Friday, August 21st, 2009

Active Veterans Advantage members are currently reading this week’s e-mail newsletter to learn more about partners and locations that accept the Veterans Advantage Card. For starters, as I mentioned in the blog last week, I replaced my office machine at a nearby Apple Store, showed my Veterans Advantage card and saved over $200! And we chose this week to salute a handful of other providers doing the same: Red Roof Inn, and T-Mobile, just to name a couple. Click their links on our newly designed Web site to learn more about what you get when you show your Veterans Advantage card.

Our editor’s special picks should make for interesting reading about all military families as well. For starters, our VetFamily profile this week reveals a very disciplined side to two-time Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams, and how an ol’ fashioned Army brat upbringing has led her to her latest achievement, co-starring with Meryl Streep in this month’s hit “Julie and Julia.” Secondly, be sure to check out the report from our military disabilities expert, Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, about how war-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is affecting children returning to school this year.

Want to read our newsletter before joining Veterans Advantage? No problem: Here’s a sample.

Tags: apple discounts, Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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Friday, August 14th, 2009

I recently went into upgrade mode for my office computer and found out I am in the same boat with many of you! I recently picked up the MacBook Air from the Westchester Mall’s own Apple Store, and after showing my Veterans Advantage card received a $108 discount. Apple then combined the Veterans Advantage discount with a printer for only $50 (after a $100 instant rebate on the spot), and a Veterans Advantage discount on its AppleCare warranty. In all, the VA card saved me well over $200.

The place was packed! One of the Apple sales associates on the floor told me they frequently have a line streaming out the door of the store.

Nonetheless, my kids were excited too, making many of the same back to school purchases as the mall shoppers I saw that day. The Apple products are beautifully designed, and user-friendly. They’re cool, no doubt about it. For the MacBook Air, my salesman said my Veterans Advantage deal was better than the Apple student discount, so if you are making purchases for the student in your household, make sure to compare! I encourage you to shop with our special Members Only Apple online shopping link or, do what I did, which is to simply present your Veterans Advantage membership card at any Apple Store today for great savings.

Not sure where your local Apple store is today? Click here for a growing list of locations in the states and around the world that are accepting the Veterans Advantage Card for discount today.

And if you want to become a member and get access to this instant online discount, too, click here.

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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

I’m pleased to announce a benefit upgrade, a special program for Veterans Advantage members, in the hotly competitive car rental industry. After meeting with executives of Dollar Rent a Car and Thrifty Car Rental at my offices late last month, two great guys, they agreed to enhance their partnership with us.

In addition to our discount relationship, each program now includes downloadable coupons (limit one per rental) for a free upgrade day and free GPS system day. This already is combined with the waivers on additional drivers and underage drivers included with our offer for Dollar, further bolstering the unique quality of the car rental benefit for Veterans Advantage with a range of discounted travel options.

As a further demonstration of our exclusive partnership, Veterans Advantage is the only outside company listed in the “Government Programs” area of both dollar.com and thrifty.com:

Dollar.com: Here.

Thrifty.com: Here.

Thank you Dollar/Thrifty!

Love to travel? More information on Veterans Advantage travel discounts here.

Tags: combinable discounts
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Welcome to our new redesigned Veterans Advantage Web site! I hope you like it. It was literally years in the making — borne of the years our Veterans Advantage team has been listening to members tell us what benefits they want and how they prefer to access them. Each day, we respond to their needs through our ever expanding benefits package, and today we are proud to deliver a Web site upgrade, too.

Here’s a couple of tips I think will help you get started:

If you are exploring our program for the first time: Click any of the blue links across the top for background on our program. We’ve worked to enhance this area to underscore the importance of our mission — ranging from unique money-saving benefits across a range of key everyday categories with your Veterans Advantage Card, to the latest news and resources to keep you informed about your ongoing benefits from the government and the private sector. And finally, through our charitable activities, we want you to know that you are truly part of something special.

If you are not a member yet, I encourage you to sign up today and get started.

If you are already a member: Click on “Members Only” in the upper right hand corner of each page to access your benefits to enter with your Veterans Advantage Member ID and password. You’ll find direct benefit access just one or two clicks away from anywhere on our Web site.

Our valuable member services support continues to be online: visit the personalized “Your Account” area and “Contact Us” for online support or see our Help section. And finally, your Veterans Advantage Membership qualifies you for our free weekly member e-newsletter that updates you on the latest inclusions in your benefits package and is posted on our new site under “Resources.”

All of us here at Veterans Advantage hope you like this upgrade to our Web site. Tell us what you think!

Enjoy VeteransAdvantage.com today.

Tags: Events, financial, new website
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