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Association Engagement Success Guide
The document describes the AchieveLinks program, which enhances membership value by allowing members to earn rewards points for business and personal purchases, redeemable for various rewards. It emphasizes the benefits of member engagement, retention, and revenue sharing for associations through merchant partnerships and a co-branded visa platinum credit card. AchieveLinks aims to provide a new, tangible benefit for members while ensuring minimal effort for associations in managing the program.
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- 1. Up The Valueof Membership. How it works Merchant Partners Rewards Let’s Get Started Champions
- 2. Make Membership Indispensable. BenefitsThat Add Up. AchieveLinks® maximizes the value your members receive from their membership and increases their engagement with your association. Rather than provide a discount on just one product, AchieveLinks rewards your members for business and personal purchases they make every day. The AchieveLinks rewards points can really add up—and be redeemed for a wide array of motivational rewards. The catch? They have to be members to earn, making membership in your association indispensable.
- 3. Enjoy Benefits UnlikeAny Other Association Program ® With AchieveLinks, you can Offer a unique, new member benefit that’s free to you. Increase member engagement: Retain existing members, and draw in new members, too! Share in the revenue. Earn a royalty on every purchase. As your members spend more, your association earns more. Be top of mind every time members purchase with the co-branded AchieveLinks Rewards Platinum VISA® Card.
- 4. Enjoy Benefits UnlikeAny Other Association Program ® With AchieveLinks, you can Get up and running quickly. Our Fast Track start-up program provides marketing tools to get your members enrolled and the AchieveLinks program going right away. Let us do the heavy lifting. ACI handles all set up and ongoing management, requiring minimal effort on your part. Become a Hero! Provide new benefits, new value to your members and demonstrate to your members that you are always thinking about them.
- 5. Your Member ListsHelp Ensure the Program’s Success For AchieveLinks® to be successful, a consistent, cumulative and ongoing communications effort directed towards potential members is absolutely necessary. Without the lists and the ability to promote directly to members, the program will not be as successful for the association or the members. Member engagement and communication drives the success of the program. ACI will use the provided lists with care and with the interest of doing only what is right for your members and your association. • Engage your members. • Gets members active in the AchieveLinks program. • Allow members to experience the value of participating and earning rewards. ACI has a policy specific to use of association member lists that we share with every AchieveLinks customer. ACI does not sell or give your lists to anyone.
- 6. AchieveLinks is theOnly Business Loyalty Rewards Program for Association Members
- 7. AchieveLinks is theOnly Business Loyalty Rewards Program for Association Members ® With AchieveLinks, members will Receive a new, tangible benefit from their association membership at no cost.
- 8. AchieveLinks is theOnly Business Loyalty Rewards Program for Association Members With AchieveLinks, members will Receive a new, tangible benefit from their association membership at no cost. Earn Links℠ Reward Points for their everyday business and personal purchases. Buy from Merchant Partners (sponsor companies) who are tailored to your association and industry, along with discounts, deals, and specials for merchants as well.
- 9. AchieveLinks is theOnly Business Loyalty Rewards Program for Association Members With AchieveLinks, members will Receive a new, tangible benefit from their association membership at no cost. Earn Links℠ Reward Points for their everyday business and personal purchases. Buy from Merchant Partners (sponsor companies) who are tailored to your association and industry, along with discounts, deals, and specials for merchants as well. Accelerate their earnings when they sign up for the AchieveLinks VISA Platinum Credit Card.
- 10. AchieveLinks is theOnly Business Loyalty Rewards Program for Association Members With AchieveLinks, members will Receive a new, tangible benefit from their association membership at no cost. Earn Links® Reward Points for their everyday business and personal purchases. Buy from Merchant Partners (sponsor companies) who are tailored to your association and industry, along with discounts, deals, and specials for merchants as well. Accelerate their earnings when they sign up for the AchieveLinks Rewards Platinum VISA® Card. Redeem Links for a huge selection of rewards from merchandise to gift cards and travel to association dues and conference expenses. No matter what motivates your members as individuals there are rewards to excite them — from small to WOW!
- 11. AchieveLinks Merchant Partners MeetSpecific Industry Needs
- 12. AchieveLinks Merchant Partners MeetSpecific Industry Needs (construction) Here’s a sample… 1800lighting.com Ace Hardware All-Battery.com American Pool AT&T Bargain Outfitters batteries.com Batticdoor Bellacor Black & Decker Blinds.com Budget Truck Rental Build.com CPO Outlets Design Cost Data DeWalt Diesel DisposaCone Eastern Mountain Sports Eddie Bauer Floors and Surfaces Global Equipment Co Hand and Power Tool Shop Heavy Duty Store Home Depot Hudson Reed iFloor Industrial Supplies Interstate Batteries Just Blinds LandscapeUSA Lee Jeans Levi’s Lighting By Gregory Lighting Catalog Lowe’s Lumber Liquidators Lumen Light + Living Nitro-Pak Onlinemetals Outdoor Living Showroom Parkway Wholesale Patagonia Performance Bike Plumber Surplus poolproducts.com RockCreek.com Ryobi Sahalie Select Blinds ShopCaterpillar TabletTape The Sportsman’s Guide TigerGPS.com Timberland Tire Rack U.S. Cavalry Water.com WeldingMart West Marine Wrangler Your Home Supply All logos are copyright by their respective companies.
- 13. AchieveLinks Merchant Partners MeetSpecific Business Needs (business) Here’s a sample… 123Inkjets.com 123Print 4allmemory 4imprint 4inkjets Adobe Allstate Insurance Co. American Incorporators Apple Store Autodesk Store Avanquest Software BJs Wholesale Club Boston Globe Broadcast International Budget Rent a car Business.com Charge Card Systems Chicago Tribune Colorful Images Comfort Suites CompUSA Crane & Co CRH Transportation CRI Dell Financial Services Dell Home Dell Small Business Deploid eFax Electronic Transfer FedEx Office FineStationery.com Fonts.com FreeTaxUSA.com Frost Miller Group FTPress.com Geeks.com GoDaddy.com H&R Block Home Furniture Showroom Home Office Solutions Homestead Hoover and Dirt Devil HP Small & Medium Business HR Haven iBuyOfficeSupply Infogenix iPrint irobot.com Jonas Construction Jos. A. Bank Kaplan Test Prep Legal Seafood Lexington Law Los Angeles Times Luggage Online MacConnection McAfee MCM Electronics Microsoft Store Monster.com Network Solutions Norton from Symantec Office Depot OfficeDesigns.com Officefurniture.com OfficeMax Officescape Philips Pingo Punch! Software QuickBooks Radio Shack Rosetta Stone Sales Tax Experts SIRIUS Satellite Radio Skype Socrates Super Warehouse T-Mobile Tim Shaver & Assoc LLC TurboTax Tuva Interactive USA Today Volusion Washington Post Webroot Software All logos are copyright by their respective companies.
- 14. AchieveLinks Merchant Partners MeetSpecific Industry Needs (restaurant) Here’s a sample… AJ Madison AppliancePartsPros.com Best Buy Cafe Britt CHEFS Catalog Cheryl's Chocolate.com CoffeeForLess.com Coffees of Hawaii Conde Nast Cooking.com Cushman's D'Artagnan Dancing Deer Baking Co. David's Cookies Decor Universe Fannie May Candies Gevalia Ghirardelli Chocolate GODIVA Chocolatier Golden State Fruit Harry and David igourmet.com Jelly Belly Katom.com - Kitchen and Restaurant Supplies Laithwaites Wine Lenox Mighty Leaf Tea Mission Resturant Supply Mrs. Fields Cookies My M&M's Nespresso Nestle Waters NuWaveOven Omaha Steaks Oneida Peet's Coffee & Tea Restaurant.com Rubbermaid Safeway.com Sam's Club Sears PartsDirect See's Candies Shari's Berries SousVide Supreme Sur La Table Tassimo Teavana The Container Store The Popcorn Factory Whirlpool Outlet Williams-Sonoma Wine Enthusiast Wine.com All logos are copyright by their respective companies.
- 15. AchieveLinks Merchant Partners MeetSpecific Industry Needs (agriculture) Here’s a sample… Orchard Supply Hardware Burpee Gardening Backcountry.com Bass Pro Shop bloomingbulb.com Brecks Brownells Cabela's Camping World Campmor Department of Goods Dutch Gardens FloraFlora Gander Mountain Gardener's Supply Grainger Gurney's Seed and Nursery Hayneedle Lucky Brand Jeans Moosejaw Mountain Gear National Jean Company Orvis Overtons Plow & Hearth REI Sierra Club The History Channel, A&E, and Bio The North Face UGG Australia Walter Drake WesternWear / Sheplers All logos are copyright by their respective companies.
- 16. AchieveLinks Merchant Partners MeetSpecific Industry Needs (medical/nursing) Here’s a sample… Academic Superstore Aramark Canon Crocs Crucial Technology Dickies Dr. Scholls Shoes drugstore.com Easy Comforts Easy Spirit Epson Escort Radar EyeBuyDirect.com FootSmart GNC Lens.com Lensmart My Nursing Uniforms Nuance OverstockDrugStore Pet Care Choice philosophy Prescriptives Proactiv Solution Relax The Back Rockport Scrubs 123 Soma.com Spafinder.com Starbucks The Vitamin Shoppe The Walking Company TOMS Ultimate Back Store UnderArmour Verizon Wireless Vision Direct Vitamin World Walgreens Warby Parker Eyewear WeightWatchers.com Frames Direct H2O Plus Medifocus.com All logos are copyright by their respective companies.
- 17. AchieveLinks Merchant Partners MeetSpecific Personal Needs Here’s a sample… 1-800-FLOWERS 1-800-PetMeds adidas Adorama Advance Auto Parts Aeropostale Air France USA Airport Rental Cars Alaska Airlines American Eagle Outfitters American Express Giftcards Ann Taylor Anne Klein Apple iTunes Auto Parts Warehouse Autos.com Avis Rent A Car Avon Babies R Us babyGap Banana Republic Bare Necessities Barnes&Noble.com Barney's New York Bath & Body Works Best Western International bloomingdale's Bowflex Brooks Brothers Brookstone Budget Rent a Car Chico's Choice Hotels Citrix Clinique Coach Coldwater Creek Columbia Sportswear Comfort Inn Country Inns & Suites Crabtree & Evelyn Crate & Barrel Crayola Store Danskin David's Bridal Day-Timers Design Within Reach Dillards DIRECTV DisneyStore Dollar Rent-a-Car Dress Barn DSW eHarmony Elizabeth Ardeni Enterprise Rent-A-Car Estee Lauder Expedia Fairmont Hotels and Resorts Florsheim Footlocker.com Forever 21 Fossil FTD Gamefly GameStop.com Gap Giftbaskets.com Giftcertificates.com Griffin Technology Groupon GUESS Guitar Center Guthy Renker Corp. Hanes.com Hanna Andersson Holiday Inn hotels.com Hotwire iTunes J. Crew JCPenney Jet Blue Jewelry.com Kmart Kohl's La Quinta Corporation Lacoste Lands' End Lane Bryant LeapFrog LEGO Linens 'N Things Lord and Taylor Macy's Marriott Match.com Mattel Naturalizer Nautica NFL Shop Nike Store Nine West Nordstrom NutriSystem Old Navy Orbitz Oscar de la Renta Overstock Peapod Perry Ellis PETCO PetSmart PetSupplies.com Pottery Barn Priceline.com Quality Inn Quicken Loans Radisson Hotels Reebok Remington Saks Fifth Avenue Sally Beauty Supply Samsonite Sandals and Beaches Resorts Sears.com Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Southwest Airlines Vacations Sports Authority Starwood Hotels & Resorts Staybridge Suites Target Teleflora Textbooks The Body Shop Thrifty Rent-A-Car Tommy Hilfiger Toys R Us Travelocity Urban Outfitters Vera Bradley Designs Walmart.com Zales Zazzle Zulily All logos are copyright by their respective companies.
- 18. LinksReminder Toolbar sets membersFREE TO SHOP! Now available for free download, the LinksReminder Toolbar allows members to shop directly on the web without first visiting the online Earn & Shop Center. Any time members shop at a merchant partner’s site, the Toolbar will display featured coupons and Links® earning opportunities. It’s easier than ever to get all the Links your members deserve! Look for the free download for the Toolbar banner on AchieveLinks.
- 19. What Merchant Partners WouldYou Like Us to Add? One of the unique benefits of AchieveLinks® is how your members can earn rewards for buying from businesses in your industry – the very same businesses they buy from every day. Let us know what merchant partners you would like us to add to the list. You’ll do them a favor, and make AchieveLinks more valuable to your members. • Industry Specific • Association Key • Regional/Local
- 20. Ask Us AboutHow To Become A Merchant Partner Here’s How It Works: We’ll post your free listing in our online Shop & Earn Center which links seamlessly to your website. Plus we promote via e-mails, statements, newsletters, and other member publications. Members visit the Shop & Earn Center and make purchases from Merchant Partners.
- 21. Ask Us AboutHow To Become A Merchant Partner Here’s How It Works: Our unique system allows members to earn the same points across many merchants. Once their purchase is complete, you send us a commission and we distribute Links® to the member and a royalty to their association. The buying quickly adds up and members can easily reach their reward goals.
- 22. The Rewards OptionsAre As Wide As Your Members’ Imaginations.
- 23. The Rewards OptionsAre As Wide As Your Members’ Imaginations. Through the AchieveLinks® Reward Center, Members Can Redeem for Business Rewards to support their businesses by updating their offices with new equipment or rewarding their employees with gift cards, trips and more. Travel Rewards to plan dream vacations to almost anywhere in the world. Must Have Rewards to own the latest merchandise like a new flat screen TV. Association Rewards to pay membership dues, attend conferences, or buy association products. Once-in-a-Lifetime Rewards to do incredible, unique experiences. Charitable Donations to give back to the community or favorite cause.
- 24. Give Members the Flexibilityto Earn Links® Everywhere AchieveLinks® gives you the ability to offer a VISA® Platinum Credit Card that is co-branded with your association logo and can be used wherever VISA is accepted. When they buy anything with the card, from gas or groceries to office supplies or even airline tickets, your association will be top of mind. Plus, they’ll earn Links on every purchase to get closer to the reward of their desire!
- 25. By Offering aCo-Branded Credit Card to Your Members You Can Keep your association brand in front of members every time they use the card. Add value to association membership by giving them more ways to earn Links. ® Help your members earn points faster when buying from AchieveLinks® Merchant Partners whenever you shop or online in the Earning Center. Give your members a way to show their pride in their association every day. Share more revenue. When your members spend more, your association earns more. Give your members another way to support your association’s mission. *AchieveLinks Rewards Platinum VISA Card is an optional benefit for you to offer your members and is not a requirement of the AchieveLinks program.
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- 27. Let’s Get Started! RightAway, Expect ACI to Assign you an AchieveLinks® champion who will be your partner in the set up and execution. Build a co-branded website where members can earn and redeem Links. ® Design an event opportunity—perhaps at your own annual or regional meeting—where we can engage and sign up members to your program. Note: Requires a member list, the ability to make a presentation and meet necessary number of potential attendees. Help you develop a launch campaign and enroll members. Train your key staff and others on your team to make the most of the program. Launch your co-branded credit card.
- 28. Let’s Get Started!ACI will also help you Develop and distribute promotional materials to make members aware of the program’s benefits. • • • • • • • • • • • • • Email Direct Mail Event Marketing Online Support Advertising Publicity Social Media Welcome Kit Deal of the Month merchant offers by industry email Holiday/event promotions with merchant offers Monthly statements Quarterly Campaigns Seasonal direct mail promotions — Holiday Gift Guide
- 29. Helping You Succeed LongTerm, Expect ACI to Assign a single point of contact available for customer support. Send regular updates of your association’s spending, earnings, and rewards. Share the revenue your association has earned at regular intervals throughout the year. Manage all of the Merchant Partner relationships to fit the needs and desires of your member base. Continually expand AchieveLinks to deliver more Merchant Partners and rewards options. Create member promotions around holidays or other events that give your members even more Links earning opportunities.
- 30. The Blueprint forSuccess A few simple actions will help maximize the benefits of AchieveLinks® for your association and your members. SPEND 1 DAY WITH US Spend a couple hours with us. As part of our Fast Track start up, ACI will come in and go through all the details that’ll make set up a breeze. Assign a “Champion.” Someone on your staff who will oversee the management of the AchieveLinks program. Get everyone involved! By using AchieveLinks, association staff and leadership will understand the benefits to members and be able to promote it. Make it visible. We can help with the messaging, but placement is in your hands—sharing AchieveLinks news on your website, e-newsletter, magazine or conference will raise awareness to your members, increasing your success and theirs!
- 31. Meet The LeadershipTeam Here are just a few members of the ACI team who will touch your program. While you’ll always have a designated point of contact, they’re just a click away if you need them. Giulietta Versiglia Managing Director giulietta.versiglia@affinitycenter.com Join Up! Be a part of our social media community for up-to-the-minute AchieveLinks news, insider tips and ongoing support. Follow @affinitycenter on Twitter. Or, like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/affinitycenter. Angela Prather Vice President, Business Development angela.prather@affinitycenter.com Carolyn Valliere Marketing Director carolyn.valliere@affinitycenter.com David Carrithers Founder and Advisor david.carrithers@affinitycenter.com
- 32. How the RoyaltyProgram Works: AchieveLinks® Program Association Royalty Agreement ACI agrees to compensate your Association for its participation in and sustained endorsement of the AchieveLinks Program. Consistent with the AchieveLinks Participation Agreement Terms & Conditions, the terms ACI, Us or Our refers to Affinity Center International, LLC, the terms You or Your refers to the Association, and the term Member refers to the program participant. 1. The Association will share in the Links Revenue generated by its Members through transactions with AchieveLinks Program Merchant Partners and through its Members’ AchieveLinks Rewards Platinum Visa® Card spend. “Links Revenue” means Links earned by your Members, times one cent ($0.01). Links Revenue excludes Links awarded to Your Members which are not generated from transactions with AchieveLinks Program Merchant Partners (including, without limitation, sign up promotions, first purchase promotions or any other form of incentive). 2. The Association’s Compensation will be paid no later than 45 days after the end of the calendar quarter in which Your total Compensation due reaches or exceeds $250. “Compensation” means Your members Links Revenue times 2.5 percent. 3. In the event that any provision of this Royalty Agreement shall, for any reason, be deemed to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the agreement shall remain in full force and effect. 4. This document incorporates all the provisions of the AchieveLinks Participation Agreement Terms & Conditions. I understand and agree with how __________________________________will earn its Royalty as of the date shown below: ___________________________________________________________ ____________________ Association Representative Name Date ___________________________________________________________ Association Representative Signature ©2013 Affinity Center International LLC, All Rights Reserved.
- 33. Up My Benefits! Afterseeing how the AchieveLinks program will help my association, members, sponsors and suppliers, I’m interested in adding it to our membership benefits. I’m ready to commit the effort required on our end to make it a success! Please ask ACI’s Champion of Association Experience to contact me to start the Fast Track process so that we can get up and running right away. Co-Branded AchieveLinks Rewards Platinum VISA® Card I would like to be on the top of my members’ minds every time they purchase with our association’s co-branded AchieveLinks Rewards Platinum Visa® Card. I am not interested in the co-branded AchieveLinks Rewards Platinum Visa® Card at this time. I am the person responsible for the Fast Track implementation process for AchieveLinks. I am not the person responsible for the Fast Track implementation process for AchieveLinks. That person is: _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Signature ______________________________________________________________ Title ______________________________________________________________ Association ______________________________________________________________ Date Fast Track Hero ©2013 Affinity Center International LLC, All Rights Reserved.
- 34. Association Checklist ProvideMember list in Excel Format Provide Logo in EPS format with a transparent background Final approval has been received by association's board of directors and legal department, if applicable Association is opting for co-branded VISA Association is opting for generic VISA ______________________________________________________________ Association Representative ______________________________________________________________ Date ©2013 Affinity Center International LLC, All Rights Reserved.