Updated searchable member database

ChamberWest is pleased to announce enhancements and upgrades to the chamber's online searchable member database. Not only does the chamber list include contact information for the main contact but also buttons for a map, any M2M discounts, and 'star' business status.

New icon graphics are included for these enhancements:

• Map icon to the member business through MapQuest.
• Dollar sign icon which links to the chamber's Member-2-Member discount page.
  
• Star icon which indicates a 'Star Business'. This star status moves the business to the top of the directory listing regardless of business spelling.
  

An example of these enhancements can be found at http://www.chamberwest.org/directory for Chambers of Commerce. Notice that ChamberWest is located at the top with its star status and has a discount in the chamber's Member-2-Member program. Try it out...

If you want to add a M2M discount of your own, please enter it online at http://www.chamberwest.org/m2m

If you want to have 'Star' status which places your business listing at the top of the category, the cost is $36 per year. The ChamberWest.org website sees more than 1,000 visits per month as calculated by Google Analytics. The ChamberWest searchable directory is the 2nd most viewed web page after the home page.

ChamberWest heard on KTKK AM630

ChamberWest is pleased to announce a new radio show on KTKK radio that began Monday. The program is a partnership with 7 chambers of commerce and The Valley Journals. Each chamber has their own program every Monday on KTKK AM630.

ChamberWest is currently scheduled to be "on-air" on Monday, September 27; Monday, November 8; and Monday January 3, 2011. The chamber will bring in a member with a unique story about business, have a prize drawing partway through the show and announce information about West Valley City, Taylorsville and Kearns businesses.

Please tune in to KTKK AM630 beginning Monday and hear what our local chambers are doing to build Utah's economy. If you are a ChamberWest member and have items we can give away to listeners, please contact the chamber office by Thursday prior to the airdate. The chamber must have your promotional items by Noon on Friday to be included in the program.

If you have a unique small business success story, please send the story to the chamber for consideration. As the chamber only receives 6-7 shows per year, the chamber cannot guarantee use of your story on-air. What we can do is promote our member businesses during the prize giveaway.

Flyer about the KTKK radio show in partnership with the Valley Journals

LeadershipWest ramps up for 16th Year!

The chamber's business leader training program, LeadershipWest, is ramping up for its 16th consecutive year. The LeadershipWest Board of Trustees held a retreat over 2 days, revamping and retooling the program.

LeadershipWest is an exclusive program to train tomorrows business leaders both large and small. Training is hands on using adult training

theory for Leadership success. Training is from trained facilitators in our community and visiting with successful business leaders and learning their trends.

Fortune 500 Success Factors used at LeadershipWest include:

• Personal Responsibility
• Creative Thinking
• Initiative - Take Action
• Listening
• Open Honest Communication
• People Driven
• Networking
• Solution Driven
• Team Building
• Community Oriented

You can expand your circle of influence by attending LeadershipWest and experience visits with Economic Development, Transit & Transportation, and political contacts. Be able to help your business be as successful as possible in the West Valley City, Taylorsville and Kearns area. Since our first LeadershipWest class in 1995-1996, more than 200 business men and women have attended LeadershipWest. Won’t you be one of them?

Business Matters 2010 Luncheon - 9/16

Join ChamberWest as we welcome Gary Harter with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Gary is Managing Director for the Business Creation Team which includes the Utah Clusters Initiative, Centers of Excellence Program, Business Resource Centers and State Science Advisor.

Gary will speak on Utah's Business Resource Centers and how they can help local business as well as touching on other units within the Business Creation team.

WHAT: Business Matters 2010 Luncheon (formerly General Membership Meeting)

WHEN: Sept. 16 @ 11:45 a.m.

WHERE: Staybridge Suites/Holiday Inn Express - 3038 South Decker Lake Drive (north of the Maverik Center)

COST: $20 per person with RSVP online at www.chamberwest.org/rsvp

RSVP: required by calling 801-977-8755 or email rsvp@chamberwest.org

Mr. Harter's Bio
Gary is a retired Army Colonel who spent 25 years on active duty, leaving service in October 2005. He served in command and staff positions throughout the United States and in Germany. Gary’s final assignment was as Commander, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, where, for three years, he oversaw the testing of chemical and biological defense equipment, led 1,500 military, Department of Defense civilians and contractors, and was responsible for an operating budget in excess of $220 million annually. Gary previously served at U.S. Joint Forces Command, Norfolk Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia, where he was the Chief, Current Operations for Military Support to Civil Authorities, responsible for overseeing coordination and planning of military forces to respond for severe weather, wildfires, unexploded ordnance, the 2001 Presidential Inauguration, the 2002 Winter Olympics and National Special Security Events. As a Lieutenant Colonel, Gary commanded the 84^th Chemical Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Gary is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelors of Science in Biology and the National Defense University with a Masters of Science in National Resource Strategy.

Gary grew up in Pennsylvania, currently resides in Midway, Utah with his family, and is an avid Dallas Cowboy football fan.