When you join a national professional organization, you immediately begin to reap the benefit of the group's marketing plan, website traffic, and industry contacts.
In addition, there are many intangible benefits such as increased credibility and expanded networking opportunities.
NAIWE believes that there should be tangible benefits as well. We provide you with resources and information that will help you build your business to better serve your clients and create the life you want.
You'll want to start with Make the Most of Your Membership: A Quick-Start Guide to NAIWE. This handy guide provides a brief overview of the benefits you receive, along with step-by-step instructions for accessing everything. You'll be off and running in no time!
Your own easy-to-use WordPress-blog-based business web site!
You've probably read about how a strong presence on the web can build your business, but you may not have wanted to spend a lot of time and money creating a website from the ground up.
Now, when you join NAIWE, you will get the professionally-designed web site you've wanted! Adding content to your site is as easy as typing an e-mail, and we provide simple instructions that will get you started. You'll save hundreds of dollars in web design and yearly hosting fees!
Your site, with the memorable web address of www.YourName.NAIWE.com, includes:
Home page where you can introduce your business and your approach to evaluation
Portfolio pages, for testimonials, references, and samples of previous work
Your professional profile, including education and experience
This benefit alone will save you much more than the amount of your membership dues!
New clients will easily find you in NAIWE's free searchable database! As soon as you have posted information on your NAIWE site (Benefit #1), you will be added to the NAIWE Find-an-Evaluator database. You'll benefit from NAIWE's high search engine ranking and ongoing marketing!
The Resource Library provides articles and other instructional resources to help your skills and and your business grow faster than ever before. Topics include:
The opportunity to publicize your business by contributing to NAIWE's popular ‘Weekly Writing Tip’ autoresponder. When potential clients sign up for NAIWE's free weekly writing tip, they receive a brief writing tip in their e-mail. As a member-sponsor, you may contribute a writing-related tip or quote, along with short promotional text about your business and a link to your personal NAIWE website (see Benefit #1). Your tip, along with your promotional information, will appear to everyone who signs up for the Weekly Writing Tip for as long as you remain a member of NAIWE.
The opportunity to be featured on NAIWE's home page as the Member of the Month. This benefit offers tremendous promotional potential for your business. Member of the Month interviews will be archived on the site for as long as you remain a member of NAIWE. Each interview will provide an opportunity for you to share your business story with potential clients.
NAIWE has a detailed marketing plan that will bring clients directly to the site to search for the writing services they need. By building traffic to the NAIWE site and searchable database, we bring clients to YOUR business website. According to top marketing experts, web traffic is the key to building business, and NAIWE will continue to employ best practices to maximize traffic and build your business. Join us today!
Get and share ideas in the Evaluation Phrase Idea Bank to help you work with sensitive clients. Have you ever searched for a tactful way to suggest necessary changes to a client? Have you ever had a client misunderstand your evaluative comments? The Evaluation Phrase Idea Bank is designed as a continually evolving resource that will help you find the exact phrase you need to help a client understand changes that would strengthen his or her work. You can share in the NAIWE community by submitting your favorite phrases (which will appear in the member area with a link to your NAIWE website), and learning from the useful phrases offered by others.
NAIWE Rolodex- A handy, regularly updated guide to the best available online and offline information resources for writing evaluators. You'll have quick access to:
Professional Development ResourcesBe a part of the NAIWE community network by contributing to the NAIWE NewsWire blog. The news, tips, and ‘Funny Bits’ (amusing writing gaffes spotted in public places), you share become part of the NAIWE community, and provide a way for members to get acquainted and learn from one another.
Publicize your business by contributing articles and editorials in the quarterly "Words Matter" e-zine. "Words Matter" will be downloadable by members and prospective clients, and the articles you submit become one more way to introduce yourself to potential clients and fellow members. "Words Matter" is designed with a mailing panel, so that you can personalize it with your business address and share it with your clients as a promotional piece.
Use and contribute to the Rubric Library for academic evaluators. Rubrics have reshaped the academic evaluation process, making evaluations simpler for evaluators, and more useful for students, from primary through graduate level. We maintain an evaluated directory of links to rubric resources, as well as custom rubrics provided for the use of NAIWE members.
Monthly Conference Call: You can call in to talk with other members about business issues, professional development opportunities, and more. It's like having a direct line to your own mastermind group!
Membership dues are $249 for one year. Click here to join now!