Kathy Jacobs Design & Marketing

09/02/2026

Fall is full of content opportunities. 🍂🎃

If your Chamber or tourism organization is already out experiencing these things, you have plenty of opportunities to turn those experiences into useful content that helps people discover (and spend money in!) your community.

08/31/2026

You don’t need a large marketing budget.

Picking just two or three dates this September will keep your brand top-of-mind and bring customers directly through your doors:

1️⃣ Month-long observances: National Honey Month
2️⃣ Food & beverage crowd-pleasers: National Coffee Day (Sept 29)
3️⃣ Community and outdoor spotlights: American Business Women’s Day (Sept 22)

08/28/2026

A website should do more than look beautiful. It should help you stand out, build credibility, and make a strong first impression.

We’re proud to have helped Monarch Counseling & Wellness create a website that does just that. ✨

08/26/2026

Your chamber’s social media shouldn’t just tell people WHO to visit. It should tell them WHY they should care.

Instead of simply promoting a local business, tell the story behind it. The people, the passion and the reason they started in the first place.

That’s the content people remember. And it’s the content they’re more likely to share.

Because people support people, not listings.

08/24/2026

The best chamber of commerce social media posts don't just promote local businesses. They tell stories.

Go beyond the business listing and show:

✔️ The people behind the business
✔️ The experiences they create
✔️ The WHY behind what they do

Because people connect with stories. And people support people, not listings.

08/21/2026

You don’t need more content.

You might just need more mileage from the content you already have.

Here's the repurposing strategy (plus summer topic ideas) your chamber can use to fill your content calendar without reinventing the wheel:

Our summer social media post ideas for Facebook and Instagram show how you can take one idea and create multiple posts from it all at once.

08/19/2026

Your September social media calendar doesn’t have to start with a blank screen.

We’ve got easy, effective ideas for your September social media posts, so you don’t have to spend hours wondering what to post next.

Get fresh ideas delivered to your inbox next week and start September with a plan: https://list-manage.pulse.ly/hs5ipny7w7

08/17/2026

I’ll be honest, traditional networking events have never been my favorite. Traditional networking works well for some people, but not everyone builds relationships best in a loud room full of strangers.

If chambers want to create meaningful connections for all of their members, it may be time to think beyond the traditional Business After Hours model.

Help make more of your members feel like they belong by organizing alternative networking opportunities:

🌳 Host walk and talks:
Invite a small group of members to meet at a local park or trail for a casual walk. Without the pressure of a networking event, conversations tend to be deeper, more relaxed, and more memorable.

🤝 Create intentional member pairings:
Match members for coffee based on their industries, goals, or complementary businesses.

✨ Offer small group networking:
Roundtables, mastermind sessions, or industry-specific lunches give everyone a chance to contribute and make it easier for more members to be part of the conversation.

🦮 Organize volunteer opportunities:
When members work side by side on a community project, conversations happen naturally. People connect more naturally instead of trying to make small talk in a crowded room.

Your chamber is made up of different personalities, communication styles, and comfort levels, and the more opportunities you create for members to connect in ways that feel natural to them, the stronger your community becomes.

What kind of networking experience would you participate in?

08/14/2026

We’re excited to introduce Joy Ugi, our new Social Media and Marketing Manager! 👏

Joy's spent her career helping nonprofits, small businesses, chambers of commerce, and economic development organizations connect with their audiences and turn their marketing efforts into meaningful results.

We’re thrilled to have Joy on the team and look forward to the creativity, experience, and fresh perspective she’ll bring to our work and our clients.

08/12/2026

Ever feel like you’re stuck on a content hamster wheel? You’ve heard you need to post consistently, but who has the time?

Make your current content work harder by turning your best ideas into multiple formats.

Let’s say you made a reel sharing orders from your staff’s coffee run to a local cafe. Use those same clips and photos for a carousel, a photo post, and an interactive story poll for your audience to cover more days in your content calendar from just one visit.

We mapped out the entire weekly calendar framework with 10 summer prompts for your chamber to use on our blog. Link in bio!