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AHRN, or Army Housing Referral Network, is a new website that caters to military personnel in search of apartments. It’s a free service, and it’s easy to sign up, but third-party providers beware: I attempted to sign up for a Fort in the Midwest and was told I needed to have an actual physical address in order to participate in the website. I passed my contact info along to the project manager and asked to be contacted when the website reached a stage of further development. So unless you carry long-term leases in the area you want to list in, you’re going to get kicked off of the site.

In a previous blog, I discussed upcoming trade show conferences. I chose to list the obvious ones you may want to attend (SHRM, NBTA, Worldwide ERC, and CHPA). But it doesn’t hurt to reach out to your target market and attend their trade shows as well. For example, if you attend the Travel Medical Professionals Conference in Las Vegas from September 21st-23rd, you may be the only provider with a booth there. The website allconferences.com offers a comprehensive list of conferences across the country, organized by trade.

I keep taking leads from the cast of the touring show Wicked. It’s one of my favorite shows, and I’m pretty excited about the prospect of working with them. It started when one of administrators called.“I just want to be able to cook my own meal,” he said mournfully. (more…)