Join – Business Membership

Business Membership

Apply ONLINE & pay by credit card: 2024 Business Membership ONLINE Application.

The Deer Isle-Stonington Chamber of Commerce is one of the Island’s most vital organizations. Directed and run by volunteers, our Chamber strives to promote and enhance the community’s diverse businesses through a variety of means including publication of the four-color Island Map & Guide. Numbering 5,000 copies in print circulation in 2022, it provides a locator map to island businesses that puts your business’ name and location in the hands of thousands of potential customers. Your business membership in the Chamber comes with a listing in the Island Map & Guide* and the opportunity for enhanced advertisements.

Website Exposure – The Chamber’s website is the place where more and more people start to look for services, shops, dining, arts and artisans, and accommodations on the Island. Over the last year, 35,000 peop0le visited the site, looking at 107,000 pages of business listings and events. The Chamber’s website offers unparalleled visibility for your business to people looking for information about the Island.

The Personal Touch at the Welcome Center – Volunteer greeters work for hundreds of hours each Summer and Fall at the Welcome Center just over the bridge promoting your business to hundreds of visitors. Your membership includes space in the Welcome Center literature racks for your promotional materials, the first point of contact for many visitors to the Island.

The Chamber sponsors the 4th of July festivities and other events, and your support helps maintain visitor kiosks in Stonington and Deer Isle.

The Chamber also serves as a clearing house for information on all aspects of Island life, state and national Chamber programs, and tourism.

Membership Applications

Apply ONLINE & pay by credit card: 2024 Business Membership ONLINE Application.

Benefits of membership include:

• Island Map & Guide*
  • Free listing
  • Enhanced advertising opportunities
• Chamber Website
  • Free listing with your logo in 2 categories
  • Free link to your website and/or Facebook/Instagram
  • Free business email contact link
  • Free mapping on interactive online Island map with your logo
• Welcome Center
  • Free placement of advertising/promotional materials in the literature racks
  • Enhanced advertising display opportunity in the Outside Kiosk
• Free listing, where applicable, in our Festival pamphlets
• Reduced health insurance cost through Chamber BlueOptions Program
• Our area and your business is further promoted and marketed through the Chamber’s memberships with Maine Tourism Association and Downeast & Acadia Regional Tourism (DART) and through cooperative agreements with other Chambers of Commerce.

*In years when the Island Map & Guide are produced.