Bradford Area Chamber of Commerce

Hi Everyone, One of my favorite subjects is hospitality and customer service.  No matter where I go to eat,shop, or spend a night, I’m always looking for that “Wow”experience! You know the one where the person taking care of you goes out of their way to make you say, “WOW!”  If you think about it, [...]

After being in the profit business most of my life, the last three years in the nonprofit has been a challenge.  I guess for me the biggest challenge is that I had never done it before, but I soon realized that it wasn’t much different then the profit business.  You still have to control a [...]

I thought that title would get everyone’s attention, and recently I had a reply that said, you need to come up with better titles for your blog.  So we will see what everyone thinks of  Killer Website. Thursday, April 4th, our Chamber held its Annual Meeting, and we premiered our new website to 220 people.  [...]

Hi Everyone, I thought this title would get your attention, and I am hoping that I will get some responses back from Bradfordians. I came to Bradford in 1962, which was my senior year of high school, and I have great memories of that year at Bradford High.  I made some great friends, and I [...]

Hi Everyone, At least once a week someone ask me why they should join the Chamber of Commerce.  I thought today would be a good time to share some of the benefits.  As a member of our chamber you are also a part of Chamber Choice.  They will develop a comprehensive plan to protect your [...]

Hi Everyone, I thought I would share some information that I receive every month from the Pennsylvania Chamber.  When you see all the cuts in the budget, one of reasons is that collectively, the State Employees’ Retirement System and the Public School Employees’ Retirement System–face an unfunded liability of between forty billion and fifty billion [...]

We just had our Annual Meeting and Awards Presentation, and every year we pick a theme for our meeting.  This year is was a quote from Harry Firestone, “You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.”    When I think of that quote, I think of the three people [...]

Spring is my favorite time of the year, and I am always amazed how fast we forget about the winter.  However, this year is the exception, winter hasn’t been that bad, and Punxsutawney Phi, you were wrong.  With that all said, the Chamber is also excited to see Spring come, because it’s time for our [...]

Hi Everyone: Facebook has been such a great asset to our Chamber, and we are always ready to share information with our members.  On March 28,2012 we will be having a brown bag series seminar on Facebook and Ebay.  But until then, I wanted to share some information that I have received from Frank Kenny [...]

This past week I received a really nice message from Frank Kenny who is from Longview, Washington and has a book out called “The Seven Secret Laws of Society”  He was complementing our Chamber on our Facebook and how many friends we have.  Frank travels all over the State of Washington doing seminars he is [...]