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
