1. Overview
2. Connect Your Members Increase Chamber Value
3. Decrease Marketing and Printing Costs
4. Professional Turnkey Company Websites
   

Overview
One of the core offerings of Chambers of Commerce is professional networking within a community. This is traditionally accomplished through professional mixers, speaking engagements, forum discussions, and other events. While the Internet will definitely never completely replace invaluable person-to-person interaction, it can be leveraged as a rich complementary value add for facilitating more efficient connection and interaction frequency among Chamber members.

• Chamber patrons can manage a profile or website, and professionally connect with each other
• Easily create web sites for industry-specific boards, focus groups,
• More effectively connect and build community around your patrons, content, and local community
• Increase recurring revenues and/or expand your value proposition to small businesses by providing or selling professional, fully enabled, graphically customizable, turnkey websites

Connect Your Members and Increase Chamber Value
Businesses leverage Chamber memberships for growing their business and connecting with other professional in their local community. Members can manage individual profiles or web sites and find each other by location, industry, or a variety of other metrics. Members can engage each other with forums, spam-free internal personal messaging, real time instant messaging, blog commenting, etc. Increasing member access, connection, and communication means more strategic partnerships, publicity, cross promotion, sales, joint advertising opportunities. All of this increases Chamber value to members and community trade promotion.

Chambers can publicly or privately post helpful audio, video, document, spreadsheet, article, and news resources. Chambers are comprised many industry experts. Chambers can leverage that by allowing members to contribute extremely valuable, specialized, targeted content to the community. Additionally, Chambers can assemble private industry specific groups for discussing best practices and other business initiatives.

Decrease Marketing and Printing Costs
360Chamber of Commerce SAVES THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in printed directory, post card, brochure, event flyer, and other administrative and marketing collateral costs. An online member directory is a more effective and efficient method for facilitating member connection, and also provides richer information than a printed directory. Also, Chambers can privately or publicly publish an event calendars & photo galleries, membership guidelines, news, press releases, and other valuable informational resources.

Professional Turnkey Company Websites
Small businesses usually spend $5000 – $10000 on mediocre web sites that require costly maintenance and updates. 360Chamber of Commerce can expand Chambers’ service offering by allowing members to use our intuitive, point-and-click wizards to create, customize, and manage their company website. These fully-enabled, professional quality websites allow the member to completely control the look, feel, style, and content of their website. This achieves two objectives for Chambers:

1. Increase recurring revenues by optionally selling web sites to members.
2. Extend Chamber member value proposition at minimal cost by offering free websites to your members, inevitably increasing members and membership revenue.