The Small Business Calgary Awards have been helping businesses grow and succeed in for over 30 years. And being a winner is pretty great for business. Just ask Tony Spoletini, co-founder of Spolumbo's. 

Watch this video to find out how winning Small Business of the Year helped Spolumbo's become a community pillar.

So if your business is looking for a couple of rocket boosters to send it to the next level, you can apply for:

• BDC Emerging Growth Award
• Breakout Business Award
• Innovation Award
• BDC Indigenous Entrepreneurship Award
• Customer Service Award
• Community Impact Award
• Environmental Stewardship Award
• People's Choice (NEW for 2016!)

Apply for your Small Business Calgary Award today!

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The Chamber is a proud supporter of Sport Calgary, and on Thursday, October 13th, they are hosting the Celebration of Sport (formerly Mayor's Sport Breakfast). This event is a chance to recognize the people and businesses that make Calgary such an incredible sport city. The best part is that 100% of proceeds from the Celebration of Sport go to support amateur sports in the city, and programs that encourage sport participation.

Early bird tickets are currently available and with the purchase of two tickets, you are automatically entered into a draw for two tickets to anywhere in Canada that Air Canada flies.

Learn more about this great event supporting sport in Calgary.

Thursday, August 4, 2016
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wild Rose Brewery
2, 4580 Quesnay Wood Drive SW

Please note that Business After Hours are members-only events. If you are not a Calgary Chamber member, please contact us at membership@calgarychamber.com.

For the final Business After Hours of the summer, we're heading to Wild Rose Brewery for an after-work beverage (or two) and a whole lot of networking.

Here you will have a chance to connect with some of Calgary's top business professionals as you take in an exclusive Brewery Tour and taste their Core 6 Brands. You will also learn all about their AF 23 Innovation Center, where Wild Rose's mad scientist brewers create all their innovative small-batch brews and produce their cask program.

Join us for a chance to get the inside scoop on one of Calgary's beloved craft breweries.

To help grow the next generation of leaders and celebrate our 125th anniversary, your Calgary Chamber is proud to announce the release of Dear Calgary: Letters to the Next Generation of Leaders.

This book is filled with amazing insight on hard work, innovation, treating people well, handling adversity, failure and success, being humble, collaborating and getting stuff done.

Inside its hallowed pages you'll find letters from leaders like:

• Gianna Manes, President and CEO of ENMAX Corporation
• Michael Noble, Owner and Chef of NOtaBLE Restaurant
• Judy Fairburn, Executive Vice-President, Business Innovation at Cenovus Energy
• Jim Dinning, Former Provincial Treasurer and Member of the Legislative Assembly in Alberta

Find out where you can pick up a copy yourself or for an aspiring leader in your life.

• Everyone suffers from imposter syndrome: Here's how to handle it
• Why it may soon be easier to do business in other provinces
• Collaborative overload: So busy at work, no time to do the job (WSJ Subscriber content)
• Calgary Stampede looks at becoming a year-round conference destination to create economic growth
• The Government of Canada wants your innovation ideas

Livestreaming is causing a revolution in the digital space and many of the major social media platforms are finding ways to incorporate it into their user experience. When it comes to your business, livestreaming video allows you to cultivate relationships with your followers. People buy from people they know, like and trust and social media lets you do that at a massive scale and with blinding speed.

You'll need to take a systematic approach to ensure you're well-suited to embrace livestreaming as a part of your content marketing strategy.

Here are five steps to integrate it into your future marketing plans.

Since 1938, Chevron Canada Resources has been exploring for, developing, producing and marketing crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids.

Headquartered in Calgary, Chevron Canada Resources has interests in oil sands projects and shale gas acreage in Alberta; exploration, development and production projects offshore Newfoundland and Labrador; a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project and shale acreage in British Columbia; and exploration and discovered resource interests in the Beaufort Sea region of the Northwest Territories.

Learn more at Chevron.ca.

When you're running a business, it's the cost of the little things that really starts to add up, especially when it comes to office essentials. 

As a Calgary Chamber member, you can save up to 85% on over 7,500 quality office products from Grand & Toy. 

Learn how you can take advantage of this exclusive member benefit program.

These Prestige members have shown a substantial and unwavering commitment to supporting the work of the Calgary Chamber. We thank our Prestige members: Suncor, TELUS, CNOOC Nexen, AltaLink, BDC, ATB Financial, Brookfield Residential, Shaw and University of Calgary, for helping to make Calgary a better place to live and work for all.