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National, State & Local Building Industry News 2018: Issue 5
EPAB Welcomes over 100 new members State-wide Membership Drive grows Texas Association by 72 percent
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The gauntlet had dropped. The challenge was made and accepted. The only thing that needed to be done was to do it. Five team captains stepped up to the challenge and rallied their troops to hit the goal and exceed it. It was going to be a blood fest if nothing else as the captains squared off. The two days of action were just around the corner. Each leader got their teams fired up. In the end what seemed impossible was accomplished, to surprise of a few who had thought the challenge was too hard. What was this? The Texas Association of Builders (TAB) Membership Drive. The El Paso team trained for this back in April as our association hosted Rob and Kate Oliver with Monarch Direct Drive. This is the same two who over the years has brought success after success to associations and chambers across the
country. It’d been a few years since they gave a training to the EPAB and it was evident that we needed it. Nothing is more important to an association than membership for with it you live, without it you die. Construction is way up across Texas but the Texas Association of Builders (as well as El Paso) had lost members during these good times. It was clear to the leadership that we needed to invigorate the rolls and so we called on Rob and Kate to perform the magic. The EPAB had four teams: Edmundo Dena (Mundo’s Membership Maniacs), Sergio Cuartas (Los Fregones); Kelly Sorenson/Randy Bowling; and the Edgar Garcia team. As of this writing the team co-captains of Kelly and Randy took an early lead and never looked back. However, both Edgar and Sergio battled for the second spot while Team Dena worked
it hard. By the end of Thursday May 24, we reported 108 new members to the Monarch group and to TAB. Overall of the 27 associations in Texas 20 participated and brought in over 1100 members statewide. Amarillo and Lubbock again were top dogs in the hunt, but El Paso was in the century club and had really scooted past bigger associations in the state. We grew by a whopping 72%. Our gratitude goes out to all the captains and the members who volunteered to do this drive. One hundred and eight is a tremendous challenge as now we work on retention. To those members who offered incentives we appreciate what you did. We’ll provide a list of the new members and those contributors in the next issue. Congratulations and welcome. -Ray Adauto
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