{"id":10669,"date":"2019-08-23T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2019-08-23T18:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:28:17","slug":"social-media-allows-los-fresnos-chamber-of-commerce-to-adopt-new-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10669","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Allows Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce to Adopt New Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The traditional function of a chamber of commerce has undergone radical changes and faced many new challenges with the advancement of technology.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce members had to say during a recent board meeting of the Community Development Corporation of Los Fresnos.<\/p>\n

Val Champion, the chamber president, and Manuel Abrego, a former city manager, told the board the LFCC is now using social media to help relay their message.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chamber was chartered in 1947,\u201d Abrego said. \u201cAnd for some time, it was a like a social club and a place to have lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n

That, however, started changing over the years since, and especially moreso with the recent advent of social media.<\/p>\n

Champion said the city of Los Fresnos has been growing by leaps and bounds.<\/p>\n

He said the town of some 1,500 people now has about 7,000 people and covers a market area of more than 30,000 people.<\/p>\n

Champion said the chamber has jumped on the social media bandwagon using Twitter and Facebook as tools to promote the city, its members and new business startups.<\/p>\n

He said thousands of emails are sent out each month reaching tens of thousands of people all over the area and the country for that matter.<\/p>\n

And the need for more exposure is there, particularly since one of the chamber\u2019s newest goals is to promote Los Fresnos as an eco-tourism\/birding destination.<\/p>\n

The chamber operates on an annual budget of $60,971.<\/p>\n

It gets $17,500 in membership dues and $34,200 from the city sales tax allocation and has been getting a $1,000 a month from CDC.<\/p>\n

But under a new proposal submitted to CDC, the chamber will now get $800 a month for its new budget. The decrease was requested because the chamber will move into the new city hall still under construction so its expenses will be less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN The traditional function of a chamber of commerce has undergone radical changes and faced many new challenges with the advancement of technology. That\u2019s what Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce members had to say during a recent board meeting of the Community Development Corporation of Los Fresnos. Val Champion, the chamber president, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10670,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/10670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}