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ACHP News, Announcements, and Resources
Stay Informed!
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December 2017
Newsletter
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Welcome New Members, Renewed Members & Lifetime Members.
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Feature Article
Ways You Can Give Back to the Community
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People today want to be associated with businesses that make a difference. Maybe you're thinking of helping in your community, but aren't sure where to begin. Beyond donating money, there are many things you can do to help in your community. Are you looking to get started? Look at these 3 ideas that will get your name and face out where your prospective customers can meet you.
Help with holiday food drives.
During the holiday seasons, you can collect nonperishable canned and boxed foods that you can donate to local food banks. This is a simple and impactful way to help your community and won't require loads of time. Set out some time before the holiday to take the items to the donation center.
Sponsor an event.
Sponsorship is a great way to boost brand awareness. Find a local race, little league team or industry trade show to sponsor to raise community awareness about your handyman or handywoman skills. Make sure you do more than just write a check and turn over your logo. Think about whom you can reach through sponsoring the event and realize you won't get immediate results.
Offer your skills.
As an industry leader, you can offer your skills to others. Think about teaching classes to residents or volunteering to help people in need. Be a part of something that is bigger than yourself to show humanize your business and feel more happiness in your life.
Successful handyman professionals need the support of their communities. Make the most of your local advantage and boost your community involvement by giving back a little.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
In the next months it is vital that you keep abreast on upcoming ACHP announcements. The changes will have an impact on resources and partnership which will benefit ACHP members and the association. As always "Stay In the Know"!
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INSURANCE REMINDER!
Everyone, especially
LIFETIME MEMBERS purchasing or renewing an ACHP Insurance policy
MUST
use their member id (5 digits only)! No exceptions! Your Member ID is located on you ACHP Member Certificate (bottom right corner). If you have any questions regarding your ID contact us immediately. See example image below:
Purchase or Renew your insurance policy
here
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ACHP Insurance Program Contact Info
Need a question answered about insurance? Want to speak to someone about your quote? Contact Lockton at 888-230-3438.
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Please check your ACHP Listing!
Many customers visit our site daily looking for a handyman. Unfortunately, some of our ACHP members have not created or submitted a listing to the directory and are losing out on good revenue. Please log in to your ACHP account and click on "create a listing", fill in the info, then click "
continue/submit" then the "
submit" button on the next page to activate your listing. Please note clicking the "save" link will not submit your listing to the directory, you must click "submit". ACHP does not nor is not a referral based company. However, ACHP allows you as a member, to use our directory listing to advertise your services.
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MORE REVENUE FOR YOU! Garage Gator announces: "all ACHP Members are now eligible to install their products". In the past all ACHP Members were required to take and pass the Garage Gator installation exam, this is no longer required. All members listings are used for Garage Gator installation opportunities. ACHP will keep the exam in place for those who wish to learn prior to installing the systems. Below are the links to the necessary forms. Questions? Garage Gator can be contacted at:
sales@garagegator.com or
352-742-0702
Want to Sell Garage Gator Products to your customers?
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Training Videos
The ACHP Sharpening Project -
"Iron sharpens iron"
Have you ever video recorded your home improvements and repair skills? Would you like to? If so, ACHP has a video "how to links" in the Members Area that could use more member videos. It helps others visualize correct practices and allows you to give back to our craft
; "give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach
a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime". Please pass your skills along to preserve what others passed to you.
To participate, please send a link to your YouTube, Vimeo, etc video
here.
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CBG - Community Buying Group
We've added new benefits from Dell, Citrix Podio, UpCounsel, House Flipping Spreadsheet and more. Unfortunately, Lowes is no longer participating in the Community Buying Group.
We also have meaningful conversations going with 10 major national suppliers at different stages that we hope will lead to exciting news.
Community Buying Group is still a hassle-free way for you to attract and retain members and customers as a turnkey benefits program. Once they join your organization, and you get them to register with CBG at no cost to them, we take on all of the communication and customer service responsibilities related to their benefits.
Don't forget to sign up to the ACHP-Community Buying Group below. It's free to all ACHP Members.
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ACHP-Community Buyers Group
Join the many ACHP Members who have signed up and are saving! Through the ACHP Partnership with Community Buying Group the program offers tremendous savings with Sears, Sunbelt, Sherwin Williams, and many other of your favorite places to shop. Click
here to go to the ACHP-CBG Landing sign-up page.
This member discount program is
FREE and provided by ACHP for its member. Please take advantage of it and save LOTS!
Learn More
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Cool Tool
The Amenitee Universal Angularizer Ruler will help you complete numerous home projects in no time. With the Universal Angularizer Ruler, you can measure awkward and hard to trace angles become effortlessly. This remarkable tool handles all sorts of measurements easily- including plumb cuts, radius cuts, bulls eyes, arches and many other unique shapes.
Eazy Peezy Lemon Squeezy
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ACHP Members receive $200 for each referred and installed ADT system. It's as easy as printing a flyer, staple your business card to it, hand it to all your customers, and collect $200 for each installed system you refer. Easy money! Log into your account for more info and to print the handout flyer.
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Are You Leaving Money On The Table?
LEARN THE BEST WAY TO PRICE YOUR SERVICES SO YOU GET MORE JOBS, KEEP MORE CUSTOMERS, AND MAKE MORE MONEY.
Learn More
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Need Insurance? Click on your country flag below.
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Check Out Our Updated Blog Content
Every week, we are adding new blog posts that are consumer-friendly that cover a wide range of home improvement topics to draw in more traffic from search engines. Our goal is to bring consumers to the ACHP site, who will then have an opportunity to use our Handyman Professional directory to find their next hire. Click here to visit the blog.
Have a topic you'd like us to cover on the blog? Email the idea to ACHP communications advisor at service@handymanassociation.org
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Exclusive Member Resources and Opportunities
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All ACHP Members are now eligible to install Garage Gator
Garage Gator and ACHP have a program for those who wish to add a new skillset and more revenue to their business. Log in to your ACHP account ("My Account"), click on the Gator icon.
Garage Gator serves US and Canada
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Promo1America - Promotional Branding Consultants
Promo1America is happy to partner with the members of the Association of Certified Handyman Professionals and offer a significant discount on promotional items. They offer a tremendously broad range of categories and products with your logo on! Please feel free to browse their website www.promo1america.com or call/speak to your rep Mary Ellen Walsh at 1-877-703-9460 ext 6505.
Please be sure to:
- Say you are an ACHP Member
- Speak to Mary Ellen
"Any products prices that you see on the website will be discounted per order"
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Office Depot/Office Max Member Discount -
Free shipping on orders over $50, and a coupon for 15% off your first online order!
The Association of Certified Handyman Professionals (ACHP) is excited to announce an additional 15% off on first-time online purchases for the Office Depot/OfficeMax Discount Program to help you save money on office supplies.
You can take advantage of discounts of up to 80% off thousands of preferred products. Plus, FREE next-day shipping on online orders of $50 or more along with an additional 15% off first time online buyers. You can save online or in-stores today.
Be sure to print out your free Store Purchasing Card on our Office Depot/OfficeMax website before going into your local Office Depot/OfficeMax store to ensure you receive your savings - they'll even laminate it for you for free.
You can order online by going to http://achp.ctcshares.com and use coupon code 61112117 to take advantage of this additional 15% offer.
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Are your Customers Able to Find You?
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Our search requests continue to increase significantly. The new search engine installed in August was indeed what the doctor ordered. This means more and more folks are browsing our directory listings. However, many of you have not updated your listing in a while. In some cases, customers are having difficulties reaching you because of outdated information in your listing. How do we know this? Some of them are calling ACHP. Makes us wonder how many customers are reluctant to go the extra mile thus contacting someone else with a working or displayed phone number, etc.
To fix this problem:
Log in to your member account and:
- Ensure you have access, if not contact us immediately.
- Click on "My Directory Listings" then "Edit". Ensure your information is up to date.
- Enter a city, state, zip code in the display map. If not, the search engine will not be able to find you by zip code search.
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Ensure your email and phone number is correct, etc. Add more unique keywords.
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My Lifter
ACHP teams up with myLifter. 10% off on all products for ACHP members. Show your customers, they will love this. Easy installation. Click the link under the logo to see how it works. Get the Promo code by logging into your "My Account" area
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More Member Resources.
Log in to access!
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Check out The ACHP Store!
Items such as ACHP shirts, hats, decals, and more.
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ACHP Member Referral Program. Refer new members and earn. To Read more about the program, login to My Account and click on the ACHP Member Referral Program icon at the bottom of the page.
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Don't Forget to check out the new educational Online Training video's in the My Account section. Is there something else you're looking for?
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Member Knowledge Base Videos.
ACHP has created a place to add your own helpful videos for others to use and learn. Get involved in your trade association and share your knowledge.
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ACHP Member Exams. Test your skills. This is a difficult exam to pass and more geared for the contractor. Test your knowledge. |
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