IT'S IMPORTANT TO DEDICATE TIME TO WORKING ON YOUR BUSINESS, RATHER THAN JUST IN IT.
THE SHIAWASSEE REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WANTS TO SUPPORT THIS NOTION SO WE'VE CREATED THIS PAGE TO DO JUST THAT!
Update Your Business Directory Listing
The chamber has enhanced every member's online business directory listing! Log-in to your Member Portal (click here) to upload your logo. This enhancement allows the addition of up to nine other photos. Upload images that you would like customers and potential clients to see. This is a great way to get value marketing and promotion from your chamber membership!
If you have questions please contact Tasha Carroll, Member Engagement Specialist at tcarroll@shiawasseechamber.org
Create a Branded Social Video
A branded social video can be a real asset to your businesses marketing strategy. You may embed the video into your website, share it on social media, and/or on YouTube. A branded video is versatile and may really grab potential clients' attention.
According to Tubular Insights 64% of consumers make a purchase after watching a branded video.
Chamber member UnoDeuce MultiMedia provided these professional tips for shooting video:
Quick tips for shooting mobile video and audio
Chamber Member's: Check out the BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP page to learn more about how you can have a professionally crafted branded social video created for your business!
CONNECT
Listen to a Great Podcast
Problem Solvers Podcast
Problem Solvers with Jason Feifer features business owners and CEOs who went through a crippling business problem and came out the other side bigger and stronger. Feifer, Entrepreneur’s Editor in Chief, pulls these stories out so other businesses can avoid the same crippling problems.
Read Online
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Medium
Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring you the smartest takes on topics that matter. So whatever your interest, you can always find fresh thinking and unique perspectives.
With these platforms, the first few articles are free. So, find some really good ones, and move on; or get a subscription just for your weeks of isolation!
Expand your skillset
Youtube and Skillshare are great places to start.
Implement Systems & Get Organized
Systems can be great for your business. They help you to respond faster, eliminate duplicate processing over and over, batch tasks, and can help you run more efficiently.
Tackle that Project
Review Resources
We’ve compiled a list of business resources, grants, articles and information for you. Look it over and see what will work for you. Update the Chamber with your plans and concerns. Help us know where you’re struggling and what assistance you need. We can advocate for you and your business and point you to resources or just serve as a sounding board.
Shiawassee Regional Chamber of Commerce COVID-19 Business Resources
You are brilliant and resilient. Use it.
The chamber has enhanced every member's online business directory listing! Log-in to your Member Portal (click here) to upload your logo. This enhancement allows the addition of up to nine other photos. Upload images that you would like customers and potential clients to see. This is a great way to get value marketing and promotion from your chamber membership!
If you have questions please contact Tasha Carroll, Member Engagement Specialist at tcarroll@shiawasseechamber.org
Create a Branded Social Video
A branded social video can be a real asset to your businesses marketing strategy. You may embed the video into your website, share it on social media, and/or on YouTube. A branded video is versatile and may really grab potential clients' attention.
According to Tubular Insights 64% of consumers make a purchase after watching a branded video.
Chamber member UnoDeuce MultiMedia provided these professional tips for shooting video:
Quick tips for shooting mobile video and audio
- Hold camera horizontally (Widescreen)
- Hold each shot for at least 5 seconds. Then move to the next shot. Do not use any zoom functionality. Tripods are key if you have one.
- Get closeups if you can. Hold the device with both hands.
- If you are talking into the camera, headphones or earbuds are best to create clean audio if you do not have an external microphone source. (This also applies to Laptops/PCs)
- Make sure you are in a well lit space that isn’t echoey or too busy background-wise, and you are not standing with your back to a window. (This also applies to Laptops/PCs)
- In fact, use the window as a light source indoors, especially with interviews, and make sure you get as close to the subject as you can.
- When outside, do not shoot underneath trees or overpasses. The lighting will be mixed and could create harsh shadows.
Chamber Member's: Check out the BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP page to learn more about how you can have a professionally crafted branded social video created for your business!
CONNECT
- #BrilliantandResilient Facebook Campaign
- Connect with Member Engagement Specialist, Tasha Carroll, to share what brilliant ways you and/or your business are remaining resilient now
- Connect with Tasha via email at tcarroll@shiawasseechamber.org
- Send a link of a Facebook post from your business page that describes how your business is brilliant and resilient
- OR send a brief description of what you are doing to remain resilient
- OR send a brief description of how you are conducting business now
- use the hashtag that best describes where you're at right now #openforbusiness #closedbutstillconnecting #navigatingthenewnormal
- Like/share/comment fellow business pages posts on Facebook and LinkedIn
- Write a Google review for another business
Listen to a Great Podcast
Problem Solvers Podcast
Problem Solvers with Jason Feifer features business owners and CEOs who went through a crippling business problem and came out the other side bigger and stronger. Feifer, Entrepreneur’s Editor in Chief, pulls these stories out so other businesses can avoid the same crippling problems.
Read Online
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Medium
Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring you the smartest takes on topics that matter. So whatever your interest, you can always find fresh thinking and unique perspectives.
With these platforms, the first few articles are free. So, find some really good ones, and move on; or get a subscription just for your weeks of isolation!
Expand your skillset
- Learn photography to better market your products
- Seek out a refresher in Quickbooks or other financial management software
- Learn how to set up and update your website so you don’t have to hire it out
Youtube and Skillshare are great places to start.
Implement Systems & Get Organized
Systems can be great for your business. They help you to respond faster, eliminate duplicate processing over and over, batch tasks, and can help you run more efficiently.
- Set up e-mail autoresponders
- Organize your physical and digital files
- Update your customer databases
- Set up e-mail lists and clean up your contacts
- Clean out your inbox
- Set up online recurring payments
Tackle that Project
- Update your website
- Launch an e-commerce site
- Reorganize your office or store layout
- Upgrade computer systems
Review Resources
We’ve compiled a list of business resources, grants, articles and information for you. Look it over and see what will work for you. Update the Chamber with your plans and concerns. Help us know where you’re struggling and what assistance you need. We can advocate for you and your business and point you to resources or just serve as a sounding board.
Shiawassee Regional Chamber of Commerce COVID-19 Business Resources
You are brilliant and resilient. Use it.
