We appreciate your interest in the Cobscook Bay Area
Chamber. The Cobscook Bay Area Chamber is an organization
dedicated to promoting an increasingly effective business
climate that sustains our members, promotes natural resources
and our natural environment.
The Chamber’s membership area includes the Maine
communities of Calais, Princeton, Eastport, Sipayik, Perry,
Pembroke, Dennysville, Edmunds, Whiting, Trescott, Lubec, E.
Machias, Machias, Machiasport, Cherryfield, and Campobello
Island, NB, Canada.
Of our 80 members, roughly 80% of our members are primarily
dependent on, or are impacted positively by, tourism. During
the CBACC six-year existence, the Chamber has been focused on
promoting the area and its members.
Some of the benefits your business will receive includes:
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Website that highlights our area and
provides a links to your business website including
contact information.
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Each year the chamber produces a new
colorful brochure.
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Chamber members can place brochures at
the information kiosks in Whiting and Perry at no extra
cost.
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The Chamber profiles our members in
"Business Profiles" placed in the Lubec Light
and The Quoddy Tides at no extra cost.
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The Chamber belongs to the Maine State
Chamber’s Alliance of Maine Chambers and the Maine
Tourism Association.
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The Chamber advertises, or has
advertised, in several other
publications, such as the Ellsworth Chamber’s summer
guide, Discover Maine, Memories of Maine magazines, in
the Maine Sunshine Travel Maine Guide to Washington
County, and a Chamber advertisement on the Maine Tourism
Association’s official Maine Highway Map.
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The Chamber organizes the Down East
Spring Birding Festival over Memorial Day Weekend that
brings some 80 bird watchers here and results in a
direct economic benefit of $30-40,000 to the area. Ads
for the birding festival appear in national nature and
birding magazines. For more information on the May 2006
festival, see the Registration page on www.downeastbirdfest.org.
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We are actively involved in the
promotional efforts of the DownEast & Acadia
Regional Tourism Committee (DART).
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We offer members cooperative advertising
opportunities in the Hinson Guide - Maine's
Washington County: Just Off The Beaten Path.
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The Chamber is a sponsor of the
Washington County Business Conference and Marketplace.
We welcome your membership.
Please contact the Chamber for a membership application
form at the above contact info. To apply for membership,
please complete the form and mail it to the address above.
Applications will be reviewed and considered by the board.
Sincerely,
Michael McCabe, President
CBACC Board of Directors
