Networking
A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony can be an important part of your overall marketing and advertising plan and is a great way to kick-off a business milestone. It offers an opportunity to meet your neighbors and the other Chamber members. We would be delighted to help your business celebrate with a Grand Opening, Ribbon Cutting or Groundbreaking Ceremony given the following criteria:
- New Chamber Member business within the last 6 months
- A ground breaking
- Changed ownership or under new management
- Moved to a new location
- Has extensively remodeled or expanded its present location
The Chamber Staff will help by:
– Encouraging the Chamber’s Board of Directors, Ambassadors, and members to attend your event
– Recommend Chamber Businesses that can provide catering, deli and/or beverage services, if you desire
– Providing the ribbon and scissors
– Promoting your event in the Chamber E-Newsletter, calendar of events, website, Weekly Email Update and a photo in the E-Newsletter following the event.

Consider highlighting your business by hosting a 1st Friday or 3rd Thursday Coffee Connect. You provide a continental breakfast and a door prize and we’ll do the rest. You’re breakfast is promoted in the weekly Monday Email, the monthly E-Newsletter and a dedicated email just for your event. It’s a great opportunity to showcase your business. By inviting fellow chambers to visit your business you’ll have the perfect opportunity to discuss your products and/or services, introduce staff, offer a tour and make sure chamber members know all they can about YOUR business.
Contact the Chamber office if you are interested in hosting …



Restaurant members are encouraged to host a Spotlight Lunch at their business. Normally held from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, members are invited to bring their friends and co-workers to enjoy lunch at your restaurant. As the host, the restaurant offers free soft drinks, coffee or tea with any meal purchase.
We will promote the event through the Chamber newsletter, the Weekly Email updates and the website calendar of events.
Everyone is welcome, members and non-members. No reservation necessary.

Several times a year we partner with other area chambers to bring businesses together for educational and networking events. Refer to the website calendar as these events are scheduled.

Looking for an opportunity to connect with other professional businesswomen? Look no further … Join us at the Monthly Women’s Forum Networking Dinner. This group meets the last Wednesday of every month at area eateries for dinner and networking with businesswomen from the Kensington Valley and Huron Valley Chambers of Commerce. Click here to download Women’s Forum Registration Form.
To Schedule Your Networking Event Call the Chamber Office @ 248.624.2826 or email info@lakesareachamber.com

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