Holiday Attire is encouraged, and to show your best or most creative virtual background for the “Virtual Background Contest!” The winner will be announced at the end of the night.
Tips for virtual networking:
Have your introduction ready – Each attendee will have a moment to introduce themselves and their business. This is the perfect time to highlight that special promotion or service you are offering. Links & contact information are highly encouraged.
Prepare a tasty drink or snack – There’s no reason to skip the treats. And you can be confident that it’s made just the way you like it!
Central Coast Coalition of Chambers surveys businesses on needs and concerns
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The Central Coast Coalition of Chambers released their monthly results to gauge the impact of COVID-19 on local businesses. Since May, nearly 2,400 businesses between San Miguel and Solvang have responded.
The latest survey results from November 9-30 found that nearly 30% of employers plan to hire in the next month, but many are still struggling.
âRight around the start of COVID, we started a survey regionally because we were all doing our own individual ones so we ended up doing this regional survey with all of us combined so we could get a better feeling for the whole region, said Jim Dantona, San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce President and CEO.
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–The Paso Robles City Council held a special meeting Thursday night to discuss just one issue: “Business viability and the Governor’s new stay at home order.”
City Manager Tom Frutchey outlined the issues and the council began a lengthy discussion. After each council member weighed in on the matter, the council took almost 50 phone calls from citizens who commented on it. Most of those who called in described the desperate financial situation facing many small businesses in the city. Restaurant and winery owners, hair salons, and many other business owners and employees described how damaging the shutdown has been to their livelihood and future.
58-percent of local businesses said they were doing great or good
–The Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce recently conducted the 2020 Business Walk, reaching out to almost 500 businesses via in-person visits, phone calls, and emails. This year’s theme was: Rebrand. Reboot. Reinvent, and was adopted to highlight the chamber’s focus of business retention and workforce development, despite a currently changing business climate. The chamber was able to garner valuable feedback which will be used to establish advocacy and focus efforts, as well as tools, programs and resources that will continue to help businesses thrive.
The Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce hosted its first-ever Business Walk in 2018 as an economic development initiative. In an effort to gauge the needs of the community and help determine upcoming programs and focus, a team of volunteers armed with clipboards and surveys made in-person visits to over 400 businesses in just one hour. They repeated the task in 2019 and