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Your Involvement Enhances
Your Membership!
Chamber Membership Application (Word
Doc)
Chamber
Membership Application (pdf)
Open doors to resources, recognition, support, community exposure, and fun! When you
join the Chamber, you receive:
- A member plaque for your wall
- A
member decal for your door/window
- A weekly e-mail with current events
- Your
company listed at www.clintonvillechamber.com
- And much more...
Chamber Partners
with Constant Contact for Newest Member Benefit.
The Clintonville
Area Chamber of Commerce has teamed with Constant Contact ® , the
leading email marketing service for small business, to bring a new and exciting
way for Chamber members to stay in touch with their customers. The Chamber
has utilized Constant Contact for our “E” newsletter for the past three years.
“We have found Constant Contact to be both an effective and easy to use tool.”
said Chamber President Jenny Smith in announcing the new benefit. “Our members have
had a very positive response to our “E” newsletter and recently we have started
utilizing the Constant Contact surveying capabilities as well.”
Chamber
members will receive an exclusive discount when they sign up for the service
through the Chamber. There is also a 60 day “Free Trial” available to
members. Chamber members who are already Constant Contact customers are also
eligible for the discount program. They simply need to send their account user
name and a request to receive the Clintonville Chamber discount to:
businesspartner@constantcontact.com.
Your account will be immediately updated.
In just minutes
you can:
· Communicate
consistently with your customers and prospects
· Send
great looking, professional email newsletters and announcements
· Track
which customers are opening your emails and what links they are clicking
· Build
and manage your email addresses.
We think our
members will find this program to be a very useful tool in finding
new and creative
ways to communicate with their customers.
To learn more about the great Constant Contact features
click HERE
To Sign Up
for your FREE 60 Day Trial Click below
Sign Up For Your Free Trial
Chamber and Anthem
Now Offer On Line Quotes
For Health
Insurance With ChamberSaver.
The Chamber and our group health insurance partner
are now offering "online" quotes for health insurance. Simply click the
logo.
You Didn’t Join the Chamber – You Hired Us!
The more involved
you are with the Chamber, the more you benefit from it. The Chamber strives to
increase the value of your membership investment with a variety of services.
Membership Plaque
Our members like
doing business with other members.
Consumer Referrals
The Chamber refers
hundreds of consumers exclusively to our members each year.
Discounted Advertising Rates
Membership labels:
$35
Web placement ads:
$25 / month
Directory Display
Ads—varies
Worker's Compensation Administration
Chamber members are currently saving over $149,000 annually on their Worker's
Comp premiums, you can too! Contact Genny Hart at CompManagement
genny.hart@sedgwickcms.com
Human Resources Online Services
Strategic Business Benefits can offer you on-line human resource management.
Contact Tom Paplaczyk at
tom@maketherightmove.biz
for more information.
Discounted Membership to Columbus Sports Connection
Offered to Chamber Members and their employees.
Click
HERE for more information.
Annual Community Directory
This directory is distributed to 15,000 businesses, government officials,
Clintonville/Beechwold households, potential residents, and chamber investors.
www.clintonvillechamber.com
Your business gains additional exposure to thousands who visit our website every
month.
Events & Programs
The Chamber is
always looking for ways to promote your business. Here are some of our on-going
programs;
·
FREE
Business After Hours Networking
· FREE New
Member Coffee Hour
· Quarterly E-Newsletter
· Monthly
Opportunity Luncheons
· Annual
Recognition Dinner and Silent Auction
· The Student
Citizen Breakfast
· Cruise the
‘Ville and Business Showcase
· The Annual Golf
Classic
· Business
Seminars
Tax Law Changes are Driving Employer Healthcare Financing
by
Tom Paplaczyk, Benefits Committee Chairman
The employee
benefit arena continues to be a challenge to businesses of all sizes.
As employers
struggle with funding these ever-increasing costs, it appears that for the
foreseeable future, the best way for employers to mitigate these rate increases
are to
become familiar
with and probably implement one or more of the following programs;
a premium only
plan(POP), a flexible spending account(FSA), a Health Reimbursement
Arrangement (HRA)
and or a Health Savings Account (HSA).
Let’s review these
briefly;
A Premium Only
Plan allows employers to withhold employee health insurance and other
benefits’ contributions on a “before tax” basis. By implementing this type of
plan, employees may elect to have their gross earnings reduced, but increase
their take home pay. The savings to the employee is the Social Security/Medicare
and Federal, State and local tax savings, amounting to 10-30%. The employer also
saves on Social Security/Medicare match, as well as wage based costs such as
worker’s compensation, general liability and others. This savings is at least
10% of the premiums the employees pay on pre-tax basis.
A Flexible
Spending Account (FSA) builds on the above plan. With an FSA, employees can
“set-aside” a portion of their pay on a pre-tax basis to pay for expected
medical expenses. The IRS guidelines for what is reimbursable under an FSA
greatly exceed coverage on most medical plans. Employees can save to pay
dental, vision, hearing, deductibles, co-payments, even over-the-counter (OTC)
medications. The employee and employer both benefit as above.
A Health
Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) is a newer twist on an old tax law.
Basically, an HRA is a promise of an employer to reimburse certain medical
expenses to covered employees and or their dependents. This type of arrangement
allows an employer to participate in “partially self funding” insurance claims.
The results can be amazing. One of our clients implemented this type of plan and
has saved over $35,000 in premiums in seven months! This savings came from only
18 employees and their families. The flexibility and potential premium savings
make this a must see for employers, particularly with 10 or more employees.
The newest of these
changes is the Health Savings Account (HSA). The HSA was introduced
January 1, 2004 as a innovative approach to getting consumers to participate
more in utilizing cost-effective healthcare. The concept it to provide a high
deductible ($1,000 to $5,000) catastrophic health plan with a tax-deductible
Savings Account that can be used to pay expenses below the deductible. The
employee has the incentive to use this money wisely, as it is their own personal
account. In addition, whoever contributes to the Health Savings Account gets to
fully deduct the contribution, in some cases saving the participant $1,500 in
income taxes! These plans seem best for companies with fewer than 10 employees,
as the employers in this market will often contribute to the high deductible
insurance coverage, and let the employee save the money for the Health Savings
Account.
Putnam Benefit Consultants uses new technology and debit
cards to streamline the use of these programs. For more information, visit our
web-site at
www.putnambenefitconsultants.com. We offer a discount to Clintonville
Chamber members for our program.Make sure your benefit broker or advisor offers
these options to you and your employees.
Business
Promotion
Promoting your business is the number one reason the
Chamber exists. Here are activities:
- The Clintonville Community Phone
Directory. Only Chamber members receive yellow pages classified listings,
highlighted alphabetized white pages listings, and discounts on advertising.
The directory reaches 15,000 Clintonville homes and businesses.
- Free
link to your business Web site from www.clintonvillechamber.com
- Regular communication/story
placement with media.
- Monthly calendars in This Week News.
- Special
events like Cruise the Ville.
- Participation
in High Street Guide.
- Student Citizen Awards Breakfast
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