{"id":363803,"date":"2015-06-12T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T19:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=363803"},"modified":"2015-06-14T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T19:40:25","slug":"tyler-area-chamber-sets-national-records-with-membership-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=363803","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Tyler Area Chamber Sets National Membership Drive Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/thumb_tylercityof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/thumb_tylercityof.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_tylercityof\" width=\"160\" height=\"113\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-364210\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; While most chambers of commerce struggle through their annual membership drive, the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a membership event that is like none other, according to a Chamber news release.  Chamber officials say for 2\u00c2\u00bd days, over 400 volunteers worked against the clock and against each other to sign up 914 new Chamber members and created a greater community awareness of the important role of the Chamber of Commerce.  The event is organized by Jimmy Cusano and a group called Your Chamber Connection.  Their specialty is high-energy membership campaigns that allow volunteers to conduct &#8220;out of the box&#8221; membership fun while building the membership base, according to the news release.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about business,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Cusano.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Chamber of Commerce is the business community.  This brings everyone together to build our Chamber.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a membership-based organization and most people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmembership drives.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122  With a Membership Event they come together in a competitive fun setting and tell the Chamber story.  When others hear about everything the Chamber does, all of a sudden you have a great deal of enthusiasm for the Chamber, and a great deal of support.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Membership event, in addition to a new national record of 914 members, also set records for the most money generated at $229,000 and most volunteers at over 400, according to the news release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; While most chambers of commerce struggle through their annual membership drive, the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a membership event that is like none other, according to a Chamber news release. Chamber officials say for 2\u00c2\u00bd days, over 400 volunteers worked against the clock and against each other to sign up 914 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=363803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials: Tyler Area Chamber Sets National Membership Drive Records<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":364210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 21:38:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363803"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364211,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363803\/revisions\/364211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/364210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}