Don't imagine it anymore... its here and available today.

Read all about it at: www.LocationCarousel.com

Are Your Items Made in the United States?
Chamber of Comerce members around the country are connecting and displaying their USA made products through the Buy Local Program automation. When they post and select "Made in USA" then their items are added to this resource guide automatically.

Businesses who would like to display their products and services here at no charge are encouraged to join a participating Chamber of Commerce.

Call 1-855-233-6362 to request the location of a Chamber closest to your location.

Meporter Citizen Journalism and Hyperlocal News Reporting System.

Welcome to the mobile newsdesk. Say goodbye to next day stories. Help share breaking news through the Chamber of Commerce website, your community and the world on location.

Now with a unique localized reporting module for Chambers of Commerce. During your Chamber Nation implementation phase, we'll offer to integrate this powerful news reporting system at no additional cost.

Please visit: www.Meporter.com

Our Chamber Nation engineering team received this compliment today from a customer.

When our program helps others grow that really makes us happy.

Here is what our customer had to say:

Chris & Chris,

Just a quick note to share and say, "Thanks!"

The changes we just finished for the custom pages in the TCS system lead to signing a Property Manager and acquiring 16 new Homeowner Association Member Accounts all using the TCS system.

It is just the beginning! Again thanks for everything and for making this so much fun! Your hard work and attention to detail is really appropriated. You guys rock!

Robbin

Chambers of Commerce throughout the country are providing unique solutions to their members.

Members look to their Chambers of Commerce for guidance in areas of business development.

For this reason Chamber Nation has created the first ever Mobile Publshing System for self publishing of mobile applications.

This creates a LOW COST mobile development platform and a great on-going revenue model for the Chamber.

We invite you to read all about this at the Mobile Publishing System website.

July 7, 2011 - Chamber Nation

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Chamber App Store. A store dedicated to providing great mobile applications for Chambers of Commerce at affordable prices.

"Most Chambers of Commerce have a very limited budget" says Richard Scully, CEO of Chamber Nation.

All communities must be online through many different channels. This includes Print, Website, Social Networking and Mobile App Marketplaces.

We are hopeful that the Chamber App Store will satisfy this need in even the smallest communities where budgets are tightest. Chamber Nation knows all about small communities... our community here in Quincy California has a population of about 5000, but we serve tens of thousands through the Internet. It goes to show how important it is to promote small communities and their member businesses througout the nation.

We are releasing the Chamber Mobile App on July 15, 2011.

Be sure to visit: www.ChamberAppStore.com to learn all about it.

Our new Chamber Nation online training and podcasting center is almost ready to go. A few more technical things to do and we should be providing even better training. We hope to hold inter-active meetings with our customers via web-cams soon. This will help us become more personal with our clients. We like that!

We also hope to imporve our town-hall member meetings through this type of technology too! We've got a lot to do nation-wide so this is just another way to make that process a bit more efficient along the way.

BY STEVE NORDER SNORDER@COLLEYVILLETEXASCOURIER

COLLEYVILLE - Economic development - most often translated as attracting businesses to the city and retaining the ones already here - is at the top of Colleyville's to-do list.
City officials offer studies to business prospects on the number of people within a 17-minute drive of Colleyville Boulevard and Main Street - 254,000 people. They have provided SCORE consultants with a City Hall office, so they can offer free business planning advice. On May 16, the city sponsored a business appreciation evening at the Colleyville Center, to say thank you to local business owners.
Marty Wieder, the director of economic development, likes to repeat, what he calls a "truth," he heard many years ago to explain his attitude toward business. "Businesses will locate where they can profit, but they will stay where they're wanted."
To that end, Wieder, along with his marketing coordinator, Ashley Stathatos, are continually working on ways to help the local merchants become more competitive. They have dropped the former campaign slogan of Keep It Colleyville as being too close to phrases used by nearby cities. The new slogan is Colleyville. Close Buy. The words are accommodated by a stylized graphic of a purse with a heart on it and a fork and a spoon on either side.
"What I like about it is that not only does it point out the shopping portion, but the dining," Wieder told the City Council at an April presentation.
More than 80 merchants attended the second-annual appreciation event.
"It is most important for us to say thanks to local businesses," Wieder said.
Mayor David Kelly welcomed the participants. "We depend on our businesses," he told them. "You are a major part of our community."
Booths, most representing the city departments, were set up. Kelly noted that the city can offer a sophisticated mapping system to help someone locate the perfect site for a store, or provide a retailer with a security check by a police officer. Both services are free.
Stathatos showed a new web-based service the city is developing in conjunction with the national web company, Chamber Nation. "It is designed to help drive consumers into Colleyville businesses," she said, adding that it will be at no cost to the merchants.
The system will allow retailers, restaurant or other business owner to have a website presence, Stathatos said. "You can create your own website or a profile page or link to an existing website," she said. "You can upload videos, pictures, slide shows or link to your Facebook or Linkedin pages. All of that can be seen through this website."
Merchants can also create discount coupons, she said. And they would be able to sell directly to customers off of the website.
Stathatos said that using the platform is easy. "If you can drag something from one place to another [on a computer screen], that's all you need to know to do it," she said. "Literally, it takes two minutes to figure it out how to use it."
Wieder said Stathatos will review each page before the public sees it. "We want to be assured that we don't have businesses in neighboring cities that want to get close to this and tag onto it," he told City Council members at an earlier briefing. "This is strictly Colleyville."
As of last week, Stathatos has not signed up the minimum of 40 local businesses to take the new site public, though she is continuing to sign them up. The idea, Wieder said, is to have enough businesses on the site to make it worthwhile for people to use it.
Although the merchant is not charged for having a presence on the website, the city pays $350 per month for the service from Chamber Nation, Stathatos said. While Chamber Nation is not affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it is connected to the Green Business Chamber of Commerce, a cooperative service of local chambers that promote green business practices, according to its website.


Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/30/3113851/colleyville-says-thanks-to-businesses.html#ixzz1OLLwLydd

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There has never been a better time to be in business. Whether you own a business, or are responsible for any aspect of marketing or business development, this unique experience is for you. Only 30 seats are available for each event. Receive a 15% discount if 3 or more people from your company register.


To register* or get more information please call Kylie at (800) 690-0810 or visit our event registration website at: www.GrowingYourBusiness.com.* If you are part of the Chamber Nation network please call Kylie at (800) 690-0810 to register for your free seat that is sponsored by Chamber Nation. Remember their is a limit of 3 sponsored seats per event date.

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19 South 1st Street, Suite B2404
Minneapolis, MN 55401
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Event schedule and upcoming cities

Day 1: 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Day 2: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Denver, CO
June 3rd - 4th

Phoenix, AZ
June 5th - 6th

Minneapolis, MN
June 10th - 11th
July 8th - 9th
August 25th - 26th

New York, NY
June 24th - 25th

Chicago, IL
September 9th - 10th

Nashville , TN
(Murfreesboro)
October 14th - 15th

Boise, ID
October 25th - 26th

Chamber Nation is thrilled to announce the formal release of our Real Work Experience program for communities nationwide.

We invite Chambers of Commerce to partner with their local school, college or university so that members can get the most from the Internet.

You may be impressed... to find out please visit:

www.RealWorkExperience.com

When you join a Chamber of Commerce, you become part of an institution. It's a team of residents, growing local business and promoting the community as a whole.
As a Chamber member you gain immediate access to the "Most Trusted Source for Local Information" - the Chamber of Commerce.

As a Chamber member you become a part of a vibrant group of businesses with the advantage of a local referral network.

We're helping grow memberships one phone at a time.

ChamberMe is designed to provide an overview of Chambers of Commerce and to introduce the next generation of business people to the advantages of membership in their local Chamber of Commerce.

Remember…The Chamber of Commerce is the most trusted source for information on local businesses and services. Chamber Nation would like to introduce a new generation of business people to the advantages of Chamber membership regardless of the size or location of the Chamber of Commerce.

ChamberMe is a free gift to all Chambers of Commerce and sponsored by Chamber Nation.

www.ChamberMe.com

We are proud to have launched our new member training and support application for Chamber of Commerce members who are part of the Chamber Nation network.

You can view this mobile application by using the browser on your cell phone and going to:

M.ChamberNation.Me