Here is one organization who learned about the Main Street Crowd system from our earlier executive meeting.  Take a look at it in action!

https://www.mainstreetcrowd.com/projects/help-abq-keep-179000000
 

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

1. There is now an automated email that is sent to your members when they click on the "Request Setup" Button (Button #1), letting them know that we have received their request and are working on their TCS page and will send another email to them when it is complete.
2. There is now an opportunity for Micro-Site Support - where you can have one regional chamber with multiple, small, localized sites.  You can now utilize system link 1.18 by city if you have the recreation categories turned on.  This way you can choose the recreation type AND the city in order to narrow the results down even further.
3. You can utilize system link 1.10 to do a directory search by city.
4. In your newsletter, for the Event Listing, you now have the option to include the event time and location, as well as the event name and description.  This will allow you to have a complete listing of your events at the fingertips of all of your members.
5. Also in the newsletter, in addition to being able to list the New Members for your organization, you can now also list the Renewing Members within the specified date range that you choose.  There are two additional options with the renewing members list:  1. members who are renewing within the range of dates - regardless of payment status and 2. members who have made payments on renewal invoices within the range of dates.
6. An incredible list of new On-Demand Training videos available.  Please see the "Education - Now Available" section in this newsletter for the complete list.
7. More videos are continuing to go up on the Chamberclassroom.com website for the "On Demand" Training.
8. In order to clean up the main menu for system administrators we have moved a number of "configuration" items: member plans and member categories (moved to mms config menu), send lead to members (on CRM system menu, right column), Member Match-Merge (member database admin, bottom of page), Social Network Tools (moved to MMS config, right column), Bounced Email List (link at top of Broadcast Messages), Attendance Tracking Module (at bottom of Calendar Admin). If you have any questions please let us know.

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.

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

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

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

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

Cinnamon Paula *
Join Date: 11/22/2013

Cynthia White
Join Date: 11/22/2013

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

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

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

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

BFAP / ASN
Robbin Roberts *
Website
robbinroberts@gmail.com
Join Date: 12/03/2013

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

Cresco Chamber
Jason Passmore
Website
jason@howard-county.com
Join Date: 12/31/2013

Florence Chamber of Commerce (Greater)
Judy Hughes
Website
judyhughes@awardrealty.com
Join Date: 01/07/2014

Sun City Center Chamber
Debbie Caneen
dcaneen@suntowersretirement.com
Join Date: 01/14/2014

Mariposa Chamber of Commerce
Damian Riley
Website
communications@mariposachamber.org
Join Date: 01/14/2014

Indiana County Chamber of Commerce
Jo Yeomans
jyeomans@indianacountychamber.com
Join Date: 01/17/2014

The Greater Hillsborough Area Chamber of Commerce
Virginia "Ginks" Leiby
Website
hcofc@mcttelecom.com
Join Date: 01/21/2014

Edwardsville / Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce
Kathy Hentz
Join Date: 01/22/2014

Edwardsville / Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce
Caryn Mefford
Join Date: 01/22/2014

Women in Business South Utah County
Randi Kaufman
Website
wibsuc@gmail.com
Join Date: 01/24/2014

Due to security measures, you cannot embed YouTube videos into an email.  However, there may be many times that you would like to send videos via email.  Here is a great solution for this, without any risk and without violating any security measures.  The way to do this is to take a picture of the video image.  Upload that image (as a jpg, png, or gif) to yoru email and then link that image directly to the video.  This way when the recipient clicks on the image (which will look like a video), they will be taken directly to that video on the YouTube website.  This looks better and is often more effective than a simple text-link.
 

Day: Wednesday 
Date: February 5, 2014
Time: 11:00 AM (PST)
12:00 PM (MST) 1:00PM
(CST) 2:00PM (EST)

Scheduled Topics:

• New structure, access, and resources available for on-demand training at Chamberclassroom.com
• Website Makeovers Available - now with a mobile dynamic element - $499.95
• Now, on your newsletters, you can list not just your New Members, but your Renewing members - and with two options (1. members who are renewing within the range of dates - regardless of payment status and 2. members who have made payments on renewal invoices within the range of dates.)
• General roundtable opportunity to cover all kinds of system questions.  Both Richard and Sam will be on the call to assist you.
• Any other questions you may have.

Bonus Time:
        This will occur immediately after the Regular Meeting and will feature a special guest sharing about what they have to offer to Chambers. 

This month our special guest is our own CEO, Richard Scully.  Richard will be sharing about Tiodew - a new generation of tiered membership strategy.  If you would like to take a look at it before the meeting, you can see it here:  http://www.tiodew.com. 



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:

We have a newly-designed structure for our on-demand training.  We continue to work to make this a better experience for you.  Also, there is a quick shortcut URL to remember, to be able to access ALL of the on-demand videos:  ondemand.chamberclassroom.com (and scroll down the page to see the list and links for each training).


The Newest "On Demand" Videos are:

• Session #7 (Intermediate) - The CRM System:  The CRM System is used to track your contact (interaction) with members and prospects.  With this tool, you can record your emails, visits, and phone calls with your members and prospects.  You can also report on these contacts.
• Session #15 (Intermediate) - Creating a Form Letter for Sending to Your Members - How to create a form letter to be able to send to individual members, without having to re-create the letter each time you want to send it to someone.
• Newsletter Manager Training - 5 Videos that cover completely how to create a newsletter, including creating the newsletter templates.
• Calendar of Events Training - 4 Videos that cover how to create an event within the calendar of events.
• Event Registration Training - 9 Videos that cover the full spectrum of event registration, including how to create the event, promote it, manage and edit it.
• Broadcast Messaging Training - 6 Videos covering how to set up and send broadcast messages.
• Website Editor Training - 15 Videos covering every aspect of the website editor and how to use it to manage your own website.

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

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