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3. If you are a service
provider or professional
• Stay current with the legislative
issues affecting your area of ser-
vice. This can be done by reading
the Legislative Updates presented
monthly in Community Trends® and
by attending the in-person seminars
offered by the NJ-LAC.
• Become a “CAI Educated Business
Partner.” CAI has designed a three
hour course specific to our business
partners. This course outlines the
unique qualities of dealing with a
volunteer board and how to best
market yourself to community asso-
ciations and management compa-
nies. CAI-NJ will be running one of
these classes in the Fall of 2016
• Attend all of our Business Partner
roundtables and events sponsored
by the Business Partner Committee.
This committee meets regularly to
discuss events and educational
functions designed specifically for
our Business Partners.
• Get on a CAI-NJ Committee.
Applications for the 2017 com-
mittees will be sent out in the Fall.
Consider volunteering for a 2017
committee.
In closing, if you’re reading this
article, you are part of this community
association world. It is imperative that
you keep up with what is happening
in our industry in order to be success-
ful and be the best board member,
manager or business partner that you
can be. A favorite quote of mine that
is very appropriate to this article and
should be remembered “If you’re not
moving forward, you’re moving back-
ward.” n
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