You can either upload a list of your members into our system, and invite them to join using a custom link for their business, OR, you can use a custom join hub link to email your member database. 

No. Each member receives a 100% free basic WhirLocal account, which gives them a powerful marketing platform to help them build their online presence and social proof. We do offer several optional upgrade options if they want more marketing features and power. 

When one of your members joins your Buy Local “Show The Love” Chamber Hub, they get a neighborhood business profile on the WhirLocal platform. This neighborhood business profile links back to your hub, building awareness of your Chamber of Commerce advocacy efforts and can drive visitors to your website or Enjoin membership sales engine. You provide more value for your members, which gives them more reason to join. 

Yes. Since this is a fully-hosted technology solution, our platform will work with any website. You can either link directly to it (easiest), embed it on a page of your website (your webmaster can help), or map a CNAME record on your domain (requires domain access and is a little more technical).

For example, you could create a CNAME subdomain called showthelove.yourchambername.org, and refer to this in all of your marketing efforts to help members show the love to each other. 

Yes! We know Chambers have been hard-hit by the loss of membership dues and event revenue. With our affiliate program, you can earn 20% of any paid upgrades that your members might take advantage of. See more about our affiliate program.  

Yes! We have an easy way to feature your higher tier members in your hub with a simple “Click to feature” button functionality. 

Yes! You can call your hub anything you want as well as add your logo, cover image, and description.  You also get full control over what content you show in your hub. 

Your membership directory is a great way to promote your members on your website. However, most membership software platforms are very limited when it comes to helping your members show love with reviews, recommendations, and referrals for their fellow members. Our platform is proven to help your members build social proof that they can leverage in all of their marketing efforts, and it allows you to add more value to their Chamber membership. 

Yes, we operate a buy local “neighborhood” model that promotes all small businesses in the neighborhood. Small local businesses need our support now more than ever. However, with a “Show the Love” Chamber Hub, you have the opportunity to promote your members only and grow your membership at the same time.

You could try cobbling together different technologies to try and do something similar, but it would be very difficult. We’ve invested well over a half-million dollars building our marketing platform so you can leverage it for a small fraction of that. 

Yes. Unlike membership software platforms, we’ve built our platform so that small businesses and organizations can belong to multiple hubs with the same WhirLocal business profile. They might belong to multiple chambers of commerce, an association or two, a referral networking group, and niche-specific hubs.

This means they don’t have to log into multiple places to update their business information, and they can automagically push content (positive testimonials, news, projects, special offers, etc) to multiple hubs all at once. This is a valuable benefit to your members when it comes to marketing and technology and can help them survive and thrive.

You bet! Member testimonials are a great way to build social proof and show the love. We have easy social sharing buttons and create a beautiful review image for every review. [See Example]

Using your members’ content (reviews, recommendations, blog posts, projects, offers, etc) is a great way to show the love for your members AND fill up your social media channels with great engaging content.