For and About Business Partners
The partnerships between service providers and community associations are critical in many ways. CAI helps support and inform those partnerships, and helps you grow your business.
UPDATE YOUR COMPANY PROFILE IN OUR NEW SERVICE DIRECTORY
The designated primary contact for member firms can now manage the company profile via his or her own personal username/password. (Visit Find A Business to see your current company listing.)
Company Primary contacts: create your new chapter password here, then sign in to see My Info and select the Related Businesses tab to:
- Upload company logo
- Indicate geographic areas served
- Manage your employee list
- Register colleagues for events at member/non-member pricing for each (make sure your employee list is up to date to get member rates)
- Find contact info for other members.
(To add a second primary company contact, email office@cai-nc.org.)
MARKETING WITHIN CAI-NC
Grow your business within the North Carolina community association market. From marquee annual sponsorships to major events exposure to local happenings, CAI-NC is the best marketing investment available. Take advantage of this full menu of tools and opportunities
APPLY TO SPEAK
CAI-NC’s Education Master Committee and learning event volunteer teams welcome your interest in presenting at a chapter event.
Submit your proposed topic here.
GET INVOLVED
Business Partner team members are encouraged to apply to serve on a variety of teams. Their energy and insight is particularly welcome on:
- Metro Engagement Teams in Charlotte, Raleigh, Wilmington, Greensboro
- Annual Conference & Expo Task Forces
- Membership Development Committee (in development)
- Chapter Board of Directors
GUIDE TO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIVING
Anyone serves the HOA or condo association market needs to have a clear understanding of how your customer organizations are governed and managed. A 44-page primer.
HIRING PROFESSIONALS LIKE YOU
A community association operates as a government, a community, and a business. Its leaders have fiduciary responsibilities requiring them to make decisions that can have profound financial and social impacts. This brochure can help you see through your customers’ eyes as you work to market your professional expertise.
BUSINESS PARTNER ESSENTIALS COURSE and “Educated Business Partner” Distinction
Business Partner Essentials is an online course designed to help CAI-member product and service providers better understand CAI, community associations and the industry at large. Individuals who pass the course and maintain CAI membership earn the CAI Educated Business Partner distinction, gaining special recognition among thousands of companies and professionals who support common-interest communities—accountants, attorneys, bankers, insurance professionals, landscapers, painters, reserve specialists, software providers and many others.
Download NATIONAL CAI’S BUSINESS PARTNER TOOLKIT
MEMBERSHIP
Discount pricing on chapter and national webinars, education events and publications
- Complimentary listing in the chapter’s Find A Business Directory and national CAI’s Professional Services Directory.
- Annual subscription to Common Ground magazine (print + digital)
- Annual subscription to Community Manager digital newsletter
- Annual subscription to CAI@Home digital newsletter
- Annual subscription to Community Association Law Reporterdigital newsletter
- Access to Exchange: Online Community Q&A Forum where your customers seek advice from other CAI members across the nation
- FREE Community Conversations Webinars
- Member Discount programs
Join CAI-NC. Annual Dues are $625; membership includes both national and chapter-level affiliations. Employees “inherit” their employer’s company membership.