The encyclopedia of associations is a great reference. It contains national organizations of the U. S. It is a guide to more than 24,000 national and international organizations. It contains organizations related to labor unions, technology, religion, athletics and sports, education, social welfare, chambers of commerce and more.

This guide is found in the reference section of your public library. You can also view it online but there is a fee to use in on the internet. You can find comprehensive information on organizations for research or business purposes. If you need research material on child welfare you can look up the association Action for Child Protection.

You can use this guide to contact the association Action for Child Protection. Their headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina according to their listing in this guide. The encyclopedia also lists their email address. It also lists the year this association was founded and the size of their staff. Also it lists their annual budget.

The guide then provides a description of the association. This association helps to improve the child welfare system. You might be selling a product related to cats or cat owners. You can use this association guide to promote your product. You can find information on the international cat association. It is located in Harlington, Texas.

This association was founded in 1979. It has 3. 500 members with a staff size of ten. According to the description the association is interested in the general sharing of information of the cat as a family pet. This association assists with the judging in contests. It also keeps cat registries. So if you have a service of product to help the association in their purpose you may be able to establish contacts to assist in your product or service promotion.

One company planned to use this associations guide to help sell their tax savings seminars. The company planned to have three day seminars with tax and legal experts giving lessons on how business owners and professionals can save money on their taxes. The association guide is perfect to develop leads because instead of finding one business at a time you can go to the association which might have thousands of business owners.

You can do this with your business using this guide. You need to find the decision maker in the association and present your product or service. Once you sell that person you can seek permission to give the message to a group of their association members. Instead of having to go from one business to the next you might be able to give your sales pitch to a large group.

If you have an internet based product or course you can arrange for the association to send an email to their association members announcing your course or product. As in any sales call you will need to get to the decision maker. You might also hit some road blocks. But that is what sales is all about. There plenty of associations that might be interested in your product or service so do not get discouraged if some of them do not seem interested. Go on to the next.