July 8, 2008
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New Revenue Share Opportunity through Bank of America

HBAs earn $20 for every successful application for the Business Card with WorldPoints® Rewards.

Bank of America Revenue Share Opportunity for HBAs

Get Started Now!

Go to www.nahb.org/BOA and download the application for your members to request the business card with WorldPoints® Rewards. You can always find completed details about the program on this Web page.

Download the Official Fax Cover Sheet addressed to Amy Lincoln at Bank of America. One request/application form per fax, please.  This Official Fax Cover Sheet must be used for the special summer promotion.

HBAs earn $20 for every “successful” Business Card application defined as follows: the application is complete and correct, the applicant is approved for a business card account and the account is open and active within 90 days.

Your HBA will get credit for all "successful" Business Card applications as defined above. Sometimes a member prefers to send in the application his or herself. So just provide that member with a copy of the Official Fax Cover Sheet that you have already filled in for them and instruct him/her to fax Amy Lincoln.  You'll also want to delete the part that mentions the scratch and win card because that card is for the HBA.  If you'd like to give this to the member, that is your call and therefore the language can stay.

With your customized Official Fax Form, all the member has to do is use it as a cover sheet for their application when they fax it in.

Special Summer Promotion

Receive a Scratch & WIN gift card for every business card application you submit before July 31, 2008. For complete details, click here.

Grand Prize $250 gas card awarded at EOC Seminar** on August 7 at noon to individual/HBA submitting the most applications before July 31, 2008.

**You need not be present to win.

Revenue Share Payments to HBAs

The revenue share payment from Bank of America will be included in participants’ revenue share check in March.  For this pilot program, you do not need to sign-up. Submit your first business card application from a member, and you are automatically participating!

Questions or more information:  Contact Tiffany Lindsley tlindsley@nahb.com or Rand Cheadle rcheadle@nahb.com .

NOTE: These request forms for business credit card with WorldPoints® Rewards may be submitted on behalf of members only by an NAHB-affiliated builders’ association according to procedures established by Bank of America.  

See You at EOC Seminar

 

We're Sailing into Providence!

 

Lakisha Campbell and Tiffany Lindsley with the Member Advantage Program are looking forward to seeing you at EOC Seminar in Providence beginning August 5. We’ll be staffing a booth in the Marketplace. Drop by to say hello, order some Member Advantage collateral and leave your business card for a chance to win some fabulous prizes. You’ll also receive a free gift from Office Depot.

Member Advantage and BuilderBooks are again sponsoring the new EO Orientation, and we’re looking forward to meeting all of the new EOs.

We’ll also have some terrific prizes during the Sponsor Fair Luncheon on Thursday.

And as always – during EOC Seminar and all year round – your Member Advantage team has tips to help you maximize non-dues revenue through the Member Advantage Revenue Share.

See you in Providence!

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A Money-Making Opportunity for Your Parade of Homes/Home Shows or Home Buying Seminars

Trillion Dollar Women Discounts

BuilderBooks’ Trillion Dollar Women is now available to HBAs for as much as 40% off the retail price. BuilderBooks has created this special pricing for HBAs to provide this valuable educational resource to prospective home buyers. Buy and re-sell or use the book as a giveaway.

This special program also features FREE six-panel, full-color handouts with a special 10% discount for your attendees—perfect for distributing at your Parade of Homes/Home Shows and Home Buying Seminars.

To request Trillion Dollar Women handouts or to place an order for books, please contact Jackie Barnes at jbarnes@nahb.com, 800-368-5242, ext. 8588.

Builders recognize that women have more buying power than ever.  Single women,

in fact, are the second largest and fastest-growing demographic of home buyers.

Sandy Dunn, President NAHB and a builder from Point Pleasant, W.VA.

Make sure you send a special message to some of your members’ best prospects.

Check the EO Mail of June 24 or visit this link for a flyer with complete details.

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Save $25 on Hertz ‘Green,’ ‘Fun’ or ‘Prestige’ Weekly Rentals

 

Hertz Green, Fun and Prestige Collection Vehicles

NAHB members can save $25 on weekly rentals of Hertz “Green,” “Fun” or “Prestige” collection vehicles in the U.S. No blackout dates apply.

All collection vehicles can be reserved by make and model. Fun vehicles include SIRIUS Satellite Radio. Green Collection vehicles are fuel-efficient and environmentally-friendly. Prestige vehicles include NeverLost® in-car satellite navigation.  

For information about this offer and Hertz collection vehicles, click here. This $25 offer is valid through 12/31/08.

For information on special NAHB member savings with how NAHB members can join Hertz #1 Club Gold® with the fee-waived for the first year (a $60 value), click here.

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Help Your Member Successfully Manage Customer Expectations

Residential Construction Performance Guidelines

Residential Construction Performance Guidelines: Contractor's Reference, 3rd Edition (from NAHB Remodelors Council & Business Management ) is the industry’s most widely accepted reference on how homes should perform.  This reference was created specially for builders and remodelers to help successfully manage customer expectations—and protect the bottom line—while delivering high-performance homes.

Features include:

  • A unique collection of nearly 300 guidelines in 12 major construction categories
  • 50 new guidelines on cabinets, cement board siding, concrete, countertops, drainage, driveways, drywall, landscaping, water infiltration, and more
  • New remodeling-specific content—italicized throughout for easy identification
  • Guidance on how to take critical measurements
  • Glossary of common terms
  • Residential Construction Performance Guidelines—Contractor Reference is a must-have for every builder and remodeler.

Make sure your members order through your BuilderBooks Affililate icon on your home page – members save, HBAs earn!

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HBA Outreach Campaign: A Sizzlin’ Summer Tune-up!

 

A Sizzlin' Summer Tune-Up!

Summer is here and it’s time to ensure that your association is tuned-up and ready to generate additional revenue from the BuilderBooks Retail Affiliate Program.

Over $600,000.00 was paid out in March to HBA’s participating in the Member Advantage Program and BuilderBooks Retail Affiliate Program.

If you currently participate in both programs, BuilderBooks values your participation and want you to know that our primary goal is to assist you in making the program a success for your association and your members.

If you are not currently participating in either program go directly to BuilderBooks Retail Affiliate Program and Member Advantage Program and sign up today.

Jackie Barnes, Affiliate & eMarketing Manager and Kristen Hadel, Marketing Intern for BuilderBooks, will be contacting you in the next few weeks via email to ensure that your association is utilizing all the BuilderBooks Retail Affiliate tools necessary for a successful program.

Questions?  Contact Jackie Barnes at jbarnes@nahb.com or 800-368-5242 ext. 8588.

Get ready to drive away with additional revenue for 2008!

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Keep Knocking But Can’t Get In? Here’s How to Access “Exclusive NAHB Content”

Can't get in? Here's how!

Can you open an account at www.nahb.org/materialsordering ?

Can you access the Membership Planning Kit?

How about the new Bank of America Revenue Opportunity at www.nahb.org/BOA?

Or the always handy  www.nahb.org/MAToolkit?

Plus literally hundreds of other pages identified as “Exclusive NAHB Content”?  

Every staff person at every HBA should have access to every page on www.nahb.org. And here’s how you get that access.

“It’s a simple process, “ says NAHB Webmaster Hina Ansari. “Just a couple of clicks away and you can have all this online access at your fingertips.”

Just visit this page: http://www.nahb.org/form.aspx?formID=391 (Click on this link or paste it into your browser.)

This form is for use by interested parties at your members’ companies as well as everyone on staff at your local or state HBA.

So how about being able to access all the links in the Member Advantage Update?  Or ordering every kind of collateral or member recruitment and retention tool you can imagine – many you didn’t even know existed. Just go to this form right now and get started.

If you have any questions, please contact Hina Ansari, NAHB Webmaster, at hansari@nahb.com or (202) 266-8137.

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