Greater Ocean City, MD Chamber of Commerce’s Post

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Hi, Amy Thompson, executive director of the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce. And I was asked what do we do? We're in the business of supporting business. Our mission is to enhance business in the communities that be that be a legislative advocacy could be networking events, advertising opportunities, all manner of things that help support tourism and economic development here in our little corner of the world. Why should someone join the chamber? I always ask back, well what do you need? We're not A1 size fits all. Organizations like ours offer a ton of benefits and it really just matters what someone needs. So we print a visitors guide, 150,000 of them. So if someone has a tourism facing business advertising, that would make perfect sense. We recently launched a digital app which is kind of like a business directory in your hands, and for those who want to appeal to visitors and locals alike, having a good presence on that app also makes a ton of sense. Some people just need to network with other business owners. So we have networking events, we have job fairs, business Expos, other forums. People can connect with other business owners. And again, that's just good business sense to do that kind of stuff. It's different about us. You know, one chamber, you know one chamber, they're all super different and there's a bunch of wonderful ones in this community. The Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce really focuses on the one facet of our community that we really is the biggest economic driver in the tourism. So for businesses that focus specifically on tourism, obviously that makes sense. But I think every single one of us who live and work here are impacted even indirectly by tourism. So that is really where we put our energy. We hire a lobbyist to help advocate for our community. The business community in Annapolis annually and we really take that responsibility seriously. We know these business owners are way too busy to know all the things about everything. So that's part of what we do is we we glean important, timely information and push it back out to our members so they can hear about things that are going to impact their bottom line. So if anyone has any interest in joining the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, they can find us.online@oceancity.org. They can come visit our beautiful visitor center here in West Ocean City, right? Route 50 and. We're always available.