Car Buying Discounts for ArCHmembers is about how ArCHmembers can obtain just about the lowest prices for new vehicles in the eastern USA. Just one more benefit of being an ArCHmember.

This doesn’t require you to go through any complicated procedures.  You can directly hook up with the what is likely the least expensive auto dealer in the eastern USA, obtained as a result of focused research by ArCHmembers during recent car-buying experiences.

See the ArCHintro page for new ArCHmembers to see where to buy your vehicle for the best deal possible (so far in the eastern USA).

The ArCHdes yearly design awards program is almost ready to launch.  As a matter of fact, many aspects of it are already in place.  Check out these locations for detailed information:

1. ArCHdes Design Excellence Selection awards program page

2.  ArCHdes Design Award Entry Fee product page

3.  This post on the ArCHblog.

After years of discussion and several evolutions of the ArCHdes focus group committee, finally the ArCHdes program has established its first Awards event:

All entries are due by March 9, 2016 3PM.

Oh no!  How to get all those materials printed and FedExed to the jury hotel conference suite?   NOT.
This is the world’s first all-electronic architectural design awards program.  No driving, no printing, no hotels, no “boss” chairman of the jury wielding too much weight in the selection of worthy projects.  And no high costs to enter.  The purpose is to celebrate deserving Architects and their noteworthy projects.  And along the way, perhaps obtain several hundred additional ArCHmembers, as you must be an ArCHmember to enter the awards program.

Please see the above links for more information.  This is an exciting time for ArCH!

New ArCH video is now running on the ArCHwebsite:

VALUE OF A LICENSED RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT

About time.  ArCH created this video because it didn’t exist anywhere else on the planet until now: a high-quality video, dedicated specifically to helping licensed Architects who design houses explain to their potential Clients just exactly what the values are that come with Architects designing homes.

See this new information-packed video here:

The creation of public information videos like this is just one of the many ways ArCH helps their membership along with Architects of homes everywhere to be more successful and to help the world understand what they do and why.

All Architects are hereby licensed by ArCH to post this video on their websites, using it in its complete length, and unaltered.  Show your potential Clients why they should be hiring you to design their residential project.  If a picture’s worth a thousand words, a movie is worth a million.

Marketing Architects: we all try to market what we do, but few of us have any defined “system” that helps us in that regard.

ArCH recently launched ArMS™ (Architects Marketing Services), a professional marketing system for Architects.

ArMS™ is now an ArCHproduct, available for purchase here: ArCH-ArMS™

Presently, ArMS™ is composed of not one, but 3 subsystems, working together like pistons in a powerful engine.

The first subsystem: ArCH-ArMS: INTRO™, which includes a detailed process diagram with substantial guide notes, leading the Architect through the steps of offering an INTROductory modest service, and illustrating how this can lead to Closing The Deal for  full-service architectural project.

The second subsystem: ArCH-ArMS: MarCCon™ (Marketing Client Contacts), tracks potential Client communications, alerting you to when you, as the Architect being considered, needs to make a future contact and the nature of that communication.  Includes multiple single-potential Client contact record spreadsheets, all linked to a Master List, that automatically loads critical contact dates from the individual contact sheets.

The third subsystem: ArCH-ArMS: PCY™ (PeopleCallYou), is a checklist process the guides the marketing Architect to develop features for themselves and their company that results in improving the likelihood that People Contact You. This miracle happens for the ArCHmembers that have employed these methods.  And this is where every marketing Architect wants to be: people calling you, rather than you making cold calls.

If you are a marketing Architect (which is the position of every Architect looking or hoping to obtain future work), you may want to further investigate the ArCH-ArMS™ system.  Real world methods and systems that work for real Architects, on the ground, who have obtained and who are receiving new Clients through these methods.  These are not “hoped-for” procedures dreamed of by marketing people, but rather, known techniques from successful Architects who use these systems to get new work.

ArCH is now a global organization.  On 9-9-2015, between 8:30PM and 9:30PM the ArCHglobal proposition was discussed, proposed, voted upon and approved by the ArCH ExComm in attendance: Don Duffy, ArCH, Bennett Sabatier, ArCH, Rodney Kazenske, ArCH, and Rand Soellner, ArCH, each representing various geographic regions around the United States.

What this means:
ArCHmembership is still limited to Licensed Architects only.  However, now those Licensed Architects may be from any country on the planet, not only from the USA.  This means that previously, there were around 107,000 Licensed Architect that could have joined ArCH from the USA.  Now, there are approximately a million Licensed Architects throughout the world that can join, if they wish to do so.

This is a huge step forward for ArCH.  It now has the capacity to become part of a global population of Architects about ten times the size of its prior USA limited membership. Please join ArCH in celebrating this giant step forward into the mid- 21st Century.

On September 9, 2015, the ArCH ExComm (Executive Committee) will be discussing and voting on the ArCHglobal proposition.  Quite simply, this approval will result in the ArCH American organization becoming International and available for membership by Licensed Architects anywhere in the world.

The event that led to this happening was when Pedro Rocha, an Architect in Portugal contacted ArCH about being able to download one of the ArCHpress books: Architectural Residential Specifications from the ArCHwebsite.

He wanted to be honest about his address, but there was no way for anyone outside of the USA to input their legitimate address.  Pedro is obviously a very honest guy.  Therefore, Rand Soellner, ArCH started thinking about why ArCH had to be exclusively American.  Perhaps remain American-based, sure, but why not open membership to other Architects around the world?  Especially those who focus on residential architecture?

After having several conversations with other ArCHmembers, there was, by and large, an enthusiastic response from ArCH.  The ArCH ExComm reviewed with legal counsel regarding global issues and soon realized that nothing really prevents membership from being global.  This appears to be something that is very likely going to happen, after due discussion and deliberations.  We will soon see.

ArCH is presently available to about 105,000 licensed Architects in the USA.  It is estimated that there are perhaps 1,000,000 (one million) Architects worldwide at the present time.  In other words, ArCH will have 10 times its present potential membership when it decides to accept international members.

The ArCHbookstore just opened!  Its first title, written for the ArCHpress is:

Specifications for Residential Architecture.

Oooo.  Sounds like a real page-turner, doesn’t it?  Sure to give Nelson DeMille a run for his money.  Seriously, this title, written for ArCH, focuses on the reasons why all Architects: Commercial and Residential should be including specifications in their project Construction Documents.

Click on the book cover to go to the product page.

This 45-page e-book is a FREE download.