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.
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