McDonald County Chamber of Commerce

06/04/2026

Regardless of being a business or a community, growth is coming and it is going to be uncomfortable. That is where vision gets you over the hump.

06/03/2026

Great comparison between bad and good marketing!

06/03/2026

Great Lunch-n-Learn Coming in June - Mark your calendars!

The Chamber has the honor of hosting both our State House Rep, Dirk Deaton along with our State Senator, Mike Moon at our June Lunch-n-Learn.

1 - They will discuss business impacts from the latest session.
2 - They will discuss the potential elimination of State income tax.
3 - Other issues and will take Will take questions as well.

This promises to be a great session complete with great food and networking as well - hope that you can join us on June 10th at noon.

06/02/2026

There is a reason so many businesses don't make past year three - skipping the marketing is one of the major reasons.

06/02/2026

https://www.mcdonaldcountychamber.org/2026/05/31/29988/herd-mentality-builds-or-buries-communities/

Jim Hightower once said, "The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."I have spent a lot of years watching

06/01/2026

A little marketing humor!

05/31/2026

There is so much to being a great leader, far more than meets the eye.

05/30/2026

Never confuse management with leadership. One manages the task at hand, the other takes an organization to new heights.

05/29/2026

Never confuse being busy and booked with productivity - they are indeed two completely different things.

Many are stuck in old ways of thinking and operation, they are unwilling to adapt and change. I am reminded of the quote by general Shinseki when he said, "If you don't like change, you will like irrelevance even less."