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MBFAA MEMBERS ONLY
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JANUARY 2007
Consumers can do an on line search to find member companies who do business in their area and provide the services they are seeking. Check out http://www.mbfaa.com/search.htm. These listings are FREE TO MBFAA MEMBERS in good standing! In addition MBFAA will allow each member
company a FREE WEB PAGE on the MBFAA web site if you don’t have your
own page somewhere else. (Restrictions apply as to size and technology, so
please ask first! Keep it simple. This is new to me.) EVEN IF YOU ARE ALREADY A MEMBER, PLEASE RE-ENTER YOUR INFORMATION.
PLEASE DO A SAMPLE SEARCH BY CLICKING THE “SEARCH COMPANIES” BUTTON TO GET AN IDEA AS TO WHAT IS DISPLAYED. If you check off the boxes for any business or service you provide that requires a NYS license, YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR NYS LICENSE NUMBER, otherwise you will not be included in the consumer search for those businesses or services requiring a license. Example: If you install burglar alarms and need a license and install telephone systems and don’t need a license, you will be listed ONLY for telephone systems. (You don’t have a license, shame on you! (Talk to me about taking the 60-hour state approved license course.))
Consumers search for AREA and SERVICE. Results are listed
alphabetically. Please be fair. If your company is in Manhattan and you do
business only in the five boughs and DON’T go to Suffolk County, don’t click
the box for Suffolk County! If you are NOT a licensed NYS Watch Guard or
Patrol Agency or Private Investigator do not check off the box “Guard
Company.”
The Metropolitan Burglar and Fire Alarm Association of New York, Inc. is one of this nation’s oldest associations of low voltage professionals who install burglar and fire alarm, CCTV, access controls, telephone systems, structured wiring, home automation systems, and audio visual systems. Many of our founding members can trace back their history to the very beginnings of the electronic protection industry. We are the largest independent alarm association in New York State and the oldest and largest alarm association on Long Island. The Association's mission is to support and promote the low voltage security industry and life safety providers in the Metropolitan New York and Long Island Areas, and to assist security and life safety providers with their mission to protect the public from criminal threats and life safety issues. To accomplish our mission we provide training, governmental interface, and networking services for security professionals. Membership is open to professional security system dealers and installers, locksmiths, system integrators, service providers, central monitoring stations, and related equipment manufacturers and distributors. We are your LOCAL association run by and for security dealers and industry members. The MBFAA has stood behind security dealers since the very inception of the modern electronic security industry. The MBFAA endeavors to promote public safety, reduce false alarms, provide liaison to police and fire departments, and to advocate public policy so as to provide a stable business climate for our members. We provide training to enable our members to complete the New York State licensing requirements administered by the Department of State. We provide ongoing training involving various topics in the areas of: technical, financial and sales. We maintain an extensive website www.mbfaa.com for both our members and the general public. For our members, the site provides helpful information on technical and business matters and association business. For the general public, the site provides information on security in general and encourages consumers to purchase security systems from MBFAA members who are licensed dealers. We provide a free web site business listing and a free web page, for our licensed members, and a cross listing for help wanted and services rendered. This is where you can advertise for help wanted and sub-contractors can advertise for the kind of work they do. We encourage dealer networking both on our web site and at our meetings. We routinely provide critical information on important issues such as state licensing, permits, regulations, Fire Department issues, Police Department issues, such as the possibility of “NO RESPONSE,” false alarm reduction techniques and technology. I don't think anyone who attended our meetings would disagree with this statement. Meetings addressed: VoIP and communicating with the central station, IP Video, GSM wireless central station communications, false alarm reduction. Future meetings will include other "hot" technical topics as well as sales and collection topics. Members receive our bi-monthly publication Security Line magazine. Over the years we have represented the alarm industry to local and state governments, many times behind the scenes, many times with media coverage. If the MBFAA wasn't there, the security alarm industry would be a whole lot different than it is today. We are constantly seeking out discounted business services for our members like insurance discounts and individual and small business health and medical benefits, lawyer’s consulting, legal advice, and contracts, etc. Now is the time to make a $299.95 investment in your future and your business's future. To become a new member or re-up as an existing member is a return on investment (ROI) of phenomenal proportions. Read your Security Line magazine. Utilize your MBFAA web site. Come to your MBFAA meetings, network with your MBFAA peers. Parlay your $299.95 investment into thousands of tangible and intangible dollars. We invite you to join or renew your
membership in the MBFAA. "BE A PART OF IT" the MBFAA your LOCAL alarm association. Sincerely, Alan Glasser, Executive Director And another GOOD reason...you get answers to your questions: To: |
