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 2010, we averaged over 250,000 visitors and over 350,000 page-views per month at www.amchamvietnam.com. That’s more than 4.2 million page views per year. It’s the highest ranked foreign business association web site in Vietnam according to www.alexa.com. And that makes www.amchamvietnam.com a great place for business networking online. It’s the online hub of about 1,000 representatives of more than 450 AmCham companies (including expatriate and local managers) in HCM City, and a key resource for readers in not only in Vietnam, but also in the USA, Singapore, India, and Japan, who are looking for trade and investment opportunities, as well as travel and tourism.

Announcement in AmCham’s “Weekly Update” emails
Every Monday or Tuesday, AmCham’s Weekly Update email goes out to about 1,000 representatives of more than 450 AmCham member companies, plus 2,500 readers in Vietnam, Asia-Pacific, 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 that are directly related to our objective ” ... to promote trade and investment between Vietnam and the United States.” 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.

Announcements 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 750 AmCham companies, with nearly 1,500 representatives in both HCM City and Hanoi.

Annual Sponsorship Package
Sponsorship opportunities range from monthly members’ lunches, cocktail receptions, to the 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 1,000 companies representatives, and their guests, who mostly are senior executives and staff of 450 AmCham firms, US Consulate officials, and Vietnamese government officials with responsibility for trade and investment.

Announcements 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. One edition a year, published in February.

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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.”