Montgomery Chamber of Commerce

This year has required many of you to pivot within your businesses--and this is true also for the Chamber itself. In light of the recent emphasis on digital communication, we are making changes to our Marketing Benefits for Members effective January 2021.

This change is necessary to keep our Chamber as strong as possible. In 2020, there was an increase in demand for member-to-member communications, resulting in significantly more time dedicated to creating emails on behalf of members.

We believe this is an essential function of the Chamber, but we also recognize that we cannot maintain this level of communication without also accounting for the financial impact of the demand. As such, we have found it necessary to adjust the current level of the Member Marketing Benefit.

2021 Marketing Benefits for Chamber Members

All active members in good standing with the Chamber will receive one free marketing email with their annual membership
All active members in good standing with the Chamber can include all events in our free Member Event newsletter, which will be distributed weekly
Any additional marketing e-blasts or individual event announcements would come at the cost of $25/email

The communications committee will develop a user-friendly form that members must use to submit their information to be included in an e-blast or event newsletter. This form will be launched as part of the new Chamber website. It is members' duty to submit FINAL details such as:

Text for the subject line
Text for the body of the email
Any images to be included (must be smaller than 5MB)
The intended call to action
Any/all links to be included
Date/deadline requested (not guaranteed)
Text and images (smaller than 5MB) for any coordinating social media posts

We look forward to helping support our local business community by offering this benefit at an accessible cost while protecting the financial solvency of the Chamber.

Questions about these changes can be submitted to Carol Gorley: carol.gorley@montgomeryohiochamberofcommerce.com

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