AFFINITY PARTNERS
THE CHAMBER GROUP INSURANCE PLAN
CANADA’S #1 PLAN FOR EMPLOYEE BENEFITS!
Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, home-based business or part of a larger firm, benefits are a very important part of your financial security. The Chambers Plan creates a solid foundation for that security, based on a benefit program that can be designed specifically for business owners of any size.
You’ll get the flexibility and security you need, along with a benefits program that’s personalized for you and your company. You’ll also get rate stability, guaranteed coverage, customer service and additional advantages not offered anywhere else.
Bonus Features: NO minimum firm size, NO industry restrictions, YOU choose the coverage, YOU control the cost! Your Chambers Plan offers more than just financial support. You’ll also have access to Travel Medical Insurance (included in all Health Care Options,) Best Doctors® services and discounts on eyewear, laser eye surgery and hearing devices.
You’ll even have access to Business Assistance Service, providing the resources to help manage your business more effectively with access to professional accounting, legal and human resource experts, confidential coaching and referral services all at NO additional cost.
See why over 25,000 business owners selected this plan, visit www.chamberplan.ca to work with an agent today!
JOHNSON
You Deserve More, Let’s Talk About Saving.
Exclusive benefits and pricing. How Exciting! As a member of the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce, Johnson Group Insurance is thrilled to give you access to extensive coverage, 24/7 claims service, and bundled savings packages – you’ll get access to:
Additional discounts
Identity Theft Coverage
First accident forgiveness
Coverage for critical illness
Roadside assistance
Home Plus – over 20 cost-free additional benefits
Single deductible for claims involving both home and auto
Air MilesTM reward miles
For over 130 years Johnson Insurance has been looking beyond the things we insure to the people who own them with over 60 branches from St. John’s to Vancouver.
Whether you are up or down, we are in this together. All the products you need, home, travel, and auto. Just because you’re saving, it doesn’t mean you sacrifice choice.
Call 1-800-563-0677 or visit online for a quote www.johnson.ca/chamber
FIRST DATA
At First Data Canada, we look for every opportunity to help customers leverage more value from each transaction – developing new solutions to make them simpler, faster, safer and more rewarding.
If you’re looking for a reason to move your payment processing to First Data, this could be it! First Data knows that there are a lot of offers out in the marketplace. Often sales reps will walk in the door with an appealing “flash rate” – the first thing that businesses see about any program but not always the most accurate indicator of savings!
The exclusive Chamber member “Meet or Beat’ offer returns for 2018 so that their reps can analyze your payment processing statement and if First Data can’t “meet or beat” your current payment processing fees, they’ll give you a $1000 MasterCard® gift card!
First Data Canada offers merchants wide selection devices and payment options, so you never have to say “no” to a customer’s preferred payment method. Plus, the Chamber has negotiated market-leading rates for our services, which are not open to seasonal price adjustments. For more information, please click here.
If you have any questions on the First Data offer or require any additional information on this Affinity Program to help your business be more competitive please contact Mohamed-Ali Kessentini, 905-602-3548 or visit www.firstdata.com
PUROLATOR
Purolator is Canada’s leading integrated freight and parcel solutions provider. Celebrating over 50 years of delivering Canada with a network like any other. Purolator continues to expand their reach to more people, more businesses and more places across our vast country. As Canada’s largest courier company, they deliver innovative products and superior services on which you can depend. With more couriers, more vehicles and more planes in more places than any other domestic courier, Purolator provides solutions that are right for Canadians—whenever and wherever they need to ship. Purolator has developed as tiered courier pricing structure for MCC members that offers the most opportunity for savings ranging from 25% – 45% off their rates depending on your businesses’ annual volume.
For more information, please click here or contact Tim Hick, Purolator Alliance Partner Program, 1 (877) 324-0002 for a quote for your business or your chamber.
OUTSTAND
OUTSTAND is a sales and relationship-building platform designed for business professionals wanting to improve their personal brand identity and develop stronger trust and more meaningful relationships with customers by creating unique, memorable and personalized interactions. OUTSTAND’s tools and functionality focuses on the “Relationship-Building” and “Follow-Up” stages of the sales process.
Chamber Members get access to exclusive discounted pricing and a FREE 30-day trial. Click here for more details. Request yours by contacting Marc Palud, Chamber Partner Relationship Manager, 1-800-507-2459 www.ChamberProgram.com
6P MARKETING
Ensure you are making the most of your online presence. Your website is your 24/7 sales person. As such, it should not only be well designed but clearly and attractively educate visitors on your products and services. Great websites that achieve results require a combination of good marketing planning, design, and development. 6P Marketing, a Winnipeg-based full-service marketing firm, has built more than 200 websites for Manitoba companies. 6P is offering a free website analysis exclusively to Manitoba Chambers of Commerce members to assess: is your website an asset or an impediment in attracting leads and closing the deal? Members will be provided with a custom report and phone conversation to review the findings, and discuss best practices to support awareness, trust, and appeal of your company.
6P has helped over 500 Manitoba businesses build their brands, increase sales effectiveness, raise awareness and grow business within their target markets.
STRATEGY | BRANDING | ONLINE MARKETING | ADVERTISING | WEBSITES | SEO | EMAIL | PPC
PRAGMATIC
Involved in every element of modern business collaboration, Pragmatic strives to offer complete communication solutions to our customers. From audio conferencing to cloud video, our aim is to make it simpler and more cost effective to connect with colleagues and clients across the globe. Pragmatic has been working to connect people and organizations for over 10 years.
By partnering with Pragmatic, members can enjoy a savings of at LEAST 25% off their current audio conferencing rate.
Additional benefits include:
24/7 customer support (live answer times of 20 seconds or less)
Dedicated Account Executive
Customer care self-serve web portal
Customizable billing
Per second billing
Integrated audio/web conferencing
Free recordings and emailed invoices
No contracts, commitments or monthly minimums!
In addition to audio conferencing, the Pragmatic portfolio offers a sliding scale of collaboration solutions, including:
Web conferencing (Pragmatic’s Web Pro and Adobe Connect)
Webcasting
Cloud video conferencing (including Blue Jeans and RP1Cloud)
Conferencing hardware consulting and sales
We are conferencing experts, here to simplify, educate, and save you money! Contact your dedicate account rep today: Mike Sanders at 1 (866) 746-5282.
LENOVO
As the #1 PC manufacturer globally, Lenovo develops, produces and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use products and services for customers who want technology that does more. Founded as Legend Holding in 1984, Lenovo increased its North American presence in 2005 when it acquired the former Personal Computer Division of IBM, the company that invented the PC industry in 1981. A global Fortune 500 company, Lenovo has more than 54,000 employees in more than 60 countries serving customers in more than 160 countries.
Through the Lenovo Chamber program, members will be able to offer member discounts of up to 30% off the everyday public web price of Lenovo’s technology product line for the home and office, including laptops, tablets, desktops, all-in-ones, workstations, servers, and accessories. This includes savings on top products, such as the award-winning ThinkPad notebooks and innovative multimode YOGA tablets. Members also receive free ground shipping on all web orders, monthly limited-time special offers, access to energy-efficient green technologies and award-winning service and support. For more information please click here, visit www.lenovo.com/chambers or call 1-888-315-7408 ext. 5221.
1LIFE WORKPLACE SAFETY SOLUTIONS
The Manitoba Chambers of Commerce has partnered with 1LifeTM Workplace Safety Solutions to support local business in Manitoba through exclusive cost savings programs. 1LifeTM will help honour and protect those you are connected to by giving you the tools to keep your workers and your business safe: Complimentary 60 Minute Simpler EasierTM Consultation:
Speak with a registered safety professional
Learn how you can increase worker safety, increase your level of compliance and decrease your total cost of risk
Discover changes to safety legislation relevant to your industry
Gain insight into protecting your business from unintentional loss
Exclusive 25% discount on mySafetyAppTM:
Stay connected to your safety program on your smartphone
Get instant access to training records and other documentation
Save time, reduce or eliminate paperwork!
Conduct virtual hazard assessments and other documentation
Questions? We have answers. Real Workplace Safety Professions. Real World Solutions. You don’t learn everything by reading safety regulations. So if you have questions about 1LifeTM services, getting started, implementation or anything else, please ask. Our highly trained team is ready to help you! Whether you have 5 employees or 500 we can help you develop your Safety Management System efficiently, cost effectively and correctly! For more information please
You don’t learn everything by reading safety regulations. So if you have questions about 1LifeTM services, getting started, implementation or anything else, please ask. Our highly trained team is ready to help you! Whether you have 5 employees or 500 we can help you develop your Safety Management System efficiently, cost effectively and correctly! For more information please
For more information please click here, call (204) 231-5433 (LIFE) or visit www.1lifewss.com
ESSO
Maintain control while saving time and money with the Esso Business Card.
The Esso Business Card programs give you exceptional fuel savings, powerful yet easy-to -use fuel management tools, plus Manitoba Chambers of Commerce members receive 3.5 cents per litre discount regardless of volume.
Three levels of service, one great fuel network. Whether your business is large or small, managing time and costs are always priorities. That’s why all three Esso Business Cards offer security features, volume discounts, easy-to-use online tools and no annual fee. The degree of control and reporting you want will help determine which card fits your business.
For more information, please click here. To enroll, click here.
CHOICE HOTELS
Save up to 15% when you stay at Choice Hotels® which includes Comfort™, Quality®, Clarion® and a few others like the upscale Ascend Hotel Collection®. There are over 325 Choice locations spanning all provinces – and over 6,300 worldwide. Hotels are conveniently located near major airports, key highways and business districts. You’ll also be able to connect easily with colleagues and friends using free high-speed Internet, and jump-start your day with free breakfast at most locations. Unlike many other hotel discount programs, members can use the discount for both business and leisure travel. Members will be able to offer it to their staff if they own businesses and family to use as well as long as they book using the MCC Client ID that is required in order for the discount to apply. As an additional feature, members who are looking to book over ten rooms at a time for 3 days or more can contact the program administrator for a group rate that could potentially be larger saving than their Client ID can provide.
For the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce Choice Client ID# and to learn more about earning rewards when you travel with the ChoicePrivileges® rewards program, click here.
A NEW WAY TO BOOK ONLINE!
Choice Hotels Canada will soon migrate to a new website, which will affect how you book. Here’s what you need to know!
Starting today, ensure a seamless booking process on ChoiceHotels.com:
Preferred Customer Savings Rate will display in the ‘Special Rate’ menu box
To verify only, click the ‘Special Rate’ menu box and scroll to the bottom to see currently logged in as your organization
Select your reservation details (destination using the drop down, dates and the number of guests)
Click ‘Find Hotels’
All Choice Hotels for your selected destination will display
Click ‘Check Availability’ at the hotel you want to book
Discounted rates will display as well as other tabs and rates will also be visible
Click ‘Book Now’ to make your reservation for the selected room type and rate