Leadership and Vision

Our Association Professionals are strategic thinkers and leaders who add value to your affiliation with AAI. We will work alongside your staff and/or volunteers to assist you in gauging your current status and in helping you set goals and moving forward toward meeting them. Our Professionals are results driven individuals who function as part of a Team to ensure that your Association is capitalizing on existing opportunities and creating new ones.

Headquarters Service

This service affords our clients a suburban Headquarters office location with telephone answering services; a conference room for meetings with ample parking; state-of-the-art office equipment including e-mail, wireless network, a networked computer system, fax machines, high-speed copying and mailing equipment; electronic cost allocation systems; and all necessary personnel, including benefits and related expenses.

Financial Management

Management of checking, savings and investment accounts is currently conducted on behalf of our clients. Our team of outside investment counselors and accountants, combined with in-house personnel, facilitate their financial solvency. Audits are conducted as prescribed and budget development and monitoring are provided.

Membership Recruitment and Retention

Membership is the backbone of any association. Recruitment and retention are difficult challenges which associations face each and every day. Our staff is skilled in recruiting and retaining members and has successfully developed and conducted satisfaction surveys, as well as telemarketing and other membership campaigns. Because it is membership benefits that ensure that members come back each year, we work with our clients to be sure that what they offer meets the needs of the professionals in their respective industries.

Lobbying and Government Affairs

Through our partnership with the Princeton Public Affairs Group, our clients can enjoy the lobbying and government relations expertise at the local, state and federal levels of the largest and most prestigious lobbying firm in New Jersey. Bill tracking, regulatory monitoring, advocacy and strategy assistance is available. Or we will work with the lobbyist of your choice...you decide.

Newsletter and Brochure Development

From four-page, one-color documents to full-color capabilities; from two-page broadcast fax "Members Only" notices to 32-page, 2-color newsletters and e-letters, we have written, edited, typeset, designed and overseen production of a wide variety of communications pieces. Well established relationships with printers and related service providers ensure our clients reliable production and competitive pricing.

Public Relations and Communications

Media and constituency relations services are provided by a staff accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America. Effective media campaigns have been waged on behalf of clients' government affairs issues, and successful fundraising events have been planned and executed. We have placed stories about our clients in a wide variety of trade and consumer media outlets local as well as internationally. Regulatory and legislative opinion has been measurably swayed based on our media and constituency relations efforts.

Trade Show, Conference, Meeting and Special Events Planning

An experienced trade show, conference and meeting planning team orchestrates all types of events including membership and board meetings, trade shows, seminars, conferences, golf outings, dinner dances, and other special events ranging in size from 6 to 6,000. Our conference management experience includes the management of four-day CME credit meetings in Nassau, Bahamas, as well as other multi-day conferences at locations around the country. Scheduling, site selection, pre-registration, on-site registration, and related services are provided by a staff of experienced professionals translating into well executed meetings where attendees can focus on the business at hand. On-line meeting registration is offered.

Certification Management

Our staff is experienced in managing, tracking and maintaining a variety of continuing education programs and corresponding credits. Staff members develop accredited educational programs, maintain records and assist members in securing valuable certification credits.

Web Site Development and Management

Development and management of client web sites is an important area of our business. We work with clients from concept to completion and ongoing maintenance of their sites.