NLBMDA

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NLBMDANational Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association
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This October, I will become the first woman to chair the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers' Association (NLBMDA).
The industry's Top Guns V: despite stormy weather, Top Guns still flying high
NLBMDA figured out a way to dismiss that assumption and turn its government relations work into a revenue stream, while attracting a new member segment in the process.
Traditionally, the association operated under a federated structure under which companies would have to join at the state level to be members of NLBMDA. Regional chains did not deem it worthwhile to join at the state level.
NLBMDA responded by creating a "National Advisory Council" membership that would allow these regional companies to join NLBMDA directly, giving them access to lobbyists and information on issues at the federal level.
NLBMDA also gains value beyond the increased revenue from the participation of the regional chains, a fact that has lessened the conflict between the big chain versus the little guy.
Mutual attraction: driving growth by tapping new member segments and catering to specialty groups
The fraud was discovered when a contributor noted that he was not acknowledged in a thank-you letter printed in NLBMDA's magazine.
Who Do You Trust?
Donnelly foresees more mergers among NLBMDA's 22 federated regions.
To compensate for the merger mania striking its members, in 1998, NLBMDA increased its dues from $50 to $75 for lumber dealers, and implemented an aggressive nondues revenue effort that has dropped the association's reliance on dues from 47 percent in 1990 to 38 percent today.
Mapping mergers
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