Association of Printing and Data Solutions Professionals
Value Proposition and Bundle of Benefits
The tagline of the Association of Printing and Data Solutions Professionals is “Success Through Knowledge and Networking,” and we make that tagline a reality by helping our members run their businesses more profitably. We provide benefits to our members in four categories: Education, Marketing, Networking, and Vendor Discounts.
Education
Knowledge Sessions: A series of quarterly webinars covering topics unique to companies providing services to the AEC industry. This distinguishes our offerings from educational opportunities presented by other organizations. Among the categories of topics we could potentially cover are management of AEC documentation (from narrow issues such as the characteristics of a particular new piece of software to broad issues such as the complete management of the documentation of a construction project, from initiation to close-out); business management issues (such as how to run an FM, how to find knowledgeable staff, how to identify new client opportunities, how to make a sales call, how to run your accounts receivable so it meshes with standards of the AEC community, etc.); trends in the AEC community and how they will affect reprographics; and how to market to the AEC community (including sessions on social media AEC people use, what types of promotions they respond to, trade shows they attend, organizations they belong to, etc.).
CDT certification: CDT stands for Construction Documents Technology, and it's a certification available through the Construction Specifications Institute that shows that a person is knowledgeable about construction document management. The Institute is open to a discount offered to APDSP members.