For the last 4 years, Trade Only have helped distributors win more than 100,000 orders through the use of a virtual sampling service that gives the ability to upload and place a logo on virtually any product in TradeOnlySearch.com and quickly and easily email it straight to a client, saving time and money.

With such a great success helped by the high quality images that come as standard on Trade Only Search, the team have now innovated a completely new process for making virtual samples that saves even more time, requires no knowledge at all of how to use the software tool and works in an instant.

Virtual samples “a thing of of the past”

This huge leap forward, saves the distributor and having to check that they have Java or their PC or need to worry about the size and quality of the images, or even to have to remove any existing logos on the products. With the new Version 3 of market leading Trade Only Search, you can apply a client logo to five, ten, five hundred products or even five thousand with just one upload, with every print method and print area perfectly selected for you making virtual samples “a thing of of the past”.

Reactions at the Trade Only National show to this new Brand-on-Demand™ technology was incredible, distributors were delighted as the logo they selected appeared on every single Brand on Demand in a few seconds, ready to send as either a quote or an ideas sheet to their client.

This new technology is estimated to be 100 times faster than traditional virtual sample technology for a typical idea or quote sheet of 30 items, cutting the time takes to do this from an hour to less than a minute.

From now on, distributors will be able to work productively on speculative quotes and ideas for clients without any extra costs, boosting productivity, sales and conversion rates.

Nigel Hill, head of web development for Trade Only said “We are delighted to be able to deliver this incredible and market leading solution to distributors, we have worked for the last 18 months to deliver a solution that you have to see to believe, and the feedback from the small number of beta users has been 100% positive”

He continued, “Most exciting of all is that we have built this technology into our web stores as used by leading distributors, meaning that end users can look at a distributor web site, upload their logo once, and every item in the site will be displayed with their logo automatically”

Trade Only, the leading marketing and information solutions provider for the Promotional Product Industry has announced record breaking attendance for the Trade Only National Show held last week. The show is now well established as the premier promotional product show in the UK.

The two day show held for the 3rd year running at the International Events Centre at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry saw 1884 unique distributor visitors visiting the show with 188 attending on both days. This was a 38% increase on 2008. 1600 of the visitors had pre-registered prior to the show.

Nigel Bailey, Event Director for Trade Only said

“it has been an amazing week; the footfall has exceeded our expectations. Reaction from exhibitors and visitors alike has been fantastic, the whole team are on a high.”

With 250 exhibitors and brands at the show, there was not an inch of floor space unsold

“we even sold off some of the designated café area, such was the pressure for space”

commented Bailey who revealed that more than 70% of the stand space had resold before the show closed.

“It would probably have been more but the show was busy right up to closing and exhibitors could not get off their stands”.

Attendees from 27 countries were also able to take in the extended Power Session and Keynote programme held during the show in the venues state of the art theatres. On the middle night of the show, 500 exhibitors and visitors celebrated at a glittering awards dinner hosted at the Arena by the BPMA.

The show has also been nominated in the ‘Best Trade Launch’ category in the Association of Exhibition Organisers Excellence Awards by the Ricoh Arena.

The dates announced for TONS10 are 27th – 28th January 2010.