. but yeah, so I’ve got a director of economic development and a COO and the three of us make up our executive leadership team. And then underneath that we have a membership manager. she’s newer to the team, about six months in, we also have, a, a communications and hospitality coordinator. So someone that,
Brandon Burton (05:36.046)
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Brandon Burton (05:43.171)
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Ryan Egly (06:04.93)
You know, gets pictures, manages our social media, works the front desk. And then we have two, and I don’t want to call those lower level. They’re, were, those are just newer positions, but we have two other positions that are more mid level and have been here a little bit longer. And that would be our destination marketing manager. So that’s someone who just drives the visit Lawrenceburg tourism brand. And then we have a director of engagement and, and, and her job is primarily, you know, sponsorships, nondos revenues and events to help corral the business community around certain.
or get information out. And so that’s how we’re currently structured from a staff perspective. When I came in in 2015, our organizational budget was about $400,000 a year, and that was primarily just economic development, and there was a staff of four. Today our budget is right at $1.2 million and we have a staff of seven.
Truly, Brandon, we need to hire two or three more people just because our community is growing. And as our community grows, our business community and our public partners are asking us to do more and more. And so, so yeah, that’s kind of how we’re structured. And we’re very proud of how we’re structured. People around the state of Tennessee have studied how we are structured and they’re kind of.
Brandon Burton (06:58.237)
Yeah. Yeah.
Ryan Egly (07:16.11)
doing R &D on us, ripping off and duplicating our bylaws and our org chart. And we think it works really well for our rural community.
Brandon Burton (07:25.198)
That’s what this show is for. People come here for the R &D. So just get it and then reach out and duplicate, rip it off, duplicate, scale it to whatever size chamber you are who’s listening. So that definitely helps to set the stage for our discussion today. And today we’ll focus most of our conversation, which I don’t know, it may be a little bit controversial, but to think of your guys’ 3P.
Ryan Egly (07:29.066)
Yeah.
Brandon Burton (07:53.72)
growth strategy. We’ve had a lot of emphasis on the 3C, you know, becoming 3C chambers, but to see that the 3Ps are still relevant and driving growth in your community. We’ll dive into that as soon as we get back from this quick break.
All right, Ryan, we’re back. As I mentioned before the break, today we’re going to dive into the details about your 3P growth strategy. And as I went through your bio, you guys have seen quite a bit of growth.
During your time there at the chamber both membership budget staff, you know all that all these different areas. So Talk to us about what’s driving that growth and what are these things that are really helping to move the needle?
Ryan Egly (08:37.654)
So I think what’s really helping to move the needle and again, my background is primarily economic development. And so the three P’s of economic development are people, product and power. so in doing that, you know, it’s all about people first. Everything about this business is relationship based, including
Brandon Burton (08:43.789)
Yeah.
Brandon Burton (08:48.43)
There you go.
Ryan Egly (08:59.65)
how you treat your larger employers in your community because they make such an impact. And so when I became president and CEO in July of 2019, I realized that we have to get the right people in the right seats on the bus, know, thinking about the book, Good to Great. And what that really meant was also how do we engage them in a way that translated to more financial resource for the chamber to go and recruit more of those right people.
Brandon Burton (09:05.922)
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Brandon Burton (09:14.734)
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Brandon Burton (09:22.894)
Thank you.
Ryan Egly (09:26.72)
So, that’s kind of my portfolio in our membership and we were able to go out and, we revised our membership structure to instead of being fair share, we did it. We transferred to a tier based structure and we said, Hey, we want to have 10,000 or sorry, we want to have 10 of our main people giving $10,000 a year. and, so I didn’t mention this a moment ago, but we have 500 members and we have three membership classes. have our business members that are tier based.
Brandon Burton (09:36.718)
Here it is. And I’m a moment to thank you for your time. And I’m a moment to thank for your And I’m going take a to your time.
Ryan Egly (09:54.979)
We have a young professionals membership group. And then we also have our ambassadors that pay a membership annually as well. So what I’m talking about is that first kind of business membership on the top tier. And those are going to be our larger contractors or larger manufacturers or hospital and businesses that really want to be on the forefront of the economic development side. And again, driving that people part of course that there’s the product and power part, which is very technical.
Brandon Burton (10:07.188)
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Brandon Burton (10:20.494)
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Ryan Egly (10:23.148)
where our business is going to be locating. So it’s developing new industrial parks. It’s helping our downtown association, you know, market buildings and vacancy in our downtown area, which by the way, there’s very little vacancy in our downtown area today. It’s also the power side. And that’s, mean that not just electricity, but literally the gas, the water, the sewer, road networks, and to a degree, all three of those things kind of are upheld by the workforce component as well.
What about our training programs in our community college or technical colleges? A new University of Tennessee system institution. The University of Tennessee Southern has just been located 20 minutes to our East and so obviously we’re partnering with them to make sure that we’re retaining our young talent again, which is that people proponent. So again, the economic development part of me is kind of packaging all that together and then I turn around and say hey small business. You are a part of driving regional prosperity through membership. Here’s our tier structure.
Where do you want to be? And again, we’ve been able to grow a good clip, so to speak. New members just call at least once a week. So that’s a great thing. We do have some attrition. Some folks drop off for whatever reason. Maybe they’ve moved or they’re changing their business strategy, but I’m really, really proud of where we’ve been. Again, those revenues on the membership side do matter. think this year will be about 20.
Brandon Burton (11:33.112)
We got that in the plan. So, we’re all in.
Ryan Egly (11:48.558)
22, 25 % of our budget will be just membership alone. And I think that’s really, really important.
Brandon Burton (11:54.094)
Yeah, that’s really good. So hopefully that teaser got people to listen in about 3P Chamber because he just totally spun it on its head talking about people, product and power and listeners like, okay, yeah, that makes a whole lot more sense and doing the parties and parades and pageants and a lot more sense and a lot more relevant to the direction Chambers are going today. So appreciate that clarity.
Ryan Egly (12:12.717)
Yeah.
Brandon Burton (12:23.308)
You touched on a lot of things there between the people, the product, the power. And what are, do you have certain programs you have in place? You talked about working with community college for talent attraction and what, what are, how do you, how do you hone in the focus on these three P’s?
Ryan Egly (12:40.225)
So definitely again, I want to kind of think more about the traditional three P’s the parades, pageants and parties because a lot of those bring in those non dues revenues, right? And that’s what’s so important to you. And this year, if memory serves me right, we will have an equal amount of membership revenue and non dues event engagement revenue is what we would call it. And these are the programs I want to focus on for your listeners because I think it’s something that can be duplicated in every community. So.
As an example, our next big event is our Women at Work Week. And so this is an opportunity for our women in business to gather around a certain topic. And so this year it’s about growing where you’re planted. And so it’s a very much a professional development inspiring type week long event where we have some talking points and some information that’s shared. Of course, it culminates in a luncheon and also a coffee.
and a few other key events. In fact, I think a Friday night shopping experience in our downtown also. Yeah, and so it’s really cool to corral different parts of the community around a certain topic. And this year I’m really proud of my team. They brought in actually more sponsorship revenue than ticket sales for the first time ever. And so again, yeah, so there is a place for the parties in my three P’s too. Again, that’s getting people to the table. That’s part of it.
Brandon Burton (13:50.913)
That’s awesome.
Brandon Burton (13:56.493)
sure.
Ryan Egly (13:58.944)
Something else that we do and I’m really excited about is the first week or I guess the second week of April of every year we do something called state of the county. We’ve this is the third year we’ve done it and the idea is hey it’s April all of the census data and everything has been released in March and so it’s opportunity for me to just to show numbers and charts to our business community and interested people to see hey how are we growing where are we deficient from what the numbers say because that matters.
because you know what can be measured can be managed as they say. So I always give a 15 minute presentation just on numbers, but then we invite our mayors and our county executive to do a panel discussion. Again, it’s just it’s a luncheon. The members of the community business community they pay come in. They buy a ticket. We have sponsors and again I’m really proud. Actually we’re launching that next week to our members for sponsorship and then in May we do a big.
course everyone should do a golf tournament. It’s so important to get out on the course, but something that we’ve done differently. Historically, we have only done an afternoon flight. And that kind of, you know, slows the pace of play and something that we did about four or five years ago was hey, we want to really make this experience better. And so what we decided to do was we broke it up into a morning flight in an afternoon flight and then just did a big lunch in the middle for everyone to network. And so we actually saw about a 25 % increase in teams.
Brandon Burton (14:56.844)
Yeah.
Ryan Egly (15:22.977)
We also changed our pricing structure and our sponsorship structure. And so again, the parades, pageants and the parties, they do matter because I’m sitting here, those three events alone bring in about 11 % of our budget in total. that’s something that I would always recommend everybody do. Now we operate on a fiscal year though. So we try to do those toward kind of Q3, Q4. So the first half of a calendar year and something that we’re working on now,
Brandon Burton (15:30.99)
Let’s go.
Brandon Burton (15:35.374)
And I’m to tell you a that I’ve telling you for long time. And it’s The of it’s called, Day. And it’s The Day.
Ryan Egly (15:52.234)
Also is we’re moving to annual billing and what I mean by that is we’re going to start billing only on January 1 for the calendar year and we’re doing that because we run our shop local campaign at the end of the year, which is where we touch all of our members. So we think that’s just a better touch point than having to run down somebody once a month and have that flow of billing on a monthly basis and we’re really excited for that opportunity. We think it’s going to free up our membership manager and our engagement manager to kind of corral people around those.
Brandon Burton (16:00.501)
Okay.
Ryan Egly (16:21.943)
traditional three P’s, the parades, parties, and pageants.
Brandon Burton (16:23.918)
Yeah. so I love that idea of changing the billing cycle to January and right after you have all those touch points and you said that’s, that’s a shift that you guys are in the middle of right
Ryan Egly (16:37.645)
Yeah, that’s right. And that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to be billing everybody normally for the first half of this year. And then come July 1, we’ll put, you know, information out to our entire membership saying, hey, heads up, you know, if you paid in July of 2025, you are already a member for 2026, so to speak. But then January, everyone’s going to be 2027 members is the idea. We’re not going to prorate. We’re just going to delay everyone from July 1 on.
And in a similar fashion, we’re going to turn around for our people in the first half of the year and just say, Hey, heads up, you’re to get your bill. Really they’ll get their bills at December 1 for January 1 and they can pay whichever fiscal or calendar year they choose to do so. So again, we want to put that choice in their hands as far as what year they’re captured, but they’re going to be paying for 2027. And that’s that again, thinking about it from a touch point perspective, everyone’s paying their bill, December, January, our key events are lined up March, April, May.
Brandon Burton (17:17.41)
That makes sense.
Ryan Egly (17:33.505)
So they’re engaged, they’re getting their value. And then we turn around in October, November, and we’re touching them with our shop local shop small campaign, reminding them that, their investment helps promote shop local business. and then they get the bill again. So we just think it’s such a smart, easy and efficient billing cycle.
Brandon Burton (17:48.726)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, and it has, it follows the same roadmap for all the members instead of thinking, you know, this member renews in March and you make sure we’re touching base, leading up to that. And yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And I’m glad you went back and revisited the traditional three P’s because there is value in them for sure. Especially as they’re aligned with what your mission is and what your, overall purpose of your organization is. And with the examples that you shared,
They very much are in line to, you you have these events and you have like the women in business and it’s a, you’re, curating an event where specific people are invited and, there’s a goal and a purpose and it drives towards a bigger mission of the organization. And whenever that’s in line, I would say, keep that, keep doing it as long as it’s making money. Like you don’t want to do something that that’s it’s losing money, right. or, something that’s run its course and people are excited about it anymore. So.
Ryan Egly (18:40.257)
Yeah.
Brandon Burton (18:48.15)
I’m glad you revisited that. Any other things as far as the leading into the bigger purpose, I’ll say, of the chamber of your, the people, product and power that is helping to drive that as your engine in your organization?
Ryan Egly (19:05.928)
Yeah. So whenever I’m talking with maybe a new manufacturing operation, it’s more than just the industrial site and it’s more than just, you know, can they serve utilities today? It’s how they are, how should a new business integrate into the community? And so, you know, the product I’m selling, like I mentioned, is not just the product and the power, but it’s, it’s the other three P’s that, you know, I just, we just kind of walk through and making sure that you set the platform.
Brandon Burton (19:28.588)
Yeah.
Ryan Egly (19:33.098)
or set the table for them to come to the table and they’re able to pick like, Hey, you know, I want to be involved in the Christmas parade, which we put on or, Hey, this is the annual meeting every October. This is the who’s who of the community. We need to be there. We need to be visible. How can I be visible? And ultimately zooming out of that, it’s a value first mindset. you know, you know, as an economic development agency, we’re to be servicing our, manufacturers, whether they invest in us as members or not.
It’s just the truth. What we’ve seen is if we can prove the value, the money will come. Same thing with our tourism and hospitality industry, because we’re the destination or the designated destination marketing organization for Lawrence County, Tennessee. Again, we don’t care if you’re a restaurant as a member or not. If you need help, if you want help bringing people to your front door, we’re here for you. Again, though, we want to convert that into a sale. So are you really using those things as pipelines, but it’s value first and it’s turning around and saying, okay, here are the
Here are the programs that historically, again, even me, thought, this is just the fluffy side of the economic development. I don’t really like this. My job is way more technical. The truth of the matter is this side will help me bring the new industry to town. Does that make sense?
Brandon Burton (20:44.496)
Yeah, yeah, it does. And I was actually thinking of that, that aspect before you started talking about it, as far as whether it’s economic development or the tourism front, how those conversions go from bringing the, putting the product out there, driving people in, and then converting those into memberships and
It sounds like usually that’s happening in a natural way. It’s not, hey, since we got you here, you you owe us now. it’s not a, it’s not a, you know, quit group pro, you know, kind of situation. It’s a, it’s more organic and, and a natural, natural thing. and I like that. I think there’s, there’s a lot of value in showing, you know, the value of your organization and what you’re doing for the community. And then they’re like, Hey, I want to be a part of that. So very good.
So for those listening, I always like to see if there’s like a tip or action item that you would share with an organization who’s wanting to take their chamber up to the next level.
Ryan Egly (21:47.371)
So the biggest thing that I’ve learned, I actually learned this at my church because our church is structured where it’s pastor led, staff supported, board protected or trustee protected. And historically at smaller, more rural chambers of commerce, it seems like it’s board led, staff supported. And then we just hope for the best, right? And so when I came in again, I immediately knew like, hey, I have a vision for this. And so let’s start with that first tier, you know,
Brandon Burton (22:05.922)
Yeah.
Ryan Egly (22:16.906)
It’s really CEO led. It’s whatever, if you’re the lead of the organization, cast your vision, own your vision and drive it. If you are lucky enough and big enough to have a staff around you, even if it’s one part-time person, or maybe it’s like me where I’ve got six of the best of the best surrounding me, my job is really to empower them to do their jobs and they’re supporting that vision in that way. And so again, it’s chamber CEO led or executive director led.
staff supported and then let your board block and tackle for you. There are various Facebook groups that I’m a part of that I love reading, but I see maybe you have a rogue board member or a chairman that’s trying to lead the organization and there needs to be just an honest conversation about nipping that as soon as it starts to happen. But it’s that structure that I find works best and especially in today’s environment. When you think about, you know,
Brandon Burton (22:57.358)
I’m to be to you about a big decision and one that’s been made by the way we’re treating it by the way we’re passing this process right now. I think that the best way to control this is to just go ahead and do it right now.
Ryan Egly (23:14.538)
the politics of the nation. When you think about even the local and state level too, you have a lot of NIMBYism that we all know what that’s all about. And it’s going to take a strong personality, a strong leader, and someone that can be diplomatic about it to lead that effort. And so to that end, as you kind of position yourself to the listeners, if you position yourself as that lead organization, you need to make sure that you are the most diplomatic person in the room. Be a chameleon, be a generalist.
Brandon Burton (23:15.182)
you know, you’re going to be to that. You’re going to be that. So, you’re not going to be that. Yeah.
Brandon Burton (23:37.102)
So she was talking about the need for compensation. And actually, no, it’s not. We have to look at We have to look it.
Ryan Egly (23:44.422)
And, but be confident about your vision as well.
Brandon Burton (23:47.763)
Yeah, and for those who are new to the chamber industry, NIMBY is not in my backyard, so I’ve got to share these acronyms out there. So I love this structure you talked about, CEO-led or executive director-led, staff-supported, board-protected. For somebody listening, it’s like, our board leads and the chamber does the operations and…
How can that shift take place in an organization that already kind of has its model there? Is it more of a mindset? Is it something you need to formalize? What would you suggest?
Ryan Egly (24:24.277)
I think it’s a mindset and it’s important to note it probably took us four or five years to get there. In my experience, it was just a matter of really diving into the relationships, making sure that your bylaws one, if you’ve had a board chair that’s been there 30 years, mean, God bless them, make them emeritus of some kind, invite them to the lunch meeting, do whatever you have to do. Yeah. But ultimately you’re.
Brandon Burton (24:48.802)
Keep them involved, yeah. Change it up though.
Ryan Egly (24:52.585)
Yeah, your executive committee or executive board, they need to come and go because you need people cycling in and out. You need those key people, again, that are gonna be giving you the $10,000 a year or your higher level members cycling in and out of your leadership so they can help kind of poke and prod, ask the key questions. And I’m not just talking about, hey, what if you did this for the women’s luncheon? But more like, hey, how is your staff doing? How are you doing? How are you avoiding burnout? How are, how?
Is the office structure, is that what you need? You know, asking those key higher level questions and there’s a time to get in the weeds and what we’ve done, here’s the tip for the listeners, is we put those into committees. So we’ve created like a women’s group committee or we have our committee for our annual meeting as an example, or our Christmas parade committee. Again, where the people want to plug in and get in the weeds, absolutely do that, but it should be separated from the organizational kind of functioning, if that makes sense.
Brandon Burton (25:41.582)
Yeah, yeah, makes a lot of sense. It keeps you from getting in the weeds. it keeps the focus on Sharp. So I like asking everyone I have on the show about the future of Chambers. So how do you see the future of Chambers and their purpose going forward?
Ryan Egly (25:53.449)
Yeah.
Ryan Egly (26:05.868)
So I think there’s, I’d like to qualify that because there are chambers that are, you know, legacy institutions. And then there are also newer chambers that are trying to maybe get restarted or starting for the first time. And I think as, I think we’re seeing two things happen in each of those sectors. So for the ones that have been around for a long time, you’re either growing or dying. I would say the same for the other. The ones that are growing are the ones that are being relevant, are doing relevant value-based activities.
again, think about just getting information out there. Maybe they’re performing a task on behalf of the government, IE economic development, tourism, et cetera. And they’re leveraging all the resources around them. The ones that maybe aren’t combining those efforts or seeking those strategic partnerships to bring more revenue in that is non dues based. Those are the ones that are kind of being becoming less relevant and maybe may have maybe on your city council or county commissions, little bit more opposition. That’s what I’ve kind of noticed. And so.
Brandon Burton (26:49.166)
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Brandon Burton (26:59.134)
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Ryan Egly (27:04.627)
future of chambers, because I’ll be honest, I think the ones that are not maintaining relevancy in their business community, the ones that aren’t growing, they’re going to have a hard time. And I hate, I hate it that they’re dying. That just bluntly, but the ones that are getting out there that are speaking into regional policy matters that are building bridges between maybe local universities or community colleges and their businesses, the ones that are out there helping with their downtown associations to revitalize main street. Those are the ones.
that are going to be at the forefront of, I think what we’re seeing is a economic shift. And those are the ones that are gonna have a voice at the table when things start shifting and we need new policy around that, specifically at the local and state level. And so again, I know that chambers historically have been, I don’t wanna say non-partisan or anti-government, but the truth of the matter is you have to be involved in the process moving forward.
in some capacity, at least at the local level. And I’m not talking about campaigns. I’m talking about driving change in your community. So I think that’s probably the future.
Brandon Burton (28:07.726)
Yeah, when I think politically, you know, for a chamber, if it’s something that’s going to affect business, you better be involved. You better be speaking up for him being an advocate. So yeah, I like that. Well, Ryan, this has been great. I’m glad we got you on the show and been able to cover this topic and the great things you guys are doing. I wanted to give you an opportunity to share any contact information for listeners who may want to reach out and connect with you and
Ryan Egly (28:16.789)
Yeah.
Brandon Burton (28:36.918)
and learn more about the three P’s, the people, product, and power, and the approach you’ve taken there in Lawrence County. Where would you direct them to get in contact?
Ryan Egly (28:45.771)
Absolutely. So first and foremost, thank you for having me Brandon for out to the audience. Thank you. If you made it this far, thank you for listening in. If you’re interested in getting in contact with me, I love talking with my sister chambers out there. We can be reached via phone. Yes, we have an office phone that we pick up area code 931-762-4911 and then via email ryan@lawcotn.com. That’s L A W C O T N.
or just come visit us on the web. Lawcotn.com or visit lawrenceburg.com. We’d love to have you and host you. Let me take you out for a cup of coffee. We’ll talk in person and of course when you’re here, stay overnight. Spend a lot of money here. Improve our economy. We appreciate that.
Brandon Burton (29:27.755)
That’s right. That’s right. Everybody having the show should be pounding that drum as they get off, right? Come visit us and spend lots of money. I love it. Ryan, this has been great. Thanks again for setting aside some time and sharing your insights with us here at the Chamber Chat Podcast community. I appreciate it.
Ryan Egly (29:34.869)
Yeah, that’s right.
Ryan Egly (29:47.83)
Thanks, Brandon.
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