GET CONNECTED! Membership Benefits
Join the more than 600 businesses that have decided to take an active role in their community through Chamber membership while receiving a host of programs and services designed to help businesses of all sizes grow and prosper. Membership in the Bullhead Area Chamber of Commerce works for you all year long through immediate benefits that take effect the day you join. In addition to opportunities to market your business and build your business network, you can take advantage of Chamber Bottom-Line Benefits, which provide access to exclusive members-only advantages and money-saving services such as:
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITES
MIXERS - Who you know does make a difference! Make important business contacts at Chamber functions such as “After 5 Business Network” Mixers. These are opportunities for Chamber members to meet one another, exchange business cards, learn more about one another and even pick up a little business opportunity now and then. The After 5 Business Network moves around each month to a different location and showcases a company or service by giving the members the opportunity to see the “behind-the-scenes” operation or learn more about how the business operates or the products that are offered. The business is then featured in our monthly newsletter, “The Business Frontline”. SPECIAL EVENTS – Twice a year, the Chamber hosts two very special networking events in the spacious Chamber Auditorium. In the spring is the “March Mixer Mania” that provides booth space for as many as 45 Chamber businesses to display their products or showcase their services in much like a business expo setting. Following in October is the “Chamber Oktoberfest” that provides a similar venue. Both of these activities are designed to allow small businesses with little floor space or limited budgets and home-based businesses to be part of a joint mixer environment with fellow businesses.
PROMOTION & ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES
BUSINESS CARDS & BROCHURES - Your business cards and brochures are displayed in our Visitors Information Center and Chamber Business Resource Center. We average approximately 90 visitors a day through our facility, which enhances our opportunity to provide increased exposure for your business. REFERRAL SERVICE - A built-in referral service is provided for Chamber members by our friendly Visitors Information Center Staff. We receive countless inquiries on a daily basis regarding services and products available in the Bullhead City, Colorado River Region. What ever it is they are looking for from pool cues to legal services, we refer our members to our walk-in visitors and telephone inquiries. As a Chamber Member, we make it our business to refer yours! WEBSITE BUSINESS DIRECTORY - Our website business membership directory lists your business under specific categories relating to your trade or service. Each month, members have the opportunity to be showcased on the home page as the “Chamber Member of the Month”. If your company has a website, we will link to your site through ours. If you don’t have a website and would like to have one, we have arranged for discounted rates for Chamber members to have sites developed. Check us out at www.bullheadchamber.com. MAILING LABELS - “Labels Are Us” – We maintain continuously updated mailing labels of our membership for use by our members for special promotional mailings, newsletters or other marketing opportunities. Mailing labels may be purchased by Chamber members at a nominal fee through the Chamber Business Resource Center. WEBSITE & NEWSLETTER ADVERTISING – Both of these products are furnished electronically and offer a variety of advertising opportunities for your business including flyers, ad copy and special promotions. For details and pricing, contact our Director of Operations at (928) 754-4121 or info@bullheadchamber.com “SHOP LOCALLY” SERVICES GUIDE – This is a tri-fold 4-color processed shopping, dining, and services guide offering you the opportunity to get the word out about your business to people visiting our area for perhaps the first time. We provide hundreds of these brochures for soccer tournaments, ladies softball tournaments, conventions, and many other special events. It’s an informational visitor’s guide to local services complete with an area map that fits nicely in a purse or glove box. OFFICIAL REGIONAL MAP – This professionally produced map of the Colorado River region includes Needles, California, Mohave Valley, Bullhead City and Laughlin, Nevada. Each year the map is updated through GPS technology and includes advertising opportunities for Chamber businesses. These maps are provided to all our local real estate offices, hotels, and sent to people all over the country through email requests.
Directories and Listings
CHAMBER MAGAZINE & BUSINESS DIRECTORY - Our magazine, “Bullhead City Profiles & Images” is published annually and serves as the official directory of all our Chamber members along with their address and phone numbers. Other information in the magazine includes area demographics, hospital and airport information, clubs and organizations, education, recreation and helpful phone numbers. This added information makes this a very popular publication and it is distributed in the Visitors Information Center and the Business Resource Center as well as by mail to persons seeking information about our area. Copies can also be found in hotel rooms both in Bullhead City and Laughlin. The directory listing is a definite benefit for our members and is provided free of charge. MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY – The Membership Directory is maintained by the Chamber Business Resource Center and contains the business name, contact person, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and web site addresses of all the Chamber members including their business category. This listing is maintained on a daily basis to insure accuracy and to make sure up-to-date information is available for our members and the general public. This is one of our primary resource documents and is available through the Chamber Administrative Office. SPECIALIZED CATEGORY LISTINGS – In addition to our membership directory and the listings contained in the Profiles Magazine & Business Directory, we also provide handouts listing certain specialty categories. These include such listings as hotels, schools, restaurants, churches, golf courses and mobile home/RV Parks. These handouts are very popular and provide a means for visitors to take the information with them in a convenient form. It’s another form of referral service to drive business to your door.
EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS - Several educational meetings are scheduled throughout the year with a variety of subjects and interesting topics suggested by Chamber Members. One of these programs is an occasional informal gathering we call “Egg’s-N-Issues” which takes place in the morning with breakfast served free of charge by one of our member restaurants, courtesy of a sponsoring business. A variety of topics range from business finances and taxes to burglar alarm systems and marketing programs, to name a few. S.C.O.R.E. COUNSELING - The Service Core of Retired Executives (SCORE) provides business counseling to those interested in starting a business as well as to those who currently own a business. These professional counselors have “been there, done that” and are optimistic enough about small business to offer their time and talent to assist others to avoid the mistakes and pitfalls of starting up a new business or struggling with problems in an established business. This service is also provided to our members free of charge. SPEAKER LUNCHEONS – This activity can be labeled as a networking, educational, and informative event all rolled into one. Each quarter, the Chamber sponsors a luncheon at one of our top quality restaurants in the area and features a guest speaker. The topics are broad in nature and cover national, state, and local issues that matter to business. Prices are reasonable and a good return on investment SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION – We maintain the latest information booklets on a variety of topics exclusively for the small business owner, which are provided to us by the Small Business Administration office in Phoenix. If there is a topic or issue of interest or a concern to a member, we will either provide the information on the spot or immediately liaison with the Phoenix office or other agencies to obtain the information as quickly as possible. SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER - We have partnered with the Small Business Development Center of Mohave Community College and they are able to provide you with an array of information, advice and assistance with marketing, employee relations, business expansion, record keeping, employee benefits, leasing equipment, accounting, time management, inventory control and much, much more. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT – This is an integrated program consisting of a series of eleven monthly sessions designed to build leadership skills and awareness of issues affecting our community. The program promotes community leadership by developing knowledgeable, skilled leaders committed to building bridges of understanding across diverse segments of the community to ensure a high quality of life and positive growth.
RESOURCES & INFORMATION SERVICES
“THE BUSINESS FRONTLINE” – Produced on the first day of each month, our newsletter is distributed electronically as an email to all of our members as well as anyone interested in receiving information about business in the Bullhead City area. We have a distribution of more than 800 recipients and gaining popularity each month. The publication focuses on business issues, e-commerce, employer/employee relations, healthcare issues, views on technology and public policy, law enforcement issues relating to business, tourism information and scores of articles from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, state and federal agencies and current legislative issues effecting business. It’s a hot item and belongs on your in box! Advertising FLYERS – Another resource provided to our members is the opportunity to display your flyers on our Website for endless distribution to viewers and potential customers. Located in the “Chamber Marketplace” portion of our Website homepage, your flyer is posted in color allowing the viewer to click and bring up the flyer to read and/or print out. The huge benefit is the tremendous exposure on the world wide web and the savings in printing costs; we only need your design in one of several electronic formats and we’ll do the rest. Whether it’s announcing a 50% off sale, a new product line or just to provide an awareness tool, adding your insert into the Chamber Website is an economical way to reach large numbers. A nominal fee is charged to cover insertion and only Chamber members may take advantage of this benefit. INTERNET RESEARCH – We review and research more than fourteen (14) tourism and business related websites daily. We do this each morning before we open our doors for business because we believe it is our responsibility to stay on the leading edge of information that affects your business! Market Research - Membership in the Chamber provides you with sources of information for business trends and forecasts, real estate development, business opportunities, availability of capital and financing and employment opportunities. National Organization ALLIANCE - Your membership signifies that you are an associate member of the United State Chamber of Commerce. Providing you another source to assist you and keep you in the mainstream with more than three hundred pages of electronic information at your fingertips.
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
LOCAL LEVEL – Chamber staff members work closely with local city government officials, the Mayor and City Council. Staff members also serve on various boards and commissions including the Mohave County Airport Authority, Bullhead Regional Economic Development Authority, Bullhead City Capital Improvements Advisory Committee, and City Commercial Sign Sub-Committee. STATE LEVEL – The Chamber has a very good working relationship with our state legislators in both the Senate and House of Representatives. We have been called to testify on several occasions in hearings on issues that matter to business. FEDERAL LEVEL – Your voice does not stop at the border! Chamber administrators stay in close contact with members or our congressional delegation and serve on the Transportation Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as the Aviation Sub-Committee. We meet with officials in Washington, D.C. on a frequent basis to discuss business issues that relate back here in rural Arizona. Federal agencies on our “frequent list” include the Departments of Commerce, Transportation, and Education as well as our Senators and Representatives.
MISC. OTHER BENEFITS
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE DISCOUNT PROGRAM - A complete health care discount program is available through the Chamber’s partnership with the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce and the America’s Schools Program. Premiums for the coverage also help to fund programs in the K through 12 schools in our area. We offer one of the most extensive consumer-driven healthcare savings programs in the nation. The ASP National Benefit Card Program is designed for both insured and uninsured persons and employer groups, individuals, families, and the self-employed. By aggregating the purchasing power of hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide, we enable our members to take advantage of deeply discounted rates usually reserved for only insurance companies and healthcare plans. STATE FUND WORKERS COMPENSATION DIVIDENDS – Chamber members who are State Fund policyholders can earn additional bonus dividends because of its partnership with the Fund. Recognizing the stability and superior service the Fund offers, the Chamber has partnered with the State Fund in order to make this bonus available to our members. Participating members in good standing that maintain an individual policy with the Fund, share in a bonus dividend over and above their earned individual dividends. CONFERENCE CENTER AND AUDITORIUM FACILITIES – Whether looking for a location for your company’s next regional conference or just the right place for group training meetings designed with breakout sessions, the Chamber is the ideal facility for hosting a professional activity. There are 2400 square feet in the Conference Center and nearly 7000 square feet in the auditorium complete with full service kitchen and bar facilities. These facilities are provided to our members at substantial discounts below the non-member rates. TOURISM - We continue to take advantage of tourism grant funding, providing us the ability to maintain our marketing and promotion efforts for Bullhead City and the surrounding region.  This has increased the number of visitors to the area, which has translated into more economic opportunity, more customers and increased revenue for our business community.  Among other things, we continue to focus on tourism and it has paid off in terms of the drive-in market and its impact upon how we as a business community fare in terms of the economy. We routinely promote the region in eighteen newspapers across the east coast, Chicago, Texas, and New Mexico. Special projects target California and Canada with emphasis on what to see and do throughout the upper Colorado River region. Advertising in state-wide tourist information centers and Chambers of Commerce can be found throughout Arizona and our billboards move around Mohave County regularly.
* Networking * Government Advocacy * Credibility * Learning Opportunities * Benefits and Discounts * Community Involvement	* Publicity * Referrals * Chamber Media * Volunteers Programs * Business Resource Center * SCORE Counseling
We are serious about business and we support, promote, represent, and market our Chamber Investors in a number of innovative as well as traditional ways.  We look forward to working together for your success and being a good business community advocate.  We hope you will make the smart decision to partner with the more than 600 other businesses that have decided to take an active roll in their community through Chamber membership while receiving a host of programs and services designed to help businesses of all sizes grow and prosper.