- ASSOCIATION OF PERSONAL HISTORIANS 2016 MEMBERSHIP LEVELS CODE
- ASSOCIATION OF PERSONAL HISTORIANS 2016 MEMBERSHIP LEVELS PROFESSIONAL
I don’t want to sign up for either! However, we’d now spent about 15 minutes talking about me and what I wanted from the organization, so I didn’t want to feel foolish by saying “no thanks, never mind” at this point. She said there was the Elite membership level, which cost $900-something, or the Premium level, which cost $700-something but didn’t have quite so many benefits, so which did I want to sign up for? I thanked her, thinking I’d passed some test or received some honor, and we proceeded with the paperwork process. At the end of the interview she said she was pleased to offer me membership. I answered questions about my work experience, my education, my business, where I see myself in five years, what I hoped to get from the organization, what I was most looking forward to, etc.
Savina seemed friendly, but I could also tell she was reading from a script at points. (Red flag #2 - there was no mention of “oops, I gave you the wrong extension” or “Pamela gave me your message” or anything like that.) I left a message anyway, and Savina called me back an hour or so later. I called back today, and the given extension was Pamela Caldwell’s voice mailbox.
ASSOCIATION OF PERSONAL HISTORIANS 2016 MEMBERSHIP LEVELS CODE
I entered the code from the mailing, filled out a form, and figured I’d check it out at the free level.Ī few days later, I got a phone call from Savina (at a blocked number red flag #1) wanting to interview me before my membership was approved and leaving the number 86, extension 270. The site said that every woman who applies (should have been red flag #0) gets a complimentary basic membership but that there were many membership levels. I thought about it, went and checked out the org’s website, and decided it looked legitimate and possibly useful to me. They’re advertising heavily on LinkedIn, I hear, and targeting new business owners whose bullshit detectors might not be finely tuned yet. (That would include me, I’m sorry to say.) The organization seems reputable but they’ll use flattery and high-pressure tactics to upsell you on anything they can.Ī week or two ago, I got a postcard in the mail offering membership and providing a preapproved membership code.
ASSOCIATION OF PERSONAL HISTORIANS 2016 MEMBERSHIP LEVELS PROFESSIONAL
I come with a word of warning about the National Association of Professional Women.
Which should also be clear from the rest of the post. I also gave out my URL and was promised it’d be linked to my member profile, so in case that actually does get published anywhere, I want to emphasize here that I am not affiliated with the National Association of Professional Women.
This started out as a post to the EFA members’ discussion list, where we’ve recently discussed a couple of scams, but it got a little long so I’m posting it here.