San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Repositioning and Website Redesign

The Challenge

After a newly established San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce leadership team completed its strategic planning process, they approached Nuffer, Smith, Tucker to help message and roll out the new organizational trajectory. NST crafted a thoughtful, data-driven plan to reach key stakeholders and completed a redesign of the chamber’s website.

The Tactics

NST spearheaded a research project with current, past and non-members to determine how they saw the chamber adding value to their business and to test preliminary key messages. Research showed members and non-members wanted the chamber to help make San Diego a more business-friendly environment.

Working closely with chamber staff, NST took the organization through the proprietary Compass planning process and developed a new positioning platform, key messages, logo and collateral package, and helped the organization implement the new graphic standards and messaging.

NST also redesigned the organization’s website to include updated visual branding and provide an easy-to-navigate site that could be easily updated by chamber staff to provide timely and accurate information. NST was able to integrate a number of features to allow staff to update and control the site in real time, including full backend access via Wordpress, a customizable events calendar and iFrame integrations of common Salesforce data to ensure the website had the most current information possible.

To reveal the "new" chamber to the San Diego community, a large, free event was held. Nearly 1,200 attendees registered for the event, which celebrated the chamber’s new direction, look and current members. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer was on hand to support the chamber team in their efforts.