It’s too late this season.
Not trying to be a downer just stating the obvious — it’s December.
However, next season there is no reason to create more work for your chamber and your staff. I don’t think there’s anyone in the chamber industry who needs more work, right? That industry demands a lot of the people who work in it.
How Can You Ease the Chamber Workload?
The quickest way to lessen the workload is by automating the things you can. You can’t automate human interaction. As adorable as R2-D2 and BB-8 are, no droid (or app) can interact and engage with your members. So let’s skip that idea.
You can, however, automate a purchase. When it comes to chamber or community currency, many chambers insist on selling it the old-fashioned way through in-person sales during chamber business hours at the chamber office. If this is the only way you are selling your chamber gift certificates, you are short changing your sales.
The two most popular times people buy gift certificates is as a last-minute gift and at night when they have time after their busy day has ended. Unless you stay open into the evening, you will miss these very important purchases. If people can’t buy gift certificates when it’s convenient for them, they’ll go elsewhere. Guess who allows you to print out online gift certificates or email them to the recipient? Pretty much every big box store around and…
Conpoto.
A chamber currency program from Conpoto not only allows your community to buy online but they can select to print the gift certificate out or send it via email directly to the recipient. This allows you to give this e-commerce power to your members, which is a very amazing opportunity. Most small businesses do not have an e-commerce platform that allows for that.
You’re also saving your staff the administrative headache of someone coming in to buy gift certificates during a very busy time of year.
- You give purchasers the gift of convenience.
- You give participating merchants the gift of e-commerce and gift certificate options.
- You give your staff a break from having to process gift certificates.
And everyone’s holiday is just that much brighter.
Start thinking about next season and saving yourself some time. Contact us today.