PTO Today

Has anyone ever gone to local businesses to see if they would offer discounts to PTA/PTO card carrying members? I am thinking of the enertainment books, you know that ones I am referring to? I thought it would be a great idea to have a sort of yellow pages of local businesses that offer discounts if you are a member, say for example Bob's sub shop will give you one free 6" sub, when one of equal or lesser value is purchased. Has anyone ever done this with any success? I thought it would be great to have a list of local shops in the area offering discounts. You may even be able to contact online stores that would be willing to offer discounts. What do you think?

I've never tried that, but it sounds like a great idea. I be amazon.com would sponsor somthing like that!! What a great (extra) reward!!

We have a school discount card...we sell to everyone.We go to businesses around our area and they offer different things to help. It is called (Your School Name) Savings Card, some examples are buy large pizza get med. free with card, we have 10 businesses on ours . Pizzas, Hair salons, free drinks or fries with purchases at fast food places. 20% off some diners. Really nice card, we sale ours for $10. each it is good for 1 year.

We did these once a couple of years ago. Even got the printing for free...but it turned out to be a bust. I think we sold 300 dollars worth....

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There's an ad in the current issue of PTO Today for Amazon SchoolRewards

I haven't looked into the details yet.

We have a Neighborhood Partner's Program which is just that. We contact local businesses about offering discounts (10% off a bill, ect) to card carrying members. We have 33 businesses who participate at this time. They must join our PTA to be included in our Neighborhood Partner's Program. We distribute updated fliers each month and run the names of the businesses in our newsletter--not as an advertisement, but in a list to encourage membership. We have lots of interest on both ends!