Another "informed" agent ignores NACHI

[Nick Gromicko]

Scott, the home inspection business is all local. Marketing is best done at the local level by each member in his/her own market to the consumers and agents that live and work in his/her area. You have to promote YOU as being the best inspector in your town. This is how you dominate a market. Your association can't make you, but if it is a known diploma mill, like ASHI is, it can break you.

BTW: I don't consider ASHI members to be valid competitors. They got into our industry through ASHI, a known diploma mill. They are impostors to be exposed.

Like you said last month Scott:

I'm all for ASHI upping their entrance requirements. I have suggested many times over the years that ASHI should require the NHIE before a person can sign up. Unfortunately the bean counters say that would cut the number of new folks who join by half.

[Nick Gromicko]

InterNACHI does so much and has so much to say that we can blast out press releases to the media every hour, but if you are a lousy inspector and a lousy marketer, InterNACHI membership won't help you in your local market and won't can't make your business successful. It can only offer the tools for YOU to succeed.

By the way, if any real estate agent or consumer is reading this, I would like to direct you to ASHI's homepage where you will discover that ASHI will allow anyone to join with nothing more than a valid credit card, online, in less than 30 seconds: https://www.homeinspector.org/join/a...n/default.aspx

[Scott Patterson]

As I said, it sounds like a child not getting their way.

[Nick Gromicko]

It's not "my way."

Let ASHI stick to using their member's dues to brand ASHI. We'll stick to helping our member's brand themselves and their businesses in their own local markets.

P.S. I'm helping brand diploma mill ASHI too. Keep that online application up on ASHI's site for me as long as you can.

[Scott Patterson]

Originally Posted by gromicko

It's not "my way."

Let ASHI stick to using their member's dues to brand ASHI. We'll stick to helping our member's brand themselves and their businesses in their own local markets.

Good point, but it is "your way" as you own INACHI and ASHI is owned by its members.

Two totally different membership associations with two totally different mission statements and two totally different ideologies.

[Nick Gromicko]

I'll agree with that. Allowing any bozo to join ASHI online in 30 seconds or less with nothing more than a valid credit card, then encouraging that bozo to go out and perform actual fee-paid inspections for poor, unsuspecting conumers as the only way to achieve full membership, thus causing the bozo to cut his prices to get his inspections in, and thus cutting our throats... is certainly a "different ideology" than InterNACHI's.