With marketing budgets on a shoestring these days, business leaders are hitting the streets with their business cards in hand, using old-fashioned social skills to attract customers.
Even when economics aren’t a factor, networking is a an important way to market yourself and your business, make new contacts, and interact beyond the typical business talk. Today’s [...]
Recent news reports have expressed concerns about the US Chamber of Commerce’s legislative agenda, and those concerns have been demonstrated locally. As we enter the planning process for our next legislative session in Hartford, it is critically important for the eastern Connecticut business community to recognize that we are promoting no agenda other than the [...]
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut was fortunate to have Connecticut Light & Power President and COO, Jeff Butler, as a guest speaker at our breakfast this morning. Mr. Butler spoke to business leaders about the industry and some of the challenges that we are facing, as well as hopes for the future.
Butler spoke [...]
When a country loses its civility, it is in danger of losing a lot more.
Throughout our nation, we’ve seen an appalling lack of civility these last few months surrounding the health care debate, from everyday folks to elected officials. Our own region, unfortunately, was not exempt from this behavior.
At a recent town hall debate with [...]
Most people think of organ donation in technical terms: The process of transferring healthy organs from one person to another. What many don’t know is that as many as 100,000 people* are on a transplant list, waiting for the organ that will give them another chance at life.
Tom Kasprzak of Chelsea Groton Bank and his [...]