Originally Posted By: Guest This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I’m sure Rob and Cindy are touched, and maybe a little surprised. Don’t be offended if they don’t respond right away, though. You see they’ve been married now for a few years, are a very busy couple, and have a toddler at home.
You'd be funnier if you were a little more relevant.
Originally Posted By: dharris This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
[quote=“gromicko”]Hey ASHI members, ever wonder why nothing ever came of all those branding fees you were forced to pay ASHI?
Quite frankly nick the 6000 plus ashi members and candidates that chose to stay with ashi are reaping great dividends on there small additional investment  
ASHI's continued success must just be bugging the heck out of you to post this 2 plus year old info
Originally Posted By: jcampbell This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Dan,
I am curious though, as I chose not to retain my membership in ASHI due to growing costs... and i ask this honestly not to be a smarta$$
What benefits have you or others seen directly as a result of this branding campaign?
I have spoken with a handful of ASHI folks who have not seen anything? Are they doing something wrong? Aside from a few internet request via the ASHI site... they have not seen much. 
Originally Posted By: dharris This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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What benefits have you or others seen directly as a result of this branding campaign?
The biggest thing I've seen and others here in az is additional name recognition, additional cont. ed, and a serious and commited effort of all established members in our chapter to help new members achieve full membership.
At present nachi DOES NOT have any chapters, org cont. ed programs here and really no exposure except thru the find the inspector
A lot of it may be regional, our local ashi chapter has 180 plus members with a large particiaption of most and is one of the largest and fastest growing state orgs in ashi
I get maybe 1 request from this org monthly and 4-5 from ashi's, and from other posts from members on this BB those numbers are reversed in other parts of the country
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Seriously again though, ASHI’s branding dues were supposed to be used to overhall their website and promote it. It never happened. Heck, even one of our one page consumer lead generator sites gets more traffic than all the inspectors and consumers that visit ASHI’s entire website put together. ASHI’s website continues to plummet in traffic rankings.
Originally Posted By: ekartal This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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jcampbell wrote:
What benefits have you or others seen directly as a result of this branding campaign?
I get maybe 1 request from this org monthly and 4-5 from ashi's, and from other posts from members on this BB those numbers are reversed in other parts of the country
Yes it does depend where you live. Dan (prez?) you got it good down there. But in Chicago area some of the guys say 4-5 year. A particular zip code may contain 50 inspectors. 
Originally Posted By: cradan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
an ASHI-bash, as we still believe that ASHI is, in fact, a generally good Association with which to be professionally-aligned. But as far as bang for the buck, frankly, there is NO comparison, in our experience.
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
This is insane!
The question at hand (other than wondering if Joe Farsetta will marry me  ) is how can this be? How can our one page, consumer visited webpage get more traffic than all of ASHI's website hits combined????
Originally Posted By: jmichalski This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Is there any plausible explanation for why NAHI comes up so much higher than ASHI despite what I understand is a relatively low membership and a certainly less-aggressive “Branding”/pr presence?
Also, Nick, or any of our web guys... With so much web presence, why are we not the first Yahoo entry for home inspector - or even on the first page? This is not a criticism (although it would probably help business), rather I don't really nkow how such things work.
Have any of the appropriate decision makers discussed the idea of a Sponsored listing (like at the top) for Findnainspector? There are two other inspector lead generators there now. (inspectorsguide and ashi).
On the Google site we are listed second under the search results, after nahi (maybe answering my first question) but the two sponsored inspector search engines are Inspectorsguide and inspectionNews.
Just curious since it seems like sponsoring the sites would be worth the $$ to the membership if it is not way out of line cost-wise.
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
FREA even gets more traffic than ASHI.
Anyway, Joe Farsetta just called to inform me that he has rejected my offer of matrimony. He broke my heart.
I can't let my counterpart at ASHI out do me (in site traffic or otherwise). Since he has married ASHI's Financial officer.... I have decided to marry 2 members of my staff: Kari Pedriana and Cory Doane.
If my ASHI counter part can marry someone on his staff, I'll marry 2 members of mine.
Tony Man from Jamaica will be performing the ceremonies.
Originally Posted By: cradan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
If you’re going to marry both of them, you’d better leave Colorado and do it in Utah. Oops…don’t think you can do that there anymore, either. However, in Iraq, I believe it’s still a fairly commonplace practice.
Originally Posted By: ekartal This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
cradan wrote:
Like Erol, I am an ASHI Candidate in the Chicago area. In the past year, we have received four (4) phone calls where the prospect identified that they were routed to us from any particular ASHI organ, including the website and inspector listing. Of the four, three decided they wanted nothing to do with our fine inspection firm when they asked (and we honestly answered) if our inspectors were "CANDIDATES."
Hi Chris,
At least you can say you got 4 phone calls.  
I'm with the local chapter strictly for the education. Leads? HA-HA.
