For those who don’t know… I was married to an active duty Air Force enlisted man for 13 years, have worked with the military community in some fashion for about 20 years, and I am currently engaged to a Firefighter on Lackland AFB. Over the years of living in the ’system’, volunteering on base and working as a Civil Servant here on Lackland for the past 8 years… I have seen and lived through deployments, reassignments, separation’s and the hardships that ALL military families suffer through.
That is the reason I work with Operation Love ReUnited and made available a Military Discount on my sessions and prints.
A month or so ago I received an invitation to sign up as a vendor on a site called MilitaryAvenue.com and my profile mentions my “military discount”. Military Avenue.com knows that finding military-friendly businesses in new communities and resources that aid our mobile lifestyle can become an overwhelming task. Their site was created to attempt to ease these burdens! I haven’t been tracking how many people it has driven to my site, but I have it out there just in case one family sees it and wants to take me up on the offer.
Today in my email I get this:
Melinda, Good afternoon from the Team at MilitaryAvenue.com! Other Than Roses Photographyhas been recognized by our Team for its MilitaryReward. Your Reward has been selected as the November Featured MilitaryReward on the site. We have posted a short informational article and an image in our two blogs and it will appear in this week’s business information newsletter as well which comes out Sunday.You can see the blogs at Military Blog and Military Marketing. They are titled “Featured MilitaryReward for November 2008”.
As if getting the opportunity to help out military families through their site wasn’t reward enough!
Supporting the Relocation, Travel, and Lifestyle Needs of the American Military Family