Boots on the Ground Membership
What is included in The Helm Group Boots On The Ground Membership Package
Business card distribution
- We will get your business cards into the hands of people who are looking for your services.
Monthly Flyer mail outs to our extensive mailing list
You may provide us with flyers and we will get these into the mailboxes of homes all throughout Dufferin-Caledon.
Ad sign
(with your business cards attached) in a premium high-traffic location such as convenience stores and gas stations with minimal to no competition to your business – You send us your artwork and we create the ad, print it, and mount it in one of our high-traffic locations
Monthly E-Newsletter that goes out to 2000+ emails
- We send out a monthly community e-newsletter focused on community events. - We try to keep this newsletter based on the community, but we do plug different businesses each month.
Online social media exposure: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Shop Orange ville.com
- Each time you do business with another business in The Helm Group or vice versa, or if you recommend someone to do business in The Helm Group, we do a shoutout all over social media thanking you for doing business with them, or thanking the other business for doing business with you.
- We also include in the shoutouts a direct link to your website as well as hashtags for your business.
- Not only does this get you instant brand recognition, but it helps build your SEO (i.e. where you rank on Google)
- We also do a big acknowledgment and give free advertising the following year for the company that did the most business within the group.
- For the top 3 businesses that did the most business, we also do a big acknowledgement and they receive a certificate thanking them for doing business within our local community.
- On top of all that, if we see your social media posts, we will like & share them so that your reach can go further.
- Our staff monitor the local Facebook Q&A groups daily to answer questions on where to do business in the local area We are constantly watching the Facebook Q&A groups and whenever someone asks for recommendations of a local business, we are able to provide solid recommendations.
Open House Networking Events
- We will help you host an Open House Networking Event at your location (if applicable)
- This is also another great networking opportunity
Online Membership Directory
- You will be included in our online membership directories where people look for local businesses
- We will get a blurb about your business that will be put in our directories, and also sent out letting people
know that you have joined The Helm Group.
Monthly breakfast and dinner networking events
- We host a monthly breakfast networking event and a monthly dinner networking event at local restaurants
- This is a great chance to get out and meet other local business owners
Multiple lunch networking events each month
- These come up more sporadically (we refer to them as a "Code Blue") but they are a great chance to go for lunch and do some extra networking