Membership Benefits
Advertising and Promotions
Ogunquit.org is the #1 resource for information on our area. You get an online listing of your business, address, and phone number. We are mobile-friendly so your information is easily readable. Digital upgrades are available to include expanded company information, photos, videos and more.
Your 200-character listing in this handy Chamber Visitor's Guide includes your business name, phone number, mailing and web address, as well as a short description of your business. You are also included in the Guidebook’s center grids, providing handy “at a glance” information. We print & distribute 20,000 Guidebooks, and a downloadable version is available on Ogunquit.org.
Your brochures, business cards and flyers are available in the Welcome Center and for visitors to take-away. Our team will call you when inventory runs low. Ample comfortable seating and tables are available, so tourists can browse the inventory and help themselves to brochures.
Ogunquit.org features a calendar where you can list any promotion, special entertainment, wine dinners or tastings, seminars, etc.
Each week, all year round, we produce this convenient flyer which lists a variety of entertainment, events and activities in the area. Attached to our member newsletter, you can easily print and post for your staff, customer or guests’ interests. If you wish to inform your fellow members and their patrons about your own event, send us an email with the details or enter it on the calendar at Ogunquit.org.
We maintain an active Facebook page and Instagram handle. Share your own social media activity and increase your communications through the chamber’s social media platforms.
Share your Facebook page and we’ll link to ours through the “Likes” section. We try to post items of interest about our members, so be sure to tag us in your posts. (We do remove posts promoting non-member businesses.) Because we have deemed our Facebook page a “negative-free zone,” only positive posts are permitted.
- On Instagram, we follow any member we know about, and will often re-gram their photos. We also take photos as we go around town and use these to highlight members.
The Welcome Center maintains an area where your flyers can be displayed. Only member businesses and local non-profits can utilize this space to promote their events and promotions.
The Chamber sends an e-newsletter to our 6,800 strong visitor subscribers. We produce this e-newsletter so guests and residents are informed of things to do and of any specials or sales to enjoy while in Ogunquit. Members can include a special, their entertainment happenings and/or a printable coupon for the newsletter.
We are open to the public at least six days a week, year round. Visitors drop in, pick up brochures and menus, and ask questions of team members on duty. It is our policy to refer only Ogunquit Chamber member businesses. The Welcome Center staff is trained to “refer” members and does not provide recommendations or ratings. Lodging referrals are generated by Ogunquit.org using an algorithm that gives equal representation to all members.
Networking
This is a great way to bring members and guests directly to your business. Hosts do not pay a fee for this networking opportunity, but they do provide refreshments and raffle prizes for the event. The Chamber promotes the event to advertise your business. If unable to host an event at your place of business, we encourage you to partner with another member to co-host an event.
Have a voice in determining the Chamber’s direction. Board of Director positions open each year, and directors are voted in by the membership at large. Our variety of committees maintains open membership, so you can join at any time.
We offer a new business or new owner of an existing business a traditional ribbon cutting, complete with oversized scissors and red ribbon! We’ll invite board members, town officials and local media to join us in welcoming you to town. Provide a paragraph about your business, and we’ll add it to the ribbon-cutting photo to send to area press.
Membership Programs
All Chamber members may accept Gift of Ogunquit gift cards. These gift cards are sold via a third party vendor by the Ogunquit Chamber and can be redeemed at any participating business. To process the gift card, simply enter the card number into your POS system as a "card not present" transaction. If you participate, your company information is included in the merchant list which accompanies every gift card sold,
All members get a chamber window decal to post prominently. Studies have shown that consumers trust and therefore spend more money with businesses that are Chamber members.
Member e-newsletters are emailed to all members weekly. Any staff person can be added to the newsletter list at no charge. Newsletters keep you apprised of member news, upcoming events and advertising opportunities, topical news and legislative issues. We also invite you to share your business news in a brief sentence or two, or we’ll attach your pdf file to share with the membership. These newsletters are your primary information source and reference to chamber affairs.
We have vendor opportunities at several large Chamber events such as Ogunquit Pride, BonAire, and OgunquitFest. As a member you receive 50% off the standard vendor fee.
During high season, we track lodging availability as well as what restaurants are open throughout the seasons and on holidays. This mutual benefit pushes referrals to those businesses that are open and with availability while relieving calls to those who are at capacity or closed.
We will reward members who encourage membership to others. For each new member who lists you or your business as recommending them to the Chamber, you will receive a $25 credit on your account.
Business Services
All members have access to our complete list of members at any time. As a Chamber member, you have the option to request that we not include your email address in any lists we distribute. Member lists are not available to non-members, except as public information published in the Visitor's Guide.
We offer use of our permit if you are sending more than 200 pieces of US mail in one mailing. On average, the bulk mail permit saves you 18 to 24 cents per piece. Ogunquit Chamber policy requires that any mailings sent using the permit must first be approved by the Chamber; no political, personal, offensive, or non-Chamber member mail may be sent using our bulk mail permit.