Small Business Blog

The Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting to celebrate many exciting changes happening at T&S Marketing. T&S Marketing now has a new name, a new office and they just celebrated 20 years of business. T&S has grown and evolved immensely over the last 20 years. They have made small branding changes […]

The Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the promotion of Kristen King to Director of Operations. In addition to King’s current responsibilities, she recently completed her second year at Institute for Organization Management, a four-year nonprofit leadership training program at the University of Georgia in Athens. Institute for Organization Management is the […]

Class XXXVIII of Leadership Edmond has been selected by the Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce. There are 45 members in this year’s class, presented by Edmond Electric. Leadership Edmond is a 10-session program, coordinated by the Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce to identify, educate and develop a select group of Edmond citizens for positions of […]

By: Ryan Chapman, Capstone Companies Edmond’s July 4th Festival is a non-profit 501(c)3 operation made up of individual volunteers from the Edmond area. LibertyFest has been going since 1972 when it was formed over a cup of coffee at a local business. Its purpose is to produce a series of family-oriented events around the 4th of […]

Written by: Kristen King with the Edmond Chamber of Commerce According to the Department of Labor, there has been a 70% increase in new participants entering apprenticeship programs. In the last 5 years alone, over 14,500 new apprenticeship programs have been introduced. An apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of a specific […]

Written by: Thomas Crawford with Crawford Security Consulting According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, “an active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area” necessitating “a coordinated response by law enforcement and others to save lives” (Active Shooter Safety Resources — FBI). Undoubtedly, the FBI […]