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Another snowy morning, and I’ve been awaken by the sound of street plows, personal plows and men outside shoveling icy and snow covered walkways and driveways. Been up since what..? 3:30 and it’s now, almost 6:30 am? I’m not so much annoyed by the noise as I am thinking about my increasing light bill. It’s high alright, almost $2,300 and in 3 months, it’s going to have to be paid–in FULL! I don’t know WHERE I’m going to get that money from, if I don’t get more people aware of and interested in buying a motor club membership. Motor club membership you say? Yes, Motor Club of America roadside service and personal emergency membership. I got it back in August of 2012. My youngest daughter, who was still in high school prompted me to get it because, knowing I already had a roadside service, when comparing both, M.C.A or Motor Club of America hands down, offered more.
In the year and a half that I’ve had them though, convincing other people to either take or consider taking the plunge, hasn’t been so easy. It’s frustratingly annoying to hear folks complain about the $19.95 a month fee in comparison to their $100 a year BASIC roadside service membership. They don’t seem to care that mine offers more and that they can add some of our offerings to their own membership through their club–but that also changes the pricing–higher than ours.
People it seems want more services for less dollars. Never mind the fact that with M.C.A, they offer one very important thing that no other motor club around offers–Referral Reward Dollars! What is that, you ask? It’s commissions for referring any new member to our club! As a struggling single mom, that made a huge difference in my perspective of joining or not. Just doesn’t seem to be the same to others. I don’t get it. If a club will pay you for “word of mouth” service, wouldn’t you utilize all your options?
Another important factor to me, is that that very same referral rewards offering can not only help the member who chooses to sign up, but, if the person they bought their membership from is homeless and or financially struggling? They’ve just done double duty my friend! They’ve helped them get closer to and reach their goal of self sufficiency. They’ve bought something for themselves…that helped someone else! Hey, many organizations do it. They count on people buying a product (Girl Scout Cookies, anyone?) that does double duty; you bought something for yourself, that helped them out. What’s wrong with buying a motor club membership, even adding it to your portfolio–if you can help houseĀ someone? It is a great way to Pay-It-Forward, don’t you think?
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