Here are the Chamber Nation system updates for the past 30 days (December):

1. Multi-post features in the classified ads section.
2. Mobile applications have been upgraded to support iOS7
3. Full integration with Votility has been completed – creating the most powerful legislative action center for chambers of commerce
4. New “Printer-Friendly” version of the New Member Report
5. New “Printer-Friendly” version of the Dropped Member Report
6. Under the coupon creation there is now a checkbox to have Daily Deals Enabled
7. More videos are continuing to go up on the Chamberclassroom.com website for the "On Demand" Training.

When members log in they may see the votility icon and, when pressed, will load their existing member profile information and allow for easy access and interaction using the same chambernation username and password.

Colleen Rosson *
Historic Silver Valley Chamber
Website
director@silvervalleychamber.com
Join Date: 09/11/2013

Emily Moss
Elko Chamber
Website
chamber@elkonevada.com
Join Date: 09/13/2013

Naomi Penney
Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida, Inc.
Website
naomi@melbourneregionalchamber.com
Join Date: 09/16/2013

Christine Michaels
Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida, Inc.
Website
christine@melbourneregionalchamber.com
Join Date: 09/16/2013

Karen Robinson
Cottleville / Weldon Spring Chamber
Website
admin@cwschamber.com
Join Date: 09/18/2013

Sandy Smith *
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
Website
sandy.smith@lancasterchamber.org
Join Date: 09/27/2013

Miranda Moore
Valdosta Chamber
Website
mmoore@valdostachamber.com
Join Date: 10/29/2013

Tom Graver
Melbourne Regional Chamber
Website
tom@melbourneregionalchamber.com
Join Date: 11/19/2013

David Larson *
Pleasant Grove Chamber
Website
chamber@plgrovechamber.org
Join Date: 11/21/2013

Marla Lewis *
Maricopa Chamber of Commerce
mlewis@maricopachamber.org
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Cinnamon Paula *
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Cynthia White
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Dave Moss
Maricopa Chamber of Commerce
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Kay Keller *
Oconee Chamber of Commerce
kkeller@oconechamber.org
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Monika Holder *
Pinckneyville Chamber of Commerce
Website
Jessicaeholder@hotmail.com
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Roxanne Valladao
Plumas Arts
Website
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Robbin Roberts *
BFAP / ASN
Website
Join Date: 12/03/2013

John Harmon
New York State Black Chamber of Commerce
Website
jharmon@aaccnj.com
Join Date: 12/12/2013

We really appreciate your referrals. We're making investments to improve our programs every day and we'll invest in you too! 
 

Please Note:  Due to the New Year Holiday, there will not be an Executive Administrator Training meeting in January 2014.  The meetings will resume again on Wednesday, February 5th.

There was a great request this month asking if there was a way to generate a Form Letter to be able to send to individual members.  This can be used for any communication that you might want to have a template for with your members.  Because this is such a useful tool, I immediately made an on-demand training video about how to do this and wanted to highlight it as the Educational Tip of the Month.

You may access this on-demand training instantly by clicking on the following link:
Creating a Form Letter to Send to Your Members
 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW...
    We don't have a meeting in January, but we will be back with great new things in February!  Don't miss out.  Mark your calendars now, and join us:
Day: Wednesday 
Date: February 5, 2013 
Time: 11:00 AM (PST)
12:00 PM (MST) 1:00PM
(CST) 2:00PM (EST)

Scheduled Topics:

• TBA

Bonus Time:
        To Be Announced

HOW TO JOIN THE MEETING 

1. Screen Sharing: http://www.TrainingScreen.com
2. Phone: (530) 881-1212
3. Access Code: 901-325-889

Would you like to join the meeting with your >>APPLE or >>ANDROID mobile device? Click link above for either device and once installed be sure to USE MEETING ID: 901-325-889

MEETINGS MAY BE RECORDED FOR EXECUTIVES WHO MISSED IT LIVE:
Watch Today's Training:  http://stme.in/1gXES74li

The "On Demand" Videos continue to grow!  I now have a new structure I am implementing to be able to produce these even quicker and easier for your benefit.  So keep on the lookout for more and more being added.

The Newest "On Demand" Videos are:

• Session #14 (Intermediate) - Creating and Overnight Event Registration (non-traditional times).  Do you have events that occur during non-traditional times?  For example a New Year's Eve event which starts in the evening and ends during the next morning.  The standard event registration doesn't allow for non-traditional times to be entered, but that does not prevent you from entering your event with all of the pertinent, and correct information.  This training will show you how quick and easy it is to create an overnight event that has non-traditional times.

Welcome to a New Year!!!  The On Demand videos will continue to grow as a high-priority at Chamber Nation.  If there is a specific module you really would like to see up there sooner than later, please email your suggestion to Dr. Ryan Nielsen at ryan@chambernation.com.

Strategy:
Richard Scully, CEO
855-233-6362 Ext. 701

Billing Systems:
Sam Azzam, Operations
855-233-6362 Ext. 704

Educational and Administrative Support:
Dr. Ryan Nielsen, Education
855-233-6362 Ext. 702

General Support:
Brian Sundberg, Support
855-233-6362 Ext. 705

Member Support / ChamberSquad Questions:
Jim Etherington
855-233-6362 Ext. 708

Administrative System Training:
www.ChamberClassRoom.com

Member Education:
www.CommerceControlPanel.com

Although we are working constantly to improve deliverability of emails, many problems with spam filtering are related to the content or formatting of the emails themselves.

Here are some tips to avoid having your emails get mis-identified as spam.

• Avoid all caps in the subject
• Avoid excessive exclamation points (Sale!!!)
• Avoid certain keywords in the body, but especially in the subject
  • Sale
  • Free
  • Attention
  • Any typical sales verbiage - buy direct, cheap, act now
  • Any common pharmaceutical trade name
  • Any adult-only type product
• Avoid referring to the attachment in the subject line (this is done in viruses)
• Avoid using brackets and parenthesis in the subject line
• Limit the number of links within the body, less than 5 if possible
• Avoid using large images in emails - the proportion of images to text in terms of area, if too high, will trip some spam filters
• Avoid lots of red coloring on fonts