Businesses in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and the Carolinas have been harmed or destroyed by recent hurricanes. Many suppliers and service vendors for these businesses have overcome great obstacles to keep their operations going. Businesses that rely on these support vendors would have no chance of starting their operations without these vendors serving them. As more businesses begin operations more jobs are needed.

I live and work just north of the city of New Orleans. I was fortunate that my home and business had minimal damage. Many of my customers were not so fortunate. Shortly after hurricane Katrina I started thinking of a way to help businesses harmed by the recent hurricanes. My business is an exclusive national vendor for the Buying Group Alliance. I started working with the buying groups that make up the Buying Group Alliance to offer their resources to any business in any state harmed by the recent hurricanes. I am pleased to report that all of the buying groups are offering their services for free to businesses of any size and type.

Any business harmed by a hurricane now has access to discounted pricing with over 30 national vendors. These discounts are between 10% - 40% and these discounts are permanent. Businesses simply fill out one form to receive free lifetime memberships to all of the national buying groups in the Buying Group Alliance. During the registration process business members select which vendors they are interested in receiving discounts. Only those selected vendors will contact the business and offer them the discounts. There is no obligation of the business to actually use any of the vendors that contact them. Just using a few vendors will save even a small business thousands of dollars a year. This special free offer will be available as long at the economic recovery in the hurricane zone continues.

At this time a business can get access to this free offer by going to my website. A business does not need to be a current or future customer of my business to participate in this offer. Just go to www.shipandfreight.com and click on the "Click Here to Select Your Vendors of Interest" link on the home page. Complete the form and the vendors you are interested in will contact you. I'm believing that by working together we will have a full and complete recovery. The biggest challenge is that many businesses believe that this offer is too good to be true. The next biggest challenge for helping the recovery effort is to get the "word out" about our free offer.