We have secured discounts for Wonderful Machine members with a number of companies that support professional photographers.
Car Rentals
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Wonderful Machine has negotiated a special discounted rate from Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Simply use the following code and password when reserving your vehicle. This rate includes insurance coverage at no additional charge and can be used for both professional and personal rentals. There is a mileage limit when booking a car with this discount. Code: SB00002 Password: ENT
Consultants – Editing, Branding & Marketing
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Photo Consultant Leslie Burns of Burns Auto Parts offers Wonderful Machine photographers a 15% discount off of her normal rates.
Consultants – Estimating & Production
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Frank Meo is The Photo Closer. Frank offers representation services tailored to a photographer’s individual needs, and he’s offering a discount on his estimating and negotiating fees. Any member of Wonderful Machine can simply call 973.896.8680 or email Frank (frank@thephotocloser.com) to receive a 10% discount, which applies indefinitely.
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A Screen Paris & London offers production support on all aspects of still and video shoots across Europe (specializing in France, the U.K., and Italy). They’re offering a one-time 15% discount off all of their production managers’ and coordinators’ daily rates. Additionally, if you use their pre-production services for 4 or more days, they’ll offer the first day’s location scouting for free.
Data – Digital Asset Management
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PhotoDeck creates websites to proof and deliver your commissioned work and stock in a modern way. Their sites include full e-commerce capabilities to sell prints or license images with no commission. Everything is customizable. Among other features, you can seamlessly integrate a PhotoDeck website with your existing site – no coding required. PhotoDeck is offering a 15% discount off their Pro Plan. You can sign up for a free 14-day trial on the Wonderful Machine sign up page (immediate setup, no credit card required), then use coupon code D8ADX3WM on your subscription purchase. Offer valid until December 31, 2012. For any questions, contact PhotoDeck’s founder J-F Maion at 646.233.2020 or jf@photodeck.com.
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Stockbox Photo™ Gallery software provides an affordable solution for photographers, artists and artisans to display and sell their work online. Create your own stock photo library or online proofing system. The software can be used out of the box as a stand alone website, or it can be easily incorporated into an existing site. The powerful web based admin control panel, gives you all that you will need to create a dynamic and exciting e-commerce enabled photo gallery website. Use the promo code wm10 for a 10% discount.
Education – Workshops, Festivals, Conferences
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D65, a boutique company dedicated to educating photographers, is offering $150 off their four-day “Digital Workflow, Not Workslow” Lightroom Workflow Workshops. Here’s their description of what you’ll learn in a workshop: “We will equip you with the tools to manage your images efficiently, effectively and effortlessly. You’ll keep every image you shoot organized and archived. D65 provides insider tips and tricks how best to work pre-capture to ensure you get the best out of Lightroom post capture.” The discount will be in effect for the year of 2011, and can be activated using the discount code: “Wonderful Machine.” Check their website for the schedule.
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NYC Fotoworks is a portfolio review and networking event. Our Photo Editor, Sean Stone, will be there reviewing work, so come say hello! He’s attended past events as both a reviewer and a reviewee, and has been really impressed with the event. Best of all, Wonderful Machine photographers are entitled to a 10% discount on any review packages. Just use the code WMFoto (case sensitive) when you submit.
Equipment
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Greentoe.com is a next generation e-commerce marketplace that enables consumers to set the price for the products they want to buy. Created to change the way people shop, Greentoe.com shakes up the traditional retail model by putting consumers in the driver’s seat. They make an offer on a product and the site connects them to the retailers who are willing to accept the offer. The site benefits both consumers and retailers – shoppers can buy products at the lowest price available while retailers reduce inventory and acquire new customers. Greentoe is offering Wonderful Machine photographers $25 off any purchase with the code machine25, or $50 of any purchase of $300 or more with the code machine50.
Hotels
The Belmont Hotel in Dallas, TX offers Wonderful Machine photographers 10% off of their Best Available Rate (except for October 6 & 7 and December 31).
Marketing – Direct Mail Services
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Pavlv exists to help photographers with their direct mail efforts by making sure their promos are actually landing on the desks of potential clients. Pavlv is offering Wonderful Machine photographers 10% off a bi-monthly subscription or 15% off a monthly subscription at any volume (250, 500 or 1000.)
Marketing – Photographer Directories
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Dripbook is an online sourcebook started in 2007, and includes photographers, illustrators, designers and other creative professionals. Wonderful Machine photographers are now eligible to receive a 20% discount when they sign up for a pro or premium membership. Such is their confidence in our roster that the code they’ve created for us not only applies a discount, but bypasses their normal review process. So you’ve already been accepted! Dripbook is a nice site with lots of potential for creatives, one very clever feature they offer is the ability to automatically export updates from a Dripbook profiles to Twitter, Facebook, and your blog. To keep the discount code secure, please contact Sean and he’ll pass it along directly.
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FoundFolios, a division of Agency Access, is offering Wonderful Machine photographers 15% off FoundFolios memberships. FoundFolios has a simple mission: to give photographers a drop-dead beautiful, intuitive, high-end hub to show their work to buyers. With features like social media, HD video, buyer-friendly tools and more, FoundFolios draws buzz from photographers and buyers alike. Contact Matt Daley at mdaley@agencyaccess.com or 800.704.9817.
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Foliofox was established in March 2008 as a custom built digital platform. Taking a broad cultural view, it provides a platform for innovative contemporary work across the fields of art, design, advertising and fashion. Foliofox combines a love of professional imagery with the very best creative and artistic talent with the most important art buyers to provide a creative platform. If you mention you’re a Wonderful Machine Photographer, you’ll receive a 10% discount on your portfolio cost when you first register.
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Photographers.com comes up at or near the top of any online search for “photographers.” They’re offering 35% off any monthly or yearly plan to Wonderful Machine members. When you sign up for the site, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a list of plans to select from. Once you select a plan, the screen will refresh, and below the plans will be a box to check for “Enter Promotional Code.” Just enter the following code: wonderful-35off-photographers-com. Then click the button for “GET DISCOUNT” and the “Net Total” discounted price will be displayed. A short instructional video is available here.
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Photoserve, a photographer’s directory produced by Photo District News, is offering Wonderful Machine photographers a $160.00 discount off of their regular annual price of $860.00. Contact Kristie Nilsson at KNilsson@pdnonline.com 646.654.5812 and ask for the Wonderful Machine discount (not to be combined with any other offer).
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American Photographic Artists (APA) has a photographer directory called Search APA. They are offering 15% off the first year of membership fees to all Wonderful Machine photographers who are joining the APA for the first time. You can download the special discounted membership form here, or just write “Wonderful Machine Photographer” on their standard form.
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Select Magazine is offering a discount on print pages, showcase mailers, and digital pages. Pages in the printed annual magazine, start at £490. On their new electronic “e-magazine,” which features editorial and video interviews and showreels, double pages are £699 including video. Finally showcase mailers, worldwide mailers sent to over 100,000 creatives worldwide every month and featuring a profile, images and links, are £200. Select is offering WM members a 20% discount for all the above prices, which will apply indefinitely. To get the discount, just forward your WM link to Kim Rogers at kim@select-magazine.com before signing up.
- The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP)—a trade association made up of creators, buyers, sellers and more—is now offering Wonderful Machine photographers a $25 discount off their annual membership rate. When joining, simply use the promo code GROUP at checkout, and mention that you’re a Wonderful Machine photographer in the “member description/specialty” field to pay $100 instead of $125 a year for full accredited membership.
Marketing – Prospect Contact Lists
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Agency Access, the only one-stop promotional service for photographers, is offering Wonderful Machine photographers 15% off their first year’s membership fees. Start with access to a database of over 60,000 creatives in our industry. Then tack on photography-specialized services like email, direct mail, design, telemarketing, and more. You can even add a Campaign Manager program, to offload some (or all!) of your marketing work to a devoted team of experts. Contact Matt Daley at mdaley@agencyaccess.com or 631.951.9500 and use the coupon code machine39 when ordering.
Models & Casting
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TalentSoup is an easy to use, online marketplace of professional models, actors and real people. They are offering Wonderful Machine photographers $250 to be used toward agency fees or online castings (which start at $250) on a per-project basis, with no annual limit. Discount code is BISQUE. Discounts are taken from the final invoice created at booking. Does not apply to in person castings that they manage, street castings, or talent payroll / Rights Management. Note that the best talent selection exists in Atlanta (7k talent) and Miami (2k), with NY(800+) and the midwest growing weekly.
Printing – Business Cards & Mailers
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Modern Postcard is offering Wonderful Machine photographers a 20% discount off all of their printing services. Any order, any quantity, any time. We’ve been using Modern Postcard for our print mailers for several years now, and we’ve been consistently pleased with their quality and service. If you’d like to take advantage of this discount, please contact account rep Rikki Weber at 800.959.8365 extension 1753 or at rikkiw@modernpostcard.com.
Printing – Fine Art
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Marco Fine Arts has been one of the premier fine art print studios for over 25 years, and has produced works for some of the most renowned photographers and museums of the world. They currently print to fine art papers, acrylic, bamboo, canvas and aluminum. Wonderful Machine members will receive a 10% discount if they enter the code “wonderful” when checking out.
Software – Pricing
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Cradoc fotoSoftware, the developer of fotoQuote, fotoBiz and the fotoKeyword Harvester is pleased to offer a 15% discount on these standalone products: fotoQuote, fotoBiz, and fotoKeyword Harvester. Members can also receive an additional 10% off on these already discounted bundles: fotoQuote Pro 6 Bundle (which includes the fotoKeyword Harvester) and The Works, which includes all three standalone programs. To order online go to the Cradoc fotoSoftware online store and enter the coupon code WM0411 to receive your discount at check out. These offers apply to full versions only, additional site licenses and upgrades are excluded, and the discount cannot be combined with any other offers. If you prefer to place your order by phone, contact Cradoc toll-free at (800) 679-0202, or internationally at 360.945.1380. For email, contact them at support@cradocfotosoftware.com. To learn more about Cradoc fotoSoftware, visit their website.
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Hindsight offers business management solutions for photographers. Wonderful Machine members are entitled to two discounts. The first is a 10% discount on any Hindsight product. When any software product is put into a shopping cart, there is a link for Coupon Codes on the Shopping Cart page. By entering WM2011 (without the quotes), a 10% discount is applied. This discount will be valid until the end of the year. Until the end of April, you can also get 30% off on METAmachine. When METAmachine is put into a shopping cart, a 30% discount is applied using the coupon code WMMM. Hindsight offers free demos of all of their products, and encourages running one before deciding on the purchase of any software.
Website & Blog Templates
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bigflannel Portfolios offers simple, elegant and cost effective portfolio templates to photographers and artists. They are offering 20% off the first year’s subscription to anyone referred by Wonderful Machine. Simply use this code when purchasing your template: WONDERFULMACHINE20.
- Parade offers attractive online portfolio templates that you can update yourself. They are offering us a 15% discount off any of their plans. Contact Micah: sales@getparade.com and ask for the Wonderful Machine discount.
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Photoshelter offers customizable website templates, e-commerce/stock, and archiving tools for photographers. They’re offering our photographers $20.00 – $100.00 off of their regular pricing, plus they’ll wave their $50.00 sales activation fee. Click here to go to the Photoshelter / Wonderful Machine discount page or contact Andrew Fingerman: andrew@photoshelter.com
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Qufoto provides tasteful, templated websites designed for photographers. They have offered our photographers a special deal: the first two months on any of their subscriptions is entirely free. When you contact them, please ask for the Wonderful Machine discount.








