President's Corner

We will spend the month of April in a number of ways:
 
Marketing and Buying Within the Membership
On April 21st, we will change up the luncheon format a bit and invite members who help market your businesses and who provide promotional items to help raise you name recognition to come and set up an exhibit so you can see what resources are available to you within the chamber membership. We hope you will come to exhibit or to learn about our great chamber members services.

Networking and Business Leads
April 22, from 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. we will be at Carlos and Carla's at the Historical Anderson Building located at 1502 Houston Street. This is NOT the time for you to come and visit with people you see on a regular basis. This is a time for you to be a flibbertigibbet and get around meeting everyone in the room and finding out who they are and what they do. We used to call this a "Card Connection" because we wanted members to make connections they could refer business to at a later date. That's a great concept, used correctly!
 
The Welcoming Arm of the Chamber
April 29 is the Branding Irons' Breakfast. This group of business leaders are charged with being the host at all our events, with greeting new members at the luncheons and hosting them, and with making sure that we never have a newcomer sitting unattended and feeling unwelcomed. They meet once a month for breakfast. This month the place is Mountain Creek Retirement Center at 2305 Corn Valley and the time is 7:45 a.m.
 
MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND SAVE THE DATE!
 
Personal and Professional Growth
On May 27th we will begin the Tom Hart Business Series where our own City Manager, Tom Hart will start to share some of his successes and the skills and actions that line the road to success. We will learn about The World Class Journey - Eight stops to building a "World Class Business and Organization" in May . We will start at 9:00 a.m. and go to noon. Remember, these seminars are part of your member benefits and there is no additional charge for your attendance. They are also open to ALL Grand Prairie businesses at no charge, so share this with anyone you know who is in business in Grand Prairie. We can do this without charge to you because of the generous sponsorship of local businesses.
 
Join us! I know there are some who think the chamber is a cliquish group and that we only serve a few people. I don't know how we can change that perception if you don't come and give us a chance to show you that we know that every business in Grand Prairie is a vital part of our City's success. Please help your fellow members keep the economy in our City strong. Come see for yourself because at the Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce...