Executive
Directors Report for February 8, 2000
Applied
for fee waiver:
Adult Day Care of Richmond
New Not-for-Profit Members
New Basic Members:
Al Gentry
Jillian's Dolls-N-Stuf
Existing Basic Members Invoiced:
David Fulton
New Expanded Members:
Existing Expanded Members Invoiced:
Bowers Building & Remodeling Corp.
New Sponsoring Members -
Ray Ontko & Co.
Existing Sponsoring Members Renewed Their
Membership:
Wayne Bank & Trust Co.
Existing Sponsoring Members Invoiced:
Computer HELP!
Richmond-Wayne County Chamber of Commerce
Paust, Inc. (change of member status)
GOLD Members
PLATINUM Members
Services Invoiced:
Advertising/Marketing
Chamber's Community Profile ad.
Pal-Item ran a weekly ad run (1" x 1 column, twice a
week) and a business card ad for the Chamber insert.
101.3/WKBV for January & February (twice a day, twice a
week)
Running "WEATHER mentions" once a week, 6 times a day on
KICKS96 through the end of February.
Received article in the Chamber's Pal-Item insert in January - good
response.
Log Analysis for
January.
Ran weekly and posted on the Members Only
page. Monthly user sessions increased 25% over December 99 and page
views increased 35% over December 99. January figures reflect a 196% increase
over the same time last year.
1999 Yearly Figures
show an outstanding 100,426 users requesting 310,586 pages. It's
difficult to do a true comparison as we did not purchase the logging
software until mid-February '99, but a rough estimate is that we nearly
tripled our visitors/hits from the previous year.
Achievements for
January/February
- Ran invoices and
followed up on late payments.
- Researched software,
downloaded and installed Discus Discussion software.
- Researched,
compared, and began writing a sample updated Posting Rules policy.
- Changed the
"featured link" and welcome message regularly.
- Took pictures around
the community to keep the photo fresh.
- Do
"housecleaning" on web site to make checking of hyperlinks
less time-consuming.
- Wrote letters and
spoke with several current and potential customers regarding
membership.
- Check search engines
to see how we're ranking. - Submit when necessary.
On-Going Projects for the coming month
- Work on IRS
designation with committee.
- Continue to look at alternative funding sources.
- Compete setup of
Discus discussion software.
- Continue to update older pages to reflect the newer
design/font/sidebars of updated design.
- Prepare letter for distribution to restaurants and motels touting benefits of our
Commerce package.
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