As its name implies, Team National is a nationwide company with hundreds of thousands of members, which gives it enormous leverage when getting discounts on products from major retailers. A membership with Team National means you can take advantage of group buying power and save money by buying from thousands of participating businesses or though its online store.

Not only can you save money through the Team National membership, you can build a business by selling memberships and helping others enjoy the savings offered through this opportunity. And because you’re not selling products, you don’t have to store or ship anything.

Instead, as an Independent Marketing Director, you offer memberships to individuals and small businesses so they can enjoy factory-direct pricing on products they would be buying anyway. That compares nicely with home-based business opportunities where direct sellers often end up with a garage full of items they can’t sell or don’t want.

Team National has been in business for over ten years, and in 2009 had total sales of $181 million. The company is a member of the Direct Selling Association, which requires it to abide by a strict code of ethics and high standards. It has been ranked among the “Top 100 Global Direct-Selling Companies” by Direct Selling News. And it’s a registered member of Dun & Bradstreet as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Although its opportunity to become an Independent Marketing Director and build a home-based business may not be for everyone, the chance to save money on thousands of products is an offer that should appeal to most savvy shoppers.

For more information about Team National memberships, or to learn about its unique business opportunity, visit www.bign.com.

Bench Craft provides golf courses with a variety of products used on golf courses. The courses get the products at no cost, because they are sponsored by local businesses, which get their ads placed on the products.

Bench Craft Company’s signature product is the heavy-duty cedar or redwood bench, which they put beside each tee-off location on the course. Each bench has a sign with the hole number, par, yardage, and handicap — the kind of information every golfer refers to before playing the hole. Next to that is a large, full-colored ad featuring a local business, which is impossible to miss for anyone reviewing the course information on the bench.

Bench Craft also offers tee signs, golf ball washers, display boards, course guides and scorecards — all at no cost to the golf course and all funded by advertising from local businesses. As the players take advantage of relaxing on the bench, using the ball washer, reviewing the information on the display boards and course guides, or updating their scorecards, they also see the ads placed on each of these products.

It’s a win-win program. The golf courses get these products at no expense, which saves them money and lets them serve their players better. Businesses get a cost-effective way to reach an educated, affluent market.

Bench Craft provides its products to more than 1,400 golf courses in the U.S. and is now the largest provider of custom-designed golf tee signs and benches in the country. And with about 16,000 golf courses nationwide, there’s plenty of room for expansion, and plenty of opportunity for local businesses to use Bench Craft’s unique model for advertising to golfers.

For more information: www.benchcraftcompany.com