Each chamber has it’s own culture and membership so there’s no “blanket” program. However, with the chambers I have been advising, here are some things they will all have in common with you.

1. Teaching sessions: There is 8-15 hours of education the participating businesses should go through. Topics should include revisiting their paper napkin, developing an internal and external vision and mission, brand pyramid design, communication matrix, leadership, corporate culture and how to build their business development engine.
2. Strategic planning: Once the businesses have gone through the teaching phase (which you can do as a 1-2 day intensive workshop), it’s time to spend 1-on-1 time with each business helping them design their strategic plan/go-to-market strategy. They will be applying a lot of the stuff they learned in the teaching sessions, but they’ll need expertise “customizing” it to their business.
3. Advisory support: Once their strategic plan is in place, they will need some advisory support as they get into deploying the plan into the marketplace. When challenges and opportunities come, they will need to be able to pick up the phone and talk to someone who can help them make the best decision possible.
4. Hands-on execution: Every once in a while, the business owner will need you to roll up your sleeves and help them close a deal, select the right vendor, form a joint venture, open a big door or oversee the deployment of the marketing plan. This is the real “magic” of the 90-day program. The key is to actually help them turn the ideas into money in their business.

The first thing you may think as you read through these 4 points is “Wow, how could we ever pull that off ourselves?” The answer is, depending on your chamber’s size and in-house staff talent, this is very do-able. However, if you don’t have the budget and staffing to deliver something like this, we can come alongside you and deliver the program for you. I typically like to take groups of 5 through the program at a time. After seeing it done once or twice, you always have the option of bringing it in-house and making it a new revenue stream.

Again, this is a real broad brush stroke since I don’t know the culture of your chamber. If you want to hop on the phone and talk through your chamber and it’s unique needs/issues, I’m happy to do that to help you reach your goals. Any advisory support I provide chambers is pro bono.