Avoid Credit Card Processing Rate Increases
And Automatically Collect Membership Renewal Dues

Solveras Payment Systems offers members and HBAs the opportunity to avoid the national Visa/MasterCard processing rate increase AND automatically collect membership renewal dues.

Visa® and MasterCard® have announced nationwide interchange processing rate increases that affect all processors and merchants across the country as of April 2006. If you or your members accept credit cards, these changes could significantly impact your bottom line.

Solveras Payment Systems, the newest Member Advantage company, has negotiated a special deal for NAHB members to avoid these increases if you act now. Members and HBAs that enroll in the program between now and May 31, 2006 will lock in pre-increase processing rates. Add that to the program’s regular discounts on credit card processing, simplified monthly billing, and an easy-to-read account statement, and you’ll find an excellent opportunity for you to keep more profit on every credit card sale.

And remember: for HBAs, the recurring billing feature provides a perfect solution for automatically collecting membership renewal dues.

As a special limited-time offer to kick off the new program, Solveras will waive the regular one-time activation fee for the Virtual Terminal for all NAHB-affiliated builder associations (a $299 value)!

Contact Solveras at 1-800-613-0148 today for more details on this exclusive offer and have your state or local HBA ID number ready.

Solveras Payment Systems is part of the Member Advantage Program and the NAHB Revenue Sharing Program for HBAs.  Visit www.nahb.org/matoolkit to sign up today.

For more information, contact Tiffany Smith at tsmith@nahb.com or 800.368.5242, ext. 8273.

GM Sends First Quarter HBA Revenue Share Past $100,000!
Over 2,000 GM vehicles already sold this year, meaning  over $100,000 goes to participating HBAs who have signed up.  For those of you who are really promoting this program, your great work is paying off.  So far this year, GM has exceeded the entire HBA revenue share for 2005!  This is guaranteed to be a banner year for revenue.  Are you participating as fully as you can? 

It's easy.  Sign up for each revenue share program and you must post the Member Advantage logo and link on your association's home page.  Use all the resources in the Member Advantage Tookit. Remember: it is The Home Builder Association Member Advantage.  And promote, promote, promote.

Let's keep this revenue ball rolling.  A new series of print ads has been designed by GM to focus on the GM NAHB $500 Exclusive Offer for our members.

These black-and-white ads are ideal for association newsletters, flyers and other printed communication pieces and come in an assortment of convenient sizes.

All ads are provided as high-resolution PDFs. To open an ad, simply click on the image below. To download it to your desktop, right-click on the link and select "Save Target as".

If you access this page through the HBA Resources section of www.nahb.org, we invite you to also visit the Member Advantage Toolkit at www.nahb.org/matoolkit. [return to top]

Tuesday, May 23: The Rubber Hits the Road
The 2006 National Membership Day is the race to place in! This nationwide campaign is executed at the local level and celebrated and supported at the state and national levels. Participation is encouraged as part of a healthy membership program for each and every association. 
 
On May 23, participating HBAs will call in May member projections to 800-899-6242 between 12 noon and 5pm Eastern Standard Time where NAHB and Whirlpool leadership will take the calls and record projections. Numbers will also be displayed in real time on the National Membership Day Webcast—a live broadcast of National Membership Day activity viewable on the Internet with RealAudio sound.

Tune in for some special features and great prizes from Member Advantage companies and BuilderBooks.com. Webcast content is rich in items of interest for membership planners including interviews with other membership planners, membership projections from other associations, member benefit updates, segments on membership trends, and much more. Tuning in is free and easy.  

Share Your Thoughts with BuilderBooks
BuilderBooks wants to hear from you and your members. Tell us about your experience using the products purchased on BuilderBooks.com and you will be entered into a quarterly drawing for a chance to win a $25 BuilderBooks gift card.

For complete details and to enter, send your emails to our Customer Service Manager Lay Bragg at lbragg@nahb.com. We may use your quotes on upcoming marketing materials. Be sure to include your full name, company name, city, state, and phone number.  Here’s what some of our customers are already saying:

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Put the NAHB Career Center Button on Your Home Page
Add another valuable tool for your members to your HBA home page.  The NAHB Career Center (powered by ConstructionJobs.com) offers your members a true competitive edge, with exceptional site traffic and over 28,000 construction and engineering candidates. 

Just copy this NAHB Career Center JPG and use place it on your home page to link to www.nahb.org/careers. 

Your members enjoy a 20% discount off standard rates for job postings.

The NAHB Career Center is part of the Member Advantage Program and the NAHB Revenue Sharing Program for HBAs.  Visit www.nahb.org/matoolkit to sign up today.

For more information, contact Tiffany Smith at tsmith@nahb.com or 800.368.5242, ext. 8273. [return to top]

Earnings Stack Up for BuilderBooks.com Retail Affiliates
This June, checks for the BuilderBooks.com Retail Affiliate Program commission payments will be going out to all HBAs that participated in 2004 and 2005.  Meanwhile, we are working with our IT department to further enhance the commission payment system to better coincide with the HBA Revenue Sharing Program.

Starting in 2007, annual commission payments for both the HBA Revenue Sharing Program and the BuilderBooks.com Retail Affiliate Programs will be made in March. 

Welcome to ten more HBAs who have decided to watch earnings stack up as they "make money by the book" with the BuilderBooks.com Retail Affiliate Program.

• BCA of South East Idaho
• BIA of Tulare & Kings Counties
• Builders Association if Hudson Valley
• HBA of Wayne County
• Home Builders Association of Central Coast
• Home Builders Association of the Grand Traverse Area
• Missoula Building Industry Association
• Northern Minnesota Builders Association
• Home Builders Association of Mississippi
• Umpqua Valley HBA

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