Become a Business Association Partner
As the executive running a local Chamber of Commerce, Main Street organization, or other geographic-based business advocacy group, Priority #1 is helping your members succeed. Priority #2 is making sure you have ample membership dues to achieve Priority #1.
Priority #1 Solution - ComCon™
You spend your days talking with legislators, attending ribbon-cutting ceremonies, being a life coach to members in crisis, planning and attending networking events, and everything in between, all to help your members succeed. And they appreciate all that you do for them. But to attract and retain loyal customers today requires being seen in a crowded and pay-to-play digital marketplace.
Keeping their website content current, staying abreast of changing search engine optimization techniques, posting to social media, and responding to online reviews is a lot of work! And that work is in addition to their normal duties of generating sales, ordering products and supplies, managing employees, complying with regulations, monitoring financial performance, and more.
What if you could reduce their workload and offer them visibility in a national forum exclusive to local businesses (and nonprofits) where they can be found by customers who prefer to support local businesses?
As a Local Business Association Partner in the program, all your local business (and nonprofit) members are entered into ComCon™, America’s only one-stop-shop for all things local. This online marketplace serves as the Digital Gateway to the Local Scene, allowing users to easily find and support local businesses, local events, and local nonprofits anywhere in the country. All they need is an internet connection. There is no fee to use and no app to download.
Users can easily search for Members (Eats, Libations, Lodging, Salons, Services, Shops) and Partners (Biz Champions, Bizs on the Go, Happenings and Community Banks) using our dynamic map or more traditional information cards. They can also seamlessly access the website of any listed business without having to leave ComCon™ and risk getting lost in internet navigation traps.
ComCon™ is the aspirin for the headaches caused by frustrating algorithms, expensive paid ads, and snarky reviews.
Check it out by visiting www.comcon.mobi.
And don’t worry, we do all the heavy lifting to initially get your local members into ComCom™. Not only that, but we also create a custom version of ComCon™ to serve as a snazzy membership directory on your website using our categories of Eats, Libations, Lodging, Salons, Services, Shops, Bizs on the Go, and Nonprofits.
When looking at your full membership directory, locations are shown with your logo. As visitors filter to a category, the icons shown in the menu will be shown.
Through your private and secure portal, you add new members and your events once, and the information is automatically displayed in ComCon™ and on your website. Stop wasting time inputting the same data in multiple places.
You’ll love that ComCom™ was designed to be forward-looking, only showing present and future events. You’ll never have to remember to remove an event that has already taken place again!
Scroll below to see examples of different ComCon™ screens.
Priority #2 Solution - Member Analytics™
Dues are the lifeblood of your organization. You need your membership data to be consistent, accurate, reliable, and at your fingertips – not buried in confusing spreadsheets that can be accidentally overwritten or held hostage in expensive, third-party software products.
This tool is designed to provide insights that can be leveraged to drive better decisions for attracting, retaining, and engaging members. You can spend all day looking at rows and columns of data without a single trend or pattern jumping out at you.
Member Analytics™ makes your staff happy by giving them less busy work and makes your Board happy by spending less to achieve more.
Bonus Tools
Giving Story®
As a Business Association Partner, we’ll create a custom Giving Story® for your organization that shares how you are affecting positive change in your community. Whether the focus is on dollars given, volunteer hours donated, or unique community involvement projects, Giving Stories® are beautiful narratives that use impactful graphics and authentic storytelling to shine a light on the good work you are doing.
We know you don’t like to toot your own horn, but there is no disputing that consumers today are increasingly making purchasing decisions based on their own personal values and ethics. A phenomenon known as identity-based commerce.
But these consumers are not easily fooled by pandering. They expect to see results. Don’t think of it boasting, think of it as educating your community about what they risk losing if they don’t support local businesses. Can they get things cheaper at a big box store? Probably. But we need to let them know what they give up in quality of life to save a few bucks.
Check out our Giving Stories® at www.GivingStories.org
Sprocket®
The world is changing at an exponential pace. And that means that what is working today will likely not work tomorrow. This is true whether your business is 100 years old or 100 days old.
Businesses that are designed and structured with the expectation of change will outcompete those that are not. Sprocket shows you how to optimize and realign your business with this goal in mind.
This business optimization tool was developed by an SBA Small Business Person of the Year to help leaders achieve transformational and lasting impact in their organizations by making small, focused changes in operations. You won’t find trendy business theory or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Sprocket gets down to brass tacks so you can quickly increase your productivity and resiliency by getting out of neutral and into gear.
Organizational leaders complete an anonymous online assessment using our secure and private portal. We compile the aggregate results and provide you with your Sprocket Adaptive Response Score indicating the nature and degree of imbalance in your business.
Using this “big” picture”, and our recommendations about how to rebalance your organization, you can finally solve those chronic problems that never seem to go away no matter how many meetings you have about them.
Business Association Partnership
Business Association Partnership is Offered as a Yearly Subscription Only
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As a Business Association Partner, you receive the following.
- Initial upload for your local member data to ComCon™ by us
- Private, secure login for updating your information
- Custom ComCon™ with your data for posting on your website
- Permission to use the ComCon™ QR code and America’s Commerce Corps™ logo
- Custom Giving Story® for your organization
- Sprocket Business Assessment
- Member Analytics™
- Our Quick Start Guide
Optional Tools
ACC Website
To keep your website content current and do the rebuild necessary every 2-5 years to keep pace with changing technology, you only have three options.
- Hire staff capable of doing the work in-house and then panic when they leave.
- Beg a friend or family member to do the work for free or at a discount and then wait and wait and wait.
- Hire a professional at going rates and fruitlessly explain that you don’t want to pay for a Cadillac because a Chevy will get the job done nicely, thank you very much.
We’d like to offer you a fourth option – the ACC Website. Using our template and streamlined process for updates, you won’t need special skills, you won’t have to beg for help, and you won’t overpay for a basic tool.
The best part? No maintenance fees!