What services do TeamCalifornia members provide businesses?

TeamCalifornia members provide assistance to companies and site selection professionals engaged in site selection for new or expanding business facilities. TeamCalifornia members can provide site, labor and infrastructure availability and cost information as well as permit and regulatory assistance for any business investment project. Their networks of local colleagues and contacts can assure new or expanding businesses a successful location, from the initial planning stage to final operational start-up. They also provide many business outreach services to help existing local businesses grow and succeed.

What services does TeamCalifornia provide its members?

TeamCalifornia makes it possible for economic development organizations to combine their business retention, development and attraction dollars to participate in tradeshows, advertise in targeted publications and provide an internet presence that they would not otherwise be able to achieve.  TeamCalifornia provides cooperative branding advertising copy that is available for members to customize for their own campaigns. And TeamCalifornia organizes its members to coordinate with marketing activities undertaken by the State of California. TeamCalifornia provides all organizational and administrative support for such activates.

What are the types of TeamCalifornia participation?

Membership is the basic form of participation in TeamCalifornia. Any economic development organization, city, county or State of California business resource program may join TeamCalifornia. Just email info@teamca.org or call (916) 498-3764.  You can obtain a membership application by clicking here.  In addition to the basic membership, TeamCalifornia has select Major Gold Sponsors who provide a greater level of support with increased visibility within TeamCalifornia activities.

California economic development organizations which are non-members of TeamCalifornia may participate in TeamCalifornia’s trade show program and participate in the TeamCalifornia booth at the non-member rate. Non-members may also reserve space in the California Pavilion at the non-member rate. Please email info@teamca.org or call (916) 498-3764 for more information.

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What are the benefits of TeamCalifornia membership?

Access California Presence:
All TeamCalifornia members will be readily accessible to businesses via direct link to their website on the Access California website www.teamca.org. Members will have access to all leads generated through the site and will be able to maintain an extensive library of community and site data as well as the ability to post news and other relevant information.

Tradeshow Leads and Exposure:
TeamCalifornia tradeshow participants receive all of the leads generated in the booth as well as any attendance or exhibitor lists available of the tradeshows they participate in.  Each participant may display two pieces of marketing material and have one person in the booth during a shift. All participants benefit from the very visible and impressive 10x20 or 10X30 foot California booth (an important issue in large shows, where a 10x10 can easily get lost). The TeamCalifornia participation fee is leveraged 10 times over in the booth, graphics, show and shipping costs.

In addition, TeamCalifornia trade show participants participate in tradeshows they could not otherwise afford. TeamCalifornia booth participants pay one low fee and only have to provide one person to staff the booth. They are not required to cover a booth themselves all day for three days - thus saving thousands of marketing dollars and staff time. TeamCalifornia tradeshow participants need to work only one of three or four shifts per day and display their marketing materials in the booth for the entire show. Because of this, they have plenty of time to work the floor over a three-day show and set up individual appointments - a very important benefit since many of the prime contacts are other exhibitors.

Special ads and advertising rates:
All TeamCalifornia members will receive all of the qualified leads provided by the publications that TeamCalifornia advertises in that are generated from the ads for a one year period - this in the past has exceeded 100 leads for the whole year.  Members will be able to download TeamCalifornia ads from the Access California website and customize them with their own logos and taglines to coordinate their advertising and leverage their impact with the overall TeamCalifornia campaigns.  Members will also receive special low advertising rates in a number of site selection publications available only to TeamCalifornia members.

Business mission participation:
TeamCalifornia members will have an opportunity to attend business investment missions that will be organized and coordinated from time-to-time with the Governor’s office in addition to any missions TeamCalifornia will organize on its own.

Does TeamCalifornia work with state agencies ?

TeamCalifornia works closely with the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, California Employment Training Panel, California Business Transportation and Housing Agency, community colleges and workforce investment boards which are represented in the TeamCalifornia membership.

For more State Resource information click here

The office of California Business Investment Services, or CalBIS, the State of California's primary business contact group who provide site selection services for businesses, real-estate executives, and site selection consultants, is represented in the TeamCalifornia organization.  TeamCalifornia's lead and follow-up services are closely coordinated with CalBIS staff.

Who is the TeamCalifornia leadership ?

TeamCalifornia is governed by a board of directors called the Marketing Council consisting of 33 representatives from each of the state’s ten economic development marketing regions, state government agencies, utilities, local workforce investment boards and colleges and universities.

TeamCalifornia is currently being led by an Executive Committee consisting of the committee chairs of each standing committee – Marketing, Trade Shows and Membership – as well as representatives of each Major Gold Sponsor. Permanent officers will be elected in Spring 2007 and installed at the spring Marketing Council meeting. Executive members are:

Major Gold Sponsors:

Peter Hartman
Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Dave Freitas
California Economic Development Partnership

Steven Brewster
City of San Jose

Mark Mosher
California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth

Campbell Hawkins
Southern California Edison

Brian McGowan
San Bernardino County Economic Development Agency

Tradeshow Committee Chair

Mike Ammann,
Solano EDC

Membership Committee Chair:

Tracey Hernandez,
Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization

Marketing Committee Chair:

Audrey Taylor
Chabin Concepts

Members at large

Ruth MacElhinney
Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Gurbax Sahota
California Association for Local Economic Development

Click here for a list of the Members of the TeamCalifornia Marketing Council.
Click here for TeamCalifornia's new organizational structure.

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What is TeamCalifornia's meeting schedule?

TeamCalifornia’s Marketing Council has two membership meetings a year, one in the spring and one in the fall.  The next meeting will be held at the 2007 California Association for Local Economic Development Annual Conference.

Spring Marketing Council Meeting
CALED Annual Conference
May 2-4, 2007
Monterey Marriott
Monterey, CA
Date and time to be established.

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