Feature Items
Chamber President’s Blog
The
Chamber President or Vice President can communicate directly
and informally with your members online. You can invite them
to respond and engage them in a lively debate, which can increase
your site's traffic and inspire visitors to return.
We make it easy to create a journal or blog on your website.
Visitors can read through current and past entries, leave
comments and even subscribe to your blog using RSS (Real Simple
Syndication). Blogs are often used to comment on local breaking
news stories or current events in the community, which makes
them a perfect addition for your chamber website.
Search Box Function
Search box to locate information for the entire site can
be located at the top every page. This provides visitors with
another very useful tool to locate information on the site.
This search tool will locate any information on the site;
staff, board members, chamber members, events, news, demographics,
community info, etc…
Photo Galleries

Your chamber can have beautiful user friendly photo galleries
for different events. Chamber staff is able to upload any
image of ribbon cuttings, luncheons, workshops and any other
functions.
Picture Slide Show
Pictures change dynamically each time a visitor comes back
to the home page. Chamber staff is able to upload any image
of ribbon cuttings, luncheons, workshops and any other events.
Export Online Contact Info
Site will include a contact form that when submitted by the
user will collect and upload contact info directly to a database
on the host server. The chamber staff will have the capability
to download this info via online admin in a CVS spreadsheet
format and will easily be able to import the data into any
in house database they currently use. This database can be
used for payments, marketing plan; direct or email marketing,
etc., without any necessary data re-entry.
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Track Results

Chamber staff can view reports on a statistical counter showing
how many hits they are receiving on each page and what keywords
visitors are using to find chamber info, members, events,
community events, news, etc…This is valuable information
for further website development.
Printer Friendly Pages
Make it easy for your visitors and members to print out
your pages for their own use without using a lot of their
own ink. Printer friendly pages are available throughout the
website.
Social Networking Links
Take advantage of the latest trend in social networking
icons and links on our chamber page leading to your other
accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc...
Survey Function

Encourage your visitors to be more involved with your chamber
site by offering surveys on a variety of topics of your choosing.
Staff can pick subject involving the chamber or something
happening in your community. This is a great way to increase
more traffic to your site and make and your chamber more visible
and a valuable community resource. Visitors will submit answers
to the survey and the results show live online instantly.
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Ray Hernandez, Executive Director - Kyle Area Chamber of Commerce
www.kylechamber.org.
NOTE: On June 30, 2009, at the Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives
State Conference in Lubbock, Texas, the Kyle Area Chamber
of Commerce and Visitors Bureau earned an award for BEST website
design & development in its category in the entire state
of Texas!
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