Grapevine Chamber of Commerce
March, 2021
Business Matters Mission: The mission of the Grapevine Chamber of Commerce is to promote business that adds value to our community.
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Vision: The vision of the Grapevine Chamber is a progressive business organization that brings relevant and essential opportunities for our investors and community to grow and prosper.
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Values: Excellence Innovation Integrity & Community
Connect & Thrive Together!
To Our Valued Business Members:
It is my sincere hope that this newsletter finds your business doing well or on the upswing after a very challenging year. One of the goals that I have in 2021 as Chairman of your Grapevine Chamber is to reach out to as many business partners as possible to learn and understand what we can do as a Board to assist you as a business.
with both the SBDC and SCORE to provide services to our businesses at the Chamber office. SCORE currently offers appointments each Monday at the Chamber, while the SBDC is holding their appointments virtually (although they look forward to coming back in person soon). As always, both SCORE & SBDC services are complimentary. The Grapevine Chamber Directory is another great source of information whereby business partners are doing business with fellow business members. Whether receiving or selling services, networking and just meeting business owners, the directory is a great source. Recently, a Grapevine company saw my ad in the directory online and selected my company for services. Not only did I secure this business but introduced the owner to the Chamber staff and now they are one of our newest business partners.
Part of this process is hearing from you and understanding what we are doing right as well as ways that we may be able to improve. Our communication platform for 2021 is to ensure that we provide important content that you may be able to use. One aspect of this are our monthly luncheons. At our March Luncheon we will have Officer Patrick (Pat) O’Neal giving our businesses guidance Again, let’s hear from you. We want to be on keeping our customers and employees all that we can be so that you can be all you safe as we begin to move into the spring. are destined to be. The mark of a successful Chamber is when business partners are At our April luncheon, our featured speaker connected and thriving together. will be Rodney H. Johnson, Director of Tarrant Small Business Development Center. I salute you! The SBDC are the “Ambassadors for Small Business”. As a small business owner, I have Phil Cunningham relied on their vast resources for business 2021 Chairman plan development, financing opportunities What A Shine! Ent. and guidance on how to build my business. phillip@whatashineenterprises.com As your Chamber, we have a partnership Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/Grapevinecoc
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