Join the Chamber

One form, five minutes. An invoice follows, and your business joins thirty-four others in the district.

First pick your category

The fee is set by how many people you employ, and you choose it on the form. Everything membership includes comes at every level.

$100

Home-based business

Per year

$200

1 to 3 employees

Per year

$300

4 or more employees

Per year

Then fill in the enrolment form

It asks for your business name, a contact, your mailing address, a business and cell phone, an email, and which category you fall into. Nothing else.

After you submit it, the Chamber sends an invoice for the annual fee. There is no payment to make on the form itself.

Open the enrolment form

Business name
Contact name
Mailing address
Business phone and cell phone
Email
Your category, from the three above

Your directory page

Once the invoice is settled, your business gets its page in the directory — the thing Google can find when somebody searches for what you do. To build it the Chamber needs a little more than the enrolment form asks for:

Your business category, so people can filter to you
A description, 40–60 words, in your own words
Opening hours, and a street address if customers come to you
Your website and social pages
Your logo, as its own image file — not a poster with the name baked into it

Send those with the form, or to info@ldchamber.com, and the page goes up with everything on it the first time.

A note for whoever builds the enrolment form next. The six fields above are the difference between a directory that fills itself and one somebody has to chase. Collect them at enrolment, while the business is already filling in a form and motivated to be found, and the member's page can be live the day the invoice clears.

Ask for them a year later and you are writing thirty-four emails, which is exactly the position this project started from.

Talk to the EDO first

The monthly meeting is for members, so it is not somewhere to come and look around before deciding. The Economic Development Officer is. She will tell you what the Chamber does and does not do, what the room is actually like, and whether it is worth the fee for a business like yours — and she has no commission riding on the answer.

Several of the Chamber's free events are open to anyone, member or not. Those are another way to see how the Chamber works before you join.

Ask the EDO Free events coming up

What $200 buys, concretely. A directory page with a quarterly report of the traffic it sent you. Access to Chambers Plan rates no firm of three could get alone. Training run locally and priced for members. And somebody whose job is to find the grant you had not heard of.