Business Directory & Relocation Guide
This award-winning full-color magazine is a Chamber member directory and a relocation guide for the Lakes Area. All Chamber member businesses are mailed a copy. Copies are available for the public at all Chamber offices, member businesses, and through the Chamber website; as well as an online version complete with clickable ads and articles linking to sponsor websites. In addition, the publication is inserted in a spring issue of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. October advertising deadline.
2010 Rate Card
2010 Business & Relocation Guide
2009 Business & Relocation Guide
2008 Business & Relocation Guide
E-Connection Newsletter
A bi-weekly e-newsletter emailed to 2,500 Chamber representatives, advertising deadline is one week prior.
Sponsorship Contract
Fun Guide: Breezy Point, Crosslake, Pequot Lakes Areas
This is the local guide to activities, shopping, dining, services, and more. Produced in partnership with Echo Publishing, the book is widely distributed locally, and mailed to consumers interested in these areas. The advertising deadline is October.
2010 Rate Card
2010 Fun Guide
Making Waves E-Mail (Member to Member weekly e-mail)
Promote your business in the Making Waves weekly e-mail sent each Friday to all current member representatives (approx 2,400). Use this cost effective communication tool to promote your business's events, promotions, barter items, etc. You supply the 100-word promotional text, if an email address or website is part of the text it will be automatically hyperlinked. The fee for each weekly "Making Waves" promotional blurb (up to 100 words each) is $35 and is due upon booking (payment can be made with credit card). Reduced cost is $30 for 5 of more issues booked over a 6-month period.
Sign-up Form
Map: Area-Wide with Community Insets
This is the best area-wide and community map available. Produced with state-of-the-art mapping software, this map is widely distributed throughout the area and beyond. The map features a detailed layout of the entire lakes area on one side and area communities on the other including Brainerd, Baxter, Crosslake, Pequot Lakes, Nisswa, Crosby- Ironton, Pine River, and Breezy Point. They are distributed throughout the Brainerd Lakes Area and by requests via phone, mail or e-mail, as well as at advertisers locations upon request.
Tourism E-newsletter
Promote your business in the electronic newsletter that the Brainerd Lakes Chamber sends out 12 times a year to its database of 12,000 email addresses of individuals who have specifically requested tourism information on the Brainerd Lakes Area. The E-newsletter is also sent to more than 2,500 Brainerd Lakes Chamber members. Up to three sponsors are featured in each e newsletter issue and space is reserved on a first come, first serve basis. Sponsorship includes one graphic (logo or photo) with a link to your webpage and a 50-character description.
Past Issues
Sponsorship Contract
Visitors Guide for the Lakes Area
This is the primary publication distributed at the Brainerd Lakes Area Welcome Center, the Pequot Lakes trailside building, and the information center in Crosslake. The publication is inserted in magazines or newspapers targeting a specific demographic market in the Twin Cities. The advertising deadline is August.
2010 Visitor Guide Advertising Contract
2010 Visitor Guide
2009 Visitor Guide
2008 Visitor Guide
Web Display Advertising (explorebrainerdlakes.com)
The Brainerd Lakes Chamber website has continued to grow in popularity with a total of over 14 million hits and of those, over 305,000 were unique visitors over the last 12 months! Take advantage of this unique opportunity to enhance your visibility in the business directory and provide a direct link to your website with exclusive advertising opportunities.
Your Chamber Connects
Your Chamber Connects is sent monthly on the second Thursday to Brainerd Lakes Chamber members and includes information updates important to business leaders in our community. This mailing is distributed to the primary contact for all Chamber members. Total distribution: 1,700
Sponsorship Contract
Envelop Advertising and Insert Contract
