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Online sales have increased dramatically but many resellers lack an easy way for their customers to order online. To help resellers diversify, stay competitive and capture their share of the online printing business, DFS is offering 4Printing.com, an e-business storefront platform. It’s a perfect complement to your current business and an affordable way to offer a breadth of products including checks, forms, holiday cards and more for customers who prefer to shop online, anytime. You can easily customize your site with just a few clicks and no technology experience is necessary. Set up is fast and you can do it yourself or an account manager can do it for you. The yearly hosting fee is $99 a year and your website can be ready in 15 minutes, just in time to close the year strong! To get started go to admin.4printing.com or call 800.209.7630.

Now DFS resellers can be open for business 24/7 with a new private label website that offers checks, forms, holiday cards and more. Resellers can choose from multiple designs, upload their logo and contact information, pick the products they want to sell and their margins. Capture more market share, be more productive, and expand your business without adding to your payroll. Go to admin.4printing.com to get started or call 800.209.7630.

Ok, so you can study common economic indicators like the GDP, CPI, unemployment, inflation, deflation, housing markets, bulls and bears to determine if our economy is heading in the right direction. You can try to decipher stats and earnings to see if they are rising or falling. But I prefer to take a different approach. Perhaps you could call it the “Main Street” approach as opposed to the “Wall Street” approach to the hopeful economic rebound.

Would you rather undergo a root canal without anaesthesia than sell tax forms? If you answered “yes,” you’re missing out on one of the best perks of being a distributor—the opportunity to sell tax form products to every single customer and prospect you encounter throughout your career. Not only is there an undisputed marketplace need, but suppliers such as Jim Magdaleno, president, TFP Data Systems, Oxnard, Calif.; Teresa Budzynski and Paul Willard, sales reps for Broker Forms, Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Gretchen Walker, marketing manager, The DFS Group, Townsend, Mass., witness tax forms consistently generating profits for distributors who bother to take a little

Headquartered in Townsend, Mass.,The DFS Group’s tax form program had another solid season last year. Distributors earn margins of 50 percent, and can qualify for an end-of-season rebate. All sales are backed by the company’s unconditional, risk-free, 100 percent guarantee. The DFS Group provides a comprehensive selection of every government-approved tax form available, as well as matching envelopes. Distributors can utilize a 16-page, full-color brochure packed with the top-selling tax forms, envelopes and more. For more information, call (800) 225-9528. Visit www.bfls.com/infocenter and enter #200

DMIA’s annual Print Solutions conference and exposition will be held Oct. 3-5 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. The conference will provide three days of educational sessions, including a presentation by this year’s keynote speaker, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and co-author of “Contract with America.” Join Gingrich as he analyzes the current political climate in Washington, DC, and educates attendees on effective leadership. This year’s conference will feature equipment demonstrations, offering distributors better insight into how various applications are produced. In addition, exchange centers will be located on the show floor with more than 34 hours of

The DFS Group, Townsend, Mass., added dozens of new products to its 2006 Business Printing Catalog, including everyday cards; embossed anniversary seals; an extensive new line of high-quality custom and stock pre-inked stamps and new health-care products, such as prescription pads. The DFS Group has been selling business forms, checks, labels, full-color printing, tax forms, holiday cards and other related printed products through distributors for more than 20 years. For more information, visit www.dfsonline.com. Visit www.bfls.com/infocenter and enter #204