Congratulations to the finalists of the 2019 Nashville Emerging Leader Awards (NELA)! NELA, an initiative of the Nashville Chamber, recogni...
By: Dawn Cornelius
Summer is almost here! As the weather improves, getting out and about with some of our incredible members’ events is a great way to spend yo...
By: Carly Vaughn
Hytch Rewards and the Nashville Area Chamber have announced a collaborative effort aimed at expanding mobility and reducing traffic and carb...
By: Stephanie Coleman
Congratulations to our members and investors recognized in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index 2019! These ...
By: Carly Vaughn
Nashville was recently named by Thrillist at the number 4 best place to spend a weekend. Our region’s thriving hospitality sector, including...
By: Carly Vaughn
The Nashville Chamber is involved in so much around our community that you may not even realize. We are excited to announce a ne...
By: Carly Vaughn
Chamber member SmileDirectClub has announced their second expansion in Middle Tennessee. We are delighted to celebrate this milestone, and t...
By: Carly Vaughn
March is Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day is Friday, March 8 but we should be celebrating the women that move our city fo...
By: Carly Vaughn
When was the last time you thought about office furniture? If you are an employee who is dissatisfied with your current office furniture, ch...
By: Carly Vaughn
Do you approach networking the same way you approach making friends? If so, your networking efforts could be less effective. Making frien...
By: Carly Vaughn
It’s February and spring is fast-approaching. Even though it’s rainy and cold, there is plenty to enjoy indoors in Nashville. Here ...
By: Carly Vaughn
Joining a chamber of commerce is an investment in the community where you live and work. But research shows that joining the Chamber can als...
By: Carly Vaughn
Sometimes, recruiting on your own for open positions doesn’t work. There are many reasons your business could need the services of one of Na...
By: Carly Vaughn
Showing appreciation for your clients is an important part of customer service. How should you be thanking you clients, and when sh...
By: Carly Vaughn
Finding a place to live can be a stressful situation. If you’re not ready to buy a house, or just can’t afford one in Nashville’s hot real e...
By: Carly Vaughn
Downtown Nashville has experienced an incredible renaissance over the last 40 years. When the Opry left downtown in the 1970’s, Bro...
By: Carly Vaughn
The health problems facing Nashville are mirrored across the country. Chronic health conditions like obesity, diabetes, depression ...
By: Carly Vaughn
The good news is that your business has grown to the point you need help to meet the demand of your customers or clients. The bad news?...
By: Judy Bumgarner
Nashville is home to plenty of options when deciding where to go for a haircut, manicure or a little pampering. Here ...
By: Carly Vaughn
In 2017, streaming accounted for 38% of the $17.3 billion in revenue generated by the music industry, totaling $6.6 billion. Digital revenue...
By: Carly Vaughn
South Nashville and Antioch are two of the Nashville area’s fastest growing neighborhoods. As more people move to these areas, we wan...
By: Carly Vaughn
If there was one lesson to be learned from our 2018 Annual Celebration, it was that our business community is passionate about creating a fu...
By: Carly Vaughn
How much does the music industry contribute to the Nashville economy? The music industry has been in the news a lot lately with the passa...
By: Carly Vaughn
In a rare moment of bipartisanship, Congress recently passed the Music Modernization Act which reforms the way songwriters, artists and prod...
By: Carly Vaughn
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce has named seven outstanding members as recipients of their annual Regional Impact Awards. The Regi...
Nashville is Music City and there’s no escaping the power the music industry has had in shaping our region’s economy. At the Chamber, we ...
By: Carly Vaughn
Why are e-commerce brands opening physical locations? There has been an interesting trend among e-commerce brands the last couple of year...
By: Carly Vaughn
East Nashville is one of Nashville's fastest-growing neighborhoods.Here is a look at a fraction of our member businesses that are making Cha...
By: Carly Vaughn
Nashville is a home to some amazing restaurants - and some great restaurant patios. From pizza to burgers, sausage to oysters, you ca...
By: Carly Vaughn
Activity-based working could be the change your office needs.Office design is undergoing a radical transformation. Think about your current ...
By: Carly Vaughn
Our Chamber West networking events connect businesses in the Belle Meade and Green Hills areas. You can meet amazing professionals from the ...
By: Carly Vaughn
North Nashville covers a lot of area and includes many vibrant neighborhoods, communities and businesses. See some of the bright spots in ea...
By: Carly Vaughn
Women looking to re-enter the workforce after leaving their career can fill employment gaps in the Nashville region. Since 2000, women in...
By: Carly Vaughn
Spring in Nashville is a great time to visit unique shops and stores. Check out our Chamber member businesses below to help support the grow...
By: Carly Vaughn
The 2018 ScaleNashville cohort is officially underway. ScaleNashville is an intensive small business training program for entrepreneurs read...
By: Carly Vaughn
A happy family at PCAT's Pinweel Festival in April 2018 Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee, Chamber member and winner of Nashville Busi...
By: Carly Vaughn
Have you noticed the growing number of co-working and nontraditional office spaces in Nashville? All across our city, businesses dedicat...
By: Carly Vaughn
One of the benefits of being a Chamber member is exclusive online visibility to tens of thousands of visitors to nashvillechamber.com. Every...
By: Carly Vaughn
Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is a strategy to get more visitors to your business’ website. Simply put, SEO is the idea tha...
By: Carly Vaughn
ScaleNashville, our small business training program, has helped dozens of Nashville-area business owners take their success to the next le...
By: Carly Vaughn
Growing your business online can be challenging, but we just made it easy for you. With just a few clicks, you can join the Chamber and ...
By: Carly Vaughn
The Nashville area is often cited as one of the hottest business markets in the country, particularly for entrepreneurs. One way to find ...
By: Carly Vaughn
Networking is simple, not easy. Picture the last networking event you went to. It was probably a room full of professionals all looking ...
By: Carly Vaughn
In 2018, we are rolling out new membership levels. Though the features and benefits will largely remain the same, we have changed the na...
By: Carly Vaughn
We are excited to announce new ribbon cutting options for our members. Ribbon cutting ceremonies are a great way to increase the visibility...
By: Carly Vaughn
By: Andrew Fair, Nashville SC 2017 has been a great year for soccer in Nashville. Nissan Stadium hosted a game be...
By: Guest Author
Small Business Saturday is a day to celebrate and support the small businesses that make our community thrive. So this year, be sure to ...
By: Carly Vaughn
One of the benefits of Chamber membership is access to exclusive networking opportunities. We host and facilitate some of the best networkin...
By: Carly Vaughn
We want every business to be able to participate in the economic prosperity the Nashville area is currently experiencing. Nashville Area...
By: Carly Vaughn
Our mission at the Chamber is to facilitate community leadership to create economic prosperity for the entire region and everyone that c...
By: Carly Vaughn
The Nashville area is not the only metro dealing with the challenges of an aging workforce. Cities and communities across the count...
By: Carly Vaughn
There’s a common misconception that in-person networking has lost its effectiveness in the digital age. With mo...
By: Carly Vaughn
Nashville is a hotbed for entrepreneurs in almost every industry. If you’ve recently started your own business in the Nashville area, or are...
On July 17, more than 1,000 chamber leaders converged to Nashville’s Music City Center for the American Chamber of Commerce Executives’ (ACC...
Nashville was recently named one of 8 cities with booming entrepreneur communities, mostly due to our music scene and healthcare...
By: Carly Vaughn
Networking has become an inescapable buzzword in professional circles. Like many other buzzwords, networking has lost its meaning somewhat&n...
By: Carly Vaughn
The Nashville Chamber is wrapping up our fiscal year, and we are proud to announce a great week for membership! Over 30 businesses have beco...
As part of our commitment to helping small businesses grow and prosper, the Chamber is partnering with Fifth Third Bank and Music City Cente...
Guest post by Ashley Northington, DENOR Brands & Public Relations So, you’ve decided to make the full leap into entrepreneurship. ...
With Small Business Saturday just around the corner, we asked a few of our members about the best things about doing business in Middle Tenn...
Since the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center launched the Next Awards in 2010, Middle Tennessee has em...
Deciding which health insurance plan is right for your small business can be complicated and time-consuming. Earlier this month, the Nashvil...
A champion of the local entrepreneurial community and a familiar face at many of Nashville's most prominent business events, Kane Harrison i...
Recently, the Internal Revenue Service proposed new estate tax regulations that would make transferring interests in family-owned busines...
By: Marc Hill
The Next Awards is one of the largest events of the year for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center...
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, along with partners Nashville Entrepreneur Center, Pathway Women’s Business Center and Refinery ...
The Nashville region continues to rank near the top when it comes to business friendliness and startup growth. Our “it city” status is no...
The Chamber is excited to announce that 18 local small businesses have been tapped to participate in the second cohort of ScaleUp Nashvi...
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“Today’s health care decision-makers must be able to draw upon a diverse set of skills to effectively lead their organizations through the u...
A diverse cross-section of Nashville's most innovative companies and business leaders were honored Nov. 19 at the fifth annual NEXT Awar...
In September, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce was awarded a $218,000 contract through the Small Business Administration for the Scale...
Guest post by Mark Cleveland, NEXT Awards 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year I attended the 2013 NEXT Awards celebration as a guest of Lipscomb...
The Nashville Area Chamber and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center are proud to announce the finalists for the fifth annual NEXT Awards. The...
The Coalition for Fair Employment in Middle Tennessee, a group representing the employers of tens of thousands of workers in the building an...
Innovation drives our local economy and continues to grow our key industries. At the 2015 NEXT Awards, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerc...
“When we started this program, our mission was to create an environment where the top health care minds are able to come together and establ...
It’s a brand-new year for Nashville’s innovators and entrepreneurs to think up new ideas and take their companies to the next level, and...
By: Stephanie Coleman
Guest post by Corey Davis, director of business growth initiatives, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Small and midsized businesses a...
By: Stephanie Coleman