A column in today's Northwest Herald about the Wonder Lake Chamber of Commerce includes the membership fee schedule for that Chamber. It looks like they have adopted a reasonable fee structure, especially for the home-based membership.
Chamber membership dues have long been a bone for me to pick. It started with my own membership in a Colorado city's chamber of commerce that set a $200 fee for a one-person business that was a sole proprietorship. Since then (25 years ago) I have seldom seen a chamber with a fee schedule that truly accommodated the small business.
The dues in Wonder Lake for a home-based business are $95.00! Congratulations to Wonder Lake. Every business in town can be a member for $8.00/month. That's less than $2.00/week, or $0.40/day. A nickel an hour. Any business can afford that!
The chamber's executive director is Donna Sullivan, and she can be contacted at chamber@wonderlake.org
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