Gateway to Greene! Membership Benefi ts Why should your business be a member of the Chamber of Commerce? Our answer is straightforward: To help build your business: Chamber membership gives a business, your business, the opportunity to make money – both directly and indirectly. Each of our Chamber member enterprises receives the broadest, most diverse business opportunity network available in our region – each day, every day. ����Our Chamber website – www.greenecoc.org – attracts many visitors on a monthly basis. Many of those continue through to specifi c Chamber member listings, accessing their business websites directly. In this manner, the Chamber offers the best-targeted business opportunity as part of your membership. Our Chamber makes business referrals often – from restaurant, lodging and tourism to banking, real estate and professional services. Our offi ce is staffed and ready to direct business in your direction too. ����Our Chamber monthly network events draw even more people to talking and doing business with each other; good old-fashioned commerce. We encourage direct communication amongst our members by providing opportunities at these events for business members to address those present. ����Our Chamber promotes and entertains development meetings that will give your business the opportunity to increase business and workforce skills by developing better business strategies. ����Our Chamber in association with Optima Health provides your business and employees the opportunity to have “Valued Added Benefi ts with their health insurance plans. For more information please see our attached insert. ����Our Chamber Board of Directors and our various committees actively engage in local public policy matters and decision-making with our Chamber member interests in mind. Chamber advocacy offers public decision-makers and citizens at large focused insight into the business and economic vitality aspects of public policy. ����Our Chamber is constantly looking for new ways to promote our Chamber business members. We provide our local newspaper with monthly Chamber Corner articles, promote Chamber business through local printed and online calendars, and communicate to both business and community members through our Facebook business page. What’s next? We don’t know but we are always open to fi nding new ways to direct more interest to our local business members. To help build your community: Our Chamber and our members continue to lead successful community associations within Greene County. Through constructive and proactive Chamber leadership, the true spirit of “asking what you can do for your county” has been a standard business practice. Building our community helps sustain and strengthen overall economic vitality. Vibrant enterprise adds investment and jobs, while adding even more to the civic and charitable engines of our community. ����The real power of the Chamber organization building our community, of course, is the people who volunteer. They are readily distinguished as key business and civic leaders in building and sustaining the economic vitality and quality of life in Greene County. ����Our strength is and always has been our Chamber membership. Chamber members are involved at every level in assessing risks and implementing new business enterprises within our community. As our area’s economy continues to evolve toward a market led by education, highly-skilled technology-based jobs, retail, agri-business and tourism, the Chamber remains pivotal in keeping our members in direct contact with other businesses, markets, workforce, education and governmental agencies. ����Since our founding, the Greene County Chamber of Commerce (GCOC) has been dedicated to advancing the economic vitality and quality of life in the Greene County area so that the entire community can prosper. We are a dynamic, strong, innovative business alliance for all local business and community members. The Chamber is the key to building a business and building a community – two reasons for any local organization to be a Greene County Chamber of Commerce member. 2 Gateway to Greene!
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