Kyle's marketing intuition and sales skill can go to work for your membership organization

Kyle Sexton is the founder of Fast Chamber, a business development firm specializing in membership organizations, co-founder of ChamberThink Strategies, a tiered membership dues consultancy, and director of member services for the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce. In 2008, he created what is now ChamberPeople.com, the largest online social network dedicated to chambers of commerce. He is the 2007 Chamber Staff Person of the Year for the Western Association of Chamber Executives, and creator of the Chamber SalesEngine, an online membership sales module for chambers of commerce.

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Since 2001, Kyle has been responsible for sales, service and retention, as well as marketing and business development. In his time with the Salem Area Chamber, he has redesigned the Chamber’s website, successfully transitioned their publications to in-house productions, re-built the dues structure to value-based tiers, and increased membership revenue 43%.

Kyle is the 2007 Gerald W. Hathaway Memorial Staff Person of the Year. He is a highly rated speaker for the Western Association of Chamber Executives (WACE) Academy and conventions of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, a member of the WACE Academy Faculty and an Instructor for the United States Chamber of Commerce Institute of Organizational Management.

He serves on the ACCE Board of Directors, and the Membership Development Advisory Board as Chair-Elect. A Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the ACCE's Circle of Champions with over 1000 memberships sold, his roles have also included Vice Chair of Sales and Recognition Programs and Circle of Champions (Sales Division) chair.

He is the founder of FastChamber.com, developing franchise-quality membership development systems for chambers of commerce. His research and methods have been featured in industry publications, as well as national and regional conventions. His innovative online membership sales module, Chamber SalesEngine™, has grown to account for up to $25,000 of new member sales annually in Salem.

Additionally, he is the co-founder of ChamberThink Strategies, a consultancy focused on coaching chambers of commerce through their transition from a traditional dues method to a progressive tiered-investment model.

He has been marketing and selling memberships since 1996. Prior to working for the Chamber, he was the Director of Marketing & Corporate Services for a chain of Gold’s Gym locations in Western Oregon. His work was honored with the 2001 Gold's Gym International Award for Outstanding Advertising from among 600 franchises worldwide.

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Kyle J. Sexton
Founder of fastChamber

Where in the World is Kyle Sexton right now?

Kolbe Index: 6-3-8-3

Kyle's Kolbe A™ Index indicates that he is terrific at juggling rapidly changing priorities, which makes him flexible with a practical bent.  That's because he tempers his trial-and-error approach by calculating probabilities.  His natural strengths include creating documentation and instruction, finding ways around problems, initiating change and innovation, generating slogans, and mass production.

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“I first met Kyle in early 2006 shortly after I joined the Chamber industry. That very first meeting exposed Kyle’s intellect and vision. Our first conversation focused on “the value of membership” and actually instigated a paradigm shift in how I viewed that value. Up until that moment Chamber membership was similar to a gym membership: it requires the member to participate to truly provide benefit. Kyle had a unique perception that membership should have value even if the member does nothing more than writes you a check. My perspective has since been altered and it has become the standard for which I measure the value of our membership at the Portland Business Alliance. Since that initial meeting I have had the privilege to interact with Kyle on many occasions and always find him to be a leader within the Chamber industry.”