Vendor Discounts
UNA Purchasing Solutions: This is a "group purchasing organization." Among the benefits they offer is FedEx discounts, but also many more that might interest our members, such as office supplies, document destruction, and computer equipment. UNA would set up a web portal that looks like it's our own website, so our members would see that this is a benefit they are giving us. If you want, I'll schedule a time when he can speak to all of us, but in the meantime here's a link to the website: https://unapurchasing.com/leveraging-gpos-to-save-money/verticals-served/associations/
Raster-to-vector services. An IRgA member, CAD/CAM Services, has offered to set up a program where our members can send in scanned drawings through an APDSP-branded portal and have them vectorized. Evidently they have invested a million bucks in developing the systems to do this, and part of their business is reselling the service. They resell it to Contex, for one. So they are offering to establish a program where APDSP members submit files and get them vectorized at some price point lower than retail; they can then charge their clients full price and pocket the profit. He built the portal already for us to look at: http://www.irgar2v.com/
Others – I’m sure we could negotiate discounts with several of our other vendor sponsors, because I think once word gets out that we’ve established a vendor discount program, they won’t want to be left out.