Your business is added to our area’s most active and respected business referral source. When responding to the hundreds of daily inquiries from businesses and individuals who are seeking products, services and information, Chamber members are our number one priority.

You are included in an alphabetical and categorical listing for your business in the Chamber’s Bakersfield Guide and Business Directory. This is THE premiere “shop locally” resource that is distributed annually to the entire Chamber membership and to thousands of businesses and individuals looking to relocate to or visit Bakersfield.

Your company is listed and linked free of charge on the GBCC’s website, which averages over 15,000 visitors per month. That’s over 15,000 potential customers just waiting to learn more about YOU.

You have access to vital information through the Chamber’s website, monthly newsletters (print and electronic) and e-mail advisories. All of these tools keep you up-to-date on issues, trends and other factors affecting your business.

You have access to a variety of valuable and effective business promotion options available exclusively to members.

 • Display your brochures and flyers in the Chamber’s lobby.
 • Market your business products and/or services through the monthly Metro Business Journal, which is distributed to over 2,800 member representatives.
 • Submit your public service announcements for free publicity in the Member News and Announcements section of the monthly newsletters (electronic and print).
  • Put your business on the map – the Chamber’s, that is – and reach more than 12,000 people a year with your message.
 • Sponsor an event or host a mixer.
 • Spotlight your grand opening, expanded facility or commemorative event with a ribbon cutting or ground breaking ceremony, which draws attention to your business.
 • Expand your website presence with an enhanced listing that costs pennies per day.
 • Be a website sponsor, where 25% of visitors exit directly through sponsor links.

Your investment in the Chamber carries a measurable return for you. Ninety-three percent of your membership investment is tax deductible as a business expense. And for less than the price of a cup of coffee a day, you join Bakersfield’s largest business-driven organization that operates from the premise that business is the source of our community’s strength, vitality, diversity and quality of life.

Promoting business promotes our economy and our community.