Membership Orientation

Join the group

Assuming you are already a member of the Lousiville Chamber, to officially join the leads group you need to fill out the hardcopy application form which is typically gotten from either the moderator or statistician and pay the appropriate fees.

Group Purpose

The general purpose of the group is to network within and outside the group and pass leads promoting other members' businesses. To do this effectively fairly regular attendance is required. Leads slips are used to keep track of leads passed, both internal and external. For details regarding attendance, what constitutes a lead, the point system associated with a lead, please consult the bylaws. Each meeting will typically include time for a 30 second commercial, group business, two speakers (20 minutes total), lead passing and a wrap which may be a variation of the 30 second commercial.

The group website: www.louisvillebusinessleads.org

The purpose of the website is to support the group, it does not constitute membership. Websites live with fresh content, die without. As search engines spider a website they look for fresh content to index. If a site becomes stale the search engine's frequency of indexing will dissipate, as will internet visibility of members' business presence.

That being said, what this all means is that it benefits both individual members as well as the group to not only make sure that your profile is accurate, but to use functions such as Front Page and the group calendar to talk about some new and exciting about the business that you want to share.

Getting Started - New Members/Orientation

To gain access (login) to the website, fill out the registration form available on the site via the Join the Team link. Follow the procedures on that page. You must also subscribe to the email group - again, follow the procedures on that page. Once you have successfully gotten your login and password created, the next step would be to login, and update/enhance your profile via the My Account link. It is very easy to add a simple paragraph describing your business in your profile. It will take a little more time and experimentation to add images using the image upload form, but here again it is documented in a step-by-step form. Follow the procedures verbatim.

If you have forgotten your password and or login (a.k.a. username) you can retrieve both by using the Forgot Password link. You can also change your username/login later if you decide you Don't like what you've chosen. Logins and passwords are case sensitive. I highly recommend that you use something like your first name and last name as a single word, such as bobmeetin. Your username/login does not need to be secretive.

Other functions of the site

The front page is made up of some fairly static elements, the page title, menu and footer, and some dynamic elements. Although the menu is static, the buttons on the menu will change depending on whether you are logged in or not, as well as whether you are defined as an admin. The dynamic elements are:

Once a member is signed in (logged in), he/she has access to:

  1. update the calendar
  2. update their account
  3. upload images into their profile
  4. create a Business Function
  5. change their username and password
  6. add a Front Page blurb

Speaker schedule

The speaker schedule is very easy to use. After logging in, select the "Speakers" menu button. Each of the 4 list drop-down menus is built from the members list. So if a member is not listed, this won't work. To add speakers for a week, select the appropriate speakers from ea ch menu AND change the date to the meeting date - and select "submit information". The radio buttons (Yes/No) for completed are used to indicate whether a speaker attended the meeting and his/her presentation happened or not. They default to No.