Pre-Order 2009 BuilderBooks Catalogs and receive:

Catalogs with your association’s  retail affiliate code printed on the back cover.

A supply of catalogs to keep on hand for new and existing members

To place an order for your coded catalogs, please contact Jackie Barnes at jbarnes@nahb.com .

If you’re not a BuilderBooks.com Retail Affiliate, go to www.BuilderBooks.com  and click on “affiliate” at the top of the page to join.

Phone, Web site, and catalog orders will all count towards your HBA’s earned revenue!

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The rising credit card processing rate cycle resurfaced recently, as Visa^® and MasterCard^® announced a second nationwide interchange rate increase. Often, processors bury the rate increases in billing statements where business owners cannot makes heads or tales of the reasons or sources – they just know it got more expensive to accept credit and debit cards.

Solveras helps NAHB members beat increases; holds rates steady; AND offers a two-year guarantee.

The timing is perfect for members to not only secure proven savings from the NAHB Member Advantage trusted vendor, but also to ensure rate stability and predictability for two full years.

NAHB members should contact Solveras by phone 1-800-613-0148 by 10/31/2008 to be eligible. Even members currently in the middle of a processing agreement should contact Solveras, as they may be able to help with making the change.

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The economic environment has radically changed and so has the prospective home buyer. Highly knowledgeable and reluctant to discuss what they already know, these buyers want to be part of the process and better understand what they want in a new home, not just facts and data that they’ve already gleaned from the Internet. 

“ValueMatch Selling is the missing communication link in most of today’s sales methods,” says Andrew Hall, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Worth Division of Meritage Homes in Fort Worth, Texas.  “It has powerfully improved the success of our sales team and their attitude towards Sales Training. . . . ValueMatch Selling has vaulted us forward.”

Proven, powerful, and effective, ValueMatch listening skills will help open the door to prospective home buyers’ emotional need to buy a new home.  The book teaches practical applications that can be used for the rookie or seasoned veteran. Nowell’s emphasis on questioning strategies and listening skills are two key ingredients to a successful sales recipe, making ValueMatch Selling for Home Builders the definitive guide for selling what matters most.

ValueMatch™ Selling for Home Builders will be available November 2008 at www.BuilderBooks.com or by calling 800-223-2665.

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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.

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 the 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.  

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Be sure to get a copy of these comprehensive guides that offer expert advice and trustworthy information on dining, shopping, and entertainment for every budget.

Las Vegas Eat! provides sophisticated reviews, neighborhood maps marked to show restaurant locations, and a full city's worth of detailed pop-out maps on the inside front and back covers.

Las Vegas Shop! highlights over 200 shops from chains to local one-offs—all pinpointed on neighborhood maps.

Where Las Vegas CityGuide puts all the key information about the best of the city at your fingertips, with hundreds of listings and tips.

Get your copy today at www.BuilderBooks.com.

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