Real estate companies aren't the only businesses forming alliances, joint ventures, partnerships, and
affinity relationships with other businesses, organizations, and institutions in an attempt to build or expand their customer base.
PHH has set up
affinity relationships with several organizations and companies, including Amway.
And, in some cases, prospects who come by way of affinity programs may be more apt to make a deal, says Howard Hanna, president, Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, Pittsburgh, whose company has formed
affinity relationships with a local medical society and a home improvement company.
Form
affinity relationships with other family - friendly companies.
Invitations will be distributed through bar associations that have
affinity relationships with Fastcase and to law firms with enterprise - level subscriptions.
The partnership with the OSBA makes Ohio the first bar to have
an affinity relationship with Tali.
That happened in January when Amre Inc., a home improvement company that had formed a much - heralded
affinity relationship with Century 21, shut its doors and left some customers without promised services.
Not exact matches
It has been noted from time to time in the literature that the thought of Charles Hartshorne has a number of
affinities with personalism, and this is a special case of the
relationship between process and personalist thought.
«We have a very good
relationship between us, good
affinities as
with the rest of the team.
Cuomo talked to Sean Kirst about his long - standing
affinity for Buffalo, his
relationship with Tim Russert and how his late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, is still his best advisor.
I love that it came out of a natural
affinity and
relationship with the store.
The
relationship site matchaffinity.com uses our unique
affinity questionnaire — designed by a team of psychologists — to assess your levels of compatibility
with other members.
We'll show you your most compatible matches, and you will be able to see your
affinity score
with other matchaffinity.com members, plus a more in - depth breakdown of your
relationship compatibility.
Characters form
relationships with each other the more they fight together and considering how many heroes are available; it's very interesting to watch everyone's
affinity gradually grow.
By diverting attention from the religious entente to the emotional
affinity between the protagonists, tenuously held together by strained
relationships with their children, Captive places a befuddled and detached leading cast in an awkward position, unable to discern the characters» psychology and grasp the gravity of their spiritual transformation.
Please join NEP and the Black Teacher Project as we partner to explore the crucial work of building
relationship and understanding among and across race identity groups,
with a focus on using racial
affinity group structures in sustained collaborative work contexts.
I have a longstanding
relationship and
affinity for non-profits having worked
with some, near and dear to my heart, in my hometown of El Paso, Texas.
You can also clear side quests to strengthen your bond
with the Lilies and learn their backstory, and your
affinity meter /
relationship with each alters the ending slightly.
The Artist's Museum begins
with this impulse to collect and connect, bringing together large - scale installations, photography, film, and videos that employ artworks from the past as material in the present, animating existing artworks, images, and histories to reveal art's unexpected
relationships and
affinities.
But the stylistic
affinity with Pollock of the paintings on view means that not to reference their
relationship would be disingenuous.
Sharing a formal
affinity with these patterns, Keegan's photographs possess a stable figure - ground
relationship akin to that of the panels, and like the lattice, contain and collect, like a city's sieve.
The show illustrates his
relationship with Europe and his
affinity with its cultural history.
The exhibition is accompanied by a small publication that features a timeline of Tang Chang's life and Thai history and an original essay by Orianna Cacchione that traces Chang's
relationship with the Thai art scene and examines
affinities and divergences between his work and international forms of gestural abstraction and concrete poetry.
While Darboven is certainly engaged in developing a historical perspective, her methods — as they might in a sociological or anthropological study — have little to do
with cultural
affinities, formal
relationships, or morphologies of ritualistic behavior.
Through his
affinity of found objects, archives and landscape compositions Reith selected a group of four (two Canadian and two Dutch) artists that have an intentional or unintentional
relationship with these subjects.
By forming Biters and referencing the image of a DJ and MC from a rap crew, the two artists acknowledge the debt their practices hold to hip - hop culture and its
relationship with art and appropriation; the reconfiguring of prefabricated objects, a logo or symbol becoming a mark of tribal
affinity, an audio source and / or drum break that paints the environment to an entire song.
If Anderson's paintings have contemporary
affinities in practices (especially
with that of Peter Doig, his former teacher), the theoretical contexts they summon are well - rooted — in particular those teleological forecasts about the
relationship between his chosen genres as articulated by critics including Kenneth Clark and Clement Greenberg; the latter wrote, in 1949, of the evolutionary conundrum whereby French painting «was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual experience
with ever greater fidelity.»
The sculpture has a strong visual
affinity to Minimalist sculpture and shares Minimalism's preoccupation
with the
relationship between sculpture and the body of the spectator.
«
Affinities» also relates to paint as a substance that is relied upon for its use in combination
with other material; it has the capability of facilitating
relationships between color, texture, structure, and design.
If awarding damages for the coming - into - existence of an unwanted parent / child
relationship is offensive in terms of principle, is it not equally offensive to award damages because the (innocent) child who is the subject of the parental
relationship lacks genetic
affinity with one of its parents?
Lead counsel to Citibank on its $ 1 billion pre-purchase of AAdvantage Miles from American Airlines and its worldwide
affinity relationship in connection
with American's chapter 11 proceedings
(3) Any Contracting State may declare in accordance
with Article 63 that it will extend the application of the whole or any part of the Convention to any maintenance obligation arising from a family
relationship, parentage, marriage or
affinity, including in particular obligations in respect of vulnerable persons.
Check
with your employers or organizational leaders to see if you can benefit from one of these «
affinity group»
relationships.
Every time they interact
with it, for example a service like Alton Towers or a product like Heinz baked beans, they hopefully have a consistent and positive experience which builds the
relationship they have
with the brand and their
affinity to it.
With the rise in ancillary businesses among real estate companies as a way to boost profit levels (see page 47 for more on
affinity relationships), Dorcas Helfant, a former NAR president and a broker - owner, says a new competition is emerging.
Early adopters in the real estate industry, such as Primary Capital Mortgage, will simply have a head start when it comes to utilizing this medium to recruit and retain the best talent in their market, create and maintain new referral
relationships and build brand
affinity with consumers.
In an era fond of retro products and services, the venerable real estate franchisor, reported to be the largest global network in the residential real estate industry
with approximately 6,900 independent offices worldwide in 78 countries and territories
with more than 101,000 independent sales professionals, understands that building
relationships and earning the
affinity and trust of real estate consumers is as important today as it was when brokers Art Bartlett and Marsh Fisher established the CENTURY 21 ® brand in Orange County, Calif., on July 28, 1971.
Fruth is describing the benefits of belonging to an
affinity program, a type of mutually helpful
relationship with other businesses or membership organizations.
«If customers are members of an
affinity group, salespeople may have to pay a referral fee even though they may already have established a
relationship with those customers,» he says.
I read
with disdain industry forecasters» predictions of more
affinity relationships and recommendations of commission - cutting plans for brokers to compete («
Affinity Programs: Casting a Wider Net to Gather Prospects,» March 1997, page 47).
Corporations are the most popular groups
with which real estate companies have established
affinity relationships.
When initially founded, Lending Club positioned itself as a social networking service and set up opportunities for members to identify group
affinities, based on a theory that borrowers would be less likely to default to lenders
with whom they had
affinities and social
relationships.