Play Ball!

60 members and nonmembers joined together to hear about the new Lake County Fielders semi-pro baseball team's upcoming season. The new team is owned by the famous actor Kevin Costner. They are currently constructing the $15 million facility in Zion and are out in the community making sure everyone knows about this exciting new team. Some might ask what a new baseball team has to do with a chamber of commerce. The answer is marketing. The team offers a local opportunity to advertise and market your business to an expected 300,000 attendees for the season. Some businesses may choose to use the team's proximity to conduct client appreciation events at the ballpark, while others may use the many opportunities to advertise in the programs or on the stadium itself.
As a chamber, we want to provide our members with as many options to promote your business as possible. Maybe the Lake County Fielders can be an opportunity for your business.
As always, don't forget to check out www.gurneechamber.com to keep up to date on our upcoming events.

Check this out!

We set a goal to be the number one spot on Google in the first year. I'm happy to report that as of today, when you search for Gurnee Chamber, our website is first! Village of Gurnee Chamber of Commerce was started in July of 2009, so our ascension in the ranks of Google is pretty amazing. Thanks to all our members and their links to their websites, we've become a trusted host in the search engines. Thanks goes mostly to Craig Hathaway for his help in managing the web project. Tim Kobb has provided further assistance in cleaning up our web presence.
What can you do to help out your chamber?

Join the Chamber!

JOIN YOUR LOCAL CHAMBER

Great news. For any of you that have not joined the chamber yet, or if you know of anyone that is interested. NOW is the time. Any new business to join the Village of Gurnee Chamber before 2/12/10 will be our guest at the next 3 meetings. That's a savings of $50! Membership is just $150. Find out what over 100 members already know. JOIN YOUR LOCAL CHAMBER TODAY!

Social Media

If you haven't heard the term social media, you've been living in a very secluded area. It's no secret that social media is here to stay. Reading this blog means you're aware of it's presence. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, and many other websites have captured the essence of social connections. How can we as business people leverage those connections to benefit our businesses?
Come to our next Village of Gurnee Chamber of Commerce meeting on Jan. 20th and find out about this mega marketing tool called Social media!

Milestone achieved!

And the crowd goes wild!

The Chamber has officially received it's 100th member. What a huge accomplishment in such a short matter of time. Six months ago we launched the Chamber, and already we have 100 members?! A big thanks to all those that volunteered their time and resources to make this organization a huge success. This growth has far surpassed our expectations and goals for our first year. It's refreshing to know that the dream of 8 individuals to have a stand alone Gurnee Chamber, is thus far shared by 92 other members.
Keep up all of the hard work, and let's see how fast the next 100 comes!

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Holiday Train 2009 in the books!

The Holiday Train was a HUGE success. 1000 attendees enjoyed the train and the festive atmosphere and got to enjoy the generous snack donations of some local Chamber members. Thanks to Caribou Coffee, RinkSide Entertainment, Salutos, Whole Foods, Great America, and Outback Steakhouse.

$90,000 of corporate donations were received, and a yet to be determined amount of collected canned foods.
Thanks to all of the volunteers and sponsors for another successful event. If you want to learn more or help out, go to Gurnee Chamber of Commerce to contact us.