PPA membership give you access to a variety of services and programs that help your business succeed and grow. And you can get some pretty great deals on them, too!
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Precision Camera Services Repair Program
Your camera is a vital part of your business—you can't take photographs without it! So what do you do when it goes "kaput" or something gets scratched that you can't handle yourself? Now, PPA members can take advantage of a special Precision Camera program, a PPA Premier Services Repair Program for professional photographers.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Sometimes checks bounce…and when they do, you don’t want to either lose the money you’re owed or completely ruin a client relationship trying to recover the payment. Here’s a solution…with a discount! BounceBack Electronic Check Recovery is the nation’s leading electronic check recovery service, offering PPA members complete recovery solutions at discounted rates. Cash Flow Solutions’ BounceBack program can result in high recovery results while protecting your valuable customer relationships.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
PPA members get exclusive discounts on Collages.net's prints, albums, press printed books, and total workflow solutions.
Since 1999, Collages.net has been working with professional photographers to provide a one-stop shop for every studio's product and workflow needs. Collages.net has built its business on a foundation of outstanding customer service, high quality products, competitive pricing, and cutting edge technology. Today, Collages.net is partnered with over 10,000 professional photographers and is the premier online posting, printing, album, press printed product, and marketing service in the industry.
Collages.net enables professional photographers to offer their clients an extensive, modern product line including for online presentation and purchasing and best-in-class including metallic prints, Italian leather albums, press printed books in over 25 colors, and hand-sewn books.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
The 2011 Coupon Book provides PPA members with exclusive discounts and promotions from our top Corporate Members. These are unique incentives for PPA members only.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
People are more likely to make bigger purchases if they know they can put them on a credit card … so accepting credit card payments from your clients make’s good business sense. Using PPA’s discounted credit card processing services through Midwest Transaction Group makes even better sense.
Midwest Transaction Group offers:
Midwest Transaction Group (MTG) is the photography industry’s leading provider of credit card processing services. They are certified to represent Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express and are capable of processing them in dial-up, wireless or Internet environment. MTG is PCI compliant, a registered ISO/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank and a member in good standing in the national Electronic Transactions Association.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Looking for a way to show your support of PPA(and get a great credit card in the bargain)? The PPA Visa® Platinum Rewards card not only gives you that opportunity, but also it also allows you to customize your card and feature an image of your own!
As a cardholder, you have powerful benefits. The Visa Platinum Rewards card offers zero liability protection, emergency assistance services, online banking, auto rental and travel accident insurance, and more! Plus, you can earn points at hundreds of participating online retailers redeemable for name-brand merchandise, event tickets, gift cards and travel rewards options.
Members, see how to use this benefit here.
DriveSavers Data Recovery is the fastest, most reliable and only secure data recovery service in the world. If you're not backed up, losing data can be a nightmare. Use your PPA benefit for discounts on professional data recovery from DriveSavers. PPA members receive the following benefits from DriveSavers:
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
DIGINEG® is a milestone in digital image preservation. This unique service uses high-tech film recorders to transfer digitally acquired or digitally born still image or video material to archival-quality 35-mm film. While digital media can degrade in as little as a few years, DIGINEG® can safely preserve your images or data on film for hundreds of years. PPA Members receive an exclusive discount for DIGINEG® PRO services.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Digital watermarking is an important aspect of protecting your images. Through the Digimarc for Images solution, you are able to communicate your ownership and copyright information to whomever may come across your images on the Internet. These digital watermarks are undetectable and persist through copying, format changes and image manipulations.
Depending on your needs, Digimarc offers PPA members a discount on three different Digimarc for Images editions:
Members, find out how to use this benefit here.
Would you like to get discounts on things you use in your daily operations? It would make life easier for many people…and this PPA benefit does just that.
Allied Business Network (ABN) can provide you with discounts in areas such as office supplies, travel, promotional products, printing, and many more. ABN negotiates these discounts with national business supply and service providers. By becoming an ABN Member though your PPA membership, you can purchase from every ABN vendor and get discount pricing. You won’t believe what’s available for the taking. Below is a small sampling of participating vendors:
Hertz
Get a discount off every rental and a complimentary membership in Hertz #1 Club Gold® (a $60 value).
4imprint
Put your business name and logo everywhere! You’ll get a discount off every promotional item, including sale items. Choose from pens, mugs, photo albums, and many more.
Wyndham Hotel Group
Save on every hotel stay in your choice of Wyndham Hotels, including Baymont Inn & Suite, Days Inn, Hawthorn Suites, Howard Johnson, Knights Inn, Microtel Inn & Suites, Ramada Inn, Super 8 Motel, Travelodge, Wyndham, and Wingate Inn.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
From time to time, PPA members are offered exclusive discounts and special offers—at amazing rates. When such a deal is available, it will be promoted on www.ppa.com. And you better act fast before they disappear!
This is a promotional event in October where participating studios agree to contribute a portion of sales to PPA Charities for each family they photograph…promoting your charitable marketing and creating an event to give clients a reason for portraits.
Family Portrait Month is sponsored by PPA Charities, the philanthropic arm of PPA. PPA Charities’ charitable partner is Operation Smile. Operation Smile is a worldwide children’s medical charity dedicated to improving the health and lives of children born with cleft lips, cleft palates, and other facial deformities.
To find out more about Family Portrait Month and how you can help the children of Operation Smile (www.operationsmile.org), go to www.ppacharities.com, call Bert Behnke at (708) 267-0657, or e-mail bbehnke@ppa.com.
Whether you’re looking for office and document support, or reliable and cost-effective shipping, you can count on FedEx® and FedEx OfficeSM to deliver. PPA members can save on select FedEx shipping services and on select FedEx Office copy and print services. As a PPA member, it will be even easier for you to save time and money with FedEx.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Having a business is not like playing hide-and-seek. You want your customers to find you!
Consider updating your free portfolio on PPA’s Find-a-Photographer search engine, where potential customers can search for photographers and see your sample images. Several members have mentioned receiving numerous bookings from this search engine—not too surprising because it generates an average of 325 responses to a query per day…almost 10,000 each month!
This Find-a-Photographer benefit allows members to upload sample images and ensure that potential clients searching for a professional photographer in the area will find you! The Find-a-Photographer search engine and personal portfolio are FREE with an Active Professional membership (not available to members in the Aspiring category).
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Music adds to the ambience of your studio or the emotional touch to a slideshow presentation. But just as your images are copyrighted, so is music! You don’t want to infringe on someone else’s livelihood, just as you don’t want your images illegally copied. So PPA makes it easy for you to get legal, affordable, quality music: use your benefits!
In-Studio Radio
XM for Business
Rock your customers, crank up your brand, and turn your business ON with XM for Business. With this new service, you can set the tone of your studio by tuning into one of over 170 different satellite radio channels. Plus, you’ll take the worry out of renewing your ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC licenses—let XM for Business pay the fees for you!
If you already have an XM radio system in your studio, you only need to upgrade your existing contract to the PPA XM for Business plan.
Members see how to use this benefit here.
Music Licensing Options
If you’re looking to use music in slideshows, presentation, or websites, licensing is available for discounted rates from the following company:
Stock20.com
Find royalty-free music: Stock20.com is a royalty-free music company supplying music tracks to almost 1,000 professional photographers. Stock20.com releases original production music every month in a variety of styles. Every original composition includes multiple versions in different lengths, and a license to use your music in just about any way you can imagine. Stock20.com allows you to preview every track in its entirety, purchase any song for $20, download it instantly, and use it forever. And any type of broadcast (including your Web site) is covered in the license. Visit www.stock20.com.
If you are a new customer at stock20, you'll receive a special PPA discount when you sign up; if you are an existing stock20 member, PPA members receive an exclusive ongoing discount.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Triple Scoop Music
Triple Scoop Music is the leading music licensing service for professional photographers around the globe. In fact, their website features more than 7,000 songs by talented composers and award-winning artists, including Grammy and Emmy winners. Every song has been hand-picked by their in-house music experts to add emotion and depth to websites, slideshows and videos. New music is added to their database every month to provide you with fresh choices and a diverse selection.
Members, see how to use this benefit here.
Selected as our preferred office supply provider, Office Depot provides a program that is simple to use, easy to manage, and tailored to your specific needs.
PPA members will enjoy the following benefits:
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Want to learn about something in business or photography? Unsure of the contracts and forms you need to protect yourself and your business? Chances are you can find what you need in the Resources section of this Web site! Sample legal forms, model contracts, copyright information, Studio Management Services business case studies, marketing articles, and more…just visit PPA’s Resources.
You must be a PPA member for full access to these online materials. Members have automatic access to exclusive online articles and downloads.
If you don’t have the time or the funds to attend all the photography seminars you would like, try this PPA benefit and learn on your own time.
PhotoVision, hosted by Ed Pierce, is a great learning tool, featuring some of the best photographers in the business. It can be yours virtually FREE with your PPA membership. You will get 6 2-hour DVDs a year, packed with valuable information and terrific ideas for seasoned professionals and aspiring photographers alike at a vastly discounted rate.
Members: see how to use this benefit here.
Emotion Media
Emotion Media is a professional multimedia design studio and three-time Hot One Award winner that specializes in creating custom media services for professional photographers. Each slideshow is designed with animated text intros, perfectly timed transitions, coordinating backgrounds and professional motion effects. Emotion Media even makes it possible to showcase your photos in full HD, allowing your clients to see your images how they deserve to be seen.
Use your PPA discount and experience the following benefits of Emotion Media:
PPA members, learn more about this benefit here.
Animoto
Animoto Pro is the award-winning new tool for photographers that allows you to instantly combine your images and video clips into beautiful, custom videos. With plug-ins for Lightroom and Aperture, Animoto Pro is easily integrated into your workflow so that you can create the perfect video for every client.
Get started with video styles designed for (and vetted by) professional photographers and then use Animoto’s spotlight, pace setting and text features to easily customize the video. Every Animoto video is completely unique and customized for your images and song selection. And to help you make the most of your time, Animoto analyzes and combines your images, video clips and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills used in television and film. What used to take hours, now only takes minutes!
PPA members, learn more about your Animoto discount here.
It’s difficult to sort through your finances and business issues…let alone understand them and see the big picture. But this member benefit can put your mind at ease.
With PPA’s Studio Management Services business experts, you’ll have access to comprehensive, top-of-the-line financial and business services designed to fit your individual needs. SMS can provide you with sound advice from top business consultants, bookkeeping services, live educational seminars, and online seminars.
For more information, please e-mail sms@ppa.com
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