Do you have presentations lined up this fall to prospective contractor clients, project owners, or other construction project stakeholders? Consider using one of the presentation templates in the NASBP Producer Communication Toolkit 2.0—either in whole or borrow slides to add to your existing decks—to refresh the way you talk about the value of surety bonding.

Your Path to Surety Credit: How Surety Bonds Will Help Grow Your Construction Business
This PowerPoint presentation is geared towards small and emerging contractors and contractors new to surety bonding. This slide template is divided into four parts—Bonding Basics, Process of Obtaining a Bond (with a subsection on Contractor Financial Statements), The Role of Each Party, and Additional Items. The slide deck incorporates information and videos from the NASBP & SFAA Contractor Bonding Education and Mentoring Program, using resources and language that were created by surety professionals. It also uses information from the NASBP Bonding Awareness Toolkit, another well-honed set of materials to help producers conduct a half-day bonding awareness seminar.

Understanding the Basics of Contract Surety Bonding
This slide presentation offers an introduction to contract surety for contractors. defining terminology, discussing the general indemnity agreement and prequalification, and giving examples of who requires surety bonds. This template is useful for presentations to small and emerging contractors, students, and others that can benefit from an overview of surety.

The Value of Professional Surety Bond Producers
Highlight the role of a surety bond producer using this slide deck. It shares characteristics to look for in a producer, keys to a successful relationship between contractor and bond producer, and how to find a bond producer. This template is best used in presentations to small and emerging contractors and others who can benefit from an overview on the role of the surety bond producer.

The Benefits of Surety Bonds to Lenders
This slideshow is great resource for presentations to lenders, or to borrow wording from for discussions. The slides convey that the requiring surety bonds on bank-financed construction projects will help ensure a successful project that will enhance their reputation in the community while protecting their investment.

Bonus: Stakeholder Talking Points
Describing the surety process and the value of surety bonds is vital to the working relationship with project stakeholders. The talking points section of the Toolkit 2.0 PDF offers a look into the mindset of the project owner, lender, architect, and contractor, giving insight to their needs and goals. It also offers targeted ways to talk about surety for each stakeholder. Use these points for discussions, presentations, and tailored follow-up emails with project stakeholders.

These are just some of the valuable, free tools NASBP bond producers will find in the NASBP Producer Communications Toolkit 2.0 to help them promote the surety product to construction project stakeholders, including project owners, lenders, architects, and contractors.

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