Today I went to my first Chamber of Commerce meeting for my town for a networking meet and greet at a local restaurant. It was a nice meeting place with alot of food and drink. The most important part of this trip and my primary objective was to interact with everyone that was there. At the meeting I meet several realtors, bankers, mortgage brokers, and attorney’s, which were just the people who I was looking for and all of which were excited to meet new business people. I gathered as much as 20+ business cards as well as scheduled many meeting appointments to discuss future partnering plans. Each individual I meet I handed them a specified bird dog or networking partner flyer and pitched to them my business, what I do and how we can both benefit. Here you can really start to build your alliances with individuals who know and develop the town around you and can be very powerful. Also in this meeting I was also able to speak to owners of used car dealerships, pizza shop owners, laundry mat service, printing and advertersing services who I was able to pitch to them my business to as well. In Real Estate its all about Network and Marketing, getting your name out their is the most important as the word spreads as your the local hungrey investor. Another great thing about it, it was FREE.
Signing up with your local Chamber is easy, all you would need to do basically is to Google your towns chamber of commerce and inquire about membership. Some Chambers are free and others charge a yearly dues which is not that expensive at all. The value that you get from going to meetings and networking opportunities is great as you can develop relationships and partnerships with business in your town.
Advantage:
One advantage from just going to meetings is being mentioned in the monthly newsletter that is distributed through out the town for free where you can display your services.
Being a member of a Chamber brings professionalism to your company, property owners will have a better sense of security that you are associated with a chamber of commerce entity and will have more comfort in selling their home or working with you.
Chamber of Commerce meetings are sometimes televised for certain events that they put on as well as recieve lots of newspaper coverage where participating companies get free recongnition and publicity. Remember, you want your name out their and finding as many vehicles to do this is key.
If anyone had a good expierences participating in their local chamber of commerce or have any tips on maximizing marketing utilizing chambers please let me know and the community.
Best Regards
Dwaine Clarke
Clarke Real Estate Group
