By Pam Staneski
Milford Chamber of Commerce
Pam Staneski.
Hello from 5 Broad Street and happy August. How did that happen? Summer slid by; we wait all year and it is gone in a flash.
It seems like we were just gearing up for our summer concert series and it’s done. Thanks again to Yale New Haven Health and Patriot Bank for providing five wonderful Fridays filled with great music and lots of dancing.
As summer winds down, vacations end, we turn our attention to getting the kids back to school and our business takes up our formerly free time, I would encourage you to think of fall as a time to get involved in our vibrant community and the Milford Regional Chamber.
Our chamber is comprised of a diverse group of businesses representing a gamut of categories all sharing a common thread: everyone wants to do better, make business connections, grow their business, and make our community a better place to live. I am lucky because I get to help facilitate this. As your executive director, I am one of the first people you meet. My priority is to get to know you and your business and then to help the chamber be a conduit for you to be successful.
One way we help you to achieve your business goals is through networking. I’m not talking about events where you hand out your business cards. I’m talking about the chamber creating enough value to our community that the people and businesses of our community become valuable to you. Your chamber team finds it gratifying when we can connect business owner A and business owner B with the knowledge that they will help each other grow.
We spend a fair amount of time working to develop varied and valuable opportunities for our members. Some are as simple as a business-after-hours or a coffee hour with elected officials.
As advocates for our business community we are involved with the Economic Development Commission and Milford Progress as well as representing the chamber with a seat on the local Tourism Committee. We believe that each connection we make on behalf of our businesses equals twice the connections for our businesses.
We would like to invite you to visit our office, or better yet, visit a chamber member and ask them “Why the chamber?” My guess is they will say there is no better place to grow your connections and business. Make sure you ask them about our new directory, our referral groups, the business-after-hours and ribbon cuttings. They love to talk about how the chamber helped their business.
Business is our business.