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Membership Drive and Young Professional Offer

The 2017 Membership Drive is Underway!

By Kyle Wieskus
Membership Director

All members should have received their 2017 membership renewal email. If you have any questions, need any changes made to invoices – please don’t hesitate to send an email to me at kylewieskus@gandgcomm.com or call 952-758-6340.  Click here to renew online .

Along with your 2017 renewal, we sent you information on the 2017 Membership Drive Contest!  We are very excited about this contest and the information bears repeating – so please keep on reading the highlights below and find out how you can win some cold hard cash!

Recruit members to TOCA and you personally will receive cash – hundreds of dollars!

The TOCA Simple Membership Rewards Program.

  • Win $300 by recruiting the most NEW members to TOCA in 2017,
  • Win $250 by recruiting the second most NEW members,
  • Win $200 by recruiting the third most NEW members,
  • Win $150 by recruiting the fourth most NEW members,
  • Win $100 by recruiting the fifth most NEW members, and
  • A bonus of $25 for every member who recruits more than five new members.

What’s a NEW member? Simply (are you catching a theme here), someone who wasn’t a TOCA member in 2016.

All you have to do to be eligible to win in this contest is be a member in good-standing of TOCA for 2017. On the new membership application this year, a line will be included for the member to note who recruited them to TOCA.

If your name is on that new member’s application for membership, you will be eligible to win. Or, simply contact our TOCA membership director Kyle Wieskus at:  kylewieskus@gandgcomm.com and notify her about who you recruited.  We’ll be keeping a tally.

Another exciting component of this new membership drive is the Young Professional (YP) Membership Offer!  We believe that recruitment of “Young Professionals” (those 35 and under) will lead to the successful continued growth of TOCA. We are excited to offer to organizations (any current member company, association, agency, etc.) with two or more paying members in 2017 the opportunity to receive one free, young professional membership to a new TOCA member.

By making membership accessible and affordable for YPs, there are three distinct group benefits:

  • TOCA benefits as an organization by growing in numbers and our communications contest award applications; the organization is positioned for future success and longevity by introducing younger members into the community.
  • Member companies and organizations are able to potentially recruit new talent and develop the abilities of their YP workforce.
  • Young Professionals (YPs) will see TOCA as a community of mentors, capable of providing them with industry specific skills, strategies and connections they cannot find elsewhere.

Please contact the TOCA staff if you would like to take advantage of this fantastic opportunity.

So start today! First, renew your 2017 membership in TOCA. See the attached form and invoice or renew online here.

Thanks in advance for your membership renewal and let’s all do our part to grow our association!

Buy 2 Get 1 Young Professional Membership FREE!

By Dawn Rigby
Marketing Manager
Advanced Turf Solutions

Calling all young professionals! You could qualify for free TOCA membership. The Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA) is extending an offer for free Awards dinner table2membership to qualifying young professionals. The new program applies to green industry communicators 35 and under. The company membership in TOCA must have two paid memberships for each free young professional membership.

For example: An individual membership costs $140. Each additional member in a company is $90. If a company has three members, and at least one of them is 35 or under, the first member is $140, the second member is $90, and the third member is free. That’s three TOCA memberships for $230!

Add this great deal to the incentive program offered ALL our members for cash means there are many ways to be a part of TOCA at a very reasonable price, recruit members and make a bundle of cash yourself. Go to www.toca.org for more information. Click here for more information.