Membership Benefits

 

 
Along and around the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers, the 51 Corridor, and throughout the Turtle Creek communities, the Regional Chamber Alliance serves businesses in Southeast Allegheny County’s 33 communities.
 
The Regional Chamber Alliance provides many valuable services and benefits for its membership. We envision a strong and influential organization, united as one voice, possessing maximum economic and legislative leverage compelling our political representation to respect, listen, and act, leading to the region being a community of choice when selecting a place to do business, work, live, study, visit and play. The Chamber is committed to restoring, sustaining and expanding the entire Mon Valley region’s prosperity by providing members a strong representative voice, business promotion & opportunity, purchasing advantage, business education, and information. All that we do is designed to offer members Competitive Advantage, Member Promotion, and a Regional Voice.
 
The RCA offers three distinct membership options: PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE, COMMUNITY CHAMPION & CYBER CHOICE.
  • The Community Champion Option is our full-service, voting and committee participation membership.
  • The Cyber Choice Option is for those not interested in voting, directing organization mission and objectives, or committee involvement.
  • Our President's Circle includes Community Champion benefits, plus our Platinum Sponsor Package ($2500 value [individually priced at $4700]), premier placement on our website, prominent recognition in all our publications, special membership plaque, and annual lunch meeting with RCA's President and Executive Committee.
CYBER CHOICE membership is $96 per year. COMMUNITY CHOICE membership begins at $195 per year. PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE membership is $5,000 per year.
 
For a membership profile illustrating the benefits of each category, click here 
Become a RCA Member and Enjoy These Great Benefits:
 
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
 
Powerful Website System Saves You Cash and Adds Great Value
  • Powerful Website Produces Interest: As an exclusive member of the RCA, your business listing produces more exposure to internet searches. Because we designed the system to serve as a community hub, we experience close to 200,000 hits monthly. And we’ve only just begun...
  • Free Website: Members without a website will, if desired, receive a free website and web-based email address. Your business is linked to Google automatically.
  • Free Training Videos: We have a library of easy—and short—videos guiding the viewer through the website “how-to’s.”
Access to Better Buying
  • Group Health Insurance: Through our partner Chamber Choice, members have access to better rates for health, disability, and a number of insurance programs.
  • Energy Pool to Save on Electricity:
  • Protect Your Identity Via PPL:
  • Business Beyond Borders Discounted Services: Through our strategic partner, IntellaCore, become globally competitive across the borderless environment of today’s intelligent, world economy.
  • Enlist the renowned "voice over visual" communication tool and 'wow' your contacts!
  • Office Supplies: Through another partner, Office Depot, savings on every day office products, 30 - 60%%, are available.
Knowledge is Power
  • Information: Through our print and electronic publications, you will always know what’s going on.
  • Professional Development: We offer numerous learning opportunities to help you run a smarter and more profitable business. Many are without cost. If a charge, there are great discounts. Additionally, we present a major training event each year from a national and well-known business presenter. See our schedule!
MEMBER PROMOTION
 
Contact Building
  • Networking Events: We present at least a ½ dozen “pure” networking events each year. They are fun-packed and arranged to maximize opportunities for members to increase their contacts and deepen relationships. People want to do business with folks they know. Additionally, most of our networking events provide a meal and are usually without cost for members (discounted for Cyber Choice members).
  • Communicate Through Member Portal: Submit your own events and even check who registers. Submit an ad to a job board. Submit a press release. Informative...Interactive...Powerful member features!
  • Member Directory: Members prefer buying from members. You want to be in the directory.
  • We Refer Members. We receive calls frequently from those wanting referrals. Members only! And, you can easily show members whom you refer.
  • Community on Display Catalog: As an exclusive member, you have you own advertising catalog. Again, no extra charge...
  • Commercials: This online advertising system is designed to promote your business very effectively over the Internet and having video will really make a difference. Very easy to follow instructions.
  • Traffic Catcher Tool-Kit: Increase your internet traffic. You may not sell through the net, but websites today function as the phone book use to.
Select Promotion Options
  • Web Billboards: With the amount of traffic on our site, you can position your logo (with a direct link to your site) on any number of pages. Packages range from $25 per month to $100 per month.
  • Newsletter Quarterly: Sponsor the RCA quarterly newsletter; only one sponsor per issue. Your business garners 100% of the publicity.
  • Annual Event Sponsor: Become an Event Sponsor (annual program at various levels) and have your business promoted through five (5) Daily News inserts and at every RCA event throughout the year.
  • Direct Electronic Newsletters: Have an ad or event you wish communicated. Send it to us and we’ll deliver. A no charge service to Community Champion and President's Circle members..
A REGIONAL VOICE
 
You may have noticed that chambers of commerce in the region are doing what chambers around the country have done for decades. We have the Airport Area Chamber, Monroeville Area, North Allegheny, and so forth. While the RCA maintains and supports its local chapters, it too must—and it did—become a regional chamber. Markets are larger; chambers must be larger. It serves the business community. It serves each business—YOUR BUSINESS. It better serves the community as a whole.
 
It takes a regional voice to ensure that our region garners the policies conducive to prospering our businesses—and by extension—our community. Our legislators must actively support policies conducive to strong economic development. Your participation as a member helps drive our advocacy and intervention.
 
Your involvement can be as extensive or limited as you like. If health insurance, internet and/or communications’ aspects best serves your interests, select Cyber Choice. If desiring full membership benefits and want to be part of the political environment, direct and vote on key organization initiatives, seek board or committee (e.g., transportation, education, golf, involvement, consider our Community Champion membership. If you wish to communicate community leadership, provide input to RCA initiatives, and enjoy maximum exposure and support, become part of the RCA’s exclusive President’s Circle.
 
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