ACEC Professional Membership

Overview of Pro

The "Professional" membership level is unique to the Eastern Canada chapter (ACEC) and is more of a recognition, on both our parts, the value knowing and supporting one another.

We acknowledge the elephant in the room. ACEC does not have the reach or clout to make a measurable difference to your sales, parts, or shop revenue. We can help in other ways.

A Pro membership is a complimentary upgrade from a regular membership for a leader at an organization where both parties are interested in supporting and promoting each other. In the past, we've found there are times an organization can help ACEC in ways we just can't on our own. We find the reverse is often also true.

Concept and Guardrails

• Minimally, we look for opportunities to build awareness of each other in the community and our circles of influence.
• A casual, one-page letter of intent is usually a good idea; it outlines what each of us envisions doing and when. Intent, not commitment - life happens.
• Timeframe is the calendar year. Ideally, we rough something out late October/early November.

ACEC Thoughts for You

• We will seek to "go first". We'll look for/offer things we can do with no/little effort by you. Some examples:
  • Add you to our website as a new sponsor with SEO-positive links, words and such.
  • Feature you in a future regular email blast to the membership and guest followers.
  • Repost some of your social media posts (you can suggest or we can pick)
  • Drop off some ACEC materials for you to have, review and talk about, give out
• Assign an ACEC leader to support your "account"
• If you wish, help organize and attend a casual meet-and-greet, style drop-in with you to introduce you to the membership and us to your customers/staff (maybe you have a regular cars and coffee or annual open house—those could work, too).
• Include your shop as a starting, stop, or destination for one of our cruises (often, parking availability is a limiting factor)
• Be your rep at our tent events, membership, and other orgs
• Regular, casual communications
• Sharing ideas and opportunities with you
• When possible and helpful, introduce you to others we know you may be trying to get through to
• Review mid-fall, the season's lessons learned and return on efforts, and discuss
• We are prevented (by-laws) from giving any organization exclusivity in their industry 
• Mentioning again, we take on all the organization and admin possible: our goal is that there is no new admin you need to take on to work with us

(Your) Organization - Thoughts for You

• Year over year - are there "community-based" automotive events, opportunities, support that you want to do/try that you just never seem to have the bandwidth to do - maybe we can help
• Flags, banners, decal from you je
• Do you have a relationship with a race team or a series that you'd like to have more awareness of
• Wanna do HPDE, women-focused tech, and/or teen driving education
• Wanna participate in a quarterly blog video opportunity - got an ongoing story to tell
• Any particular passion or interest in early Audis up to the late 70' and mods
• Align with or support a particular charity
• Like F1, IMSA, drag rag racing, lapping, golf
• Have some brand visibility at events you are unable to attend
• Give you a discreet way to attend other events you may be considering officially attending/supporting
• Opportunity to tag on to our attendance at events and promote to your customers
• Venue to ask questions of, wrt product/service interest, questions

ACEC - Inevitable Ask

We, through the parent organization ACNA, are a registered-in-the-USA educational, non-profit organization. Membership funds go directly to head office, who make annual transfer payments based on our participation with the club/head office

and its objectives. All good, they are clear, transparent, and fair.

We raise funds to support our event deposits, swag, (minimal) ongoing expenses, and ourselves at events we put on, like the Niagara Cruise, and silent auctions. raffles, and merch. We raise our own funds.

Your financial support and/or in-kind merch/ppoducts to award as prizes, auction, or raffle.