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Parish should lead way on unified chamber
Published Thursday, November 12, 2009
Imagine for a moment, three people each trying separately to push their stalled cars.
Separately, each person faces a significant task and they quickly learn one of Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion: An object at rest tends to stay at rest.
But by working together, the combined force makes the vehicle move much more easily.
More hands, backs and legs make the work easier.
Similarly, in a community such as ours, when we work independently, we make our tasks much more difficult.
The Vidalia and Ferriday chambers of commerce are currently considering whether or not they should combine forces. They’re currently surveying their memberships.
The logic is, just like our stalled car example, the chambers almost certainly duplicate functions and by working together, their combined membership becomes a stronger voice for business.
Perhaps in no other community in a 100-mile radius should the concept of regionalism take hold than in the Miss-Lou. The Vidalia and Ferriday chambers have the right idea, but their reach isn’t wide enough. The Natchez-Adams Chamber should consider joining forces with them, too.
If a chamber’s ultimate role in the community is to be the voice of business, the business community should realize that despite the political boundaries, we all speak the same language — commerce.
Few, if any, of our local businesses could survive without customers, employees and business partners that come from different parts of the Miss-Lou.
What’s good for Ferriday is good for Natchez and what’s good for Natchez is good for Vidalia and every other combination possible.
One common chamber of commerce is what’s in the best interest of our business community.
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Posted by FadedGlory (anonymous) on November 12, 2009 at 12:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If the businesses of this region could join forces and pool resources they could make the politicians get off of their collective rear ends and do something positive for the entire area. With all of the businesses under the same umbrella, standing united, they could make a difference in what the politicians do.
Including making our schools more appealing!
I am a member of both Vidalia's and Ferriday's Chamber, I own no businesses, nor do I work for anyone. I am retired. I am a consumer however and as such I can recognize the strength and power the private sector can wield if they could just join together.
We the consumers can help by backing our business owners. Even if you don't join a Chamber in your area, you are still welcome to come to the regular meetings. Go and see what they do. Check out how they operate in our community. Just call your local Chamber of Commerce and they will be more than happy to tell the time and place of the next meeting.
Together we can bring more businesses into the area! That would mean more jobs. Which would mean people would have money to spend locally and improve the tax base. Which in turn helps the consumer by keeping prices lower and property taxes lower too since they won't have to be raised to offset the deficit that loss of population and businesses cause.
By joining forces the region would have more money to reach out there and advertise and promote the area. This can be done by ads on TV, in magazines, and internet.
For now if we can just get Vidalia and Ferriday to join together, then when others see the results they will want to join too.
If places in North and South Carolina can do it, we can too!
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