TheChamberLife.com is blessed with a small, but dedicated, group of local businesses willing to underwrite the cost of maintaining this site. Today, I want to take a moment to thank one of those, Caldwell Toyota. If you are in the market for a new or used car, you care about the environment and you want [...]

After some record breaking construction last year.  The Conway economy is back after it.  Today we attended the “topping out” event for the new Southwestern Energy Regional Headquarters currently under construction in the Hendrix Village.  The building, the site, the setting are all awesome.  I can’t wait to see this building full of folks.  It’s [...]

In lieu of witty prose, I’m cutting to the chase.  Bowling for Business. New business networking event. July 9th. Conway Family Bowl.  Not convinced?  Read below.  1. Golf tournaments are not good business networking events. At Bowling for Business you will be in position to network with 240 local businessfolk. 2. July is too hot [...]

We here at TheChamberLife really do crank out a lot of work.  Sometimes you can’t tell it from our blog, but the folks in this building are literally all over the place making “the good” happen all over town.  That’s why it is important that we play well together.  I just want to take a [...]

So our Annual Meeting was the bomb. You know how I know for sure? Because it was two months ago and I’m still impressed by it.  (I already apologized for lazy blogging, so let’s just move on) Over 900 folks (a record and sell out crowd) came together to celebrate our local economy.  The UCA [...]

It can be a little awkward when you tell someone that you’re gonna call, meet up, write, or blog and then you don’t for a couple months. Let me apologize. TheChamberLife has not set the standard in dependability. Sure, we’re still cute. But that only lasts so long. In what is truly a case of [...]

It’s the third and final day of the biennial Conway Chamber Membership Event.  Over the last two days we have added more than 200 new members.  We are now the 3rd largest chamber in Arkansas (approx 1,500 members).  Today is dedicated mainly to gathering checks and celebrating our volunteers.  For the second time we hired Your Chamber Connection to help us [...]

The Chamber Annual Meeting is almost here.  Boy am I nervous/excited.  In case you didn’t notice,  this is almost like prom for your business.  By definition, annual meetings only come once a year.  You miss it.  Tough luck. You can’t unmiss it.  Trust me, the last thing you want to happen at work Friday, March 5th is for [...]

@chambergates, @chamberbrad, @chambertj and @chamberkathy recently had the pleasure of jetting up to Washington DC to advocate for a handful of projects important to Conway.  Sticking to our strength in numbers philosophy, we took with us Mayor Tab Townsell, County Judge Preston Scroggin, Chamber Board Chair Lori Ross, CDC Board Chair Bill Adkisson, Chamber Board member Andy [...]

So it’s January of a new year. Decade even.  That means its time to finish the 2010 plans we were working on before the holidays ground production to a halt with all of its tinsel, carbs, etc. The Chamber has officially grabbed 2010 by the horns.  It looks pretty good.  Here is a real time* look [...]