Benefits of Membership

Member Events & Meetings

Becoming a member of the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce is your invitation to a series of events and educational opportunities designed to help you maximize your network with other members.  They include:

• Invitations to educational workshops including our winter Business Educational Series
• Monthly Member Networking at our Business After Hours
• Green Series Breakfasts
• Tourism Board Meetings
• New Member Receptions
• INFOmania Trade Show
• Annual Meeting
• Annual Legislative Luncheon
• Golf Tournament
• Cape Cod Symphony – Pops Goes the Summer annual event
• Annual Christmas Parade and Falmouth Holidays-by-the Sea Weekend
• Annual $10,000 Raffle and Gala Cocktail Party

Marketing & Communications

The Falmouth Chamber of Commerce serves as a valuable resource for your marketing and communications needs. Our public relations efforts result in numerous opportunities for members to meet and host national and international members of the media. Travel writers from around the world visit Falmouth as guests of the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce.  In the last year alone, reporters from Travel + Leisure, Boston Globe, USA Today and Channel 5 Chronicle have featured Falmouth Chamber of Commerce members in their publications or television segments.

Our advertising opportunities help extend our member's marketing budgets. Media vehicles include:

• Annual Official Guide to Falmouth
• Falmouth Enterprise via Coastlines monthly newsletter
• Website Enhanced Listings
• Weekly e-newsletter sponsorships
• Annual Program and Event Sponsorship Opportunities
• Wedding Planner
• Meeting Planner
• Unwired Village – 15 Free wifi hotspots with website advertising visibility
• Co-op opportunities in the MASS Getaway Guide and booth participation at international tradeshows.

Economic Development

Sales Leads
Harness the buying power of thousands of visitors that come to Falmouth for vacation, a meeting or convention, or as part of a group tour.  Falmouth Chamber of Commerce members receive:

• Chamber staff referrals
• Receipt of Visitor Leads through our Website via a password protected section of the site
• Receipt of FIT and Group Leads from attendance at international trade shows
• Receipt of Meeting & Convention leads via MOTT
• Receipt of Group Tour leads via MOTT
• Opportunity to participate in Familiarization Tours for meeting planners, travel writers and group tour planners
• MASS Getaway Guide leads for participants of the Co-op section

Business Referrals
Residents and members inquire each week looking for businesses in Falmouth. The Chamber refers to only member businesses and members have access to membership mailing labels and lists.

Political Voice
As a united voice for local businesses on legislative issues affecting Falmouth, the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce works with local, Beacon Hill and Washington DC leaders on your behalf.

Unwired Village
At each era in history, an infrastructure innovation has driven economic growth. The transportation of goods and information has, and continues to be, essential to business and economic development. Today, high-speed access to the Internet takes its place along side these traditional types of infrastructure as a critical ingredient to economic development and the ability to compete as a business or a region in the global marketplace. Widely available access isn't a social nicety - it is an essential for any business or region to compete today and in the years ahead.

In addition to economic development, its presence can drive regional education, provide a jump-start to small businesses, and support to the creative economy.

Ultimately, wireless access provides us with unbounded mobility. This is a key underlying concept for business competition today and it describes a way of working that lets us conduct business, connect with each other, and manage our lives from virtually anywhere. Today, Falmouth has 15 wifi hotspots established, bringing the Upper Cape into the forefront of telecommunication technology for the state and providing a regional base for economic growth.

For a view of Falmouth's hot spots visit http://www.falmouthchamber.com/documents/Unwired-HotSpot-Map.pdf

Local Cape Chambers Collaborative – LC3
This is a coalition of 13 local Chambers of Commerce that strengthens the service delivery of our organizations and furthers our individual and collective missions. LC3 operates as a working committee formed from the leadership of participating local Chambers of Commerce on Cape Cod for the purpose of collaborating to effect direct positive impact for their respective organizations and the group as a whole. The three primary goals are Best Practices, Advocacy, and Economic Development. The economic power of the region, local chambers on the Cape represent 6,000 businesses which now have visibility on the worldwide web at www.CapeCodCommerce.com.

Member Resources

Visitor Information Center
Located within the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce, the Falmouth Visitor Information Center serves more than 16,000 of your potential customers each year.  Member benefits include:

• One-on-one concierge service to the travelling public
• Referral by Chamber staff to your business
• Brochure distribution at the visitor center and through our cooperative relationship with the Mashpee Chamber visitor center
• Post special events in display cases at Visitor Center and on Main Street kiosk

Web Site
Our Web site is continually updated with content to assist with prominent ranking with web search engines.  As a Falmouth Chamber Member you receive:

• Listing of your business, address and phone number
• Link to your website
• Opportunity to highlight your business with enhanced content and premium placement of your business listing
• Activities included in electronic Calendar of Events
• Online Reservation Sales
• Members-only access (confidential)
• Opportunity to link your website to the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce website
• Use of image library and story ideas

The Official Guide to Falmouth
Distributed through the Falmouth Enterprise, through Regional Visitor Centers and by phone and website requests worldwide, 70,000 hard copies and 15,000 website downloads available and accessed 24 hours a day, keep visitors up-to-date on Falmouth offerings and local businesses.

Business Counseling
Renowned business expert, Cliff Robbins, PhD, the Senior Business Advisor for the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is available to meet by appointment on Wednesday's at the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce offices. Receive high-quality, in-depth counseling and advice to enhance entrepreneurial growth. To schedule an appointment contact Tammi Jacobsen at (508) 673-9783, ext. 104.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
As a member of the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce, you are given permission to link your company's website to the Chamber's site. By doing this, you are increasing your search engine optimization – where and when you show up when consumers do an online search related to your business – making Falmouth more visible to the world.

Grand Openings & Ribbon Cuttings
For the opening or expansion of your business, let the FCoC create the buzz. With press and Ambassadors in tow we can give the event real impact!

Medical & Dental Insurance
Access to group plans for yourself and your employees and the latest on legislative efforts at the state and federal level and advocacy on healthcare reform.