Because FreeEnterprise.com is focused on highlighting the men and women behind American businesses, we decided we wanted to create a way to spotlight the resources across the country that are having an outsized impact on the local and national job markets.

 

Even though there are many sources for jobs data, there aren’t any that specifically address what actual industries are doing to boost the economy. Through the creation of the #SHOWMETHECHAMBER Campaign, FreeEnterprise.com, has placed the control back in the hands of aspiring business owners! On October 17th, we invited some of the brightest minds in technology and data science to ‘hack’ this problem and create an altogether new way to measure the effect that this data is having across the U.S.

 

The average business owner is terrified to reach out to their local Chamber of Commerce. The goal was to identify current data and find meaningful insights, which would help small business owners and even individuals seeking to relocate to a locale more friendly to his/her industry of interest. Using current communication tools like Twitter to interact with the US Chamber of Commerce and its 300,000 affliates, the result is more data-driven decision making and a refreshed awareness of these resources.