Registration for NASMM 2020 is now OPEN!
Get your groove on and register for NASMM 2020! Take advantage of our value rates through September 16 and qualify to win prizes! The earlier you register the more valuable the prizes! Register by Friday, August 23 and you'll be eligible to win one of three (3) full conference registrations! Additionally, once you register, you'll be able to access the NASMM Hotel Block at the Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel — the site of NASMM 2020!

Save on your registration and win prizes! Click here to register!

Applications for the Barry Izsak~Peg Guild Professional Scholarship Now Being Accepted
The Barry Izsak ~ Peg Guild Professional Development Scholarship was established in 2013 to help NASMM members who might otherwise not be able to attend the NASMM Annual Conference for financial or other extenuating circumstances.

• Every year, the NASMM Board will select two (2) scholarship recipients who will receive a complimentary conference registration for the following year.
• To learn about the criteria for applying for the scholarship click here. Applications are due by Tuesday, September 3, 2019.
• Click here to read more about the development of the Barry Izsak~Peg Guild scholarship fund.

Have You Updated Your Profile on the NASMM Community?
NASMM's outdated e-Lists have been retired and replaced with our new NASMM Community Forum. The Forum is an exciting new technology platform designed to provide you with more user-friendly options to provide efficient communication with your NASMM colleagues.

How the NASMM Community Forum benefits you:

• Single sign-on by simply logging into your "MyNASMM" account
• Add a photo and a brief bio to let other NASMM members get to know you
• Control which lists you choose to subscribe
• Control the frequency of the posts you receive — as they happen, hourly, daily etc.
• Easily search for new activity by filtering to see just what's new, including new replies to topics since you last viewed them
• Quickly search new activity across all lists
• Search past posts by topic and/or keyword

To access the NASMM Community Forum, visit community.nasmm.org!

NASMM Offers New Membership Benefit Program — Over 1100 Professional and Consumer/Family Discounts now available!
Through NASMM's new Membership Savings program, NASMM now offers you significant savings on consumer products and services in addition to Business Savings. National Suppliers include Hewlett Packard, FEDEX, Office Depot, Sherwin Williams, Exxon / Mobil, Sunbelt Rentals, Unifirst Uniforms and over 25 additional suppliers. In addition — MSP offers over 1,100 consumer savings programs with travel, insurance, home office through the largest and most successful employee discount marketplace in the U.S. This marketplace also has offers in Canada, U.K., Mexico and India. As a NASMM member you instantly have access to the buying power of the collective group which represents tens of thousands of employees and millions of dollars in spending clout.

To sign up, visit the "Business Solutions" page in your "MyNASMM" account and begin saving now!

Richmond-Based Moving Services Firm WayForth Acquires Maryland-Based Move Management Company
WayForth, a Richmond-based company that helps people manage moving with such services as decluttering and packing, is expanding again with its fifth acquisition in a year. The company said Thursday that it has acquired Let's Move, a provider of professional move management services in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., areas.
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Column: Nobody Wants My Mother's Four-Poster Bed. Should I Take It?
It was a high bed, with a mahogany-colored headboard, surrounded by four tall posts, and it stayed in my grandfather's house for years after my mother married and moved out. In my memory, it's giant, though most things that seem giant to a child turn out to be smaller, so I suspected my memory was exaggerating.
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Meet the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs. They're All Over 65.
People knock you out of the way on the street, he says. They attend to the younger guy standing next to you first. Then the job interviews — he's getting revved up now — when the recruiters ask your age. "Completely illegal question!"
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Aging in Place: Loneliness Often Goes the Way of Cleanliness
Hygiene issues often go hand-in-hand with loneliness for older adults. They can materialize in the form of a scent, excessive food stains or the same old clothes being worn over and over again. But what happens if nobody's there to notice that things are amiss?
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How to Capture the Attention of Baby Boomers
The primary purpose of marketing and sales is about getting information into people's brains and persuading their minds to act. The older we become, the more emotional reactions determine if we should think about a matter. Emotional triggers in the brain activate memories, and the stronger the memory — the stronger the emotional response.
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Drug Tests and Background Checks are Becoming Less Important to Employers. Here's Why.
It's brutal out there for employers looking to hire. "America has a talent crunch," said Steven Lindner, CEO of The WorkPlace Group. "This one, unlike past ones, is across all age groups. We also see it across all industries."
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