← The course
Chamber members at a CloudWise session in the Eastman Credit Union Boardroom at The Chamber, Johnson City

For chambers of commerce

Nobody has solved marketing for small business.Your chamber can.

A complete marketing system for the AI economy, proven inside real companies and now taught as a university course. Your chamber puts it in your members' hands.

  • Your members run it themselves. No agency, no retainer.
  • Proven before it was taught. Real companies, open records.
  • Main street grows, not just one business.
Talk to us about your chamber See what members get

It already works. Here's the record.

Three years of live research with real companies. Two opened their books so your members can see everything.

The full revenue record

Thirty-one months reveal the shape of the journey.

$60K$45K$30K$15K Jan 2024Mar 2025Apr 2026 July 2026: $51,410.57
Monthly Gross Revenue, January 2024 through July 2026.

What it did for local business

Lew Kizer of Smash Meals

Lew Kizer · Smash Meals

"It is 100% responsible for our 49% growth this year."

49% growth · no ad spend

Laura Beth Jenks of ProCompounding

Laura Beth Jenks · ProCompounding

"We increased revenue by $3 million, and built the capacity to grow ten times beyond that."

$3M revenue · built in house

Now picture twenty of your members on that path. That's economic development you can point to.

Your members already bring you these questions.
Now you have the answers.

Not advice, and not a referral to somebody who will bill them for it. A working marketing system they run themselves, that came to them through you.

What your members are living with
What you can hand them

Why can't a business fix this themselves?

Feels like there are too many marketing decisions and investments.

Invest in the right step at the right time.

Why is this the chamber's job?

Companies expect chambers to have the answers and support.

Now chambers have everything they need to be the hub of growth.

What about AI changing everything?

Every channel keeps moving, and AI changed all of it again.

A playbook built over three years through the AI boom, and kept current.

Who has time to learn marketing?

Learning it properly is a second full-time job nobody has.

Members do the actual marketing on their own business while they learn it.

Won't they quit halfway through?

Courses get started in week one and abandoned by week three.

A coach walks every company from step one to the end, in six weeks.

Can't they just buy this somewhere?

There is nothing on the market that turns an owner into their own marketer.

This version reaches businesses only through their chamber.

Not a course. A working system your members keep.

Other programs hand your members a binder. This one hands them the tools, running, with their own business inside.

MarketPower™ Training

Businesses and students apply the MarketPower™ strategy together, turning each lesson into practical work that produces measurable growth for the company.

MarketPower course materials

Train your members' workforce, and give them proof they can show.

Every member who finishes earns ten verified skill badges and the MarketPower™ certificate. Not attendance. Each badge is released by work they actually produced on their own business.

A CloudWise session underway in the chamber boardroom

The certificate

MarketPower™

Ten verified badges, earned on their own business. Members can share the certificate, and each badge, wherever they want it seen.

1 Customer Persona & Journey Mapping Personas built on evidence, mapped from first exposure to decision.
2 Local Search Optimization Listings, reviews, categories, and the actions customers actually take.
3 Social Media Brand Management One consistent brand across every platform their customers use.
4 Website Content Evaluation Every core page scored against the customer it is meant to serve.
5 Landing Page Auditing Headline, proof, structure, and call to action, audited against intent.
6 Conversion-Focused Optimization Page structure and messaging that turn visits into customer actions.
7 Technical SEO & Search Visibility The invisible layer that decides what a customer sees in search.
8 Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy Search, social, and owned channels, each playing its distinct role.
9 Digital Marketing Audit & Reporting Structured audits, and findings written so somebody can act on them.
10 Data-Driven Marketing Decisions Choices grounded in real evidence, from research to page performance.

Your members can put a trained marketing intern to work.

East Tennessee State built three AI marketing courses, a dual-enrollment course, and a Student AI Marketing Agency around this system. The interns come out of it already knowing the work your members are doing.

  • They already know the system. Interns are trained on the same MarketPower™ work your members are running, so there is no ramp up.
  • Paid to learn, so the work is real. Placements produce actual marketing for the business, not shadowing.
  • The pipeline is regional. Interns have supported FoundersForge and community partners across Northeast Tennessee.
Meet the interns

We don't say members will build websites. Here are the websites.

Real sites built by real people coming through our training programs. Every one of them is live right now. Click and see.

Jeremiah School websiteJeremiah SchoolVisit live site Shane O'Hare Realtor websiteShane O'Hare RealtorVisit live site Greeneville Music Academy websiteGreeneville Music AcademyVisit live site Create Appalachia websiteCreate AppalachiaVisit live site

Websites, social profiles, search visibility, dashboards: your members build the whole system, and it's all demonstrable, not promised.

Human-led. Community-powered.

The platform does the teaching. People do the encouraging. That combination is why members finish.

1

Launch with your chamber

We shape the cohort around your community and train your facilitator at no cost.

2

Members meet, together

Regular human-led sessions where members work through the course side by side.

3

The work happens live

Between sessions, members do real marketing in the hub with Erwin beside them.

4

Celebrate the results

Badges, certificates, and real business wins your chamber gets to showcase.

What people say after the doing.

From the chamber classes. Unscripted, in their own words.

"Jaw-dropping. Turned video into 5 vlogs, 6 pages, 12 clips, 3 minutes. Zero extra grind. Marketing shifted overnight."

Thomasena · Local Marketing Pro

"AI marketing for my site? Game-changer. Built campaigns that hit Appalachia vibes perfectly. Clients love the edge."

Crystal · Business Owner

"Campaign output tripled. What took a week now takes a day. This beats any marketing course I've taken."

Marcus · Marketing Manager

"You know what, I got this."
A business owner in the record. The sentence every chamber wants to hear from every member.

Bring MarketPower to your members.

Tell us about your chamber and your community. We'll shape the program around them and walk you through the member experience end to end.

Talk to us about your chamber

Annual programs shaped around your membership. No per-member fees.