Benefits Of Membership

Marketing Edge

  • Discounts on participation in Chamber activities
  • Visibility with local residents, visitors, your customers
  • Positive publicity for Nyack
  • Steerage to your local business
  • Promotional lift from Chamber public relations / advertising campaigns promoting our events and other special activities

What you get:

  • Business Members get a discount on street fair booth (Regular Business Fee: $175; Member fee: $90)
  • FREE booth at our Farmers’ Market ($65 value), one time per season
  • Discounted advertising rates in local media outlets
  • Free promotion through the Chamber’s e-newsletters
  • Special price on the Chamber’s e-blast promo program ($55 per blast): reach over 1,000 local and county residents, merchants and members
  • Expanded exposure: 15 million+ media impressions annually through coverage in print publications, radio and electronic channels; 90,000+ visitors attracted annually to our Farmers’ Market, street festivals, Halloween Parade and other special events

Business Support

  • Your voice in local government and business development decisions
  • Introduction to key local officials
  • Collaboration with other interest groups in Nyack
  • Communication and participation in special community events and emergency response (for example, Sandy relief)

What you get:

  • Business Support
  • Information sharing on business issues, jobs available, etc.
  • Chamber advocacy at all Village Board meetings on Members’ behalf
  • Advocacy with Village Trustees on key issues such as parking, street fairs, policing, marketing of Nyack
  • Merchant advocacy in strategic planning for the Village, Planning Board activities and retail mix planning and policies
  • Your representative with other Nyack groups that impact the health of our community and businesses (ACADA, Friends of the Nyacks, Nyack Marketing Association)

Networking

Reasons to join:

  • Opportunities to connect with Chamber Members, business experts, community leaders
  • Participation in Chamber-sponsored business groups

What you get:

  • General Membership Meetings provide an opportunity to socialize with other local businesses, and include topics of business interest, such as sales through social media, education costs/taxes, local arts events and programs, law enforcement, good neighbor issues
  • Late Night Business Association that represents our bars and restaurants – plus a new organization for retail merchants, service providers, and other daytime businesses– to pool marketing efforts, and support commerce in the Village