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Trimming Some Costs of Training | | How and How Much: One area where we can work together to save costs is on training materials. Routinely, I purchase them from the Ken Blanchard Companies on behalf of parks (because they ask me to and add the cost into my billing), but when I do sales tax is routinely added. Because the training materials are currently running about $70.00 per participant, the added sales tax burden is about $5.00 per participant. Moreover, there may be some volume discounts available to government agencies, assuming that enough sessions are lined up in a year among several parks or training offices to get to one hundred or more. | | What to Do: These savings are available to you if you wish to pursue them. Let me know, and I will give you the name and phone number of my sales agent at Ken Blanchard Companies and you can handle the purchasing yourself. I always call her immediately so she knows you're working with me. | | Pros and Cons: Well, with a little bit of effort, for a class of 30 people, you can save over $150 by purchasing directly. At Yosemite, they used year-end monies to line up materials for two classes that I taught the following spring. On the other hand, some people don't feel the amount of savings is worth all the added trouble. If several courses are lined up and you can work with other parks to purchase more than a 100 workbooks at a time, you can possibly get a government quantity discount of 5 or 10 percent in addition to saving the sales tax costs. Then, you may be looking at some real substantial savings. |
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