This event has been organized by the 2011 Cape Coral Chamber of Commerce Leadership Alumni. One of the benefits of going through the leadership class is the connection and continued interaction with classmates. Maria Johnson, a graduate of the 2011 Cape leadership initiative, is proud that Power Purchasing has decided to serve as the major sponsor for an event to benefit such incredible organizations.

Leadership Cape Coral is among southwest Florida’s premier civic and business leadership training programs. The fourteen week program involves an overview of public, nonprofit, and business initiatives throughout the Cape and affecting the entire region. This leadership program is a gem for incubating future leaders in the community.

Power Purchasing is proud of the 2011 Cape Class who are supporting this event:

• Anthony M. Constantino, CPA, Kevin M Burns & Assoc, CPA
• Dane Eagle, Eagle Realty & Candidate, Florida House of Representatives, District 77
• Debbie Frost, BankUnited
• Duncan Russell, Retired
• Ed Ramos, Ramos Builders
• Jackie Williams, Habitat for Humanity
• John Chin, LCEC
• Joseph Francioni, Innovative Printing and Signs
• Kim Maxwell, Raso Realty
• Kyle Cebull, Entech Computers
• Lynnie Guzman, News-Press
• Maria Johnson, Power Purchasing

For more information about how you can help raise a ton of money for some great organizations, please contact us in the comments section below.

Download The Registration Form HERE!

For the 2nd year, Power Purchasing has had the opportunity to get people involved and support activities that benefit economic development in their community by being an exhibitor for the event on May 2, 2012. The purpose of the Chamber Event is:

The principle of this group is to focus on career, networking, and our community. Networking is always our number one focus. Meetings will take place the first Wednesday of every month. A committee known as the “Women in Business Committee” serves this widely accepted and diverse group and will be responsible for the presentation of the “Women in Business Apex Award” given to one exceptional woman at the end of the year. Men are encouraged to attend the meetings.

As part of their community outreach plans, the Team at Power Purchasing encourage you to do two small things to help support this program. First, please visit the Women in Business Facebook page by visiting this link. Then, “Like” the same link on your personal or business Facebook profile.

If you let us know with a quick comment below that you’ve done it, we will give you a shout out from our blog page here!

It’s All About YOU!

We can’t say it enough. Buying groups come and go in this industry. It seems like every day another purchasing association has launched, gained traction, and dropped out of existence. Most of these sites are unattractively speckled with advertisements that waste your time. Not us.

With PowerPurchasing you get a buying coop that takes discounts so seriously, we get freebies. If you missed out on this one, click on our past post to get free Purell hand-wipes®. Then you can tell your colleagues that you didn’t get sick because you were part of a purchasing cooperative that has bartered the advantage to give stuff away.

Discounts and Truly Free Stuff Sells

As a cooperative buying group, we have been successful in bringing some really cool items to our club members. Our most popular blog post to date has been an offer we’ve bargained for Paper Mate InkJoy™ Pens to give them away free to ANYONE WHO LEAVES A COMMENT and a review!

Cooperative purchasing takes time to build a reputation. Our buying group team has worked tirelessly to build trust with our members and our suppliers and secure deep discounts on the products you need. Why try other purchasing associations and waste your time? Join now for free.

About Us.

PowerPurchasingNow.com employs an Empowering Concept that utilizesCooperative Buying Principles to leverage better prices, deep discounts, deals, bargains, and free specials on a huge variety of office items and supplies. Our Buying Group is a Purchasing Association made up of a National Network of over 70,000 Frugal Businesses that have joined together to utilize this power in numbers to Lower Prices, thereby increasing our members’ profit margins.

Let your Power Purchasing savings inspire you to wrap up last year and start fresh in 2012. These organization tools–at our negotiated pricing–are available to you the entire month of March, saving you up to 70% off.
Bankers Box® Stor/File™
Letter/Legal Size, 12/pk
Item #: 199570   66% Off!
$13.56 Your Price   |   $39.99 Retail Price

Bankers Box® Stor/Drawer®
Letter Size, 1/bx
Item #: 940205   66% Off!
$8.83 Your Price   |   $25.99 Retail Price

4GB Verbatim® Store ‘n’ Go™
USB Flash Drive
Item #: 913036   70% Off!
$5.99 Your Price   |   $19.99 Retail Price

Memorex CD-R Recordable Media
700MB/80 Minutes, 100/spindle
Item #: 620650   48% Off!
$14.04 Your Price   |   $26.99 Retail Price

Ativa® LD800 Shredder
Cross-Cut 8 Sheets
Slices through paper clips and staples too
Item #: 597957   33% Off!
$39.99 Your Price   |   $59.99 Retail Price

Ativa® HD1600 Shredder
Cross-Cut 16 Sheets
Slices through CDs/DVDs, credit cards and more
Item #: 320874   18% Off!
$139.99 Your Price   |   $169.99 Retail Price

Ready to get organized?  Simply log in as usual at https://business.officedepot.com using your log in and password.  Discounted pricing is already loaded.

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About Us.

PowerPurchasingNow.com employs an Empowering Concept that utilizes Cooperative Buying Principles to leverage better prices, deep discounts, deals, bargains, and free specials on a huge variety of office items and supplies. Our Buying Group is a Purchasing Association made up of a National Network of over 70,000 Frugal Businesses that have joined together to utilize this power in numbers to Lower Prices, thereby increasing our members’ profit margins.

That was years ago, but today’s double discounts from our retailers and partners are just as real!

Many online discount office supply and furniture sites offer codes that can be used online to trigger an additional discount during check out. What makes PowerPurchasingnow.com different? We don’t offer our codes to everyone, and therefore, can offer our members discounts on products that aren’t available to any web surfer.

Large coupon companies offer discounts on products such as office supplies. These large coupon code suppliers rank their coupons by their rate of success. Some of their coupons don’t work for some people. Some coupons have expired or are available to certain customers. The difference with PowerPurchasingnow.com coupons is that they are hand selected and monitored for effective use by our staff and offered ONLY to our over 70,000 members (and growing!).

We at PowerPurchasingnow.com DO NOT SELL YOUR INFORMATION! And we certainly do not download spam, spyware, or malware to your computer. The discounts that we offer and the coupons that compound our deeply discounted rates with our retailers are all that you’re ever going to receive from us (other than positivity and great customer service!). We offer discounts and promo codes that are available at stores such as Office Depot® online and at their brick and mortar store. So, why take risks with other online coupons which may offer you unreliable and inconsistent deals, when you can have consistently lower prices on products you need and the compounding benefits of coupons to boot.

The choice is clear: join our membership today and keep more of your money where it belongs – in your wallet!

About Us.

PowerPurchasingNow.com employs an Empowering Concept that utilizes Cooperative Buying Principles to leverage better prices, deep discounts, deals, bargains, and free specials on a huge variety of office items and supplies. Our Buying Group is a Purchasing Association made up of a National Network of over 70,000 Frugal Businesses that have joined together to utilize this power in numbers to Lower Prices, thereby increasing our members’ profit margins.

SAVE MONEY!

That’s the bottom line. We want our members to save money on the products they HAVE TO BUY so that they can invest that saved money back into their business. It’s all about EMPOWERING our Members! Our free group buying service offers small businesses the ability to save instantly on discount office supplies. Major retailers, such as Office Depot ®, are have signed on to offer major discounts to our members on office supplies such as:

• Furniture
• Cleaning Products
• Technology
• Ink Cartridges and Toner
• Pens and Paper Products
• Promotional Products
• Copy and Print Services
• Credit Card Processing services
• Uniform and Logo Apparel
• And Many, Many MORE Featured Deals and Discounts!

How It Works

PowerPurchasingNow.com has negotiated deeply discounted office supplies through our privileged Office Depot ®® partnership. Members receive discounted supplies by purchasing through our link that takes you to your customized ordering site at Office Depot ®. Not only that, but members can use their downloadable Store Savings Card for use at any of the nearly 1700 worldwide Office Depot ® locations. It’s like having a PERPETUAL COUPON for each and every one of your office supplies!

Sad Story… Um, No It’s NOT!

 You may be thinking that saving money for your company by purchasing discount office supplies won’t make or break you. But in a still struggling economy, countless former small business owners provide weighty testimony to the contrary. What many of these disenfranchised entrepreneurs and executives didn’t realize is that the small, necessary purchases (if over paid), can kill a company, albeit by a thousand small paper cuts (or purchases!). By keeping track of what some might call “minor business expenses” and utilizing the purchasing power of a Consortium of Frugal Small Business Owners, you can resurrect your bottom line. You may even find that saving the pennies results in raises for your staff or a vacation for yourself!

Become a SAVER Today!

What better way to utilize a service to lower your company’s bottom line than by using it to purchase less expensive discount office supplies? And let’s face it, who likes to see their bottom line erode because they have overspent on expensive office supplies? Group buying results in the most competitive prices! It’s free to join, and you’ll realize savings immediately. But, don’t take our word for it – join today and save the difference!

At $28.99/case, with the cost of paper always rising, we won’t be able to do this again for quite while, so don’t miss out.

We made it extremely easy to save on the #1 supply cost for 98% of businesses today: no coupon required – just order online with your office supplies.

Item # 273646: Order Paper

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Product Details:

• 8 1/2″ x 11″
• 20 Lb
• 92 Brightness
• Ream Of 500 Sheets
• Case Of 10 Reams
• Great Day to Day Use
• Wont Fade or Yellow with Time

Special pricing available through January 31, 2012

There are great local options for shopping for furniture. There is a silver lining in the foreclosure crisis that this country and communities throughout the nation have gone through. Businesses that have gone under have done so with dignity – they’ve liquidated their gently used, or brand new, furniture, in many cases – to a deserving nonprofit charity.

5 Places to Find Discount/Used Office Furniture

1) Goodwill Industries International

Goodwill operates 165 affiliate thrift and second-hand stores throughout the United States perhaps the largest thrift store in the world. Many of these affiliate members, if not all, offer discount used office furniture. These gently used office products are sold in local communities (and also online through shopgoodwill.com). The benefit of shopping at Goodwill is the fact that profits on products sold go directly into helping serve their mission to help those with developmental disabilities. They are a nonprofit with a business bent, operating stores throughout the nation.

2) The Salvation Army

is distinctly noticeable during the holiday season. Many Salvation Army locations throughout the United States offer discounted used office chairs, desks, rugs, secretaries. For the more robust business with a kitchenette, appliances such as fridges and microwaves can be found. Even, bathroom stuff like magazine racks and toilet paper holders might be found. Purchasing your gently used furniture from the Salvation Army puts money into their programs that help the less fortunate and homeless.

3) Hope Hospice

Hospice care in the United States took root when President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that added Hospice care to the list of Medicare eligible benefits. Hospice end of life and palliative care has spread throughout the United States, easing the suffering of the terminally-ill during the final stages of life (there is also a palliative care component, but the primary care focus is on end of life care). Purchasing your used office furniture from a local Hospice, such as the Hope Chest, will benefit those suffering at the end of life. And, just like the Salvation Army and Goodwill, you can schedule a pick-up of your used furniture donation.

4) Arnolds

Arnolds® is a liquidator of new and used office furniture. Located in Pennsylvania and in business since 1929, they ship high end used office furniture globally. Emphasizing the quality side of the slightly used furniture they sell, Arnolds® prides themselves on their 100,000 foot showroom. The only problem – the roads might be too icy and the weather too cold for shoppers to consider a visit during the winter months. You’ll want to get it shipped…

5) Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for humanity operates “Restore’s”. The name is a metaphor for the mission of the agency, which is to give individuals and families the opportunity to work toward home ownership. These motivated individuals invest sweat-equity into the building of their homes and in the end are offered deeply discounted mortgages and interest rates. The “Restore” are ready for donations of quality furniture, which will be sold as gently used. The proceeds benefit the less-fortunate and the end result is a thrift store that completes the circle with an impressive business model that feeds a nonprofit mission. In simple terms: these aren’t your father’s charities!

These are some of the (mostly) local (and mostly) thrift stores that offer high-quality discounted used furniture. Have some more ideas about ones that we’ve missed? Leave your favorites in the comments with location details.

About Us.

PowerPurchasingNow.com employs an Empowering Concept that utilizes Cooperative Buying Principles to leverage better prices, deep discounts, deals, bargains, and free specials on a huge variety of office items and supplies. Our Buying Group is a Purchasing Association made up of a National Network of over 70,000 Frugal Businesses that have joined together to utilize this power in numbers to Lower Prices, thereby increasing our members’ profit margins.

Often, we find that a popular (or recurring) New Year’s resolution is organizing our businesses, including our space, paperwork and more.  It could be due to our end-of-year preparations, the looming tax season or just a fresh start.

If this seems like a daunting task to you, we are here to help.  Our office supplies partner, Office Depot®, is offering a buy one, get one free promotion on select organizational tools and 25% off note taking products.

Office Depot® brand products are high quality, usually a greener option and are at a great price.  The 9″ by 12″ envelopes are perfect for short term storage and contain 20% post-consumer recycled content. The file folders allow for 3/4″ expansion and are also environmentally friendly—30% post consumer recycled content.

You better believe our hanging folders are super green! Made with 100% recycled content, they have a minimum of 95% postconsumer recycled content. But, how are we to keep all that stuff together? How about 144 binder clips, in a reusable tub?

Yep—I’m feeling better already.

The easiest way to take part in this buy one, get one promotion is to login at OfficeDepot® and enter coupon code 745166852 first. This will provide a handy list of these items and the freebies.

Speaking of a list, where’s your New Year’s resolution list? It’s interesting that will all those smartphones, tablets and such, many of us like a good old-fashioned notepad for our to do’s.  We can help you with that, too.

You can get 25% off select Office Depot®—you guessed it—GREENER note taking products. You can choose from over 10 items, including legal pads, note pads and spiral notebooks.

To get started, go to Office Depot® and enter this coupon code 372464905 first.  Choose the items you like (limit 2 please) and you’re done.  You’ll be knocking things off that list in no time.

Cheers! Here’s to an organized, great year!

Here are the BOGO coupon details: You must enter coupon code first, shop and make a purchase during the same visit. Valid at business.officedepot.com or by phone at 888-2-OFFICE or fax at 888-813-7272. Offer not valid for government contract accounts. Not combinable with a Store Purchasing Card. To redeem, mention this coupon code or enter the coupon code on your shopping cart page online and savings will appear at checkout. Coupon is good for one-time use only, is not transferable, is not for resale or auction and cannot be combined with other offers or promotions. We reserve the right to limit quantities sold to each customer/business. No cash back. Void where prohibited. Excludes postage and shipping/mailing services. Coupon valid 11/01/11 – 01/31/12. Coupon code 745166852.

Here are the 25% greener note taking product coupon details: Valid at business.officedepot.com or by phone at 888-2-OFFICE or fax at 888-813-7272. Offer not valid for government contract accounts. Not combinable with a Store Purchasing Card. To redeem, mention this coupon code or enter the coupon code on your shopping cart page online and savings will appear at checkout. Coupon is good for one-time use only, is not transferable, is not for resale or auction and cannot be combined with other offers or promotions. We reserve the right to limit quantities sold to each customer/business. No cash back. Void where prohibited. Excludes postage and shipping/mailing services. Limit 2. Coupon valid 11/01/11 – 01/31/12. Coupon code 372464905.

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Office Depot® carries a wide variety of discounted Purell® products, including pumps, mists, foam and dispensers.  Enter coupon code 582206451 prior to shopping for a convenient list of items and your freebie!

Coupon Details: Prices and offers valid through 1/31/2012 or while supplies last at business.officedepot.com or by phone at 888.2.OFFICE or fax at 888.813.7272 only. Limited quantities. Offers are non-transferable. Office Depot reserves the right to limit quantities sold to each customer. We are not responsible for errors. Offers are not valid in-store with a Store Purchasing Card. Coupon Code 582206451.

About Us.

PowerPurchasingNow.com employs an Empowering Concept that utilizes Cooperative Buying Principles to leverage better prices, deep discounts, deals, bargains, and free specials on a huge variety of office items and supplies. Our Buying Group is a Purchasing Association made up of a National Network of over 70,000 Frugal Businesses that have joined together to utilize this power in numbers to Lower Prices, thereby increasing our members’ profit margins.