The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is our largest partner and represents one-third of San Francisco's work force with over 248,000 members. The Visitor Information portal is a tour de force travel resource, built from ground up by Destination Partners, who also, runs, manages and powers the portal. An extremely user-friendly guide for leisure and business travelers, conventioneers and Chamber members, the Visitor Information portal received over 500,000 unique visitors last year. www.sfchamber.com
The Sacramento Metro Chamberhas approximately 190,000 individuals in their membership database. Our portal greatly enhances the business-supportive mission of the Metro Chamber, and is a great resource for the millions of corporate, governmental and tourist travelers that visit Sacramento each year. 80% of Conventioneers extends their stay for few additional days once the convention is over and visit close by destinations for some leisure time such as, Napa and San Francisco. For that reason, the territory covered in the portal starts from Reno and extends to all the way to San Francisco. www.metrochamber.org
The Napa Chamber of Commerce receives almost 500,000 unique visitors annually from all over the world. Leisure travelers to San Francisco, and business travelers to Sacramento, can drive less than two hours to make the Napa Valley a must-see destination when they come to the Bay Area. So it just made sense for us to custom-build an attractive Visitor portal to showcase the fabulous wineries, restaurants, hotels and bed and breakfasts that make the Napa Valley so unique. Corporate events, weddings, tours and day-tripping wine lovers can find everything they need when using our portal as their travel resource. www.napachamber.org
The Petaluma Area Chamber of Commerce may be small, but the charming and historic town is quickly becoming a bustling destination spot. The downtown redevelopment, with its Theater District, newly constructed live/work/retail spaces and many new fine-dining establishments, is drawing new businesses, and new visitors, in great numbers. Rapid expansion requires flexibility and adaptability – two features that our proprietary technology will deliver as we build Petaluma's new Visitor Portal. www.petalumachamber.com
The Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce serves businesses and the communities in Eastern Madera County. We are conveniently located on Highway 41in Oakhurst. We are in the culturally rich Southern Sierras just moments from the south gate to Yosemite national forest
www.oakhurstchamber.com
The Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit corporation solely supported by its membership. Members include business owners, managers and professionals. Members invest in the organization to support group efforts to make the Monterey Peninsula a better place to do business. The Chamber is governed by a 21-member Board of Directors and holds monthly meetings to set policy and direction for the organization. A President/CEO oversees office operations, which includes a full-time staff. The Chamber makes referrals for member businesses, acts as a resource for community information, provides informational pamphlets and brochures about starting a business, offers free SCORE (Service Corp. of Retired Executives) counseling to business entrepreneurs and has marketing materials available to help the sales professional. www.mpcc.com
ExactTarget & ChamberMember.com
The leading email marketing industry.
ExactTarget delivers on-demand email software solutions for permission-based email marketing. The Home Depot, General Mills, Scotts, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and more than 2,400 organizations worldwide rely on ExactTarget email solutions to strengthen their customer relationships and to control email throughout the enterprise. JupiterResearch ranks ExactTarget highest in business suitability in 2004 based on the solution's usability, strong feature set and dynamic content tool.
Name Finders Your Direct Marketing Source Since 1981
At Name-Finders Lists, Inc., we provide a full range of direct mail, email, telemarketing lists, and e-marketing media placement. We also offer strategic services including predictive analytics, profiling and segmentation strategy. Name-Finders’ list management division enables you to generate list rental income from your customer base while ensuring that the value and integrity of your list is protected.
Ace Mailing Ace Mailing is a full-service direct marketing company offering mailing and printing services, fulfillment, warehousing, mailing list management and creation and data processing. Founded by Gwen Kaplan in 1978, Ace's headquarters, offices and production facility is located in San Francisco. Ace has state-of-the-art equipment and employs 20 people. Marketing theories that Kaplan has successfully used in promoting clients of Ace Mailing earned her the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce "Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award" and the Chamber's "Excellence in Business Award". Kaplan is an instructor at the University of California Berkeley in Direct Marketing and a lecturer at Stanford University.
Commuter Check
Commuter Check, a national provider of transit benefits, serves over 6,000 employers and 150,000 employees, and has efficiently delivered over $300 million in transit benefits since 1990. Commuter Checks™ are vouchers that are redeemed for transit passes, tickets or tokens and to pay for vanpool fares. They are provided tax-free to employees in amounts up to $105 per month. Commuter Checks are used as an employee benefit, either as a substitute for taxable salary or supplemental benefit. It allows employers to be fully IRS compliant.
Federal law now allows employers to offer employees up to $105 two ways: As a pre-tax payroll deduction, it provides annual savings up to $500 for employees, and $114 per participant for employers. The company-paid benefit, at $1,260 a year, has the same value to employees as a $2,250 raise.
Dun & Bradstreet Small Business Solutions
Dun & Bradstreet has a range of solutions to help you integrate data from different sources, automate credit decisions and analyze the risks in your portfolio.
Business Information Report™
The recognized standard for credit information, our company overview report includes:
• D&B Rating
• D&B PAYDEX Score
Available on businesses in over 200 countries. Choose from an interactive or paper report format.
Comprehensive Report™
An in-depth view of a company's financial position, includes analysis not found in the Business Information Report:
• Scores that predict future payment habits and financial stability
• Comparisons to industry norms
Available on businesses in US, Canada, and Western Europe.
Credit.net Unlimited Business Credit Reports on Over 14 Million Businesses.
Use Credit.net reports for: Find Exact Decision Makers, Make low-risk, low-dollar credit decisions, Verify businesses, suppliers and vendors, Conduct commercial skip-racing, Pre-qualifying sales leads, Profile customers, Finding fax, telephone & address data, Qualify New Customers and Verify Trade References.
Technology Partners – Presence Destination Partners works to optimize our web travel portals with the leading internet search engines to maximize our local, regional and global web presence. This includes the optimization of destination and our advertisers’ keywords, web page design techniques, and the links between our web portals, Chamber of Commerce affiliates, national advertisers and our branded portals.
SOFTWARE
Technology Partners – Software The Destination Partner platform integrates the leading technologies to enhance the scale, robustness and scale of our web advertising and marketing platform. We use web analytics technology from Google, payment systems that integrate Paymentech, Credit.net and Verisign for trusted payments and transactions, and we use open source software technologies together with Microsoft technology to build our platform.
Our platform provides connectivity to central hotel and travel bookings services based on the technology standards of the Travel Industry's OTA (Open Travel Alliance) and on the adoption of the XML Web-services language. Hotel connectivity to validate inventory and transact bookings is supported through our XML interface enabling customers to tap into hotel and other merchant inventory and promotions for their booking needs. These bookings are done in real time, which then updates the GDS inventory and the CRS (Central Reservation System).
SYSTEMS
Technology Partners – Systems The Destination Partner platform uses internet class technology and service providers to provide our partners, customers and viewers with a highly reliable 24x7 operation. Our systems are hosted by Rackspace, a world-class service provider, and system technology providers that include Hewlett Packard, Cisco and Microsoft technologies.
California Procurements and Small Business Certifications
Search for California Procurements. Receive procurements via email by registering online and filling out a short "Company Profile" to match your needs. In addition to providing a searchable database of available contracts, we can provide assistance in completing the necessary paperwork and any Small Business Certifications via the Small Business Advisory Council.
San Francisco Government - City Services
The City's premier Internet application that offers businesses immediate access to information that will assist with expansion and relocation decisions.
GIS Mapping in San Francisco Now Available On-Line!
The Mayor's Office of Economic Development and the San Francisco Center for Economic Development have produced SFProspector, a powerful new business tool that will make government more business-friendly. This first-rate, sophisticated system employs Internet-based GIS mapping technology for the entire City and County of San Francisco.
The San Francisco Small Business Network (SBN) serves as a strong, clear, and unified voice of the small business community in San Francisco.
Their mission is to strengthen and unify the voice of the Small Business Community in San Francisco. With a growing membership of 20 business organizations, they represent more than 19,000 small businesses in San Francisco currently.
