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Our business at the Dahlonega-Lumpkin County Chamber of Commerce is to make our community a great place to live, work, visit and do business. Your business will benefit when we connect you with potential new customers and business opportunities, provide valuable resources and tools and offer you exclusive member programs and discounts.
Every business must take responsibility to ensure the positive future of Dahlonega and Lumpkin County. By supporting your Chamber of Commerce, you are choosing to be a part of positive growth and a solution to the issues facing this area.
The Dahlonega-Lumpkin County Chamber of Commerce has an extensive menu of services that can build your business, give your business additional exposure and provide you with members-only benefits. Some of those benefits include:
- Exposure at www.dahlonega.org! With your business listing on the Chamber’s World Wide Website, your business website will be linked for immediate access by customers. Put our heavily visited site to work for you!
- Access to your Chamber website details with your own log-in information.
- Participate in our “Business After Hours” mixers. You will be introduced as a new member at this event and will receive your Chamber member plaque, sticker and member-to-member discount card. The mixers are a great place to network and promote your business. Sponsor the event and your business will be highlighted.
- To include current information about your business that would be of interest to other Chamber members, send information for our weekly email blasts to members, keeping them current on your events and issues. It is also possible to have a link to a promotion on your website.
- Arrangements for Ribbon Cuttings and Ground Breakings. This is your opportunity to announce to the community the start or opening of your business.
- Invitation to the monthly Nuts & Bolts Workshops. These workshops bring in professionals to speak on a variety of topics to help you with your business.
- Participation in the Member-to-Member Discount Program. Check out the current Member-to-Member discounts. You will receive a Member-to-Member discount card to participate, keeping our dollars in Dahlonega and Lumpkin County!
- Participation in the Member-to-Student Discount Program, encouraging NGCSU students to spend their dollars in Dahlonega and Lumpkin County.
- Gain more exposure for your business at www.dahlonega.org and thechamber.dahlonega.org through an additional internet option, the expanded internet link.
- Be included in the Chamber’s two-year publication, the Newcomers Guide and Member Business Directory, which is distributed to Chamber members and thousands of visitors year-round.
- Expose your business to visitors in the Visitors Center, the second most visited center in the state of Georgia, with your rack cards and business cards. Receive referrals to your business of visitors and local residents by Welcome Center staff and volunteers.
- Chamber member list provided to members electronically for $35 or peel-and-stick labels for $50.
- Eligibility for group insurance at lower rates through Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Georgia.
- Chamber-promoted area festivals and events attract visitors and customers.
- Complimentary use the Chamber’s conference room for your meetings.
- Discounted Business Resource Center rates (copy and fax).
- Eligibility for discounted Constant Contact email marketing program. Receive 20% off of a 6-month prepaid subscription and 25% off of a 12-month prepaid subscription.
- An award-winning cooperative ad campaign with ads in such publications as Georgia On My Mind and Southern Living and a full-color response brochure.
By joining our Chamber you can enjoy our many networking and community events as well as be active on our committees designed to promote and protect business. Stay current on industry information and trends through chamber membership in various committees and organizations. Maximize your investment through active participation in activities, which yield significant rewards to you and leads to community influence. Your involvement pays dividends in the form of new contacts, business lead generation, public policy influence, increased visibility and better corporate citizenship.
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