Dear Member,

We would like to thank you for joining the Chamber of Commerce and look forward to helping you promote your business. By joining a Chamber of Commerce who is part of the Chamber Nation network, you have an opportunity to successfully advertise your business or organization locally online at NO ADDITIONAL COST.

Chamber Nation was hired by your Chamber to assist its membership optimize for local Internet search success through a powerful online advertising system developed for your Chamber and the community.

At any time please feel free to call the Chamber of Commerce or our technical support center at 1-888-EzWay4U / (530) 283-5554 with any questions you may have.

Sincerely, your Chamber Team

Activating your advertising system account through the Chamber of Commerce

The Quickest Way:

1. Go to the Chamber of Commerce website and locate the "Member Login" button or link.
2. From here you will see a LOST PASSWORD option where you will need to enter the email address you used with your Chamber membership. In most cases you will gain access immediately by using this method.

Or

1. You can call the Chamber and ask the staff to send you an invite into the Chamber advertising system. Some may know it better as the TCS system.
2. Go to www.FreeMembersSupport.com and submit a request for your access code.
3. Call Free Members Support at 1-888-EzWay4U or (530) 283-5553.

We're here to help you and answer any questions you may have:
www.FreeMembersSupport.com -or- 530-283-5554 / 888-EzWay4U

Promotional Benefits

Before we explain the promotional benefits you may want to read a copy of a recent study showing true value of Chamber membership. Now lets move over to the concept of leveraging the "Most Trusted Source for Local Information" to help grow your business.

Just to be sure you get the MOST value from your membership, we need to make sure that your business is fully optimized for local and national search. To help you get there the Chamber is providing you with unlimited FREE MEMBERS SUPPORT that you can easily access by calling 1-888-EzWay4U and asking one of our support representatives to help you.

Optimizing your business will enable the Chamber to:

1.move more traffic from the Chamber's website to your business,
2.move more traffic from the member directory to your business,
3.move more traffic from the Area Search Engine powered by Google® to your business.

Unlike normal Internet traffic that just comes from the Internet, the Chamber of Commerce is targeted for search by people looking for local resources. It is this reason that the potential is greater for you to do business with people looking for local resources. This kind of Internet traffic is unique to the Chamber of Commerce and is not provided to non-chamber members.

To prove how valuable this program really is, the Chamber will be providing you with a monthly report that can help you improve your positioning over time. If you make a special request to the Chamber they can provide you with an additional report showing what people have been searching for and NOT FINDING. You may also view this report at any time by logging into the Chamber Social Network through your Chamber website. By using this report you can optimize your search terms so that people that should have found you last time will do so the next time. This report is called "Search & No Finds" and the Chamber administrator should be able to print or email this for you.

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There are many more benefits of membership that you can read about at: www.ChamberEconomics.com.

Area Search Engine Powered by Google

Did you know:

•85% of business buyers go online during the buying process
•80% of those find their ultimate vendor online
•70% use search
•Of those who say they don't use search 27% actually do

Do you have a search strategy for your business? You do Now!

The Chamber of Commerce realizes that most of the people today looking for information on a business or within a particular community do their research via the Internet. Most people who want to find very detailed information on the community often use the Chamber of Commerce website to do this. This highly targeted traffic is now available to our members by getting started and optimizing your online advertising program.

To expand the Chamber's reach it has launched an Area Search Engine for our community that's powered by Google® and designed to showcase our members first and foremost. We think you will be impressed with its results, but before we can help you attract this traffic you MUST OPTIMIZE your advertising system at the Chamber.

Before you get started you might want to use this tool to determine the best search terms to include in your information and search terms.

Buy Local Program System Features

1. Imports information from your completed Traffic Catcher System so it’s fast to configure.
2. Quickly update system with new advertisements right from your email enabled cell phone.
3. Create up to one-thousand (1000) individual display advertisements. (That’s another 1000 pages advertising your business locally and through search engines)
4. Sell items online or display professional services throughout the Internet (no online selling)
5. Built-in FREE shopping cart that sends the buyer a purchase receipt and you an order electronically. You collect the money by handling just as if it was a phone order. If you are not selling then the system will send inquiry requests to your email address.
6. If you are a power seller you may setup a PayPal account to automate online sales.
7. Monthly marketing and advertising reports provided.

There are many more features provided so we invite you to view our online narrated training presentation

...for joining the Chamber!

Did you know?

1. That you are now part of a "locally driven" Nationwide Chamber of Commerce advertising network.

2. Customers are 63% more likely to buy from you if you are a Chamber member.

3. Customers are now searching by category which means the value of Chamber search is going up.

4. When you buy locally money turns over 3.2 times within the community.

5. When you buy from a big box store, money turns over just once.

Need Support?

Need Training?

To keep you up-to-date on everything we add and you can do to promote your business we hold monthly technology seminars with Chamber Nation staff once a month.

A separate "Growing Your Business" class is held by Mark LeBlanc from Small Business Success.

At these times Mark is live over the phone with members from Chambers all over the country to answer their questions about marketing and advertising.

If you would like to join us please visit this website: