Start an IBA
The following steps will get you on your way!
1. Order our portfolio -- $20
Our portfolio provides a snapshot of what an IBA can do for a community and its locally-owned businesses. Use it to explore the IBA model for yours more closely -- it makes showing others and probing for local interest convenient and easy!
- Many sample materials from active IBAs, including logos, a local business directory, cup design, window decals, bumper stickers, and image and issue ads
- Examples of articles we've placed in prominent national media and that others have written about AMIBA.
- Examples of ways IBAs use the media
- Information on AMIBA workshops and presentations to catalyze action locally
- AMIBA's Recommended Resources list
- Information on policy strategies employed by other communities and policy resources
- More!
Price includes shipping and handling.
Send your check or money order payable to:
AMIBA, 222 S. Black Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715
Or order with your credit card online via PayPal:
2. Determine Local Interest
Contact us to see if we have received other interest from your community. Several IBAs have launched from the interest of citizens in a given community who didn't know each other previously -- we just shared their contact information with each other.
Show your information portfolio to others you think should know about an IBA and might want to be part of it -- particularly those who are good candidates for an initial steering committee. You want support and organizing help from the outset. Visit folks individually or convene prospects at an informal gathering or in a more formal meeting. Remember: IBAs are comprised of local business owners, citizens and community organizations -- include them in your initial recruitment efforts!
Consider bringing us in to help your effort with a presentation -- your effort gains importance and credibility when your audience recognizes a movement is afoot. Our IBA affiliates get a 50% discount on our presentations; *any IBA that launches through AMIBA affiliation within 90 days following a presentation receives that same 50% as a credit toward their affiliation fee.
*Does not apply to existing organizations -- contact us for special pricing.
3. Affiliate with AMIBA
Once you decide to start an IBA in your community, affiliate with AMIBA and gain
important advantages -- find out why. Contact us to let us know (we'll probably have communicated by now anyway)! Just complete an application (also available in our
information portfolio), affiliation agreement (we'll send this to you once we know you are joining), and send them to AMIBA
with your affiliation fee (see our benefits for for information on
what you receive).
The name Independent Business Alliance is a service mark of
the American Independent Business Alliance.
Affiliation includes license to use the name.
Once we receive your application, we immediately send you your start-up kit to get you on your way!