About this community service

About this all-new free* community service
* (Thanks to the generous financial commitment of the Showcase Sponsors)

In these difficult times our local businesses, charitable organizations,
and our community-as-a-whole can use all the
help they can get ... just to survive.
(We're all in this together.)

The Goal of this web site:
To promote a better business environment,
to encourage community pride and involvement,
and to extend an invitation to 'the world at-large'
to come visit us... for a weekend or a lifetime.

The success of this web site will serve to both directly and indirectly compliment the ongoing promotional activities and projects of the Cheboygan Area Chamber of Commerce and the Cheboygan Area Tourist Bureau.

www.checkoutcheboygan.com is designed to make information readily available to both our local community and the world-at-large by providing an easy-to-use visually oriented format. It will ultimately provide hundreds of one-click links to information about the many unique and incredibly varied things that make life in and around Cheboygan so very inviting - for a quick visit,
a vacation destination, or as a place to live.

That's why forward-thinking, community-oriented
Showcase Sponsors *
*(Large Banner Ads in the center column of the Main Menu Page)
are coming forward to participate in this bold, all-new, internet-based
free marketing and promotion tool for our community-at-large.
* In doing so, they are providing the lion's share of
funding needed to make it all happen. They deserve
support, patronage, and thanks.

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ADVERTISING OPTIONS

Standard click-on display emblems and an advertising display page are available to all area businesses and charitable organizations - FREE OF CHARGE. ( Like those shown on the left for Best Western, Pine River Motel, Charles Catering, etc.)

Hi-Profile click-on display emblems are available to all advertisers. They provide additional exposure and entail only a small fee - which helps support the costs associated with the ongoing marketing and promotion of this site and its design and upkeep.
(Like those shown for Zany Kitchen, Continental Inn, etc.)

       Showcase Sponsorship provides maximum exposure. It includes a
Hi-Profile click-on display emblem, an advertising display page, AND a large
click-on BANNER ad in the CENTER column of the Main Menu Page.
                                   (Like those shown on the Main Menu Page) VIEW

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                         EVERYONE HAS A PART TO PLAY
                                 and it won't cost you a dime.

  Advertisers and non-advertisers alike are asked to actively help in promoting the web site in as many ways as possible. (We're all in this together.)

                                         ... HERE'S HOW ...

[1] Emails
     You can do your part simply by sending emails including the site name to as many people as you can.... near or far... and asking the recipients to check it out and forward it on. (Viral marketing.)

[2] Posters
      You can display a www.checkoutcheboygan.com poster at your place of work or wherever appropriate.

[3] Reciprocal Links
     If you have a web site of your own, you can place a link on it to this web site.
( A reciprocal link not only provides direct viewer-access to this site, but more importantly, allows internet search engines to better "find" this site and therein improve its all-important search engine ranking - very important as we reach out to the world-at-large.)

[4] Existing Print and/or TV-Radio Promotions
       Include the site name and/or logo on all your printed advertising, flyers, etc., and include it in your TV-Radio promotions.

[5] Send Your Event Info
We have initially gathered as much event information as possible in order to get this site launched. However, from this point forward, it is your organization's responsibility to send event information to us in order to have it posted. (If you don't send it, we won't know to post it!) It can easily be sent by email or snail mail. HERE'S HOW
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As more and more people learn about this site the more valuable it becomes to you, your organization, and your community at-large.

Your organization is invited to make use of these free promotion services
for all your events and activities and to get involved and do your part.
It's very easy, it won't cost you a thing, and it's good for all of us.

[If not now, when?]

Serving and Supporting the Cheboygan Michigan
Business Community and Our Community At-Large