Joining the Lapeer Area Chamber of Commerce has many benefits…

CHAMBER MEMBERSHIP puts Your Business in front of the community! The Lapeer Area Chamber of Commerce processes hundreds of inquiries each year requesting information about various products, services, and professions throughout the entire county. Your membership means that your business is referred to first. Our motto “Do Business with Chamber Members – They Support Our Community,” is reinforced by our policy to refer to and promote Chamber members first.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY & COMMUNITY PROFILE: We publish 5,500 hard copies of a full-color Lapeer Area Business Profile Directory of our members. The Business Directory is a favorite with residents, Realtors, visitors, and/or newcomers to our community. Chamber members only have the opportunity to advertise in our directory. This important marketing tool is distributed throughout Lapeer County each year to members, libraries, medical facilities, banks, hotels, credit unions, and other community businesses. This includes 12 months ad on our Chamber website (full-page color ads) Chamber Facebook page, and Chamber Social Media.

 

Kick Start Program

This program puts NEW MEMBER COMPANIES out in front of the community and fellow members with several fast-paced efforts!

  • We prepare an article about your company for our monthly electronic newsletter.
  • When it best meets your marketing needs you can insert a flyer (4-color, jpg format) about your business in our electronic newsletter.  You pay only $50! A one-time $25 savings (electronically mailed to over 500 contacts, posted on our social media page and also on our website.)
  • You receive a lead list of chamber member companies in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. You can use this prospecting tool to send your company brochure and a business card out to fellow business owners. Promote a new product line, new location, grand opening, business or charitable event!
  • New members are welcomed to the Chamber on the home page of our website during the month they join in addition to your listing in our online member directory.
  • Announced on our Facebook page(s) during the month they join.
  • New members are also announced on our Chamber View page in the LA View newspaper.

Increased Community Visibility

Annual Chamber Membership Directory and Community Profile Guide – A four-color printed guide to member companies and community information and 5,500 are distributed throughout the county during the year.  Directories are distributed through hotels, medical facilities, library systems, banks, credit unions, etc.

Newspaper Visibility – Members are featured on our monthly ChamberView page in the LA View Newspaper.  Reaching every household in Lapeer County.

E-Newsletter Advertisement – Advertisement Opportunities in our monthly E-Newsletter to promote new products, events, locations, etc.

E-Newsletter – Each month we publish our newsletter to our membership and also share our news with the community through our social media and post the link on our website.

Website Presence – Our members are promoted through the membership directory on our website by company name and by business category.

Website Calendar of Events  – Lapeer is a vibrant and active community.  We utilize our community calendar to share events with our residents and to attract visitors to Lapeer.  We share our member events and community events with the community through our community calendar.

Website Advertising – For a nominal fee, members can purchase ad space on our website.  Ads appear on each page throughout the site.

New and Renewing Members are announced on our social media pages, featured on our website, in our newsletter, at our bi-monthly networking meeting, and in our local newspaper.

Social Media – We utilize the growing popularity of social media to promote our members, events, and Chamber news.

Member to Member Discount Program (ID Key Tag)

One of the ways our member businesses support one another is by utilizing each others services. A Member-To-Member Discount Program, with many businesses offering special discounts to Chamber Members, is a valuable benefit to our members.

Member companies and their employees use the Chamber key tag to identify them as members, giving them access to a variety of discounts offered to our members from other Chamber members.

Open to your staff & employees! Our key tag will identify your employees as chamber members when shopping with member companies who participate in the member-to-member discount program.

NEW Office Depot Discount Program

Beginning May of 2022, the Office Depot Business Solutions Division is reemerging with a new name – ODP Business Solutions Customers who previously used business.officedepot.com will automatically be routed to the new and improved website – odpbusiness.com. This will be a seamless transition for our affiliates and their members – no further action is needed.

For those of you who currently shop in-store at an Office Depot/Office Max™ with a digital or physical store purchasing card (SPC), you can continue to do until the end of the year.  However, the cards can no longer be used for account billing at the store.  You will need to use a CC, Cash, or Check for payment at the store. 

 f you don’t have an online account, the instruction pages will walk you through the steps to set up an account page before downloading the QR code for in-store purchase discounts.

 Click on: https://lapeerareachamber.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220526112616269.pdf

IT WILL TAKE 24 HOURS FOR THE QR CODE TO POPULATE YOUR PHONE.

Your in-store savings are now as follows:

  • Copy & Print Services: 30% discount
  • Office Supplies: 20% discount
  • Technology, Toner & Ink: 10% discount
  • Furniture: 10% discount
  • Facilities, Cleaning & Breakroom:10% discount

Please note some exclusions apply. If you need assistance registering online and setting up the app on your phone please contact: LaShauna Hill, Account Manager – Inside Sales Rep Business Solutions Division | ISO 1-855-337-6811 x12734 Lashauna.hill@officedepot.com

For more details about ODP Business Solutions, please visit their Frequently Asked Questions page.

Discount Bank Card Processing Fees

Discount Credit Card processing fees, no monthly minimums, no reprogramming fees, and much more for Chamber member companies through Bankcard Processing Systems, Inc. Call Danielle Cullimore at Bankcard Processing Systems at 586-909-8081.

Networking

The Chamber hosts a variety of networking events providing our members opportunities to develop new business, support existing business and rekindle past business relationships.

Network at Noon is a casual lunch setting for members to connect and network. Members are given time to introduce themselves and talk about their company. Business cards are exchanged among participants.  Many of our members bring door prizes to be raffled.

After Hour Mixers are another great, casual face-to-face networking opportunity. These events are co-sponsored by the Chamber and the hosting location.  Much the same as our Network-at-Noon, members enjoy dining in a relaxed atmosphere while meeting new members.  Each company introduces itself, exchange business information, business cards and promotional items.

Referral Rewards

We all know that referrals are an important aspect of business growth.  “Word of Mouth” advertising from a trusted source is invaluable to businesses.

The Lapeer Area Chamber of Commerce offers our loyal members a way to earn DISCOUNTS ON MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL when they refer new members to the Chamber! It’s our REFERRAL REWARDS program.

Refer up to five new members (they must become a member) annually and SAVE UP TO 50% off of your dues and continue to enjoy the benefits of membership.

Constant Contact Member Discount:

CONSTANT CONTACT MEMBER DISCOUNT

Chamber members: As a member of the Lapeer Area Chamber of Commerce you are able to take advantage of discounts using Constant Contact for emails, newsletter design, surveys, polls, etc. (new accounts only) Members can choose from several tiered plans with the CORE plan or the PLUS plans.

20% off of the first month only, if wish to pay month-to-month

Pre-pay for 6 months and get 20% off the total

Pre-pay for 12 months and get 25% off the total

The first tier is the 1-500 Contact Tier. It would be $45 per month for PLUS or $9.99 per month for CORE.

CORE is for newsletters and announcements. It will include Customer list growth tools (website sign-up forms, Facebook ads integrated), Hundreds of email templates, Store, organize and view contacts, Post to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and/or LinkedIn, Real-time reporting (list growth, views, clicks) Award-winning live phone and chat support.

PLUS has all of that as well as more customer list growth tools (Google ads integrated, text message sign-up, look-alike ad targeting). surveys, polls, dynamic action blocks, social share, Integrations, events and automation (resend to non-openers, abandoned cart reminder, birthday/anniversary), Auto-generated segments (most, somewhat, least engaged), Conversion and sales reporting, and New customer kickoff. PLUS will allow you to have 1 admin and unlimited users as well, while CORE will give you 1 admin and 4 additional users.

Monthly pricing for our plans:
0-500 contacts – CORE Plan $9.99, Plus Plan $45.
501-2500  contacts – CORE Plan $35, Email Plus Plan $70.
2501-5K  contacts – CORE Plan $55, Email Plus Plan $95.
5,000-10K  contacts – CORE Plan $80, Plus Plan $125.
10,001 – 15K  contacts  CORE Plan $105, PLUS Plan $180.00 per month.

You will need a CREDIT or DEBIT CARD/BANK ACCOUNT. You will need to set up an account through our rep: Paul Ross paul.ross@constantcontact.com www.constantcontact.com