Board Membership Changes

[Erik Sine]

We've made some changes when it comes to membership.

There are now two groups of Supp/Mfg./Assoc members, I & II. I is for the business's that make under $2million in annual sales, II makes over. When they choose to upgrade their membership to a Board Vendor they are also broken up into I & II. Reason being is smaller vendors don't have their light sources in the light sources test comparisons. For the $350 a year as it was, it's too time consuming and costly for me to build out three or four compartments in the tests, the cost of operation for those tests and the time it takes to rotate the advert banners in the newsletters every week etc.

The Supp/Mfg/Assoc members that make $2m+ are now $500 and $475 to renew annually. This is still a far much lower cost and better deal than joining an Association at $1,000 which comes with no real perks or advertisng unless you spend more, or paying for one issue of adverting of $10,000 for one single page in one single issue of a trade magazine. The adverting perks that come with the membership like the weekly newsletter banners that are a whopping 150x700 horizontal banner, and the three month rotating board vendor banner, and the affiliate banner seeing that the footer of the board has a much larger advantage.

Also a new class is the National/Service Co members, these are the same as a Board Member, just a little different, they can't view or access the National Sign & Service Co Review List. Reason being, so they can't skew polls or their own listings. They can access this area when they choose to support this board and upgrade their membership to a National Patron which will give them access. This new Patron membership will have the same perks as a Board Patron but a few more. If their one of the Nationals that have a high rating on the board (Good relations / Pay on time) we will post openly in weekly newsletters and on the front page of this website the best National Sign & Service Companies to work for.

Membership upgrade are purchased from our store

http://www.thesignsyndicate.com/forums/index.php?/store/category/1-membership-upgrade/