As we wind down another successful year at AssociationVoice, we look back and are ever grateful for all our clients and the trust they put in us. We relish all of the individual relationships we have built and appreciate all of the feedback we receive on a daily basis. It is our goal to learn and get better every day and all of our valued clients help us enormously to maintain our technology leadership position. To this end we say "Thank You" for your business and your feedback is always welcome. We hope to reward you with an expanded solution set in the coming year to continue to save you time, money and headaches in your daily business life.

From the entire AssociationVoice family, we wish everybody a tremendous "Happy Holidays" and we hope, and look forward to, the best years of our lives in 2012.

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Article compliments of Julie Adamen from Adamen, Inc.

"I can't think about that, it's budget time!" "Don't talk to me, it's budget season!" "Look at me! Busy busy busy! Budget time!" I have one word to say: BUNK.
 
Not "bunk" to the fact that managers are busy and stressed. You are busy and stressed. But let's face it - it's mostly a situation of your own making because you "let" budget season sneak up on you like a freight train (note the oxymoronic tone of that statement). You were busy with other stuff. You went on vacation. Now it's October and you have 8 budgets to be approved and mailed out. It's too late for me to help with this budget cycle, but how does one break out of the stressful budget rut next year? It's not hard, just a little planning, a little preparation, the right presentation and sticking to your schedule.

It’s budget season…and perhaps one of the most critical planning seasons for your business in recent memory. There are so many things on your plate and more options than ever to consider. Our goal at AssociationVoice is to provide you an invaluable viewpoint around technology and how the proper solutions can truly save you time, money and headaches during these challenging times. We speak to hundreds of companies like yours every month and have gleaned volumes of valuable information around what works, what doesn’t work and best practices. We want to share these with you BEFORE you make any purchase decisions and with the assumption that if you don’t optimize the use of technology in your business then you will NOT be competitive in your marketplace next year.

Have you ever stopped to think what makes you different?  Your company different?  Your approach different?  Have you thought about why someone would listen to you?  Buy from you?  Trust you?

By now, you've realized what most homeowners' associations have realized: it's imperative to have a website for your HOA. You may have even looked into what software you should integrate into your websites. But now you have a new challenge – how to make your website user‐friendly.

At AssociationVoice, we really take great pride in our well-earned position as technology leader and continue to challenge our abilities to deliver cutting edge solutions to clients and prospects. We love "pushing the envelope" in technology while constantly learning every day what we can do to make homeowner association management easier and more effective. We are great listeners. We believe the answers come from you, the users of our world-class solutions. In Q2, we listened and accepted a tremendous technology challenge and completed what, we believe, will raise the bar of our solutions and keep us head and shoulders above the competition.

Keeping in touch with your membership is an integral part of running an HOA. Homeowner Association Newsletters are an important part of that since they allow you to let your members know what’s going on in the neighborhood without being overly intrusive. Fortunately, the software package we offer here at AssociationVoice will allow you to keep in touch with your membership easily and effectively.

It used to be that running a homeowner association meant working hard to make up flyers, calling members directly, organizing events and letting everyone know what they were supposed to do and where they were supposed to go. When you install community management software like the kind we offer at AssociationVoice, all of this leg work gets a little bit easier to manage and allows things to go more smoothly.

Well, Q1 2011 has come to a thundering close for AssociationVoice. The first 3 months of the year were filled with a flurry of new activities all focused on enhancing the AssociationVoice product line as well as preparing for the launch of new products and features to be showcased at the CAI National Conference in Boca Raton, FL and the subsequent CEO-MC Conference in Salt Lake City, UT.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the past fifteen years, you know that the Internet has fundamentally changed the way people do business and the way people do research on virtually any topic imaginable. The topics people research online are extremely varied, from the best toothpaste to the best place to meet eligible singles to information about homeowner association Web sites.

Community Associations are going online. How do I get members to use the new technology?

AssociationVoice Completes a Very Successful 2010 and Plans for an Even Bigger 2011. AssociationVoice celebrated its 10^th Anniversary in 2010 and continued to be the leading provider of professional Web sites with nearly 10,000 associations and management clients serving well over one million residents. Being the leader comes with many advantages and constant opportunity to maintain world class service and support while continuing to grow the industry's leading Web site solution.

Considering that home-based internet use is now at a remarkable 85%, it's no wonder today that communities of every size, socioeconomic group or age demographic have shifted their information sharing strategies to the Web. The savings in time, money and headaches that you can reap through a professional Web presence are significant, and can no longer be ignored in today's competitive environment.