AdverTEES Program
The Brainerd Lakes Chamber will again be hosting the promotion for the summer of 2011 called The AdverTEES Program. Chamber member businesses can be promoted to Brainerd Lakes Area visitors through “walking billboards” at the three Brainerd Lakes Chamber Welcome Centers. With participation in the AdverTEES Program, you will receive a walking billboard for one week, front counter display of your brochures, online elements which consist of Facebook posts, tweets on Twitter and a blog update on the Tourism blog at explorebrainerdlakes.com...as well as exposure of your business to the hundreds of people that walk through the doors of our area Chamber Welcome Centers on a monthly basis. AdverTEES with the Brainerd Lakes Chamber.pdf
Bulk Mail Permit
The Chamber purchases a for-profit and non-profit bulk permit number each year and members may use that permit number for their direct mailings and avoid paying $150 per year for their own individual bulk permit. Postage charges are additional and paid to the post office; however are at a greatly reduced rate by using bulk mail.
Chamber Bucks
Bucks are universal gift checks that can only be spent at participating member businesses. There is no cost to accept Bucks. Over $80,000 in Bucks was spent at member businesses in 2008. Merchants accept Bucks similar to a travelers check and deposit them with that day's transactions. The Chamber sells the Bucks to consumers and businesses at face value. The money received is deposited into a special Chamber Bucks account, so you know that when you accept Bucks, there's money in the bank to cover it. Nearly 130 businesses accept Chamber Bucks. Chamber Bucks.pdf
Display Window on South 6 Street at Brainerd Office
The display window at the Brainerd office on South 6th Street is available at no charge for members to promote their products or services for a one-week period on a first-come, first-served basis. Chamber Display Window Guidelines
Event Email
Sponsor a one time e-mail distributed by the Brainerd Lake Chamber to its email list (approximately 2,400) promoting a chamber event (CHOW, Business After Hours, etc) being sponsored by your business. The Brainerd Lakes Chamber will include a graphic or logo (200 pixels x 100 pixels) for the sponsor, and up to 400 characters of text and a link to the event page on the Chamber website for registration, or you can create an ad for that space which can be 575 pixels wide X 1000 pixels tall, must be in the format of either JPG or GIF, and can be no larger than 200KB in size; that will link to the event page on the Chamber website for registration.
Sponsorship Contract
Gold Package
The cost of a Gold Package is $240/year ($20/month; one year commitment). It includes free hot deals on the Chamber website ($25/week to purchase without gold package). Members can log in at any time and post a hot deal. Each hot deal posted is emailed to the hot deal subscriber list, about 12,000 email recipients. A Hot Deals icon is featured next to the business in the search results. Gold packages receive an additional link to their web site from the search results page, a 25 word description of the business on the search results page, an expanded description and images on their page on explorebrainerdlakes.com.
Hot Deals (explorebrainerdlakes.com)
Enter information about a special offer or sale to drive more customers to your business. The "hot deal" automatically expires based on the date-range you select. A special "Hot Deals" icon appears next to your listing in the search results and on your web page. An e-mail is automatically sent to an opted in e-mail list each time a "Hot Deal" is added.
Current Hot Deals
Job Posting (explorebrainerdlakes.com)
Post your job openings quickly and easily on explorebrainerdlakes.com website.
Current Job Postings
Member-to-Member Discounts
The Chamber's Member-to-Member benefits program provides a discount on products or services offered by a Chamber member business to Chamber members. The benefits are promoted through regular communication with members, brochure, internet, etc. Benefits can be offered to managers or owners of member businesses, or all employees. There is no cost to participate in this special program. Member to Member Discount.pdf
One-Time Use Member Representative Listings or Labels
Members can obtain lists of Chamber members for direct mail campaigns for one-time use. The lists include the business, name of representative, and address. Email addresses are not distributed; members can sponsor the bi-weekly e-newsletter to reach members via email. These lists are not available to non-members. All rates are plus sales tax.
| One-Time Use Only Mailing Labels/List |
Primary Representatives (1,000 names)* |
Secondary Representatives (2,400 names)* |
Partial List by select options |
| Printed |
$75.00 |
$140.00 |
$25.00 minimum (up to 200 names) |
| Sent in excel format |
$50.00 |
$90.00 |
$20.00 minimum (up to 200 names) |
Welcome Center Display Advertising
Reach individuals that are visiting the Brainerd Lakes Area by advertising your business in our Welcome Center lobby! We have approximately 1,750 individuals that walk through the doors of the Welcome Center in a given week with that number tripling per week in the summer months! This equates to almost 150,000 individuals a year that will see your advertisement. Lobby display advertising is a wonderful way to promote your business to vacationers, residents and potential residents. Lobby advertising contract April 2011.pdf
