Membership Benefits

Business Referrals
The Chamber receives thousands of phone calls each month. People call us wanting to know what retail, manufacturing, and service businesses we are familiar with. The Chamber refers only current members. You know how valuable one good lead is. We refer business to our members’ everyday.

Business Resources
We provide information that can help you operate your business. If you need data, we either have it or can get it for you. Demographics, city maps, telephone books, economic development in our area and much more. The Chamber is the leading business information source for the area.

Chamber Plaque
We are extremely proud to have you as a member. We provide a membership plaque to all members when they join. Each year when you renew your membership, you receive a new year designator to indicate your membership is current.

Chamber Web Page Listing
This World Wide Web Site provides our members with exposure all over the world. Customers, tourists or anyone accessing our site can pull our members up by name, category or through a search. This is a valuable benefit in today’s competitive market place. We will also link your web site to ours at no additional cost. Customers, tourists or anyone else can access your site from ours with a click of the button.

Committee Participation
Many people want to get involved with their community. Getting involved with Chamber committees and task forces is a perfect way for a busy person to impact Dodge City. We understand how busy everyone is and most meetings last an hour or less.

Economic Development
Economic development is what we do everyday. Greeting new people to town and referring them to you. Working with our local businesses to find employees, market on the Internet or just do a better job with their retail advertising. Fighting to keep our air service. We are in business to serve our members anyway we can. We work with Dodge City/Ford County Economic Development Corporation to recruit new industry to the area and to ensure that we keep the valuable companies we already have.

Educational Opportunities
We sponsor many affordable seminars and workshops featuring top speakers to help keep you and your staff sharp. We try to bring the latest information to you here, so you can send more staff and save the travel and accommodation expense of having to travel for quality seminars and training.

Government Relations
We study and analyze issues of interest to Dodge City and its business community, to take advocacy positions on those issues, and to communicate the Chamber’s viewpoints clearly and strongly to our membership, elected officials, and the community at large.

Grand Openings/Ribbon Cuttings
A new business or just a change (remodel or addition) in your current business will qualify for a grand opening or ribbon cutting. We offer grand openings and ribbon cuttings to current members only. Members of the Chamber Ambassadors and staff members will attend. We bring the ribbon, the camera, the scissors, plus you get photo coverage in the next “Business Advantage” newsletter and in the Dodge City Daily Globe on the Community Pulse Page.

Leadership Training Programs
As a Chamber we motivate the emerging leaders and develop their potential for community leadership. Participants experience team building, consensus building, collaboration and various 21st Century Leadership training capacities. They also become acquainted with the opportunities, realities and challenges of our community.

Marketing Opportunities
We offer our members a number of opportunities for marketing. See the marketing page.

Networking
Chamber activity gives you the chance to meet new business people and new customers. There isn’t a more productive place to network with business people than at Chamber functions.

Subscription to “The Business Advantage” Newsletter
Our monthly newsletter keeps progressive business people like you informed about what’s happening in the area. It is a source of information delivered to you every month.