Networking with amchamvietnam.com

Most AmCham members consider business and social networking an important benefit of AmCham. They want to know about other businesses and people in AmCham, and they want others to know about them. It’s human nature.

Members lunches, annual events, seminars—all these are important of networking opportunities for AmCham members.

In addition, AmCham offers you several ways to inform other members about your company’s products or services via print or internet information activities. Please click on the highlighted links for information about our different services.

Networking Online at www.amchamvietnam.com
In Jan – Mar 2008, we had over 150,000 visitors and nearly 250,000 page-views per month at www.amchamvietnam.com. That’s 3,000,000 page views per year. And that makes www.amchamvietnam.com a great place for business networking online. It’s the online hub of nearly 800 representatives of about 400 member and associate companies (including expatriate and local managers) in HCM City, and a key resource for non-members in the USA and Japan, as well as Vietnam, who are looking for trade and investment opportunities.

Announcement in AmCham’s “Weekly Update” emails
Every Monday or Tuesday, AmCham’s Weekly Update email goes out to 800 representatives of 400 AmCham member and associate companies, plus over 2,000 subscribers in Vietnam and the USA. We welcome announcements that are of interest to members and associates and offer a service to include such announcements in the Weekly Update email, with a link to a web page with additional information, details, event registration, etc. For best results and responses to your announcements, they should be sent three or four times.

Promotional and Event Management Support for AmCham Member Information Activities
The AmCham Executive Office will help support member information activities with other members. For example, a member may wish to have a seminar or conference to announce a product, service or information that other members would find useful.

Flyer in our monthly print “Letter from the Chair” (newsletter)
The Letter from the Chair is a regular newsletter providing summary and update information on key issues related to AmCham Vietnam’s objective of promoting trade and investment between Vietnam and the United States. Your brochures/flyers will be included in the same envelopes with the Letter from the Chair and delivered to nearly 800 AmCham HCMC members and associates, who mostly are senior executive of more then 400 AmCham member and associate companies.

Advertisement in the annual print AmCham Membership Directory
The directory is a highly cost-effective method for reaching a wide range of customers because it’s used in multiple ways by a number of different audiences. It’s used daily by members and employees nearly 600 member and associate companies, with over 1,200 representatives in both HCM City and Hanoi.

Annual Sponsorship Package
Sponsorship opportunities range from monthly members’ lunches, cocktail receptions, to the annual Golf Outings, 4th of July Celebration, and Governors’ Ball, a variety of presentations that will fit your marketing needs and budget. It helps raise your company’s profile with our 700 members and associates, and their guests, who mostly are senior executives and staff of over 350 AmCham member and associate firms, US Consulate officials, and Vietnamese government officials with responsibility for trade and investment.

Advertisement in the AmCham Membership Discount Handbook
Shirt-pocket size publication listing details of special discounts available for AmCham members. Establishments’ names, addresses, tel/fax, web sites, etc. Two editions a year: Spring/Summer published in February, and Fall/Winter published in August.

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Articles 4.1 and 4.2 of Decree No. 08/1998/ND-CP, Promulgating Regulations on the Establishment of Foreign Business Associations, 22 Jan 98 authorizes foreign business associations to organize “internal information activities” and to explore “opportunities in commerce and investment.”