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The Carroll Chamber of Commerce is a member driven organization committed to a vibrant business environment. The Carroll Chamber has more than 370 members working together for a better tomorrow for our community.

Membership in the Carroll Chamber of Commerce is an important element in your formula for business success. Membership communicates to consumers that you are involved in the Carroll community and committed to its future.

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Membership Services

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and how our system works

People are using the internet
to find everything...

We all know that Google, Bing, and other search engines manage the world's internet information...

You can find just about anything on the internet now - from funny cat videos to the best restaurant in town. However, when local communities and their local businesses are not documented online, a hole where the community should be is filled by search results from everything BUT the local community.

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Importance of Our Member Services

Membership gives the "mom and pop shops," the boutiques, the independent contractors, the cafés and delis, the niche stores, the hole-in-the-wall places... a level playing field for competition on the internet. Membership provides specific tools for accomplishing effective online promotion.

The Best Part

You don't have to log in. You don't have to monkey around with an unfamiliar system. You don't have to stress about where to start.

We understand that life gets busy or that technology just isn't your thing or knowing what kind of information to include can be difficult. That is why your member assistant will do the work for you.

Getting You Ready for Membership Promotion

Means We Need to Document Your Business for Search Membership!

One of the missions of our membership organization has is to prepare the overall community for success. This enables the membership team to provide a documentation service to the majority of all local businesses to help our community compete online. To do this, we need every business within our community to be documented for search and optimized for mobile as well. We need to showcase our local products and services so our businesses come up on many more searches.

Importance of Our Member Services

It is a very simple concept, but with so many business owners busy running their businesses and more, most are not documenting their products and services for search. The team is doing this for you as part of your membership with us so it gets done and our community is much better positioned to compete for those commerce dollars.

Keep in mind that this information will be showcased on this site, but also be indexed by both Google and Bing so the public will still be finding this information outside of the our own community.

Standard Member Services

PLEASE NOTE: Some organizations offer the following services at no additional cost to their members. If you are on this plan, then please focus only on the services shown below because services on the other pages within this website may not be provided.

If you want to see if your organization offers additional services, please view this page to see if your local membership organization is listed. If so, please ask them about upgrading to a new member plan. New Paragraph

WHAT’S A MARKETING LANDING PAGE

AKA. TRAFFIC CATCHER SITE

A Chambers Purpose (although we support other types of membership organizations)

The purpose of a Chamber of Commerce is to create a community where local businesses are promoted. By managing the local and regional information of the community, the chamber provides physical documentation (such as a visitors guide) for prospective customers and visitors to find exactly what they are looking for.

The Rise of the Digital Age

However, with the rise of instant information, people are turning to the internet to find what they need. And although Google® manages the world's information, it is often not possible to index the entire chamber community because the majority of members are not documented for internet search.

A Boost for Local Businesses

The system works by digitally documenting businesses for local and internet search; and because this system has been used to document thousands of other businesses belonging to Chambers of Commerce and organizations all over the country, prospective customers can find local business services just about anywhere.

Member Onboarding Overview

Your membership organization has invested in a state-of-the-art, community-wide, economic development infrastructure. This provides a SINGLE network that can host all of the businesses within the community. Members can now be connected in order to leverage significant prospect traffic coming into the local network which is hosted by the Chamber of Commerce (in most areas). Members receive the assistance needed to be sure their business is properly set up online at no extra cost as it is included with their membership.

How To Get Started

Free Member Support Center

Locate the login link on your organization's website. If you don't have your username and password handy, just use the lost / or reset password function. The system will email it to you immediately.
Once you log in, locate these buttons (above) and either click the REQUEST SETUP (if offered) or ADVANCED TOOLS to get started and make adjustments yourself.
If you are able to click the REQUEST SETUP button and answered the questions, we will take over and get back to you soon with a completed page.New Paragraph

Included Member Services

MARKETING LANDING PAGES (TRAFFIC CATCHER PAGES) ARE INCLUDED IN STANDARD MEMBERSHIP Many people ask our support center if they will be charged for this service. The answer is NO. Although this type of targeted advertising would normally have a monthly fee, it is included in your membership dues. This program is provided to your members as a thank you for being a part of your organization.

INCLUDED SETUP SERVICES (If Premium Level) The first objective of the support team is to be sure that your business is properly connected to the local network. This is typically the Official Area Network for your community accessed by thousands of people looking specifically for local information. Most of the time they get to this network through traditional search engines, which is where you want to be found.

SPECIFIC INCLUDED DELIVERABLES

Support center staff assigned to your TCS project, Resource additional information when possible, Determine the modules to activate depending on the material, Interconnect and embed your Facebook business page, Link to other known social network sites, Upload available business images for the scrolling photo tour, License graphics and photography when required, Activate simple mobile website to accompany TCS page, Determine search engine keywords and add to TCS page, Add photo grid image (250x250) for photo-driven directories, Provide completion letter with account manager contact, Provide training and support via Free Members Support (www.FreeMembersSupport.com).

BUTTON CONNECTED TO VARIOUS SITES

Traffic Catcher System (TCS) also gives you the option to launch your landing page from a button on your website. When one of your prospects clicks on your landing page button, it loads your page quickly with important information for a new prospect to see. Visitors can easily send referrals to their friends, family, and colleagues, without ever leaving the landing page.

MONTHLY REPORTING

The TCS system tracks all of your visits from the Member Directory that are generated from the Area Search Engine and traditional search engines like Google.

COUPON CREATOR

People love coupons... Your TCS landing page includes one area entirely dedicated to your specials. You can easily create online coupons with staging by date. You can also upload a graphic coupon to be delivered through the various promotional channels already set up in the program.

INTEGRATED VIDEO COMMERCIAL

Easily upload your business commercial onto YouTube, then place the embedded code into the specified box. Your video will be automatically distributed through a link in the Member Directory and will also play within your landing page.

THINGS-TO-DO VISITOR AREA

In many locations, we provide an automated Things-To-Do visitor area that is added to many community websites. Because these visitor areas are driven by photos for a pleasant experience, each member business always has an attractive image for their electronic cover page. We create a grid image that is (250x250) for photo-driven directories.

SUBMIT A DAILY DEAL

Daily Deals is an integrated platform available to members where the organization has it activated. It allows the public to subscribe and the members to submit a daily deal. Since they must be great deals to keep the subscribers, the deals are monitored by staff. Once approved, it will be included in the next community blast.

SYNDICATED CALENDAR SYSTEM

Syndicated Calendar System designed for communities that want to offer individual calendars to various organizations and members for use in their own websites. This way it only shows their events on their own website, but automatically sends this up to a master community-wide calendar. Ideal for members that offer open houses or others that offer sales and training.

NETWORK REPORTING

Is available to members in order to see how many times their information has been viewed or accessed. It also enables the member to see what people are searching for in the local community and finding (or not). If the list of "not found" search results match what the member offers, they may adjust their search keywords so that the next time that search will be matched with the member business.

SCROLLING PHOTO TOURS

The membership directory is used by thousands and thousands of people. It is important that they find what they are looking for and then see an attractive presentation. For this, we add images to create a scrolling photo tour.

NATIONAL EXPOSURE

Although our focus is on delivering local prospects to you, the system is also set up to deliver national views. We send your TCS landing page information directly to Google through their site mapping API.

LOCAL TRAFFIC

Local traffic is the most valuable traffic for most businesses.

The Chambers of Commerce and other local membership organizations that we support typically rank well on search engine results. This results in traffic routed to members through various marketing channels provided with your membership. It's the perfect way to advertise locally online through your Chamber of Commerce.

CUSTOMIZABLE

TCS landing pages are customizable making it easy to match your marketing look and feel. You can customize messaging, add your logo, change the color theme, add custom headers and main images, include a scrolling business tour, and much more.

You can also easily test your search results and adjust keywords as needed for immediate impact through the Area and Chamber Search Engine. These adjustments can have a big impact on the number of prospects you receive.

COMPLETION EMAIL

You will be receiving a completion notification email once our team completes your marketing landing page setup (If Premium).

SUPPORT

If you ever have any questions you can contact us here, or by calling (844) Its-Done / (844) 487-3663 during normal PDT business hours.