Hello Members and Friends,
Welcome back to the grind! We hope you had an incredible holiday season and a happy and healthy new year. The Chamber is looking forward to 2011 with a packed calendar of events, a renewed sense of purpose and a positive outlook! 2011's first Coffee & Cards morning networking event will be hosted by Capital One Bank on the 11th. RSVP today!Perplexed by all the tweeting and facebooking out there? Our seminar on Social Media scheduled for January 20, can help you figure out which social marketing tools are right for you and how to get started optimizing your virtual footprint. RSVP today!
Visit our new website today! Several of the areas on the website are still in progress as we are building out content and functionality to better serve your needs. For now, find information, events and basic resources and members can create an online account. Members who create online accounts can access the members only section, pay bills online, upload job listings and post-events as well as many other special details.
Best,
The GVCCC
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| Coffee & Cards: Start the Year Right by Networking Your Business! |
Join the Chamber at the first Coffee & Cards of 2011 hosted, by Capital One Bank.
Coffee & Cards is a morning business card exchange. Members can bring a guest or come solo and there is no fee to attend. Guests can only attend once. Non-members may attend once without being sponsored by a member for a fee of $25.
Tuesday, January 118:00 AM - 9:30 AMCapital One Bank21 University Place at East 8th Street
RSVP by Monday, January 10 to cat@villagechelsea.com or 212.337.5923.
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| Marketing Seminar: Social Media | |
Facebook, Twitter, Linked in...You may have heard of them, you may even be using them, but what is Social Media? What social media sites are right for your business, how are you to best use these tools to reach and engage more people and how can these programs be used to expand your customer base?
If you are considering social media avenues or are currently using them and want to optimize your exposure, this seminar is for you.
Thursday, January 20
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Venue TBD
Members FREE
Non-Members $20
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VillageChelsea.com Update
| www.villagechelsea.com got a face lift! We have released our new website format. While we are still working out some of the kinks and loading more resources and information, we hope you will take a peek and that members will create an online account. A separate email will announce when the website is fully loaded!
Here is what you can expect from the new site:
- Enhanced Member Directory - search-able by key-words, business name and location. Members should check the member directory to ensure that all your details are correct on the site.
- Online Accounts - Members can create an online account. Here you can edit your details and key word search terms yourself. If you prefer, you can click here to download and print a details form. Just fill it out and fax it back to us at 212.924.0714.**
- Functionality - Members who sign up for online accounts can upload events, job postings and edit their member directory listing as well as pay dues and submit articles.
- Resources - Here you find helpful information on owning and operating your business, your community boards, and local elected officials.
- Advocacy - Find out information on issues affecting businesses in our service area.
- News and Events Calendar - both chamber-hosted events and community events. Members with accounts can upload their own events.
- Much, much more...
Check back with the site regularly as we will be further building out the business resources section and updating events and other information daily!
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| Discount Program - Sign Up Today! | |
The Chamber Discount Program is a great way to market your business both within the Chamber, and to the public. Use this program to turn Chamber members into customers and give those who may not yet be loyal customers, a reason to spend their dollars with your business.
The Discount Program provides you with the opportunity to offer discounts just to the membership, just to the public, or to both. Member-to-member discounts are published in the members only section of our new website. Public discounts are available to everyone who visits our new website and goes to the discounts page. You can offer a different discount or sale every month if you like! Click here to print the discount program sign up form and fax it back to the chamber at 212.924.0714. Coming soon, members will be able to sign up online at www.villagechelsea.com. |
Referral Program: Membership for Free?
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As a member of the Chamber, you already know about the many benefits of membership. Why not spread the word and get even more businesses involved? By referring members to the Chamber in 2011, you can reduce your 2012 dues and even get your entire dues paid through this program!
The referral program is designed to reduce investment rates for current members and encourage the membership to help grow the chamber. In order to take advantage of the program, you must sign up! You can sign up online or download the form here and fax back to the Chamber.
Click here for more details!
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January (Website) Member Profile:
Roasting Plant
| The Chamber's new website has a monthly profile of a member. Chamber Champions will all be highlighted in this new feature, where you can read a quick snapshot of what makes each business special. For the first profile on the new website, we highlighted a St. Vincent's area business.
The Roasting Plant, is a locally owned, independent, NY based business, and a Chamber member since 2010. They see themselves as a technology company that happens to sell coffee, and we at the Chamber can attest that their coffee is incredible! Click here to read the whole profile.
**Mention the profile or the chamber's new website when you order a regular cup of coffee at the Roasting Plant on Greenwich Avenue and get a free upgrade to their SuperCharge coffee!
Roasting Plant
75 Greenwich Avenue
New York, NY 10014
Hours:
Sun - Wed: 6am - 11pm
Thurs - Sat: 6am - 12am
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Unclaimed Funds with the State - Are You or is Your Business Owed Money?
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For your protection, banks, insurance companies, utilities, investment companies and many other businesses are required by State law to surrender inactive accounts to the State. These accounts are known as "lost," "abandoned," or "unclaimed" funds.
The Office of the State Comptroller serves as custodian of this money. If you can prove you are entitled to the money, they will gladly return it to you, at any time, without charge.
In conjunction with the Comptroller's office, the Chamber has identified MANY of our members who have unclaimed funds. Regardless of whether or not you think you may be owed money, you should check. Give the Chamber a call at 212.337.5923 and we will show you how to find your unclaimed funds or you can go directly to www.osc.state.ny.us.
For those of you whom we previously contacted, your forms are in! We will call you this week - what a great way to start the new year!
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Holiday Party - In case you missed it...
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 | | Mary Ellen Goodman (in purple), of the Greenwich Village Bed & Breakfast, retired after 40 years of service to the Chamber and the Community. Dana Wolf (D&D Consulting), David Goldstein, Board Member (D&D Consulting) and Chris Romano (Las Chicas Locas). |
The Chamber's holiday party was held at member restaurant Las Chicas Locas on December 14. We honored long-time chamber member, also a Director on the GVCCC Board, Mary Ellen Goodman for nearly 40 years of service to the community and the Chamber. She sold her business and retired in 2010. We wish her the best in her next endeavor.
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| Upcoming Events |
Coffee & Cards
January 11
Marketing Seminar: Social Media Marketing
January 20
Full Meeting of the Membership
January 26
Expanding Your Business with Google Part II
February 17
After Hours Mixer with Community Board 4
February 23
After Hours Mixer and Tour of the Rubin Museum
March 16
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Press Coverage of the 7th Annual Safe Cities, Safe Streets!
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Our Neighborhoods
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The GVCCC services businesses and individuals located in:
Greenwich Village
West Village
East Village
Union Square
Flatiron
SOHO
NOHO
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