• Marketing 
• Chair: Don Idler, Idler’s Appliance
• Co Chair: Steve Martin, Atascadero Main Street
  
  Promotes local business through education and coordinating events to foster a healthy business environment.

• Produce and promote the educational event, "It's Not the Big that Eat the Small, but the Fast that Eat the Slow", with author Laurence Haughton. 
• Continue the business Visitation program to assist in business growth through providing important business connections through communication. 
• Identify prospects from countywide businesses to expand into the Atascadero market. 
• Advance the promotion of our citywide sales events, spring into Atascadero and Holiday Magic. 
• Continue statewide distribution of brochures promoting Atascadero and surrounding areas. 
• Promote Shopping Locally with the Member to Member Discount Program.  

Businesses Get Top Notch Education Provided by the Chamber

• Promoted two citywide sales events, creating public interest to shop locally,
• Spring into Atascadero and Holiday Magic.
• Published the Member to Member Discount in the monthly newsletter and posted it on the website.
• Held three educational events for businesses, “Marketing Your Business in Tough Times, Advertising 101 and the Mid Year Economic Forecast with Bill Watkins, UCSB Economic Forecast Project.