Trade Only are delighted to be partnering with the industry’s leading software provider, PromoServe Business Systems, to offer distributors a truly spectacular show promotion, available exclusively to visitors to the Trade Only National Show 2010.

Starting with the industry’s leading promotional products catalogue, Spectrum, we have put together a package which promises an end to end marketing and business management solution for distributors.

The package includes an easily customisable end user website, advanced access to TradeOnlySearch.com, and a PromoServe Lite software licence, inclusive of technical support, training and upgrades.

Full details will follow in the new year as Diane Mensley, Operations Director of Trade Only comments: “As the country starts to recover from the recession, we felt it was time we really pushed the boat out to offer distributors a one stop shop for all of their business requirements. The deal we’ve put together combines the absolute best the industry can offer in terms of catalogues, product research, online marketing and business management software.”

Graham Anderson, Customer Support Director at PromoServe Business Systems, adds “There are lots of Spectrum Catalogue users who don’t use PromoServe, and a fair few PromoServe users who don’t use TradeOnlySearch.com. That’s fine, but it’s always been the case that the more of our combined services you use together, the better efficiencies you achieve. This package deal is designed to make that absolutely transparent, and I’m really looking forward to gauging distributors’ reactions at the Show.”

For more information visit the Package Deal website or contact:

Diane Mensley
Trade Only Ltd
Unit 4 Rhodes Business Park
Silburn Way, Manchester Old Road
Middleton, Manchester M24 4NE

Email: diane.mensley@tradeonly.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 844 880 2751

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’s home-grown turning page software Network Catalogue software that breathes life into online catalogues such as Spectrum and Envoy has now engaged with “one-click” logo technology.

Distributors are now able to offer a brand new unique service allowing allows potential customers to view a bespoke version complete of the distributor’s catalogue complete with the customer’s logo on every product creating a great sales tool.

The bespoke Network Catalogues can be created by uploading the customer’s logo just once. The products are automatically branded in and the virtual catalogue is ready to send in minutes.

The ability for distributors to allow end-users to search for products  from their own existing website has been something of a big ask until recently. The Trade Only Search team have solved this problem with a very simple add on. Not only this but the search panel it creates is as advanced as TradeOnlySearch itself.

Nigel Hill, TradeOnlySearch.com developer:

We had to jump through a few hoops to get this product working, but luckily distributors won’t need to make such an effort to put a complete product search solution on their own site(s).

The functionality behind the API is simple – it reads live product data from TradeOnlySearch and displays it on your own website;

Anyone who runs their own site, even using free hosting can add this API to their site. It could even be placed in a blog. It’s so simple to implement.

By placing a small amount of HTML on any web page, the API kicks in. It loads in the advanced search panel from which end-users can find products and send enquiries. The product data is 100% live, it doesn’t leave the site it’s on and enquiries go straight to the distributor’s inbox.

Using the very simple management page on Search distributors can choose which search options they want to display on their panel(s), colours, categories, price range, etc etc.

To find out more about the Search Panel API, if you’re a subscribed user, just log in to Trade Only and click API from your account menu.

This is an example of the live API

Mr Swift and Mr Bygone need to regularly meet suppliers to view the latest and greatest promotional items available.
Mr Swift is on his way to Coventry for the annual Trade Only National Exhibition where he will meet 200 suppliers in one place, while the hapless Mr Bygone, however, has other ideas…

Mr Swift and Mr Bygone have been asked to provide samples of promotional gifts for a potential new client.