In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Becky Bartoszek, President and CEO of the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce in Wisconsin, shares the story of how a childhood spent watching her parents run hotels and convention centers turned into a career that brought her full circle to lead the largest chamber in her state, a 150-year-old organization she helped transform from 850 members to more than 2,000 in a remarkably short time. The centerpiece of that transformation was Connect Free, a first-of-its-kind permanent free membership model for small businesses with five or fewer employees, freestanding restaurants, and small nonprofits, an idea the board approved despite projections of significant revenue loss and that ended up growing revenues, not shrinking them, while earning the chamber National Chamber of the Year and Wisconsin Innovation of the ...