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Local Associations Recruit More Than 7,000 New Members

More than 350 home builders associations across the country joined forces to recruit 7,195 new members on National Membership Day, April 26, strengthening the membership of NAHB. This broke the previous recruitment record for NAHB’s annual one-day membership drive.

This year's event, sponsored by Sears Contract Sales, featured the first-ever National Membership Day Web cast, a live broadcast across the Internet that enabled associations to exchange membership development ideas such as recruitment tips and retention ideas. In addition, NAHB senior officers and various NAHB members and staff provided hourly updates and interviews.

“The Web cast was an invaluable tool to help bolster our membership and allowed hundreds of participating HBAs to witness the direct effect their efforts were having on our numbers,” said National Membership Committee member Sherry Schwab, of the MBA of King & Snohomish Counties in Washington. “Thanks to the participation of people like Zack Elkin, Dave Smetana, Todd Hein and Kevin Wade of Sears Contract Sales, we can count this year’s National Membership Day as one of our most successful outreach efforts ever.”

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The Web cast was hosted by Duane Bickett, chairman of the 2004 National Membership Committee. NAHB members, Charlie Brown of Bellevue, WA, and Tom Noack of St. Louis, the two most successful members working in membership recruitment and retention, were recognized for their efforts during the Web cast.

 

 

 

 

 

For more information about National Membership Day 2004, e-mail the NAHB Membership team or call 800-368-5242 x8440.

Photos by Paul Lopez

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