Vermont Business Magazine The Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce has embarked on a bold new ‘Shop Local’ initiative to make e-commerce and associated services free for all local businesses, and to help members further by facilitating all businesses, goods, services, and promotions from independent websites to seamlessly come together into the most comprehensive and integrated database, search engine, and shopping mall platform for the region. The chamber has partnered with SharedMall to support the entire Shop Local infrastructure on the SharedMall platform. “Wanted to let you know that on our website we now have the live sharedmall cart.
Check it out go to www.thesouthernpiecompany.com and click the order now button. When you go through the order process you can even choose which location you would like to pick it up either Ludlow or Chester. This is a great perk for any member”, says Scott Blair, a chamber member and owner of The Southern Pie Company in Chester, VT. Bakeries, restaurants, farms, realtors, and service providers across all businesses industries can each now utilize new e-commerce capabilities to enhance their online potential and, for the first time ever, can equally participate alongside retailers in an online shopping marketplace. A monthly live webinar demonstrates this opportunity for different business industries. A preliminary version of the chamber’s mall can be seen here. The mall is tentatively scheduled for a public launch in Nov. 2016, and chamber members are encouraged to sign up here within the next 30 days, to be eligible for free online setup services (website, shopping cart, coupon, newsletter, etc.).
The Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce is the only chamber in Vermont to bring these exclusive set of privileges to members. Not a chamber member but want to participate? Please join the chamber to get started.