Promote your business through:

• Free listing in the Membership Directory.

• Free listing on the Chamber's Internet web site and free link to your site.

• Direct mail advertising to our 500+ members with an insert in our monthly newsletter for only $55 ($25 for non-profit organizations).

• Chamber referral service - we only refer to Chamber members.

• Participation in promotional activities of Applefest®, the region's largest event. An advertisement on the placemats is seen by over 200,000 people and on the brochure by over 100,000 people. As a sponsor, your name is on the brochure and placemats, on the "Big Apples" located at Twelfth and Liberty Streets for 6 weeks prior to the festival, and repeatedly in the Chamber newsletter.

• Networking opportunities through attending or hosting a "Business After Hours".
  Bring our members and their guests into your business (or to another site where you've displayed your promotional material) to learn more about you.

• Access to the Chamber's membership list on disk or labels.

• Display of your promotional material on the Chamber's information rack in the office.

• Use of the Chamber's bulk mail permit number for all your business bulk mailing needs - a $160 value.

Be part of a unified voice in state and local government

• The Chamber provides a forum for its members and the community to communicate with legislators and other representatives of government concerning local, state, and national issues.
• The Chamber works for business-friendly legislation and regulation. In recent years, it has successfully lobbied to retain subsidized local commuter air service and enact worker's compensation reform. It has also worked closely with city officials to improve zoning in the city of Franklin.

Support the Chamber's efforts to:

• create and maintain jobs by recruiting and retaining retail, commercial, professional and industrial businesses.
• improve education at all levels, including developing a better-trained work force for area business and industry.
• improve the local business climate through promotion of the area to potential developers.
• promote the area to visitors, recruiting conventions and group and individual tourists.
• provide relocation information to people who are looking for a better place to work and live.
• boost the local economy by organizing Applefest® and supporting other events that draw people to the area.
• applaud progress in the area with its Gold Shovel Awards, which recognize businesses which have opened, expanded, renovated, or introduced new services.
• celebrate community involvement and the spirit of volunteerism with its Man and Woman of the Year Awards.

Provide affordable, comprehensive health care coverage for you and your employees

• Comprehensive health coverage for one or more employees through Chamber Choice. This plan offers coverage by Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield including dental and vision plans, as well as other great value-added benefits.

As a new member, you'll:

• be highlighted in our Chamber newsletter.
• receive your first newsletter insert for free (a $55 value).
• be invited to attend a Chamber board meeting and to attend Business After Hours.