Member Services adds value to ribbon cuttings and ground breakings in 2023

It’s a Chamber of Commerce tradition to bring a giant pair of scissors to cut the ribbon on your new business or bring our golden shovel to break ground on a new building. In fact, ribbon cuttings are a great tool for business to celebrate a range of big milestones. Some of these include:

• Opening a new brand, location, or franchise
• A business anniversary
• Mergers and acquisitions/partnerships
• Your one millionth (or one thousandth, 500^th) customer
• Moving into or remodeling a new building
• Reopening a business under new management
• Reopening after a devastating event (like a fire)
• Any change your business wants to introduce to the community.

Our role as the Chamber & EDC is to rally our Ambassadors to help celebrate your big event. The scissors and the shovel make for a great picture, which we’ll post on social media. We’ll even help you promote the event with a sample press release and local media list. In 2023, our ribbon cutting service starts at the Business Advocate level of membership with an annual investment of $1,500. To maximize the publicity that comes with these events and to help position your brand as a market leader, we require 30 days’ notice to adequately prepare for your event in those 30 days, we will provide a ribbon cutting kit that includes the following deliverables:

• Tailor the ribbon cutting/tying event to meet your business needs, engaging a member of our leadership team to connect and engage your audience.
• Work with you to plan your event, including a sample media alert with media list and assistance with your invitation list.
• Provide advice (if needed) on the remarks you might give during the event and document an agenda and outline of talking points for your review and our team’s reference.
• Market your event on the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC website to create visibility on your brand.
• Highlight your grand opening in our “News You Can Use,” newsletter circulated to our over 1,200 members that represent a ready and engaged market of 93,000 employees.
• Send invitations to public officials and Chamber & EDC Ambassadors, in addition to any targeted industries that would be interested in your news.
• Post-event social media marketing.

To apply for a ribbon cutting, after you have secured and paid your Business Advocate membership, reach out to Jayne Mhono, our Member Engagement Manager, to schedule your ribbon cutting or groundbreaking event.