LEVELS OF MEMBERSHIP

FOUNDING MEMBERS

Benefits
Founding Members will enjoy the following benefits:
• Free access to any of one of the one-day ITCS educational seminars, for up to two (2) representative of the founding member’s company.
• Two (2) free copies of the book, “Natural Stone Maintenance and Restoration According to Maurizio Bertoli.”
• Free access to all for-pay educational literature issued by the either the ITCS or marblecleaning.org, present and future. Authorization to reproduction and distribution will be granted, as well.
• Free one-page advertising for one (1) full year on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM).
• Thirty-three percent (33%) discount on a one-page advertising on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM) for five (5) years after the first year. The discount thereafter will be ten percent (10%).
• Ten percent (10%) discount to any of the ITCS classes for up to one (1) representative of the founding member’s company.
• Authorization to use the ISC logo in the member’s stationery and any other form of promotion that the founding member will see fit, with the sentence: Founding Member of the ...

Cost
The membership for founding members consists in a once in a lifetime due of $3,500.00. Founding Membership will only be available for four (4) months from the official date of the offering.

PLATINUM MEMBERS

Benefits
Platinum Members will enjoy the following benefits:
• Free access to any of one of the one-day ITCS educational seminars, for up to four (4) representative of the founding member’s company.
• Four (4) free copies of the book, “Natural Stone Maintenance and Restoration according to Maurizio Bertoli”.
• Free access to all for-pay educational literature issued by the either the ITCS or marblecleaning.org, present and future. Authorization to reproduction and distribution will be granted, as well.
• Free one-page advertising for four (4) full years on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM).
• Thirty-three percent (33%) discount on a one-page advertising on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM) for twelve (12) years after the first year. The discount thereafter will be ten percent (10%).
• Ten percent (10%) discount to any of the ITCS classes for up to four (4) representatives of the founding member’s company.
• Authorization to use the ISC logo in the member’s stationery and any other form of promotion that the founding member will see fit, with the sentence: Platinum Member of the...

Cost
Platinum Members will have the option of either paying a once in a lifetime due of $10,000.00 or a yearly due of $ 2,000.00. Platinum Membership will be offered after the expiration date of the offering for Founding Membership.

GOLD MEMBERS

Benefits
Gold Members will enjoy the following benefits:
• Free access to any of one of the one-day ITCS educational seminars, for up to three (3) representative of the founding member’s company.
• Three (3) free copies of the book, “Natural Stone Maintenance and Restoration according to Maurizio Bertoli”.
• Free access to all for-pay educational literature issued by the either the ITCS or marblecleaning.org, present and future. Authorization to reproduction and distribution will be granted, as well.
• Free one-page advertising for two (2) full years on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM).
• Thirty-three percent (33%) discount on a one-page advertising on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM) for six (6) years after the first year. The discount thereafter will be ten percent (10%).
• Ten percent (10%) discount to any of the ITCS classes for up to two (2) representatives of the founding member’s company.
• Authorization to use the ISC logo in the member’s stationery and any other form of promotion that the founding member will see fit, with the sentence: Gold Member of the ...

Cost
Gold Members will have the option of either paying a once in lifetime due of $5,000.00 or a yearly due of $1,000.00. Gold Membership will be offered after the expiration date of the offering for Founding Membership.

SILVER MEMBERS

Benefits
Silver Members will enjoy the following benefits:
• Free access to any of one of the one-day ITCS educational seminars, for up to two (2) representative of the founding member’s company.
• Two (2) free copies of the book, “Natural Stone Maintenance and Restoration according to Maurizio Bertoli”.
• Free access to all for-pay educational literature issued by the either the ITCS or marblecleaning.org, present and future. Authorization to reproduction and distribution will be granted, as well.
• Free one-page advertising for one (1) full year on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM).
• Thirty-three percent (33%) discount on a one-page advertising on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM) for five (5) years after the first year. The discount thereafter will be ten percent (10%).
• Ten percent (10%) discount to any of the ITCS classes for up to one (1) representative of the founding member’s company.
• Authorization to use the ISC logo in the member’s stationery and any other form of promotion that the founding member will see fit, with the sentence: Silver Member of the ...

Cost
Silver Members will have the option of either paying a once in a lifetime due of $3,500.00 or a yearly due of $750.00. Silver Membership will be offered after the expiration date of the offering for Founding Membership.

BASIC MEMBERSHIP

Benefits
ISC Members will enjoy the following benefits:
• Fifty percent (50%) discount to any one of the one-day ITCS educational seminars, for up to two (2) representative of the founding member’s company.
• One (1) free copies of the book, “Natural Stone Maintenance and Restoration according to Maurizio Bertoli”.
• Free access to all for-pay educational literature issued by the either the ITCS or marblecleaning.org, present and future. Authorization to reproduction and distribution will be granted, as well.
• Thirty-three percent (33%) discount on a one-page advertising on the Stone Advisory Magazine (SAM) for one (1) year. The discount thereafter will be ten percent (10%).
• Authorization to use the ISC logo in the member’s stationery and any other form of promotion that the founding member will see fit, with the sentence: Proud Member of the ...

Cost
General Members will pay a $500.00 a year due. General membership will offered immediately at the opening offering date.

Requirements and Qualifications to Become ISC Members

Becoming members of the ISC is to be intended as a high privilege. Paying the chosen due (according to the chosen bracket) is certainly not enough of a qualification. ISC membership implies commitment to participate to any activity that could possibly improve the current status of the stone industry, starting from the member’s own specific education, training and certification.
The ISC with its two operative branches, marblecleaning.org and ITCS, as well as it mouthpiece, the SAM is a serious institution for serious people who understand that the only way to better the industry is to meet the demands of the final consumers. One doesn’t join the ISC to have tangible advantages right away; those who join the ISC understand that the only real and long lasting advantage is the consequence of creating a base of satisfied customers, even if that means going back to school and embracing standards and guidelines that are much more professionally and ethically demanding than the current establishment.

There are serious problems in the industry, and we need serious people to solve them. The members of the ISC appreciate the fact that stone education does not come in a bottle and can’t be summarized in a glossy brochure and a few, easy-to-remember canned blanket rules. Furthermore, stone education can’t be compromised with, because the only real education is the one coming from science, and there’s no democracy in science. Serious no-compromise standards must be enforceable, not just mere recommendations full of compromises. The ISC is not going to be run by membership consensus; one becomes member to learn, and listen, not to talk; unless, of course, one is or will become qualified enough (and recognized as such) to talk.

The standards and guidelines that the ISC will enunciate and suggest to the industry will either be accepted and implemented on a volunteer basis, or they will be enforced with the support and endorsement of the proper authorities. The ISC is more than willing to work with the current industry establishment, but it will simply not compromise science or business ethics in order not to upset a group of interested parties or another.

In conclusion, the only real requirements for becoming a member of the ISC is to understand and believe in what the ISC stands for and being willing to help toward the achievements of the ISC  goals.

In another section of this information package we gave a list of the “advantages” of becoming a member of the ISC. We forgot to list the most important and the one that really count: the main advantage for becoming an ISC member is being an ISC member. It was the great John F. Kennedy who said, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country!” The members of the ISC are not asking what the ISC can do for them, but what they can do for the ISC.

Thank you.

The ISC team