This Exciting New Book is Your Money-making Opportunity
'Building Your Home' Puts Members and their Clients On the Same Page

Building Your Home provides home buyers with first-hand, up-to-date information about what they should expect, who’s responsible for what tasks, the questions they need to ask, and the opportunities and options available at each stage of the building process. Carol Smith shares her expertise to help builders provide the utmost in customer satisfaction.

Your association can earn a 5% royalty on every sale when you promote the brand new edition of Carol Smith’s Building Your Home.  With new titles that are important to your members and to your members’ clients, the BuilderBooks.com Retail Affiliate Program can mean even more to your bottom line.

And you can generate even more revenue when you purchase quantities of Building Your Home to sell at your Parade of Homes or Home Shows.

One of the most popular seminar speakers at every International Builders' Show®, author Carol Smith is an acknowledged national expert on customer service.  She has over thirty years experience working with both builders and their clients to create effective, result-oriented working relationships.

Visit www.nahb.org/byhsales or call Jackie Barnes at (800) 368-5242, ext. 8588.

Make Sure Your Builder Members are on the Path to Profitability
 

Effective estimating is a vital factor in running a profitable construction business.

Now your members can get the estimating software built and priced for builders and remodelers. EstimatorPRO™ 5.1 helps users complete complex home building and remodeling estimates quickly and accurately—up to twelve times faster than traditional estimating methods. Accurate, detailed estimates for an average home can be created in as little as 90 minutes.

EstimatorPRO’s™ simple point-and-click design is easy to use and eliminates:

• Guesstimates
• Paperwork
• Common math errors

EstimatorPRO™ 5.1 automatically integrates with QuickBooks Pro® for more power and flexibility. Items are posted to the category accounts in QuickBooks Pro® with the click of a button. Purchase orders are created instantly saving you even more time.

EstimatorPRO™ takes just minutes to learn and provides complete control for rapid customization. Complete estimates quickly and accurately with EstimatorPRO™ 5.1.

Your members save over $75 when they order EstimatorPRO from BuilderBooks.com.  With the BuilderBooks.com Retail Affiliate Program, you make 5% on every one sold.

It's another great way for everyone to build their business with BuilderBooks.com.

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The Holidays are Almost Here, But Don't Panic
 

Share the amazing variety of NEBS holiday greeting cards with your members.

For your HBA and for your members, these truly distinctive holiday greeting cards carry sincere messages of hope and appreciation. 

And they also make good business sense.  Profession-specific cards have a custom look.  And for many of these designs, alternative or customized greetings are available.  You can also request samples for a wide range of cards. 

Members of the National Association of Home Builders (and, of course, HBAs) are entitled to savings of 30% on first-time purchases and 15% on reorders.

And NEBS is also an NAHB revenue-share participant.

To guarantee delivery in time for the holidays, please place your order by 12/7/05.

Remind customers (and members) how much you value your relationship - throughout the year.

Learn more about NEBS’ Mainstreet Holiday Collection for the building industry today.

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Dress It Up or Dress It Down – You'll Never Go Wrong
 

Get ready for the season with one of the members' favorites.

Dress it up or down – you can never go wrong with a great denim shirt.  NAHB’s men’s long sleeve is 100% cotton 7 oz. indigo dyed demin shirt , stonewashed with special softners for total casual comfort. When the mornings are cooler, everyone can look cool in this classic natural for fall.

And like all NAHB Merchandise, the NAHB denim shirt makes a great gift to thank someone on behalf of your assocation.

Visit BuilderBooks.com for the full line of official NAHB logo merchandise.

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You and Your Members Should Be 'Insiders'
 

To take full advantage of the links in this newsletter, you must be logged in to www.nahb.org.

But make sure that your members have this important advantage as well — members-only access. Then your members will have their own connection to the latest housing industry news and information from the official public and members-only Web site of NAHB.

They'll be able to log in to register for educational seminars, meetings and networking events, find important economic and housing data, and learn the latest developments in NAHB’s efforts to promote housing. It’s all available 24 hours a day.

Just go to www.nahb.org and click the "Log In" button to get started.

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Other News
 

2006 BuilderBooks Catalog Request Deadline—Just a reminder that September 30 is the deadline date for submitting your requests to pre-order the 2006 BuilderBooks Catalog with your affiliate code imprinted on the back.

Any questions or comments about the Member Advantage Program?  Send an e-mail to Rand Cheadle at rcheadle@nahb.com. He'll make sure your question or concern reaches the right person. In the subject field of your e-mail, please put "MESSAGE TO MA UPDATE EDITOR."  

Nation's Building News — Every week, check out Member Advantage offers in the "Association News" section. Make sure all your members and their employees subscribe. Visit www.nahb.org/nbn.

Make sure you have plenty of Member Advantage Brochures (Volume V).  Click here or visit http://www.nahb.org/matoolkit for the convenient order form.

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