Business-Category-Exclusivity

Purpose: To ensure members who offer products/services that are a primary part of their offerings have the opportunity to be the exclusive member in a chapter to talk about that product/service.

Scope: To be applied to all members.

Responsible Persons: Chapter President to enforce; members to follow the policy.

Policy: Members who offer a product/service that is their primary offering(s) contributing to the majority of their income can hold business-category-exclusivity in one business category. The business category prospective member wishes to occupy must be representative of their primary business function(s).

Two different businesses could both offer the same product/service, but if it is not their primary source of income in their business, then they would not be allowed business-category-exclusivity for those products/services that are not their primary source of income.

Additionally, an agent of a company must be the person representing the business category for which they seek exclusivity.

• A personal lines property/casualty insurance agent works for an agency that can also sell commercial lines property/casualty, but she herself does not sell the commercial lines, then she cannot have business-category-exclusivity for commercial lines; she could only have business-category-exclusivity for personal lines.

When overlap exists between an existing member and an applicant, the final decision is made by the Founder of SHE Leads Group whether or not to allow the applicant into the chapter. When too much overlap between various businesses exists, it causes confusion with membership to know who to refer to.

Sometimes an individual may have two different businesses that are unrelated to each other. A chapter membership is for one business only. To have two separate businesses and occupy two unrelated business categories, the individual would have to pay for a membership for both businesses. The only discount would be there would be only one registration fee.