Business Development and Retention Division

Lou Ann Tovar, 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.

Chairperson, Executive Vice President
Benefits – This committee will work on offering business services to membership: health care, card service, seminars,, publicity, and others.

Shop Locally Campaign/Billboard
Chairperson,:
Co-Chair,:
Will promote shopping locally by educating the consumer on the benefits of spending money in town. Ideas they will focus on: campaign during the spring and Christmas season, shipping during the weekend (FedEx, Ups, and DHL), and host a “shopping night or gallery night”. They will also look into billboards placed at each entrance into Fort Stockton welcoming visitors.

LED Signage
Chairperson: Tom Ezell
This committee will work to get and LED sign for the chamber. They will check for the best possible pricing and get businesses to advertise on the sign. They also will work with Tex-Dot to find the best possible place to put the sign that it can be the most useful. This committee will also seed out advertisers for the sign to help insure the payment of the sign.

Website/Master Community Calendar/Newspaper Page/Publicity
Chairperson, Phil Chamberlain:
Co-Chair, Renee Gaylor:
Will work on updating and promoting the website HYPERLINK "http://www.fortstockton.org/" 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. They will work with the Pioneer on the Chamber Connection and look at building and distributing an in-house newsletter. They will also work with Trident Media on the publicity ads. Copyrighting the name - This division will also work on copyrighting the Fort Stockton name.