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Training Videos are anywhere from 15-60 minutes in length. Many of the accompanying PDF slideshows also contain links to short 2-3 minute videos. Live workshops are offered regularly as well. View the Webinar Calendar Brand New to the Software? See our Getting Started Training Guide!

Contents

1. Overview of the Software

Updated May 2020
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: New to ChamberMaster? Need a refresher on how to use your database? Are you a Chamber Exec or Association President with a desire to understand the resources available in your software? Hear highlights of the Events, Job Postings, Hot Deals, News Releases, MarketSpace and Information Request modules. Learn all of the tools available for getting assistance with your software. Receive step-by-step instructions to ensure your browser software has proper selections for optimal operation. A "must-attend" for all staff. Length: ~40 minutes

2. Essential - Administrator Training

Updated March 2020

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: Learn how to configure GrowthZone/ChamberMaster for your Chamber or Association use. Attendees will be shown how to update association information, add or change staff logins and passwords, and the setup and use of the online member application. See how to modify your business categories and membership types. A "must-attend" for administrators of GrowthZone/ChamberMaster.

3. Essential - Member Management Basics

Updated January 2019
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: Learn how to create new members, drop members and manage existing members. Also addressed is sending an email and the Member Information Center. This session covers the Members module in detail. A "must-attend" for all office staff.

4. Essential - Online Membership Application

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: A membership application is provided that may be custom tailored by you through menu-driven selections, and then integrated with your website so that applicants may complete the form online. Learn how to setup and process the integrated membership application form. Length: ~25 minutes

5. Essential - Member Information Center (MIC): Setting It Up

Updated April 2020

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: The Member Information Center is the place where your members connect with you and each other. This tutorial goes over the basics you need to get started.

6. Essential - Intro to Communications

6a. Working with Communications

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: Learn how to send emails and letters, search communication history, use the correspondence editor, create signature block, use mail merge feature, send attachments.

6b. Working with Groups

Pdf icon.png Sending communication via email and letters may be simplified by creating self-defined groups in the ChamberMaster Groups module

7. Essential - Events: An Overview

7A.ChamberMaster/MemberZone Events Setup
Vid.pngPdf icon.png Description: This recorded workshop takes you through the steps to setup defaults for events, as well as create a new event.

7B.ChamberMaster/MemberZone Event Management

Updated December 2018
Vid.pngPdf icon.png Description: This recorded workshop takes you through the inviting members to events, managing the guest list & sponsors, creating nametags, generating your roster and checking people into your event.

8. Essential - Billing I: Setup

Updated February 2019
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: Do you need to get started with the integrated Billing module? Learn how to setup your Chart of Accounts, fee items. Setup custom customer messages, payment terms, payment methods, credit card defaults and set system-wide defaults. (Note: this training is not intended for those using the legacy CQI integration) Length: ~50 minutes.

9. Essential - Billing II: Day to Day Activities

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: An overview of the daily activity as it relates to billing: creating invoices, posting payments, issuing credits, running reports, etc. Includes information on what the difference is between a payment and a receipt as well as when to use credits, discounts and write-offs. (Note: this training is not intended for those using the legacy CQI integration) Length: ~26 minutes.

10. Billing: Understanding Billing Setup

Vid.png Pdf icon.pngDescription: A tutorial on how to set up the billing features in your database

12. Billing: Managing your Fee Items

Vid.png Pdf icon.pngDescription: A tutorial on how to set up the billing features in your database

13. Billing: Understanding & Working with Bundled Fees

Vid.png Description: A 24 minute tutorial on how to set up and work with Bundled Fees

14. Billing: Working with Various Transaction Types

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: A tutorial on working with various transactions (invoicing, payments, refunds, etc.)

15. Billing: Invoicing and Collections

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: A tutorial on creating batches, analyzing A/R reports, and managing collections.

16. Essential - Mobile Apps: MemberPlus and Staff App

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: A 45 minute tutorial on how to use the GrowthZone/ChamberMaster Staff app and MemberPlus app

17. Setting up and using Credit Cards

Vid.png Pdf icon.pngDescription: A 16 minute tutorial on how credit card processing works. (Not available with all editions)

18. Information Request Setup

Vid.png Pdf icon.pngDescription: Hear an overview of the Info Request module, setup publications and emails to be distributed to consumers, create and manage lead list groups, distribute general interest and travel leads, and print labels for requested publications. Length: ~50 minutes

19. Working with Hot Deals

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: One of the benefits you can offer your membership is the opportunity to share special discounts or “Hot Deals” with other members and your community. With Plus edition or greater, you can also offer Member to Member Deals. In this session, participants will learn how to setup and manage Hot Deals.

20. Billing Export:

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Export to PeachTree Vid.png
Description: Videos for any staff member that will work within the Billing module and will be exporting their transactions to a 3rd party accounting program. (Note: this training is not intended for those using the legacy CQI integration) Length: ~10 minutes

21. Marketing and Revenue Generation

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: A 36 minute workshop going over the many marketing and revenue generation tools available in the software.

22. eCommerce

Vid.png Description: Single product and shipping by weight. - This video will walk you through how to set up an item in the database and in eCommerce to sell with shipping calculated by weight Duration 26 mins
Vid.pngDescription: Single product with multiple attributes and fixed shipping. - This video will walk you through how to set up an item in the database and in eCommerce to sell with fixed shipping. Duration 26 mins
Vid.pngDescription: Downloadable product- This video will walk you through how to set up an item in the database and in eCommerce to sell with fixed shipping. Duration 27 mins
Vid.pngDescription: Donations- This video will walk you through how to set up an item in the database and in eCommerce to accept donations. Duration 12 mins

23. Intro to Reports

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: Get the most out of your membership data. Understand how to view and print common membership reports, create custom reports, discover the ease of downloading data and view your most engaged members. Length: ~60 minutes

24. Working with Your Smart CMS

Updated July 2018
Vid.pngPdf icon.png Description: Learn how to setup and maintain your SmartCMS website.

25. Marketing Package

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: Customers with Premier or Pro edition or those that have added the Marketing Package module* to your software will have options for supplemental non-dues revenue by allowing staff to sell enhanced member listings and banner ads on your website. The Marketing Package provides a seamless integration with the Members module allowing for these options to be set and adjusted for each member and immediately display on your website.

26. Working with the WMS Import Tool

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: MemberZone Home Builders edition allows HBA’s to manage their HBA Members from New Membership to Cancellations. In this session, participants will learn how to setup WMS, Export records for NAHB, and import records from NAHB.

27. Working with the Projects/Tasks

Pdf icon.png Description: ChamberMaster/MemberZone's Project/Task Manager can help you manage and track projects by allowing you to assign tasks to staff members, monitor the project’s progress and keep an eye on deadlines. In this session, participants will learn how to setup projects/project templates; use templates within members and events, monitor and update tasks.

28. Working with Benefit Tracking

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Description: ChamberMaster/MemberZone's Benefit tracking makes it easy and efficient way for you to track member benefits, such as free or discounted admission to certain events or free/discounted usage of facilities or other tangible items as part of their membership. In this session, participants will learn how to setup and manage benefit packages.

Training For Your Members

Note: The resources in "Training for your Members" were created for you to share with your members. The videos and PDF's walk them through the day to day processes of the Member Information Center (MIC). To share a video or PDF, right-click on an icon and select Copy link address. You can then paste the link by holding down the Ctrl button and pressing the letter V on your keyboard. If you would like to customize one of the PDF's, you are welcome to copy and paste the text into a document and update the wording to meet your needs.
How To Pay Bills Online
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Learn how your members can pay their open invoices online from within the MIC.
How To Post a Hot Deal
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Learn how members can access, create and manage their Hot Deals and Member to Member Deals from within the MIC.
How To Add a Job Posting
Vid.pngPdf icon.png Learn how members can access, create and manage their Job Postings from within the MIC.
How to Add a News Release
Vid.pngPdf icon.png Learn how members can add News Releases in the MIC.
How To Update Your Personal Profile
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Your members can update all of their personal information from within the MIC. This video explains how.
How To Update Your Company Profile
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Your members can update all of their company information, including logos and contact details, from within the MIC.
How To Update Your Staff
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Your members can update their staff, adding new staff and deactivating staff.
How To Store your Credit Card in the MIC
Vid.pngPdf icon.png Your members can easily store their credit card information via the MIC for use when registering or events, and even use in paying recurring fees & dues.
How To Manage and Use Events
Vid.png Pdf icon.png Your members can learn how to use, manage, submit, and register for events from within the MIC. Length 13:00

5 Ways Series

5 Ways to Measure Member Engagement

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Measuring the engagement of each and every individual of your organization may be the hardest thing you will ever do, but probably the best thing you could ever do for keeping your organization strong and sustainable… from the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation. In this session, you will learn 5 ways to measure and analyze your member engagement.

5 Ways to Manage Your Prospects

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Do you currently have a hot list of prospective members? This session will provide you with 5 tips/tricks for managing those prospects using your ChamberMaster/MemberZone software.

5 Ways to Better Onboarding

Vid.png Pdf icon.png New member onboarding is critical to retention... this 5 Ways webinar looks at strategies and tools to help you along the way, including a look at some ChamberMaster/MemberZone tools you can use to manage the process and automate some things to free up time to get "out in the field."

5 Ways to Benefit from GrowthZone Pay

Vid.png Pdf icon.png GrowthZone Pay is the easy way to accept and process payments. In this session, participants will learn about the benefits of implementing GrowthZone Pay.

5 Ways to Implement ePayment with GrowthZone Pay

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Are you ready to improve your cash-flow? In this session you will learn how, by implementing ePayment with GrowthZone Pay.

5 Ways to Enhance Your SEO

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Did you know, on average Google processes over 40,000 search queries per second... With so many searches, you need to make sure that your SEO is strong.. In this session, you will learn 5 ways to enhance your SEO.

5 Ways to Make the Most of the Events Module

Vid.png Pdf icon.png The ChamberMaster/MemberZone Events module is designed to help you navigate every aspect of the event process - everything from inviting attendees to tracking registrations to creating invoices. In this session, you will learn tips & tricks for making the most of the module.

5 Efficiencies Gained in Implementing GrowthZone Pay

Vid.png Pdf icon.png For ChamberMaster/MemberZone users alike, GrowthZone Pay allows you to easily process one-time credit card, debit card, and bank payments! This session will describe the efficiencies that you and your staff will realize by implementing GrowthZone Pay as your payment processor. NOTE: GrowthZone Pay Pricing sheet is as of November 2018, please reach out to sales@growthzone.com for most recent pricing sheet.

5 Ways to Ensure your Emails are Getting Through

Vid.png Pdf icon.png We understand that emails are a critical component of engaging with your members and communicating pertinent information to stakeholders. If emails don't make it to key recipients, landing in their spam folder instead, your efforts can be wasted. In this session, you will learn 5 tips for ensuring that your emails are getting through.

5 Ways to Clean Up Your Database

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Data cleansing is so important because it improves your data quality and in doing so, increases overall productivity. When you clean your data, all outdated or incorrect information is gone – leaving you with the highest quality information. In this session participants will learn tips and tricks for cleaning up the ChamberMaster/MemberZone database.

End of Year Processes and Best Practices

The end of year inevitably creeps up before we expect and can bring with it some extra work. There are financial reports to prepare, making chart of account updates or new membership dues changes, ensuring that members have their latest and greatest data provided and more. The sessions below provide best practices to be taken to ensure your year end is stress free. We recommend that you take the time to view these sessions, and visit our Year End Resources page!

5 Ways to Reduce Year-End Stress and Start 2020 Focused on Members

Vid.png Pdf icon.pngThe end of year inevitably creeps up before we expect and can bring with it some extra work. There are financial reports to prepare, making chart of account updates or new membership dues changes, ensuring that members have their latest and greatest data provided and more. This session provides an overview of various steps to be taken at year end, to ensure billing, collections and the database are up to date.

5 Ways to Manage Year-End Billing

Vid.png Pdf icon.png In this session, participants will learn best practices for managing year end billing. Whether you bill once a year, or bill through-out the year, the tips & tricks presented in this session will make billing easy and stress free.

5 Ways to Manage Collections

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Collections is unfortunately a necessity when invoices are over-due and members have lapsed. In this session, participants will learn 5 ways to manage collections.

5 Budgeting & Projection Reports You Should Know

Vid.png Pdf icon.png As you begin planning for next year, there are a variety of reports available to you in your ChamberMaster/MemberZone software that will assist you in planning and budgeting. In this session, participants will learn to generate and analyze essential year end budgeting and projection reports.

5 Year End Best Practices for a Healthy & Clean Database

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Data cleansing is so important because it improves your data quality and in doing so, increases overall productivity. When you clean your data, all outdated or incorrect information is gone – leaving you with the highest quality information. In this session, participants will learn best practices for cleansing & maintaining a healthy database.

5 Ways to Implement ePayment with GrowthZone Pay

Vid.png Pdf icon.png Are you ready to improve your cash-flow? In this session you will learn how, by implementing ePayment with GrowthZone Pay.

What's New in ChamberMaster/MemberZone - Product Updates

Software Update December 2019

Software Update October 2019

Software Updates August 2019

Software Update June 2019