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For almost two months, the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce (Chamber), led by President & CEO Jerry Libbin and Chair of the Board Robin Jacobs, has been a resource for businesses and residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, the Chamber launched:
- A Business Re-Opening Resource Guide that has real-time information regarding guidelines and updates provided by the City of Miami Beach regarding re-opening, as well as information and recommendations from the private sector that lives on miamibeachchamber.com.
- A Business Re-Opening Survey that the Chamber issued to the community and will share the results with the City for re-opening strategies. Miami Beach Board Chair Robin Jacobs along with Chamber Board Member Lyle Stern and Business Leader Emilio Estefan have agreed to organize and lead advisory panels in retail & general business, hotel & lodging, restaurant & bars, and arts & culture. The results of the survey will be critical as the City adopts best practices that will allow the community to safely open again.
- A Dial Direct Campaign in partnership with the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau and Atlantic Broadband. In an effort to further support local restaurants amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a local TV campaign, being shown on Atlantic Broadband platforms, promoting the Miami Eats program, which was designed to get the customers to dial directly to their favorite restaurants is currently running. The purpose is to help the restaurants retain the fee that would otherwise be paid to delivery service companies. Miami Eats was developed to help restaurants and their employees by showcasing those offering takeout and delivery during the pandemic while their dining rooms are closed.
- A series of Virtual Facebook Town Halls organized by WeStream. In the past three weeks, the Chamber has hosted four Facebook Town Halls with City of Miami of Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, City Manager Jimmy Morales, Florida State Representative Michael Grieco and, Miami Beach Commissioner’s David Richardson, Mark Samuelian, Michael Gongora, Micky Steinberg, Ricky Arriola and Steven Meiner. We discussed food distribution centers that Richardson organized, unemployment, testing, resolutions passed by Commission, emergency orders impacting our community and draft plans for phased re-opening, among other items.
- Dozens of Virtual Meetings, Seminars and Events on a variety of timely topics. The Chamber has hosted a variety of virtual events that range in topics from Real Estate, Construction, Law, Technology, Tourism, Social Media and Health. They have hosted professionals and educators from leading organizations like Baptist South Florida, Florida International University and the Small Business Association. They have created a What’s Cookin’ With the Chamber highlighting chefs from the Betsy, Poseidon and Naked Taco.
“The Chamber under Jerry’s leadership has been invaluable and a day-to-day resource for the community,” said Jacobs. “Our website has seven Covid-19 sections with information regarding unemployment, business relief guides and includes the newly launched survey and business re-opening guidelines. We have had over 600 people fill out our survey, which we are evaluating and has proved to be a useful tool.”
Additionally, the Chamber has continually been updating previously created sections of the website, which include:
- A City of Miami Beach Update Page – The Chamber has been working closely with the City of Miami Beach’s communications department to post the latest information from the City on our website.
- A Business Relief Guide- This page is a general resource guide filled with useful information on small business loans, government programs and grants that may be applicable for businesses. The Chamber has provided information about free advertising from the Beach Channel, Miami Beach Life Magazine and Curbside Miami to useful information for hospitality industry workers, to name a few.
- Business Directory- The Chamber created a special Covid-19 directory to list offerings and services from businesses that the community may need during the pandemic. Currently, the Chamber has offerings from AT&T, Trembly Law, PDS Business Management, Dream Cleaning, ServPro, SOBE Dentist, Bolt Mobility, Atlantic Broadband, Comcast Business, Spikefish Solutions,NS8, Vision Films, Baptist Health and Uptime Technologies.
- Unemployment Guide– The Chamber realizes that this may be a stressful time for many who are unemployed and created a special page that includes information on how to sign up for unemployment, funds/grants that are available and links for job postings in the Miami and Miami Beach.
- Speaker’s Bureau– This page is to feature professionals who can provide speaking opportunities to the community. Especially during this time, many professionals are offering virtual workshops and lectures on a variety of subjects. The Bureau enables speakers to showcase their skills while providing members with easy accessibility. Members will be able to click on a particular industry and view the biographies of the professionals willing to speak on matters pertaining to that industry and then immediately connect with them.
If you would like more information on the Chamber and how we can help local businesses, please e-mail us at info@miamibeachchamber.com.
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