The 4-Month ARS Trial Membership Programs
The Free 4-Month Trial Membership -
All NEW members of your Rose Society are eligible for a FREE ARS 4-Month Trial membership. This offer is at no cost to your society or the new members. This is a wonderful offer that adds value to your membership without increasing the cost of membership dues.
All you have to do is send the name, address, telephone number and e-mail address for each new member to Laura Pfender,laura@ars-hq.org . If you have this information in excel format, that would be great. If not, just send it in an e-mail. This offer is for new members who are not already ARS members, but you do not have to determine if the member was or is an ARS member. Laura will tell you if they are not eligible.
A recent analysis of local society membership clearly shows that the societies that are growing are the ones taking advantage of the 4-Month Trial Membership Programs. So don’t miss out on this!!! Send in your new members today. All 2010 members are also eligible!!!
The $5.00 4-Month Trial Membership – is available for existing local society, non-ARS members. The $5.00 fee offsets processing and mailing costs. ARS does not make money on this offer. For this small fee any local society member who is not already an ARS member can try ARS out and hopefully like ARS enough to renew at the full membership rate when the trial membership expires.
In addition: All local societies may also extend this $5.00 4-month trial membership to any Non-ARS member attending a rose or garden event that they are hosting. This is a special offer to Local Societies. The general public, (Non-ARS members) will be offered the 4-month trial membership for a fee of $10 and this offer is now posted on the ARS website. Applications are available on the website or from Laura Pfender.
Four-Month Trial Members receive:
- . The only magazine devoted exclusively to roses and rose culture, these bi-monthly, full color, 84-page issues feature informative articles and beautiful color photography for beginners and experienced rose growers alike. View a free issue online at www.ars.org.
- . Previously available by subscription only, the Mini/Mini-Flora Bulletin, Old Garden Rose & Shrub Gazette, Rose Arrangers’ Bulletin, and Rose Exhibitors’ Forum are all now available online, www.ars.org, for free to all ARS members, with the members’ password. The members’ password is listed on page 5 of each issue of American Rose Magazine.
- . With the Reciprocal Garden Admission program, your ARS membership card is your ticket to free or reduced admission to over 200 Botanical gardens, conservatories, and arboreta nationwide.
- The ARS Member Benefit Partner Program offers discounts at 14 merchants with new partners being added continuously.
- The ARS Consulting Rosarians program connects members with expert rosarians that provide free assistance with your rose questions.
