MAREI Members spend millions each year building and running their real estate business. If you have a product or service to offer our members, guests and followers, then you should be a MAREI Business Associate.
Not only do you get full member access to all of our meetings and benefits for you and up to 3 other team members, but you also gain access to promotional opportunities.
(If you are looking for our regular membership without advertising you can Join Here.)
And if you need a pdf to email your boss or your partner click here to download our brochure.
Please take a few minutes to tell us more about you and your company so we can make sure we are a good fit.
Requirements: To ensure quality and alignment with our culture, all sponsors must: Pass a Background Check, Hold an A+ Rating with the BBB, Maintain Strong Google Reviews, and Provide 3 Customer Referrals.
Please allow 72 business hours for us to do our background check and review.
After we approve your membership we will send you an email asking for more info. It will looks something like this:
Many like to make sure they have all the items in place before officially joining.
We are always looking for new ways to partner with our Business Associates. Have an idea? We would love to hear it.
Online Business Directory
Take a minute to explore our business directory and see what others are posting. Every Business Member receives a listing in our Online Business Directory.
Note that we can check several categories for one business. That the listings with in the categories randomly rotate. And Businesses are also randomly shown on the Home Page.
The Newsletter Business Directory
The monthly newsletter includes a business directory.
Every Business Member receives one listing in that directory with Company Name, One Person’s Name, a Phone Number and Website. The website will be clickable.
We email this out to 8,000+, post to social media of 9,000+, and print to handout at the monthly meeting.
Participate at the Monthly Meeting
Our average meeting sees on average about 100 people in attendance plus another 20 business associates. Note those business associates also invest in real estate and will refer you. So take the time to work the room and meet people.
Member Discounts
Do you have a special offering just for members of MAREI. We highly recommend that you do.
Provide us with a flyer about your business and your special offering and we will include in in the Member Library.
Your Pitch
Having all the Business Associates speak every month gets old real fast. People wait to come into the room until you are done. But we invite you to participate in the Deal Room each month at 6:30. Join us in the main meeting room to share your 60 offering, need, special. Stick around and pay attention.
This is one of the best ways to get to know the members.
Online Connection
We have a very well moderated Facebook Group just for the Kansas City Metro Area. There are over 15,000 people in this group at last count.
We host this group for the benefit of all members and the Kansas City Metro Real Estate Community.
Must Have Link
We encourage business members to attend meetings and participate. One way to participate is to host a Vendor Table at the monthly meeting. We presell in packages of 3. You can buy 1 package of 3 or 6 packages of 3, what ever works for you.
Note if you are not a MAREI Business Member, you are not eligible to host a Vendor Table.
Tables at the Trade Show or Mentor Night are Separate
Premeeting slide show
The typical monthly meeting features a power point on continuous loop during networking.
This includes announcements and slides from our Plus and Premium Business Members. You provide the slide.
If you would like to participate and you are not a Plus or Premium Business Member we can set you up for $100. Or if you’d like to change it we have $100 fee.
Once annually on a rotating basis
For our Plus and Premium Business Members.
Once a year we will spotlight your business in the Weekly Briefing email.
The following week we post a feature across social media. (example 1, example 2, and example 3)
Our Basic Business Associates can add this on as $150 package fee.
Get More Eyes
Do you create content, but no one sees it? Post it to the MAREI Blog or Yours (not both).
We help you get it set up, add a graphic, and get advice from Chat GPT for Improvement.
Then we share the article to our social media platforms and email it out in the weekly briefing.
Included for Plus & Premium or add on for $100.
Newsletter Ad
You provide the ad and we include it in the Monthly Newsletter. We offer this one time a year for free for our Plus and Premium Business Members.
Our Basic Business Associates can add this on as $100 package fee. Need help figuring this out, get with the MAREI office.
Newsletter Article
Do you create content, but no one sees it? Share a two page spread in the MAREI Newsletter.
Must be informational, not advetorial.
Included for Plus & Premium or add on for $100.
Affiliate Relationship
As a MAREI Business Associate, you are paying to have your name on the list in the various directories and it’s up to you to market yourself past that. There are opportunties where MAREI could sell your product or service directly on the MAREI website in exchange for an affiliate fee. Lenders quite often fit this model. Or product sales. Your base affiliate fee would be your annual membership to start and get set up on the website as a standard business associate, then we earn together.
Vendor booth
MAREI hosts an annual trade show in July. This is one evening where the entire meeting is all Vendors and all Vendor Booths. The 2025 Trade show boasted 37 vendors and well over 228 people walked in the doors. This is one event where the public is able to have a table, but Business Associates get first right to those tables at a discounted price.
Monthly Meeting
Being a MAREI Business Associate does not assure that you will be a guest speaker, most never speak. With that said, if you are knowledgeable in a particular area that we think would make for a good meeting, and you are a good engaging speaker, we would love to consider you being the speaker for a meeting. Or tap you for your knowledge on a guest panel.
Lunch and Learns
We are working on building the MAREI Educational Library. One tool we have is to record 20 to 45 minute discussions on a specific topic with our business associates. If you have an idea for an educational lunch and learn (not a commerical but education) run it buy us and let’s get it on the calendar.
Included in the Plus & Premium Business Associate Memberships. Add on to basic for $100
MAREI Member Library
MAREI provides it’s digital library to every new member for download. We are actively promoting items as they are created on our website, blog posts, newsletters, and social media. We are seeking stratigic business associates to provide these “courses” to educate our members and to position our associates as the industry and subject experts.
Alternative Events
We would like to add extra events through out the month centered around a discussion of a specific subject matter. These could be in person or virtual sub groups with topics like Rehab, Wholesale, Notes, Self Directing, Apartments . . . or something else. We are seeking host to facilitate the event.