Business Development and Retention Division

Chris Alexander, President Elect and Division Vice President

Purpose: To oversee and direct the business development and job creation activities of the Chamber, in accordance with the Economic Development Plan adopted by the Fort Stockton Economic Development Corporation.

New membership recruitment and retention
Chairperson, Executive Vice President
Recruitment - Will work on a monthly recruitment plan for non-members of the Chamber. They will also work on packets of information to give the non-members and also with a monthly visitation list to be given to the board and ambassadors.

Membership Services
Chairperson, Executive Vice President -Chris Alexander
Benefits – This committee will work on offering business services to membership: seminars, publicity, and others

Website/Master Community Calendar/Newspaper Page/Publicity
Chairperson, Phil Chamberlain:
Will work on updating and promoting the website www.fortstockton.org. They will also be researching ways in which the webpage can be structured to better benefit the local businesses. The webpage will also host a master community calendar with hotlinks to special events information.

Hospitality Training
Chairperson, Arna McCorkle
Will work with local businesses to set up hospitality training sessions to help teach hospitality to employees.