Get the Advantage: Join the SBE 
Help your colleagues get the advantage: have them join the SBE today.
The SBE wants your help in recruiting new members, and you can win rewards for your efforts. Sponsor a new Member, Associate Member or Sustaining Member between March 1 and May 31, 2015, and you will be eligible for the prize drawings. For each approved new member application you sponsor you will earn $5 off your 2016 membership dues, up to $25. Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2015 to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 7, 2015.
New members are welcome throughout the year. Here’s the link to the member application: SBE Membership application
Grand Prize
A trip to the SBE National Meeting held in conjunction with the annual Wisconsin Broadcasters Clinic in Madison, WI, October 13 – 15, 2015. Prize package includes round trip airfare for one from within the continental US to the meeting; all SBE National Meeting and Broadcaster’s Clinic events; and two nights at the host hotel, the Madison Marriott West in Middleton, WI.
Additional Prizes donated by Sustaining Members and our bookstore publishers:
Tascam DR-05 courtesy of BSW (2)
Comrex BRIC-Link II courtesy of Comrex (1)
Logo shirts courtesy of Dielectric (2)
Four Maine lobsters courtesy of Dielectric (1)
Logo shirts courtesy of DVEO (2)
T-shirts courtesy of Heartland Video (2)
Long-sleeve logo shirts courtesy of Heartland Video (3)
Ceramic mugs courtesy of Heartland Video (4)
Pint glasses courtesy of Heartland Video (4)
USB 2GB thumb drives courtesy of Heartland Video (7)
Cell phone standers courtesy of Heartland Video (3)
SBE logo merchandise courtesy of the SBE
Logo shirt courtesy of Tieline (1)
Tieline barbecue set courtesy of Tieline (1)
FM-55 digital audio signal processor courtesy of Wheatstone (1)
Golden Recruiter award
This award recognizes a chapter in each size division with the highest percentage of current SBE members participating in the Member Drive.
Category A and B are based on chaper enrollment, Class A represents chapers whose membership is less than the national median. Class B includes chapters with a membership greater than the national median. Plaques will be awarded during the SBE National Awards Dinner, on October 14, in Middleton, WI.
Membership Drive FAQs
Where do I find new members? Prospective members can be non-members attending chapter meetings, fellow engineers at work or other stations, suppliers or educators.
How do I get credit for new members? Direct prospective members to the SBE website to join online or provide them with a copy of the membership application and ask him/her to fill in your name on the line “Sponsor’s Name/Who introduced you to SBE”. Once the new member’s membership application has been approved, your name will be placed in the prize drawing, which takes place in June 2015.
Official Rules: Only members of the SBE in good standing (national dues paid) are eligible. All applications are subject to approval by the admissions committee per the SBE By-laws. Only sponsorships of new applications for Member, Associate Member and Sustaining Members are eligible for the prize drawings. Each approved application will earn $5 off the recruiter’s 2016 membership dues, up to $25. Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2015 to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 7, 2015. Winners will be notified by mail. Grand prize winner may choose $500 cash in lieu of the trip package. There are no other prize substitutions. Winners are responsible for any taxes on prizes. Employees of the SBE and their family members are not eligible to win. Contest void where prohibited. Entrants agree that their name and likeness may be used by the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Inc. for promotional purposes.
