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1. Serving Members since 2003. National REIA Award of Excellence Honor of Merit Winner 2011 & 2012.
MID-AMERICA ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE INVESTORS
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Options NETWORKING : EDUCATION : COMMUNITY : GOVERNMENT
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 Incorporated 2003
 350 Current Paid Members
 North Meeting Attendance: 50
 South Meeting Attendance:
100
 180 Website Page Views a Day
 Most Views from US, Canada
and Philippines - total 105
countries
 Email Database 5000+
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Business Membership
 LinkedIn Group: 721 Members
By far the best bang for your buck when targeting the Real Estate Professional for your
product or service in the Kansas City Metro would be a Business Membership with Mid-
America Association of Real Estate Investors.
The business membership includes all the access to our website and all the discounts
that our Standard Investor Membership. However, unlike the Investor Membership that
is for the person, the Business Membership follows the Business. So as a Business you
receive two guest passes to every monthly meeting (20+ meetings a year) that can be
used by the same two people or interchanged among several people each month.
Advertise in our Newsletter
Also included in a Business Membership is an advertisement in our monthly newsletter,
the Investment News. This is published once a month and posted on our website, our
social media pages, several online file sharing sites and emailed out to our 5000+ data-
base. You can see our latest Newsletters Online at: http://mareinet.com/resources/
newsletter/.
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Our website has a Service Provider Section that provides you with a home on our website
where you can create a full page advertisement of your choosing and link it to your web-
site. Some examples of ad pages might include: a photograph, two or three short para-
graphs, an embedded video, contact information and a sign up page for your product or
service. We can make it as elaborate or as simple as you would like. See our current
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4. Educational
Advertorials
As a member of MAREI,
we have several opportu-
nities for you to share
your expertise by helping
us to Educate the mem-
bership. By sharing your
knowledge you establish
yourself as a known ex-
pert in your field and
when a member needs a
service provider, they will
usually call the expert
they know first. And as a
business member, you are
the expert with the easy
to find phone number.
 Write Educational Arti-
cles for the Blog part
of our website
 Write Articles for the
Investment News, our
monthly newsletter.
 Volunteer to teach a Photo Caption
specific topic or to
serve on a panel at
monthly meetings.
We are always looking Advertising Rates
for experts in a wide Your headline is an important part of the newsletter and should be considered carefully.
range of topics. Rate Schedule
 Partner with MAREI to Size Non-Member Member Business Associate
create a training webi-
Full Page Newsletter $175 $140 $115
nar or workshop to
teach the members 1/2 Page Newsletter $145 $105 $85
and showcase your 1/4 Page Newsletter $75 $65 $50
expertise.
1/8 Page Newsletter $55 $35 $25
 Respond to questions
posted on the member List on Calendar $55 $35 $25
forum. Property Posting $50 FREE FREE
 Be an active partici-
eBlast: Send Once $55 $35 $25
pate on our social me-
dia pages. eBlast: Send Twice $75 $55 $45
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incur a minimum charge of $20. The deadline to submit ad copy is the 1st of each month. All
ads must be prepaid. Contact to verify ad format can be accepted. PDF preferred. There is an
additional charge of $25 to typeset a business card ad or 1/4 page ad layout, $60 for a 1/2
page or full page lay-out. Opportunities also exist for advertising on www.MAREInet.com. Call
913-815-0111 for more information. Email ad copy to info@MAREInet.com. Mail payment to
MAREI, PO Box 8685, Prairie Village, KS 66208 or request an online payment for to use credit
or debit card.
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7. Other Discounts Member Service
We have several services as part
of our website to help you grow
MAREI’s Political Advocacy Group
your business.
actively monitors national legisla-
tion and rule-making that im-
pacts the real estate industry and
harnessing the strength of MAREI
Nearly 70% of QuickBooks users say members at the grassroots level.
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8. Property
Postings
Included with every
MAREI membership is a
username and password
to access our Property
Marketing Page.
Members can post
individual properties for
sale that are owned,
controlled by contract or Photo Caption
have a Realtor Listing
Agreement.
Market YOUR Business
 All properties posted
will appear at least
once on our 1. Become a student of your business.
e-Update that we
send out usually 2 Study your customer, your competitors, and trends in the industry.
times a month. You need to have a goal in this stage of top ten tips to become an ex-
 All properties posted pert in your business so you how your customers think. You will find
will appear at least that when you are the expert it will be easier to know what your cus-
once in our monthly tomer wants, how to give it to them and how to share your product
Investment News, with them.
our digital and print 2. Get some outside advice
Newsletter.
Find a friend or associate who is outside of your business and have
 All postings will be
them place themselves in their customer’s shoes. Work with them to
deleted after 30
find at least 10 new ways to promote your business. You want the in-
days, although
put from someone outside of your business because, sometimes you
members are free to
are just too close and need to get some fresh new outside ideas.
update posting date
to keep postings live. 3. Remember not everything you do is not just to get customers
You will be doing some things to bring in new clients and some things
By combining the invest-
to keep current clients. You will also be taking steps to build a good
ment opportunity listings
reputation and credibility with your potential clients, so that when they
of all members in one
are in the market for your product or service they will remember that
location we attract more
YOU are the expert in that area.
attention than each
member would do sepa- 4. You don’t have to do it yourself
rately. There are numerous different marketing tactics. Work the ones you
enjoy, but if there is one you just hate, skip it and work on the others.
Members may also post Or better yet, hire someone to do it.
properties for sale or
investment opportunities 5. You do have to do it
on the member forum Most small businesses are awesome at offering the product or service.
and our social media They may not be so good at or excited about the marketing of that
pages for extra product or service. Ideally if you ask any small business coach you
exposure. should be spending about 30% of your time marketing your business.
6. Start with one Marketing Method
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10. Extra
Exposure
Many of our Business Mem-
bers take it one step further
and offer a discount or bonus
to our members.
Some examples of bonuses
might be a discount on your
pricing, sample forms & con-
tracts, free trial or something
educational.
We work with you to create a
discount, create a flyer and
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then get the word out. WE
include your discount on our
discount page and in our
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And we are working on an app
Select one way to market your business that you are comfortable with, for member discounts too!
implement it, systematize it. Then add another one, get it working well
and on a system. Then add another till you have at several marketing
methods that are continually generating new business.
7. Follow Up
Most small business owners are great at following up on a business lead
that is going to give them business right now. For example a client
calls a contractor to ask them to do a bid for a rehab job. But not
many follow just to build a relationship with that person who may be
your next customer or who may refer you a lot of business.
8. Get a Marketing Buddy
Remember marketing it like meeting that New Years Resolution—you
work really hard the first week and then let it slack off more and more
till you have to get in to summer clothes and you have another heavy Photo Caption
week of activity. Instead get a buddy and work with them to determine
a marketing plan for the next week for both of you. Then hold each
other accountable.
9. Scripts and Systems
It always helps to know exactly step by step what you are going to do
and say in your marketing. You may want to check with in your indus-
try if there are training materials that can help you know what to say .
. . scripts . . . that you can practice till you know exactly what to say
when. And create a system for each step of the way.
10. Schedule it
You need to embrace your scheduler. Mark off blocks of time that add
up to about 30% of your work week, just for marketing activities.
When you are first starting out it may be more than 30%, but as you
perfect your techniques you may find ways to automate some tasks and
save time.

11. MEMBERSHIP
OPTIONS
INTERNET MEMBER INVESTOR MEMBER BUSINESS MEMBER
MAREI Member Forum   
Online Member Library   
Post Properties   
Submit Blog Posts   
Reduced Entrance Fees   
2 Complimentary Monthly Meetings  
Discounts (See list pages 6 & 7)   
Member’ s Included 1 1 2
Add Additional Members $50 $50
Pricing $50 Annual $99 Annual $499 Annual
Auto Renewal* $45 $90 $450
Quarterly Pricing NA  
Monthly Pricing 
Service Provider Listing 
Ad in Monthly Newsletter 
3 Vendor Tables ** 
* Credit or Debit Card Required for Auto Renewal Discounts, ** 3 Vendor Tables with Annual Payment

12. informed MAREI targeted group
Professionals Of Clients
From Motivation to How To Optimization of Your
MAREI members are above the MAREI sets the standard for real
crowd. They participate in an in- estate investor networking and
formative newsletter, blog, and education, drawing the type of cli-
social media experience. They ent you want to do business with.
connect, ask questions, and share Our meetings and online presence
opportunities through our interac- gathers targets the qualified leads
tive website and live meetings. your business needs. But there is
Plus they save $100s using the only one way to get in front of
many member discounts. them . . become a Business Mem-
ber today!
$99.00 / year $499.00 / year
Additional Member $50 Includes Advertising
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