To celebrate the Natural Perfumers Guild's 5th Anniversary - 25% off membership - until June 15th, 2011

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We're going to have a fun inter-Guild blogging event tomorrow,  June 1st, to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Guild. 21 Guild members are participating, and we're going to share our stories of our path to natural aromatics and natural perfumery. It should be a run read, clicking from member blog to member blog and taking in the bios of the members.  I'm really looking forward to it!
The Guild has many benefits  associated with 
membership, from networking with others in the community to discounts on raw materials, educational programs, group buys and much more. Next week we're having an Online Marketing chat with the perfumers, and it will be archived and made available to all Guild members.  I'll cover public relations, press releases, blogs and branding, and Larry Marsala will speak on google rankings, meta tags, search engine optimization and techie stuff.

A 25% discount on the yearly membership fee will be given to new members who join  between May 31 and June 15, and use the coupon code F035CE8C9A .
 
UPDATE: I heard from several new member applicants that the "continue" button isn't working.  There is a call into the webmistress, and hopefully, we'll have this fixed tonight.  In the meantime, feel free to contact me if you wish to have me process your application.

Links:http://naturalperfumers.com/membership/htm

http://naturalperfumers.com/apply/signup.php

PS: Check back tomorrow for the Guild blogging event to celebrate our 5th!

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