We have an exciting new development with one of our local businesses here in Independence. As some of you may know, eCreative has made some additions to their service offerings. They’ve been actively working with a company owned by Bobby Labonte, NASCAR driver, in Charlotte, NC, developing an activation marketing program that brings national corporations to grassroots markets like ours. While the program they’re working on with Bobby’s company is more national in scale, through this effort, a new marketplace program was born to benefit local businesses as well.

They’ve developed a program that gives small businesses, like most of us here in the Independence area, the opportunity to run special promotions, special offers, coupons, etc. and put them in front of thousands of racing fans for an extremely reasonable price. The program has a 1 year shelf life and consistently promotes businesses throughout the year. Now when you see the word racing I’m sure many of you might think, “ Oh no, not another sponsorship deal”… Nothing in this program has anything to do with sponsorship. It’s a great mix of actively promoting businesses and products at events, via an online hub with downloadable special offers, driving traffic through PR and magazine advertising, and also driving traffic through broadcast television programming. There are multiple pieces to the program that make it a wise investment for any small business in our area.

Here’s the great part for all of you, our chamber members… they are offering this program at a discount to active members of the Independence Chamber of Commerce. The program, which is normally $299/year is being offered to you for $249/year. That’s $50 off the normal program rate. Additionally, a percentage of all program proceeds generated from our community will be reinvested back into our chamber to help with events and other items benefitting you, our members.

We’re very excited about this program and are extremely pleased that eCreative has chosen to work with the chamber to give our members another great benefit. We believe this program will make a great impact for any of you that decide to participate. In today’s economy, it’s promotions like this that keep people coming through your doors.

When they call to discuss this opportunity with you please give them a few minutes to explain how it can be of benefit to your business. I’m quite confident that you’ll see that what they’re offering is a great amount of exposure for a very low price. If you’d like to go ahead and talk to someone at eCreative about the program you can call Brian Lillie, Tiffany, or Tara and one of them will be happy to give you all the details.

You can contact them at 319-334-5115.

Fusion Forward is a proud member of the Independence Area Chamber of Commerce. They are avid supporters of the Chamber of Commerce and the work they do with promoting area businesses. Fusion Forward is pleased to offer a 15% discount to all active Independence Area Chamber of Commerce Members on all services.

If you are interested and/or curious in the cost and process associated with having Fusion Forward design your website, you are encouraged to take advantage of a free 15 minute consultation. There are no obligations. Simply contact them to schedule a meeting and talk about what your specific business goals are and what type of site or marketing materials would be a good fit.

About Fusion Forward LLC

Products and Services

* Website Design & Development
* Programming Services
* Graphic Design of Logos and print materials i.e. business cards, letterhead, brochures & other marketing pieces

Office hours are 8am-5pm Mon-Friday or by appointment. You can reach us anytime via email at info@fusionforward.com.

The office is located in the Enterprise Plaza building at 2349 Jamestown Ave in Independence. The building was formerly known as the Hawkeye Tech Center.

You can reach them by phone at 334-9300 or online at www.fusionforward.com. Some of their work is featured in the portfolio section on the website.

It is their goal to offer affordable and professional design services to area businesses. A simple professional website doesn’t need to cost thousands of dollars.

* 63% of consumers and small business owners turn to the internet first for information about local companies
* Of this group 82% use search engines to find those companies.
* Consumers have become accustom to instant information. When they search for services and products online they are likely to visit the websites of the businesses listed in the results to obtain more information and get an idea of what that company is all about. If you do not have an online presence, you are missing out on doing business with these consumers and they may turn to a competitor. A website provides an instant professional image and gives you an opportunity to promote your products and services 24/7.

Tegtmeier Piano Tuning is pleased to offer a Chamber of Commerce membership discount! To learn more, please go to www.stringsandhammers.com/chamber for an overview! Please note that you must use this link since this is an exclusive discount for Chamber of Commerce members only and is not linked on the public website.