Creating Opportunities for Business and Member Prosperity
A commitment to help foster economic prosperity for each Chamber member means creating business opportunities to conduct business in a faster, easier and more lucrative manner.

Support for Large and Small Businesses
Small businesses remain the backbone of the U.S. economy and create the majority of jobs. Their entrepreneurial spirit launched the ideas and technologies that will power the future. In Everett, 95 percent of the city’s 8,500 registered businesses have 50 or fewer employees.

For small businesses, time truly is money. Through the Chamber, members gain access to a number of critical business services, including group health care plans, small business and entrepreneurial training, and counseling. Chamber involvement provides opportunities for leadership skills development and coaching.

Large businesses look to the Chamber to provide peer business collaboration, information exchange, and opportunities to support economic development efforts for our region. Everett Area Chamber members include some of the nation’s most vibrant large companies, many with global presence. Everett and its adjacent technology communities are home to a wide range of companies that are leaders in their fields – aerospace, electronics, telecommunications, life sciences, services delivery and more.

Access to Customer Relationships and Member to Member (M2M) Commerce
M2M commerce encourages Chamber members to interact with one another for shared business benefit. Membership in the Everett Area Chamber provides access to 60,000 prospective customers and clients, members and their employees. In addition, Chamber members receive member-only discounts from fellow member businesses on a wide range of goods and services through our Chamber Advantage Program.

Chamber Events
All Chamber events strive to provide not only a place for critical networking, but timely information on important topics and education on the ‘how-to’s’ of business improvements. Some Chamber events include:

• Fun and effective networking events
• “Good Morning, Everett!”, a monthly networking breakfast
• “Good Morning, Snohomish County!”, a semi-annual county-wide networking breakfast
• Business After Hours, a monthly networking event for Chamber members hosted at a local business
• Meet Your Chamber and New Member Coffees, held quarterly
• Snohomish County Young Professionals Network mixers and speaking events
•  Empower YOUniversity seminars, designed to brief Chamber members on a spectrum of topics of immediate use.
•  Resource-rich, high-visibility annual events, including:
  • Chambers’ Night of Stars Annual Dinner and Awards of Excellence
  • Everett Area Community Expo
  • Chamber Golf Tournament
  • Economic Forecast Luncheon
  • State of the City Breakfast
  • State of the County Luncheon
  • State of the Station at Naval Station Everett luncheon
  • Legislative Agenda Reception
  • Legislative Recognition Breakfast
  • Chamber Day in Olympia

Other valued assets provided by the Chamber include:

• Monthly e-newsletters
• Chamber Advantage Discount Program
• Expert business counseling