MainStreetChamber News
Engaging Small Business for Growth and Profitability
Dear Subscriber,

We are a rapidly expanding National Membership Organization dedicated to helping you and your small business grow and become more profitable.
As the preferred small-business networking organization, we focus on small-business professionals, create fresh opportunities to connect with other entrepreneurs, and make important business contacts at local, state, and national levels.  

Your vision as a small business entrepreneur is to grow and prosper.

MainStreetChamber™ is the premier resource for stimulating that growth and profitability by providing the platforms, the connections, and the opportunities you need to help you realize your vision.

Thank you for your trust and loyalty. We look forward to supporting you and your business for many years to come.

Committed to Your Success,

The Corporate Leadership Team

ChamberBarter Xchange
Every Small Business Needs It!
"The real measure of a man's worth is how much money he would be worth if he lost all his money." ~ Harold J. Smith 

We believe that virtually every business regularly pays cash for something that could be bought on trade, which can then be resold for cash.

Imagine a marketplace where cash and credit are not accepted. How would it be possible to purchase goods and services you desired?

Welcome to ChamberBarter Xchange, a marketplace where droves of small business owners are able to increase their purchasing power by participating in reciprocation. CBX has teamed up with ITEX, a National Partner in barter, with over 24,000 members, to bring you the ability to convert your goods and services to other members and in return get the goods and services you desire from other members. In this barter program, we call the conversion ITEX dollars.


We at MainStreetChamber are excited to have the opportunity to provide to you, our respected MSC member, a FREE ChamberBarter Xchange membership, valued by ITEX at $1100. We understand that this concept may be new to our members, so to help you get started, qualified businesses will receive a $1000 Credit Line with No Credit Check.

This incredible service is available to you at a discounted price of only $1 per day, which in one month equivocates to $20 in cash and $10 in ITEX, and this cost will not even begin until the end of your second month experience. If for some reason you do not want to continue, then cancel at anytime with no strings attached. 

Business owners choose barter in order to gain specific benefits:

  • Growth & Profitability
  • New sales and customers
  • Increased buying power 
  • Conservation of cash flow 
  • Alternative financing
  • Enhanced quality of life
  • Lowest cost in the industry 

You’ll have the resources you need to build your bottom line with access to thousands of new customers, stronger cash flow, increased buying power, greater sales volume and access to new markets for sale of your product or service.

Tens of thousands of business owners and professionals already trade in our global trade network. Earn ITEX Dollars from these new customers and you will put your new purchasing power to work running your business, expanding your operations, or enhancing your personal standard of living without spending cash.

We Need Your Content

MainStreetChamber will be profiling 3-4 member businesses per week. As a member, we ask that you provide us content, pictures, link to your website and any promotions or special discounts offered to our members.


Our editor will review your information and send you a proof before we publish the newsletter. We appreciate your help on this and look forward to creating an environment of members doing business with members.

Please send content to newsletter@mainstreetchamber.org.

Meet Our State Director- Minnesota
Mike Clough

Currently, Mike Clough is a business consultant for SCORE, mentoring business men and women who want to start and grow small businesses. As a serial entrepreneur, he has founded dozens of companies in various fields: Regal Distributors – wholesale distribution of music media (records & tapes); Fisherman’s International Supply House (FISH) – a mail order catalog business specializing in “do-it-yourself” lures and baits; Alternatives In Motivation (AIM) – motivational rallies and sales training; Creative Ideas – retail sales of motivational tapes and materials; Quantum Communications Group – retail cellular service (where he launched, incubated and sold dozens of rural cellular companies nationwide for its clients); Alliance Solutions – wholesale internet access, hosting and VoIP services through branded resellers; just to name a few.

In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures Mike has also held executive positions in several Fortune 500 companies such as Pitney Bowes, McCaw Cellular (now AT&T) – once the largest cellular company in America, Western Wireless (now Verizon) from which T-Mobile (formally VoiceStream) was founded, and was a member of the initial advisory board for the Cellular One Group.

  Our Chapter President-South San Diego County
Scott Gayes

Scott Gayes recently relocated to San Diego after establishing a career in the Chicago area. Since graduating college, Scott worked for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. He worked his way up the corporate ladder from an entry level position to managing several Enterprise locations. With Enterprise, he produced both high levels of profit and fleet growth in a down market, as well as maintaining one of the highest scores amongst other branches in a Customer Service Index. With his move to San Diego, Scott has contracted with a start-up green energy solutions company, Pure Current, LLC, as a District Sales Manager. He plans to bring his dedication to customer satisfaction, motivation, and energy to both his new career in the green sector, as well as to his work with MainStreetChamber.

“I am especially excited about my work with MainStreetChamber, I see it as a way to get involved and help the small business owners in the San Diego area. I have always seen value in dealing with business owners on a local level, and look forward to bringing that passion with me to MainStreetChamber- South San Diego County.”