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Guides, product updates, and best practices for managing sponsorships and events.
Most chambers still manage sponsorships with spreadsheets, email threads, and institutional memory. As you plan 2027, here is what modern chamber sponsorship management looks like, the problems that quietly kill sponsorship revenue, and how to build a system that sells while you sleep.
Sharing the director's password works until it doesn't. Here's how to give each person on your team their own Chamberly login, what managers and staff can each do, and the handful of habits that keep access tidy.
"Last year plus ten percent" is a wish, not a goal. Here's a bottom-up way to build next year's sponsorship number from renewals, open inventory, and new offers, so every dollar in the budget has a source you can point to.
The first thing a sponsor wants to know is how many people will see their name. Most chamber event pages never say. Here's how to estimate attendance honestly, where to show it, and how it changes the pricing conversation.
The slowest part of switching systems used to be rebuilding your export to match someone else's template. Here's how to move a member list or sponsorship list into Chamberly as it is, what to check in the preview, and when to send invites.
September so far has been about getting in the door: invite links that keep working, password help without a support ticket, a much faster members list, email open and click tracking, custom storefront domains, and finer control over monthly sponsorships.
Event sponsorships come in waves. Monthly sponsorships smooth out your revenue, give smaller businesses a way in, and keep sponsors visible all year. Here's how to design, price, and run them.
Your sponsorship emails are competing with every vendor pitch in your members' inboxes. Here's how to write subject lines that earn the open, send at sensible times, and use open and click data to get better with each send.
There's never a perfect time to change systems, and waiting for January usually means another season of spreadsheets. Here's a practical plan for moving your sponsorship program mid-year while keeping every commitment intact.
Boards don't approve software. They approve outcomes. Here's how to build a single, honest ROI slide for sponsorship software, with a worked example you can adapt using your own numbers.
August was about the back office: QuickBooks Online sync, order alerts that reach the right person, sign-in links that survive corporate spam filters, and sponsorships that expire on their own.
A week-by-week plan for launching Chamberly at your chamber: importing members, setting up events and first rights, testing with View As, inviting members, and opening your storefront with confidence.
