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ASBA is always in the process of developing and offering more benefits and programs for our members to utilize and save money on many products and services for you, your small business and your family, such as health benefits, reduced wireless and communication rates office supplies, mailing services, media and business publications, travel and vacation discounts. ASBA members trust and do business with other members through Member-to-Member offers and ASBA Advantages providers.

ASBA ADVANTAGES

ASBA Advantages is a value added program that gives members the same buying power as a larger employer. Browse the ASBA Advantages Benefit Directory and find programs and solutions for you and your business.

Affordable Image is the one-stop shop for all of your print and marketing needs

We pride ourselves on providing the finest in customer service. We offer printing that communicates like you do… in a hurry. Affordable Image makes color short runs the economically viable alternative that you have been waiting for to propel everything you print into fast forward. Now we have made it even easier for you to experience our great service and high quality printing. As an ASBA member you will receive 10% off your printing orders all year long! You don’t have to worry about finding the best deal in town because with your discount, you can be assured that you will find it at Affordable Image.

Call us today to find out how we can meet your printing and marketing needs. Mention your Save the Green Card to save on your projects all year long! Contact Lisa Minzey, Marketing Director / Business Development at (602) 265-2299 ext. 411
or visit www.AffordableImage.com

AMERICAN DENTAL PLAN

Voluntary Dental Plan for ASBA members now available for only $49 per year. Join Arizona's oldest individual dental plan with over 400 participating dentists throughout Arizona. ASBA members receive Advantage rates at www.arizdental.com/eblast.cfm. Members of the dental plan receive their initial exam and first 4 x-rays at no charge with additional dental services provided at 20-40% savings. There are no waiting periods, no claim forms, & enrollment is always open. As an additional feature, dental benefits continue even if you change employment or retire!

Visit our website at http://www.arizdental.com/ or contact 602/265-6677, 800/224-8810 for a complete description of the plan, fee schedule, list of participating dentists and enrollment form. Upgrade your membership to the Plus Plan for additional savings from Chiropractors, Optical Services, Hospitals, Pharmacies, Physicians and Alternative Care.

Contact: Charles Jackson, American Dental Plan, Arizona's oldest voluntary dental benefit plan serving Arizona since 1978. sales@arizdental.com

ASBA TRAVEL PROGRAM

Traveling With ASBA Is Smart Business through ASBA Advantages

In Business, it's not enough to recognize an outstanding opportunity; you must act to capture the advantage. That's why we are asking you to book your next trip at http://www.asbatravel.com/.

http://www.asbatravel.com/ is our full featured travel website. There, business travelers will find the same airlines, hotels and rental car companies, and the same low rates offered by other websites, but our travel site can do so much more.

Travel anywhere in the world any way you want to travel for the same price or less than Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz. Take “Advantage” of opportunities, like obtaining passports, visas, checking security alerts in other countries and purchasing travel insurance. Help us help you! Book your travel on http://www.asbatravel.com/.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact ljbrakeguard@aol.com or call 480-287-0998
to assist you with ASBA travel needs.

bizAZ Free Subscription

Sign up for a free subscription to bizAZ - the Valley's premier magazine for the hungry business mind.  Visit www.bizaz.com Look for the Entrepreneurial Focus as the special glossy-page section inside each bi-monthly issue of bizAZ - distributed to 20,000 executives, entrepreneurs, business leaders and ASBA members statewide.

Entrepreneurial Focus will continue to provide essential information and tips to help small businesses grow and succeed - including business networking opportunities, events and member updates.

 

THE BUSINESS JOURNAL

Ranked #1 in Business News by the Arizona Newspaper Association. - Save 35% on a 52-week subscription. If you order using a credit card, you receive a copy of the 2007 and 2008 Book of Lists (a value of $47.50). The Business Journal's Book of Lists is a great business resource. Regular price: $95/year, member price: $76/year.

Contact: Jeorgetta Acosta, 602-308-6537, jacosta@bizjournals.com

ASBA – CBR Human Resources Program

Thanks to the hard work and vision of the ASBA Leadership Team, Creative Business Resources is now able to offer to all ASBA members a valuable set of services at discounted rates!

Human Resources is an important department in most large employers. However, how many small businesses can afford a whole department just to manager HR? Recognizing this challenge, CBR has developed a program to enable small and mid-sized employers to concentrate on running their business, while the talented team at CBR takes care of all HR related tasks and activities. This includes:

o Immigration Compliance
o Payroll
o Employee Benefits
o HR Services
o Workers Compensation Insurance
o Employee Handbooks
o Time and Attendance Tracking

As an ASBA member you will enjoy a 15% discount of CBR’s regular fees. In addition to this discount, ASBA members also receive special quarterly promotions and incentives!

2008 First Quarter Promotion

FREE 401(K) plan to all ASBA members
(Includes plan setup and administration for as long as you are a CBR client)

CONTACT:

Harry Glazer
HR Outsourcing Consultant,
602.200.8500 Ext.2035
623.326.4550 Mobile

COMPASS INSURANCE Schaefer-Smith-Ankeney Division

Professionally manages the ASBA Member Benefits Program on behalf of ASBA. Members and their employees in the Phoenix location are eligible for insurance through Cigna Healthcare, EDS Dental, VSP Vision, and Unum Life Insurance. Members in the Tucson location are eligible for insurance through PacifiCare, EDS Dental, and VSP Vision. If you are interested in participating in any of these plans, you can call our dedicated ASBA Member Benefits line at 1-888-878-0197, and Julie Baus would be happy to assist you, or visit our website at www.ssains.com.

Contact: Julie Baus, E-mail: JBaus@ssains.com

CONSTANT CONTACT

Email Marketing by Constant Contact is the easy, effective, and highly affordable way to get your message out. It helps you create high-impact, professional-looking emails—fast and with no technical expertise. Try it FREE for 60 days.

Constant Contact's leading email marketing and survey products—supported by its expert personal coaching and service—help all types of small businesses and organizations create professional-looking email newsletters and insightful online surveys and begin a dialogue with their customers. Today, more than 130,000 customers worldwide trust Constant Contact to help them connect with their audience.

Prices begin at $15 monthly for unlimited emails to as many as 500 email addresses, with ASBA members receiving a special pre-pay discount of 20% for 6 months and 25% for 12 months.

Visit: http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?pn=asba for more information, or to sign up for a free 60 day trial.

Constant Contact also conducts free email marketing seminars at ASBA every month. See www.arizona.constantcontact.com to register.

With Email Marketing by Constant Contact, you can:

  • Choose from more than 160 easily customized HTML email templates—or create your own from scratch
  • Create highly visual, graphically compelling email newsletters and promotions in just minutes
  • Drive more traffic to your website with focused, targeted email communications
  • Build and manage your email list—import existing customer lists, add names
  • Measure your email campaign results instantly
  • Constant Contact will take care of getting your email delivered and CAN-SPAM compliance.

Contact Ron Cates
Email: rcates@constantcontact.com
Phone: 1-800-238-0349

DHL EXPRESS

DHL is excited to announce its shipping program for ASBA members. Airborne Express has merged with DHL to bring ASBA members a full suite of domestic and international shipping services,covering over 220 countries and territories around the globe. Members can take advantage of the complete menu of DHL services, including: DHL Next Day, DHL 2nd Day, DHL Ground, International Document Express, Worldwide Priority Express, Import Express, and much more!

Through ASBA's partnership with the new DHL, members are also eligible for special association member pricing. To find out more about your DHL benefits and set up your account, or if you have questions regarding your current account, please contact the dedicated associtaion hotline at 1-800-MEMBERS (1-800-636-2377). www.DHL.com

EMPLOYER AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PROGRAM

ASBA (the Arizona Small Business Association) recognizes employer liability for work site identity theft as a threat to small businesses in Arizona.

Ron Sanders and ASBA offer an "Affirmative Defense" program, which addresses the most common source of fines and lawsuits for businesses: employee negligence from lack of education on what identity thieves are looking for, and failure to implement what the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) considers "reasonable steps" to protect non public information. These steps are required of all businesses by the FTC. Schedule an educational course for you and your employees at no charge and find out ways to protect you and your staff.

Ron was selected to represent this ASBA Advantage Program because of his teaching experience in medicine, business expansion and franchising. He now specializes exclusively in employer identity theft services. Ron is certified in the areas of Employer Liability Mitigation ("Affirmative Defense"), Business Services and Group Benefits as an educator for Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc., in partnership with Kroll, the leading risk management company.

To schedule a class contact Ron Sanders at 602-750-0173 or ronsanders@maildrop.ncis.net

Employee Elder Care

Did you know that :

  • 20% of your workforce is most likely dealing with an ElderCare issue right now?
  • In the next 5 years, ElderCare issues will overshadow ChildCare issues in the workplace?
  • It cost employers $1,900 per employee to deal with an ElderCare issues due to loss of production, absenteeism and other related issues?

The Employee ElderCare Hotline is an employee benefit which includes 24 hour/7 days a week access to our Pre-Recorded ElderCare Solutions Hotline with the top 25 ElderCare problems Employees face. Employees can also speak with an ElderCare Advisor free of charge to more fully investigate their individual needs and offer them quality community referrals. Employees can also go to our website http://www.EmployeeElderCare.com and complete an assessment form to have an ElderCare Advisor to speak with them.

These benefits are free of charge to you, the employer and your employees. We are paid by our thousands of eldercare providers in our national network. Contact Dave Butler@ 480-430-9024 or daveb@employeeeldercare.com to discuss how we can implement our program into your company benefit plan.

eWomen Network

eWomenNetwork and ASBA offer members to cross promote each association:
• Joint membership for members; ASBA annual $100 membership fee (savings of $80); eWomenNetwork luncheon event marketing package (savings of $75). These special fees are available for new memberships, not renewals. Existing eWomenNetwork members and existing ASBA members may take advantage of the special promotions to join the “other” organization.

http://www.ewomennetwork.com/index.html

GET AWAY TODAY VACATIONS

Get Away Today Vacations is in the business of making people's vacation dreams come true by offering packages to the most remarkable theme parks and destinations. Get Away Today Vacations provides vacation packages and partners with the following theme parks, attractions, providers and destinations:

Disneyland Resort, Universal Studios Hollywood, Knott's Berry Farm, Knott's Soak City, Medieval Times, SeaWorld San Diego, LegoLand, Old Town Trolley Tours, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios Orlando, Islands of Adventure, Sea World Orlando, Busch Gardens, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, XPress Shuttle, and Coach USA.

They are excited to offer packages to Disneyland Resort's 50th Anniversary that include hotel stay and attraction tickets. San Diego packages include 2 adult Sea World tickets!

Contact: Visit www.getawaytoday.com or call Get Away Today and create your vacation/destination package at 1-866-Fun-Trip (386-8747).

Innuity - Arizona Business Marketing Services

"Small is the New Big"

Innuity (www.innuity.com) is proud to partner with ASBA to help its members market their businesses to local customers. Currently 80% of customers leverage the Internet to search for local goods and services. Through this special program, all ASBA members are eligible to receive a complimentary business listing ($9.95/mo value) on Yellow Page Guides (www.ypguides.com). This service will allow each business to create and publish a detailed profile about their business that will be made available to relevant customers looking for products and services online. Members will also be able to upgrade their free profile to our LeadConnect™ (http://leadconnect.innuity.com) service that will publish their key business data to the major search engines and other online Yellow Page Directories. To create your complimentary profile, set up your account at: https://secure.innuity.com/leadconnect/lite/ and enter “ASBA” in the field for “Promotional Code”. Market your business online today! Contact: Ken Crook, 623-455-5344, kcrook@innuity.com

Liberty Mutual Discounts on Auto/Home Insurance

Liberty Mutual and ASBA are pleased to present an exciting benefit that we hope will help save you money on auto, home, condo and renters insurance. ASBA teamed up with Liberty Mutual Insurance – a Fortune 100 company and one of the top 10 insurance providers in the nation – to offer you Group Savings Plus®. Through this program, you can now receive a special group discount on Liberty Mutual’s already competitive auto and home insurance rates.

Benefits include:

• An ASBA member discount of 10% off auto and 5% off home, condominium and renters insurance.
• Additional savings based on your age, level of education & more
• 24-Hour Claim Service & Emergency Roadside Assistance
• Convenient Payment Plans including (EFT) or direct billing
• Rates Guaranteed for 12 months, not 6 months
• Personal Service from Local Offices

See for yourself how much money you could save with Liberty Mutual or simply receive a no hassle comparison coverage review of your current policy! Visit our program online at http://www.libertymutualonline.com/asba

Contact Melinda Armold
P 623-572-4440 xt 56465
P 800-274-1004 xt 56465
melinda.armold@libertymutual.com

R & R Images

ASBA and R and R Images have made it easier to navigate the marketing waters with our targeted, measurable marketing strategies that get results!

With our solutions we have made it possible to provide small businesses with short-run marketing materials, such as quantities of one hundred to several thousand, in a way that makes sense to today’s growing, evolving businesses. We give you the competitive edge by helping you determine who your best clients are and helping you uncover more of them.

We make it possible to have all of the services, and more, that you would find at a traditional advertising agency at a fraction of the cost. From creative and design services to copywriting, our goal is to position you as a leader in your respective industries. From there we help to determine the best vehicle or methodology to get your right message out at the right time and to the right person…a winning combination!

Don’t go it alone. ASBA has made it possible for you to maximize your marketing dollars in a way that means marketing smarter instead of harder. And, because of your ASBA membership, you will receive a 10% discount off all of our marketing services, further adding to the value we can create for you!

Contact us today to schedule your marketing evaluation…you’ll be glad you did!

Contact:
Lyndee Kelver
R and R Images
Ofc: 502.437.4545
Cell: 602.690.4461
lkelver@randrimages.com

SCRIPTSAVE

ASBA is pleased to provide you with a way to offer a presription benefit to your employees easily and afford-ably...through the ScriptSave program. ScriptSave allows you to provide your employees with the benefits of a tiered-pricing prescription savings program, without the high costs. ScriptSave Select offers your employees savings on brand name and generic prescriptions, a nationwide network of 50,000 participating pharmacies, unlimited usage, with no monthly or annual fees and no fees per dependent, an easy-to-use program wtih no claims forms to complete, and discounts for the entire household.

Contact: http://www.scriptsave.com/ and log in using Group # T2004

TELESPHERE: ASBA'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOURCE

Streamline telephonic systems and internet with a simple system and access to the same tools as large corporations without paying a fortune through Telesphere.

Welcome to a new, smarter voice and data solution for business. With a private fully hosted solution from Telesphere, your business can get all of the most exciting features available and reliable service without a costly PBX sitting around the office. ASBA members adding new services with Telesphere receive a 15% discount.

Pay no upfront equipment costs or ongoing maintenance and expect great service, simple per seat pricing and all the features you’ve always wanted … all through the communication experts at Telesphere.

For more information contact Telesphere.com at 1-877 MYSPHERE

VERIZON WIRELESS

ASBA stays connected through Verizon. Let the business experts at Verizon Wireless design a plan for your company. They have calling plans that are local, regional and national, and are designed to work the way your business does . . . with the flexibility to change as your business needs change. Look for Verizon Wireless Tips in the Entrepreneurial Focus and find out the latest application that keep you connected. Verizon Wireless . . . Simple, Affordable and National. Join In! Contact Michael Maras:

michael.maras@verizonwireless.com - 602-206-0586

Member-to-Member Discount Offer


ASBA members can now add a Member-to-Member Discount Offer to be featured in the member Directory section for other ASBA members to search and utilize. Please log in using your email address and password, then go to Edit Profile in the upper right-hand corner to enter your discount offer in 100 characters or less and the expiration dates in the newly added fields on the second page of the profile.

Your M2M offer will then be prominently featured when a fellow member searches for your company, product or service.

ASBA members will be responsible for updating discount information in the M2M Marketplace and fulfilling displayed offers.