Educate | Collaborate | Connect

The Thumb Area Business & Community Leaders Forum is a continuous exploration process to discover common challenges and develop innovative solutions. Please join us, as we begin to develop a collaborative strategy around marketing the Thumb Region to attract and retain a productive workforce.

What we will cover:

• Brief recap of the previous forum
• Where are we now?
• Current efforts to promote tourism
• Current efforts to promote job openings/long-term hiring needs
• Current youth outreach initiatives
• Learning Moment: principle of add, subtract, multiply, or divide
• Where do we want to go?
• What attracted you to the area and/or what keeps you here?
• How do we align with or tie into ongoing projects such as Rollcall?
• What/how can we add or multiply?
• How do we promote the previously addressed areas of concern (affordable/available daycare, affordable/available housing)?
• Next Steps
• Who, what, when, where
• Short Take: Timely Tips for Marketing & Promotion

Join us for The Thumb Area Business & Community Leaders Forum Educate | Collaborate | Connect Marketing & Promotion Day on Tuesday, April 9th, from 1 – 3:30 pm at the GST Michigan Works! Marlette Administrative Office.

Registration is required for this event so please be sure to register here.

If you have any additional questions please contact Eldon Preston at (810) 648-5800 ext. 516 or epreston@gstmiworks.org