Sentences with phrase «own affinity programs»

Look at price incentives tied to contributions to charities, affinity programs and valued discounts.

It does not include software, protocol governing transfers of the digital representation of value, transactions which merchants grant as part of a reward or affinity program in which value can not be exchanged for tender, bank credit, or virtual currency.

«Both serve as superb affinity programs for Amazon, as Kindle owners spend 30 % more, and Prime members spend twice as much, as the rest of Amazon's customers,» said CIRP co-founder Mike Levin.

For instance, many credit card rewards and affinity programs let you trade points for gift cards at major retailers.

Cardholders who want to keep all their rewards from expiring need to ask both about the affinity program requirements and the rewards credit card rules, says Honig.

Rates not available to the general public include direct marketing offers, corporate discount rates, convention rates, group rates, meeting rates, any rates requiring membership in a club such as AAA rates, affinity programs, or other organizations where the rates are targeted specifically toward a group of individuals and not intended for the general public.

«I think there is a strong belief in affinity programs, which go beyond cards to everything from auto insurance to travel programs.

That means a lawyer can subscribe to it only through a bar association affinity program.

Travelers also offers two driver programs that lead to discounts: IntelliDrive and the affinity program.

New India Assurance also performs its operation through B2B marketing channels such as bank assurance, MFI & NGOs, motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers and Common Service Centers & also through affinity programs with brokers and corporate.

Be wary of affinity programs where an auto manufacture or dealership recommends one company or another.

James Pace is the Senior Director of Administration / Member Services, Managing the development and production of products and services created for members, the Association's affinity programs, assist in the content development of ASSOCIATION product / service and other support efforts.

But what's causing the most serious concern among salespeople is retail and affinity programs that allow salespeople's friends and former clients to ask for discounts or cash - back rebates because they now shop at a BJ's Warehouse, Wallace says.

Also, the Costco affinity program for real estate services is still on track.

AmeriNet Financial will be offering a discount fee to homebuyers and homesellers in its transactions in Oregon — but not a true affinity program — following an agreement with the state real estate commission.

I don't see that happening right away, but if we're faced with a flood of affinity programs and we have to rebate a large portion of our total number of commissions, then maybe the only way to survive is to raise commissions.»

The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® has formed an affinity programs working group whose goal is to study the impact of affinity relationships and relocation referral fee practices and disseminate information about them to practitioners.

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.

«I do have concerns that affinity programs may be costly to brokers and salespeople,» says Kahn, «but they're an important competitive tool.

But for brokers and salespeople, affinity programs may decrease profitability.»

«In the future, we're going to see more affinity programs,» he says.

Fruth is describing the benefits of belonging to an affinity program, a type of mutually helpful relationship with other businesses or membership organizations.

Neither Hanna's company nor Woodward's spends much to promote affinity programs.

According to Adam Cockey, managing director at Baltimore's W.H.C. Wilson & Co., when a major affinity program was announced recently by one of Baltimore's leading companies, the local board was besieged by salespeople voicing their concerns about losing commission money to affinity partners.

The Danberry Co. has access to an affinity program through a referral network that it belongs to, PHH Network Services North America.

At the request of the working group, NAR also conducted in - depth research on affinity programs and relocation practices.

$ 20 million sent yearly by Realtors to CREA to support REALTOR ® and MLS ® trademarks; Realtor.ca; ICX.ca (commercial listing advertising site); Webforms; Realtor Link; Realtor Code of Ethics; the Compliance Centre resources and information about FINTRAC, competition law, the Do - Not - Call Registry and privacy; federal political advocacy; the national advertising campaign and national affinity programs.

High technology, booming home sales, one - stop shopping, mergers and acquisitions, shrinking profit margins, and affinity programs are just a few of the challenges real estate companies are facing now.

With the rise of affinity programs that pay consumer rebates, states have responded in different ways.

New policy could have an impact on the way affinity programs are structured in the future.

In this role, Koops oversees the company's Business Solutions consultants, broker - to - broker referral program, member education for core programs and services, white - glove international referral liaison program and U.S. Military on the Move affinity program.

Since 2009, Ben has been an independent consultant and strategist for real estate brokers and affinity programs seeking to reduce the friction and cost in home buying and selling for consumers, agents and mortgage originators.

2009 USAA / Cartus: First ever affinity - based national home search platform connecting millions of relocating and mortgage - ready members of the most successful affinity program to the nation's largest network of real estate brands (Realogy).

RELO, a network of real estate companies whose client base includes corporate relocation providers, wants its 1,100 members to charge referral fees only when a practitioner is told up front that a buyer or seller is part of a referral or affinity program.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Despite recent publicity about broker withdrawals, the Costco affinity program for real estate services is still on track, according to the program developer.

Not exact matches

Manny Lopez, a philanthropist and the co-founder of MADD Coffee Company, has a close affinity to this program, given his personal upbringing.

«It's not hard to see productivity gains and cultural gains and affinity gains» from wellness programs, says Newell.

«We have affinity for program houses for a wide variety of groups, including Russian House, Buddhist House, and Earth House.

This cash - for - nursing scheme is nothing new in England because similar programs have already been put in place which has actually been proven successful in promoting breastfeeding awareness and affinity in the country.

Several other large high schools in the area, including Maine South in Park Ridge and Barrington, use a homeroom program to help students develop an affinity for the school and classmates.

The PD program consists of a two week orientation, monthly program series, special interest affinity group events and programs, and a year - end summit.

This «worm» is the first monster from which the others spring with the same essential DNA, the worm that grows at night («affinity for nighttime exploration led one researcher to describe these as «vampire programs»») as it segments individual underused machines for a collective purpose.

Programmed death - 1 concentration at the immunological synapse is determined by ligand affinity and availability.

Although «Measure of a Man» is less gut - wrenching than director Jim Loach's only previous theatrical film, «Oranges and Sunshine» — about the cruel fate of unwanted children shipped from England to Australia during the United Kingdom's mid-20th-century «child migrant» program — the British filmmaker shows himself to have an affinity for tales of the abuse of power.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

In affinity spaces, mentorship is distributed across many people (Gomez, Schieble, Curwood, & Hassett, 2010), and teacher education programs may be able to harness such mentorship for their preservice teachers» benefit.

Based on the results of our programming, we suggest that two of the many paths to support Black teachers over a lifetime include 1) affinity - based learning in an environment centered on Black excellence and 2) creating sustainable environments for communities of Black teachers.

Some airlines also offer «elite» programs which provide check - in and boarding priorities, and «affinity» credit cards which earn mileage credits when you use them for purchases.

MBNA, now a division of the Toronto - Dominion Bank, is one of the country's leading providers for both co-branded and affinity credit card programs.