Email Marketing
Constant Contact, is an email marketing and online survey company. The Grand Bend & Area Chamber of Commerce uses Constant Contact for our email communications and online surveys. Our membership entitles Chamber members to enjoy a 25% discount off of the price of a Constant Contact subscription.
Grand Bend & Area Chamber of Commerce — Website
WebLink! Advertising Program — $50, $63
Your Chamber membership includes a free listing for your business on this website. This basic listing will include your business name and contact information.
Weblink Standard: $50 annually Increase your web presence with WebLink Standard which includes:
- all the basic contact information for your business, plus
- a description of your products and services, and
- a hyperlink to your website.
WebLink PLUS: $63 annually Make your web listing complete with:
- all the Weblink Basic elements (contact information, detailed description, hyperlink to your website and email address, plus
- a photo of your business or a product and service photo and
- a google map showing your location in the area.
Add Web Badge Design Services:
Web Badge Advertising — $10, $7, +$5
Information on this website is organized into key categories that helps visitors find businesses and services. These key categories are named to match a visitor’s thought process and goal: Stay, Play, Dine, Shop, Services. Your business is listed under the appropriate category.
Increase your visibility through a “badge” ad that appears on the category’s main page or sub-category page.
Main Category Page (i.e. Stay, Play, Dine, Shop, Services)
For $10 per month (minimum 3 month commitment), your ad appears on the main category page appropriate to your business. For example, if your business is a restaurant then your ad would appear on the main page of the Dine category. Your ad can be linked either to your listing on this website or your own website.
Sub-Category Page (i.e. Insurance, Real Estate, Clothing & Accessories)
For $7 per month (minimum 3 month commitment), your ad appears on the sub-category page appropriate to your business. For example, a real estate business ad would be placed on the Real Estate sub-category page. Your ad can be linked either to your listing on this website or your own website.
“Top-of-Page” Positioning
For an additional $5 per month (minimum 3 month commitment), your ad appears at the top of the page, ahead of all the other ads. If more than one business wishes to obtain the first place positioning for the same month, a random lottery system determines who wins that spot.
Badge Ad Specifications
- Width: 210 pixels maximum.
- Height: 210 pixels maximum. Different heights are acceptable; there is no minimum height.
- File format: web-ready jpg or gif
- File size: 16 kb maximum.
- Colour: can be colour, grayscale or black and white
- Animation: none
Design Services: Our designer create a banner ad for you. Cost — $35.
Mini-Sites On Our Website — $150, $450
Don’t have a website yet? Not ready to make that level of commitment yet? Consider a Mini-Site on this website.
Contact Susan Mills at 519-238-2001 or email info@grandbendtourism.com if you are interested in either of these two options. Since they are tailored to your needs and somewhat dependent on the amount of content you may have, these items are not available for purchase online.
Standard One-page Mini-site — $150
One-page, templated web presence. It offers more space to tell customers about your business. You decide what that text should be, whether simply a fuller description with more contact information and map, or more photos, or testimonials from happy customers – you decide.
This option includes a JavaScript Slideshow.
Example of a one-page mini-site: A Southcott Summer Cottage Rental.
Custom Three-page Mini-site — $450
Our designer works with you to provide a unique and custom design specific to your business. Have your mini-site’s look and feel built around your logo and print advertising. This type of design cohesiveness reinforces your branding.
Typically, this option includes:
- homepage,
- contact us page with a basic form-to-email submission (name, email, phone, inquiry/comments)
- products and services page
- one JavaScript slideshow
- inclusion of your business logo, corporate colours etc.
Additional pages are possible at additional cost of $100 per page.
Grand Bend & Area Chamber of Commerce — Visitor’s Guide Book
Annually, we produce 30,000 copies of a full-colour, 60+ page booklet that’s distributed throughout Ontario in key tourist welcome/information centres.
Geared towards visitors to our area, whether vacationers or business people, the book showcases key tourist attractions, includes maps of the area and offers businesses the opportunity to be listed in the book and to place ads (full page, half page, quarter page, eighth page). More Information.