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Deb Brown making connections in Webster City<\/p><\/div>\n

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Guest post by Deb Brown<\/p>\n

How well do you know your clients?<\/p>\n

Here at the Chamber our clients are our members.\u00a0 This year I’ve made a concentrated effort to spend some time visiting with our members.\u00a0 Not just when I\u00a0run into them, or when we need something (although we do visit then), but in a scheduled appointment where we can take an hour and visit.<\/p>\n

We’re pretty good at promoting your business, hosting community events, helping to grow the local economy, marketing outside of the county and advocating for business.\u00a0 It’s what a Chamber does, and we take that job seriously.<\/p>\n

What we realized is that just by visiting with our members we’ve been able to find out some things we didn’t know before.\u00a0 Because we are asking questions and listening to the answers.\u00a0 We want to be able to better serve you, and in order to do that we need to know a few more things about you.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0go out and visit at least 10 members a month and ask questions like:<\/p>\n