Notes from NABE Chapter Officers Teleconference
April 2005
Marketing materials for your chapter
- Use “Setting the Pace” brochures from NABE. http://www.nabe.com/member.pdf
- Add an insert for your chapter’s membership.
Leverage the Roundtable teleconferences to give your members more benefits
- NABE has seven roundtables, featuring Corporate Planning, Finance, Healthcare Economics, International, Manufacturing, Regional/Utility and Technology.
- Watch IdeaLink for upcoming events.
- Chapter members receive a discounted rate ($25) to attend a teleconference.
- Some chapters coordinate with Roundtable officers to jointly sponsor events.
Upcoming roundtable teleconferences:
“A Legislative Update on Healthcare: Short- and Long-Term”
Speaker: Representative Jim Cooper, (Democrat, Tennessee)
Tuesday, May 17 at 9a.m. Eastern/6 a.m. Pacific
Sponsored by Healthcare Economics Roundtable
To register for the Healthcare Roundtable teleconference:
http://www.nabe.com/rt/health/index.html#event
"Economic Consequences of Sarbanes-Oxley"
Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 11:00 a.m. Eastern/8 a.m. Pacific.
Speaker: Alex Pollock, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute (formerly President, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago).
Sponsored by the Financial Roundtable
To register for the Financial Roundtable teleconference:
http://www.nabe.com/rt/finrt.htm#tc
The cost for each teleconference is $25 for Chapter members, $50 for all other non-NABE attendees and $5 for NABE members. Once you register, we'll email the toll-free, dial-in information.
Chapter membership campaign
- Nearly 25% of NABE’s members are also chapter members. Because we know that many chapter members value NABE, we’d like to invite all to join.
- NABE requests your chapter member contact list – e-mail, business address and phone number – to conduct a membership campaign over the next few months.
- Please send your chapter’s contact list to: doolittle@nabe.com.
Note from Laurie King: I really appreciate your support of this project. As you know, once people find out about NABE, they’re generally very excited about getting more involved. Thank you for introducing your chapter members to NABE and giving us the opportunity to officially invite them to join.
Best practices
- Reaching out to academic economists has been beneficial to a number of chapters. Some chapters partner with their local universities in a variety of ways, including holding events at the campus or working with professors to invite colleagues and students to NABE chapter events.
- The Richmond Chapter shared that in addition to academics, their vice president of membership and marketing focuses on the business community.
- The New York chapter shared that they are considering three-year membership renewals. They also said that Fed officials are one of the biggest draws in terms of their attendance.
- Get your attendees to prepay their registration fees. There are a number of ways to accomplish this: Use an electronic payment system, such as PayPal. It takes a bit of organization to set it up, but is well worth it. Be aware of handling fees that may be charged. A more basic method is to require that a check be received prior to your event. Some chapters have annual dues that incorporate the cost of lunches. Events that are hosted at the Fed tend to have fewer no-show or too many walk-ups due to the security procedures in place.
Addendum — Electronic payment systems
From Michael J. Donnelly
President, Philadelphia Council for Business Economics
Phone (610) 490 2633; e-mail michael.donnelly@globalinsight.com
The Philadephia chapter uses www.acteva.com, and the web link we give out is
http://www.acteva.com/go/pcbe
Pros
- Accurate head count
- Collect e-mails & contact info
- Payment in hand from no-shows, maybe the most important feature
- Faster processing time at events
- Direct deposit into bank account
- Fills out list of names I need for Federal Reserve security clearance
- Online database of everyone that has attended our events since inception
Cons
- Acteva clips us for nearly $3 a sign up but I am looking into replacing it
- An alternative, www.clubexpress.com, appears much better and would also replace our website that costs us $100 a year.
Chapter officers in attendance:
Chicago – Greg Mycio
Dallas – Mark Ford
Detroit – David Teolis
Hartford – Don Klepper-Smith
Houston – Robert McAshan
Jacksonville – Peter Wynkoop
Los Angeles – Josh Lichtman and Lynda Lo-Hill
Philadelphia – Mike Donnelly
Richmond – Jackie Hudson
St. Louis – Bryan Bezold and Robert Lewis
Sacramento – Martha Jones and Mikael Tovmasyan
Silicon Valley – Knud Jacobs
Washington, D.C. – Eric Graber
NABE officers:
Laurie King
John Silvia
Susan Doolittle