BDX was a proud sponsor of the Association Leadership Conference in New Orleans last week. We really enjoyed connecting with our current and future HBA partners.

The conference was a great mix of networking and educational opportunities. During the show it became apparent that HBAs across the country are all facing similar challenges. HBA’s are asking: How do we attract and retain members — the average member retention rate for HBA’s is 72%.  How do we generate revenue beyond our membership dues?

The more we talked to HBA leadership, the more clear it became that BDX is in a great position to help these organizations through some of these challenges.

We’ve been working with our partners to provide a free listing website for their HBA, revenue sharing and builder education. For more information, click here.

The other big takeaway from the conference was that we are working with some really amazing people. It was so exciting to see so many of our partner HBA’s winnning awards and doing great work in their local communities.

Congratulations to Jon Luther (New Orleans) for winning Executive Officer of the Year and Earl McCloed (Columbia) for your Life Time Achievement Award! We are proud to know and work with both of you!

For more information about the conference, you can visit: http://www.nahb.org/ali or follow the discussion on Twitter: #ALI12

Thanks again to everyone who participated for a great week — we’ll see you in Portland in 2013!