NOMMA To Adopt Tiered Dues System On January 1

                                                                                    

Press Release

December 2, 2013
RELEASE IMMEDIATELY

Contact Information
Todd Daniel
    Executive Director
    (888) 516-8585, ext. 102
    todd@nomma.org

NOMMA To Adopt Tiered Dues System On January 1

FAYETTEVILLE, GA — To better serve the membership, NOMMA is launching a tiered dues system effective January 1. The new system is based on annual gross sales and will divide a fabricator membership into three levels:

Small Shops Under - $250,000 - $350/yr.
Fabricator Shop - $251,000 - $2,499,999 - $425/yr.
Large Shop - $2.5 million and greater - $500/yr.

The change, which was approved by the NOMMA Board of Directors, is designed to provide a more fair system to the membership. For years concerns were raised about the old same-price system that charged a one-person shop the same dues as a 100-person shop. The new system provides more equity. Most importantly, the system provides a more attractive entry point for small shops just starting out, and for one-person operations.

For large shops it was felt that a rate increase was justified — the first dues increase in five years — since bigger operations often have multiple personnel involved in the association and use more services.

For the majority of our membership the dues will remain the same at $425 per year.

Board discussions of a tiered dues system began in 2005 and the first task force was assigned to research the issue. In 2010 the subject was given to the Governance Task Force for review and over the next three years various models were evaluated and more research was conducted. A survey conducted in April 2013 gave the Governance team added demographic information and provided the final piece of the puzzle.

“We reviewed models based on benefits and systems with numerous tiers,” said JR Molina of Big D Metalworks, NOMMA’s current President and longtime Governance Task Force Chair. “Ultimately, we decided on a simple system that would be attractive to small shops while providing more equity for everyone.”

In developing the system, the Governance team used a mixture of in-house surveys and industry data to determine average shop sizes. Based on research, 20% of the membership will benefit from the smaller dues while 25% of our largest members will receive their first rate increase in five years.

The new structure will allow us to attract the smaller and new firms, while still maintaining capital for programs that primarily benefit our larger members. These benefits include marketing to architects, producing technical materials, and code and standards advocacy.

“Last year we took a major step forward by switching from a calendar to anniversary date membership year. This allowed us to eliminate a complicated pro-rating system and provide more simplicity and fairness to our members,” Molina said. “This year the Board has taken the next step forward by introducing a tiered dues that is simple, while providing more equity to the membership.”

NOMMA, headquartered in Fayetteville, GA, was formed in 1958 to serve the ornamental and miscellaneous metals industry. NOMMA’s 500 members produce a wide range of ornamental and miscellaneous metalwork, ranging from railings to driveway gates, and from sculpture to light structural steel. NOMMA provides a variety of educational services to the industry, including an annual trade show and education conference, glossy trade magazine, continuing education classes, technical bulletins, and more.

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Business Interruption Insurance - The Basics

By Joey Romeo

Industrial Coverage

Business Interruption insurance may provide coverage for financial losses arising from an inability to conduct business, as well as the extra expenses occurred in dealing with the business interruption.  In the event of a loss, this insurance can make the difference between a business recovering from a loss, or from being unable to continue operations and going out of business.

One crucial consideration is that this coverage is generally an optional coverage, which must be purchased separately and added to a business’ basic property policy. 

Policyholders must provide written notice of the claim as soon as possible and be prepared to fully document their loss with records such as sales receipts, financial statements and tax returns.

Business interruption losses are measured on a net basis which would be the gross earnings less the normal expenses incurred, plus any additional expenses which are solely attributable to the loss.

Normally, business interruption insurance only applies when there is direct physical damage from a covered cause of loss to the insured’s property which causes the business interruption.  For example, a fire burns down the insured’s location.

In addition to the basic business interruption insurance, there are also several additional coverages that should be considered and added to the business interruption insurance.  However, these coverages need to be reviewed thoroughly, as they may contain further restrictions and limitations on coverage, such as a “waiting period” (the power must be out for at least 24, 48, 72, 96 hours, etc.), or a sublimit such as $25,000 in coverage.

Utility Interruption coverage applies when a business loses income solely due to a  power loss to their location. There are two types of utility interruption coverage- “on premises”, where the business suffers physical damage to utility equipment on their premises, such as an electrical box, a transformer, or wires.  “Off premises” utility interruption coverage is where the business will receive coverage even if the utility interruption is due to events away from the insured’s premises, such as a widespread power outage. 

Civil Authority coverage provides coverage when a governmental authority issues an order preventing the insured from accessing its premises to conduct business.  For example, if there is a mandatory evacuation order. 

Ingress/Egress coverage  also provides coverage when an insured is prevented from accessing their location to conduct business, but need not arise from a governmental order.  For example, where there are numerous large trees down from the wind that blocks the only road into and out of the insured’s location.

Contingent Business Income coverage  provides coverage where the insured location is not affected physically, but the insured’s supplier has suffered physical damage that prevents it from fufliling its obligations to the insured to provide material, supplies, etc.

Dependent Properties coverage  provides coverage where the insured location is not affected physically, but the insured’s customer has suffered physical damage that prevents it from accepting the insured’s products and services as it normally would (for example,a routine monthly delivery is not able to be completed, and the insured loses that sale).

Disclaimer: 

This blog is for informational purposes only.  The opinions on this blog do not nessicarily reflect those of NOMMA, Industrial Coverage Corp. and/or any past or present members and/or clients.  This blog does not represent legal advice, and those seeking legal advice should retain an attorney licensed in their jurisdiction

NOMMA Marketing Manager Job Listing

Salary: Base with Bonus

Location: Atlanta Metro Area

Type: Full-time/Experienced

Category: Marketing

Preferred Education: 4-year degree

A progressive, non-profit association in the metalworking industry is seeking a Marketing Manager who will play a key role within the Association Team, to plan and execute marketing campaigns to meet or exceed revenue goals.

This is an exciting opportunity to use your strategic marketing, analytical skills, and sales skills to identify, develop, and deploy successful marketing initiatives that drive membership and utilization of the Association's products, including direct responsibility for association and program branding, marketing communications, new member acquisition, conference promotion, sponsorships, and other association programs and services, products with the goal of increasing membership and program revenues.

Specific Responsibilities:

A.   General Marketing and Communications

1.     Develop effective marketing strategies to increase membership and revenues.

2.     Develop and implement an annual marketing operational plan and budget.

3.     Develop and implement association marketing communications and branding strategy.

4.     Develop and maintain relationships with key industry organizations in order to promote the association.

5.     Maintain a cooperative and close working relationship with staff, chapters, the Board, association membership, and volunteers.

B.   Market Intelligence/Product Management

1.     Oversee development and analysis of research to adequately support recommendations regarding program/product initiatives, and associated pricing.

2.     Direct an annual review/evaluation of programs/products for the purpose of providing appropriate recommendations to increase member value and overall membership/revenues/returns.

3.     Oversee a process that produces a highly accurate database to support marketing communications and program analysis.

C.   Sales/Market Development

1.     Create and execute a strategy for sales of membership to key clients, supplier sponsorships, meeting attendance/registrations, and other programs/products.

2.     Assure that membership goals are met by participating actively in securing new members and retaining current members.

3.     Develop and implement a successful membership retention strategy.

4.     Assure that supplier membership goals, sponsorship goals, and trade show revenue goals are met by actively cultivating relationships with key suppliers.

5.     Identify potential target markets for new members, and recommend strategies for penetrating these markets.

Requirements

·      BS in Business and/or Marketing

·      Candidates should have proven success implementing integrated media campaigns, 5+ years in a marketing capacity with strong project management skills, communication and presentation skills, comprehensive knowledge of direct marketing, digital marketing, marketing communications, public relations and branding.  

·      Preferred background marketing in organizations with business-to-business sales; experience with organizations that participate in educational meetings/trade shows; and/or experience in association marketing.

·       Ideal candidates will be positive, self motivated, and have the ability and desire to work remotely with occasional  face-to-face meetings in a small results driven team-oriented environment (NOMMA is a VIRTUAL office).

·     Up to 10% travel may be required.

Benefits/Compensation

·      Compensation will be base plus a variable component.

·      Competitive benefits.

·      Some home office phone/Internet reimbursement.

About NOMMA

The National Ornamental & Miscellaneous Metals Association (NOMMA) promotes the common business interests of ornamental and miscellaneous metal fabricators. Our mission is to advance the industry through education and the promotion of a positive business environment. NOMMA is a 55-year-old trade association that produces an award-winning magazine, hosts an annual conference, engages in technical work, and conducts our industry awards competition. Our foundation provides education services via webinars, videos, and classes. Our 550 members produce some of the most outstanding metal products available, including railings, stairs, gates, furniture, and sculpture. For more information, visit us at: www.nomma.org.

Instructions
Submit cover letter (attached Word document) and resume to: jobs@nomma.org

President JR Molina's Induction Speech

In Albuquerque at the NOMMA convention, I delivered a speech to the attendees.  I told how I had practice giving my speech at home to my daughter.  As I recited the lines, her eyes crossed and she eventually asked me to stop.  “Daddy that's the most boring speech I've ever heard,” she said.  In that version of my speech, I listed NOMMA’s accomplishments and history and named all the people I wanted to thank.  Those are all important, but with my daughter’s comments in mind, I decided that I wanted to convey something different.  I scrapped that speech and developed a new speech that would hopefully convey my feelings and the meaningfulness of NOMMA to me and my company.

In my newly crafted speech, I talked about three things.  First, I discussed my family, second my work and lastly NOMMA membership.  Following is the speech that I delivered:


So let’s start with my family.  Dotti is my wife and we've been married for 17 years.  Together we have three daughters--Tabitha, Kylie and Holli.  Like most families, we have our ups and we have our downs.  We have good days and we have bad days.  Keeping my family in mind, I think about everything NOMMA has been through in the last five years.  I see NOMMA as a family.  And like every family, NOMMA has had good days and NOMMA has had bad days.

Just like everyone at METALFAB this week, we all have our own families and our own businesses.  We have been through great days and not so great days.  However, we survived the hard times by being a family and by coming together as a team and helping each other when help was needed.  Employees helped when you needed them and NOMMA members helped when you need outside support.

With my family, I always know my girls are there when I really need them.  This reminds me of NOMMA’s list serve.  Everyday members post questions or issues with the hope of finding help or guidance.  Within minutes a NOMMA brother or sister is there to help.  At NOMMA’s conventions each year, we get to spend time with each other networking, recounting our horror stories and our success stories of the past year.

The conventions remind me of a family reunion.  Family reunions and families in general can be a little dysfunction, but whose family is not.  So family at home, family at work and family in this association are not much different.  Through the good, the bad and the ugly, we are all there to help each other.

This leads me to the second topic, which is my work.  As I mentioned earlier, we all have our businesses that we run.  We all work six days a week, ten plus hours a day--or seven days a week and 12 hours a day if you work for Curt Witter.  As we know, the last 5 years have not been easy.  The economy hit us hard, all of us, even this association.  When I first got involved with NOMMA 12 years ago, NOMMA had just under 1000 members.  Now we have fewer than 600.  This decline illustrates the good and the bad times I mentioned earlier.  Like Phil Hoppman, Big D’s president, says, “The lower the lows the higher the highs.”  Whoever survives these stressful times is going to prosper when things come back around.  That is no different for any one of us who has survived this economy.  It is not any different for NOMMA as an association.  Things are going to come back around.  They always do.  Like I discussed earlier, being a family, working together and being a team are what we need to focus on right now.

This brings me to my third and final part, which is NOMMA membership.  The board has recently completed a strategic plan review.  We have chosen an aggressive goal and we are building our strategic plan around that goal.  Our focus is on membership.  For those who do not know in order for NOMMA to sustain its self, NOMMA must bring in 12 new members each month or 3 new members per week.  Our growth goal is 5% net annual growth.  To reach this goal, we must annually grow by 20% because we typically lose 15% of our membership through normal attrition.  Now, I ask the question, “How important is membership?”   Membership dues provide the funds that NOMMA needs to support our building code advocacy work and various programs that serve the membership.  Also, large membership gives NOMMA credibility with the code bodies during code hearings.  These are just a couple of reasons why membership is important.

In an effort to increase membership this year, NOMMA telemarketers and Industrial Coverage insurance have helped attract new members.  However, the most effective way to grow membership (and Mark O'Malley can attest to this) is by members sponsoring members.  Since late November, NOMMA has enjoyed a surge in membership.  We have hit monthly membership targets for the last three months.  I know most everyone understands the value of being a member of this association and just like on list serve, I am posting a request for help from each and every one of you tonight.  NOMMA needs more members.  If everyone can give to NOMMA, like NOMMA has given to each and every one of us, together, like a team or like a family, we can make this association grow and succeed again!

2013 NOMMA-NEF Award Winners

The following individuals and companies were presented with awards during NOMMA's annual awards banquet on March 23 in Albuquerque, NM. A congratulations goes to all winners!

2013 ERNEST WIEMANN TOP JOB COMPETITION

Note: Closed categories did not meet the 5-entry minimum.

A. Driveway Gates - Nonforged

1 Ornamental Gate & Fence A4

2 Anderson Welding & Sons LLC  A1

3 Mudge Metalcraft A3

B. Driveway Gates - Forged

1 Art's Work Unlimited B1

2 Fine Architectural Metalsmiths B3

3 Bighorn Forge Inc. B2

C. Interior Railings - Ferrous, Nonforged

1 Wiemann Metalcraft  C3

2 Metal Head Inc. C4

3 Compass Ironworks C6

D. CLOSED - Interior Railings - Nonferrous, Nonforged

E. Interior Railings - Ferrous, Forged

1 Flaherty Iron Works Inc. E2

2 Compass Ironworks E3

3 Heirloom Stair & Iron Inc. E4

F. Exterior Railings & Fences - Nonforged

1 Rod Iron Rod F5

2 Mueller Orn. Iron Works Inc. F4

3 Downtown Ornamental Iron Inc. F2

G. Exterior Railings & Fences - Forged

1 Bighorn Forge Inc. G4

2 Allen Iron Works & Supply Inc. G2

3 Flaherty Iron Works Inc. G1

H. Furniture & Accessory Fabrication - Nonforged

1 Steel Welding H5

2 Metal Head Inc. H1

3 Lightning Forge H3

I. CLOSED - Furniture & Accessory Fabrication - Forged

J. Gates/Doors - Nonforged

1 Boyler's Ornamental Iron Inc. J1

2 M. Cohen & Sons Inc.  J5

3 Big D Metalworks J3

K. Gates/Doors - Forged

1 McLellan Blacksmithing K1

2 Grizzly Iron Inc. K5

3 Disenos Ornamental Iron K2

L. CLOSED - Stairs Complete - Commercial

M. CLOSED - Stairs Complete - Residential

N. Structures

1 Heirloom Stair & Iron Inc. N3

2 Big D Metalworks N4

3 C.T. and  S. Metalworks N2

O. Unusual Ornamental Fabrication

1 C.A.N. Art Handworks Inc. O6

2 Eureka Forge O7

3 Heirloom Stair & Iron Inc. O1

P. Restoration

1 C.A.N. Art Handworks Inc. P2

2 DeAngelis Iron Work Inc. P3

3 Flaherty Iron Works Inc. P5

Q. Art/Sculpture

1 Heirloom Stair & Iron Inc. Q5

2 Lightning Forge Q2

3 Elegant Iron Studios Q1

Mitch Heitler Award for Excellence

Chosen from the gold winners by the Heitler Award Committee

Boyler's Ornamental Iron Inc. J1

SERVICE AWARDS

Frank A. Kozik Award For Outstanding Volunteerism

Todd Kinnikin, Eureka Forge

Julius Blum Award For Outstanding Contributions To the Industry

Tom Zuzik Jr., Artistic Railings Inc.

Clifford H. Brown Award For Outstanding Contributions To Education

Lynn Parquette, Mueller Ornamental Iron Works Inc.

President's Silver Star Award For Outstanding Dedication To Membership

Mark O'Malley,  O'Malley Welding & Fabricating Inc.

2013-2014 NOMMA Board Slate

NOMMA 2013-14 Board of Directors Slate The Nominating Committee, chaired by Immediate Past President James Minter Jr., is pleased to announce the following slate of officers and directors to be presented during the upcoming membership business meeting in Albuquerque, NM. Their office takes effect following the swearing in ceremony at the awards banquet on Saturday, March 23, 2013.    President — JR Molina, Big D Metalworks, Dallas, TX* President-Elect — Mark Koenke, Germantown Iron & Steel Corp, Jackson, WI Vice-President/Treasurer — Allyn Moseley, Heirloom Stair & Iron, Campobello, SC Fabricator Director (3-yr. term) —  Greg Bailey, Bailey Metal Fabricators, Mitchell, SD Fabricator Director (3-yr. term) — Cathy Vequist, Pinpoint Solutions, Jupiter, FL Fabricator Director (2-yr. term) —  Henry Wheeler, Wheeler Ornamental Metals, Dothan, AL** Supplier Director (3-yr. term)  — Dave White, Locinox USA, La Grange Highlands, IL All current Fabricator and Nationwide Supplier members are entitled to one vote per company on items presented to the membership.  Voting takes place during the Opening Session of METALfab 2013, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at 10:15 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM. Current board members continuing for 2013-2014: Fabricator Director — Greg Terrill, Division 5 Metalworks, Kalamazoo, MI Fabricator Director — Keith Majka, Majka Railing Co. Inc., Paterson, NJ Fabricator Director — Tina Tennikait, Superior Fence & Orn. Iron, Cottage Hills, IL Supplier Director — Rick Ralston, Feeney Inc., Eugene OR Supplier Director — Mark Sisson, Mac Metals, Kearney, NJ Immediate Past President — Will Keeler, Keeler Iron Works, Memphis, TN A “thank you” goes to the following retiring board members for their years of outstanding service: Ray Michael, R & F Metals Inc., Clinton, MD is rotating off the board after four years of service. Todd Kinnikin, Eureka Forge, Pacific, MO, is rotating off after three years of service. Gina Pietrocola, D.J.A. Imports Ltd., Bronx, NY, is rotating off after six years of service. *The president-elect automatically advances to president. ** Henry is filling the unexpired term of Allyn Moseley, who is advancing to an officer. A thanks to the Nominating Committee: James Minter Jr., chair; Will Keeler; Gina Pietrocola; Bruce Boyler; Keith Majka; JR Molina; Mark Koenke; and Todd Daniel (nonvoting).