Membership Benefits
What can a Choose Lansing® membership do for you? By joining our organization you are becoming a member of a very special partnership to advance a vision of Greater Lansing in an ideal community to both live and visit! Give YOUR business direct access to the over 6.7 million visitors to the Greater Lansing region every year through a variety of marketing initiatives, in print, online and face-to-face. What else? How about these advantages!
Both www.lansing.org and www.lansingsports.org are award-winning, mobile-friendly websites with exemplary SEO (search engine optimization) offering potential visitors, meeting planners, and community residents an easy way to locate information about the best that Greater Lansing has to offer. All hospitality members receive a FREE listing on both sites, including contact information, business description and images. A link to your own website is provided FREE of charge.
Additional ways to promote your business are to submit your public events to our calendar of events and upload special offers, coupons, discounts and packages in the Choose Lansing® Partner Portal.
The Services Department handles referrals for members, connecting them with products, meeting venues, and services required by visiting groups. Additionally, a Choose Member employee often staffs a visitor information booth at major conventions and events, providing direct assistance and support to attendees.
The Choose Lansing® Member eNewsletter is a monthly digital communication to members containing Choose Lansing® and local hospitality news, upcoming member events, a regional convention calendar, and much more.
Available within the Choose Lansing® Partner Portal on www.lansing.org, the calendar is a twelve-month-plus, exclusive listing of conferences, conventions, trade shows and special events scheduled in the Greater Lansing area. Information such as contact name, address, type/size of event, and meeting location is included in this invaluable sales and staffing tool. Great for your outbound marketing!
- Educational Seminars & Networking socials.
- Members Only Facebook Page, a place to share your events and learn about tours. Tag us on your post for likes and shares.
- Choose Lansing Welcome Signs are provided to you as a member benefit. These can be displayed at your front entrance. Each month we send inserts, welcoming groups and sporting events to Greater Lansing.
- Choose Lansing Annual Meeting
- Choose Lansing Annual Holiday Showcase Event
- So much more!
This is the Choose Lansing® premier marketing publication. It is an annual, four-color print publication with a circulation of 75,000 copies. The Visitor Inspiration Guide is designed to promote the Greater Lansing area to visitors, meeting planners, tour operators, convention delegates and residents. It has a wide, targeted distribution (see below). All Choose Lansing® members have access to a supply of the publication for distribution.
Visitor Guide Distribution: Meridian Mall, Lansing Center, Lansing Mall, all Michigan Interstate Welcome Centers, area hotels and B&Bs, MSU, Preuss Pets, Capital Region International Airport, and relocation packages of both the Greater Lansing’s top realtors and the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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