Exclusive
In-House Marketing Offer

HP is making it easier, faster, and more affordable for your customers to market their business. With new products and tools for creating and printing colorful, professional-quality marketing materials, anyone can do it in-house and in line with a small business budget. In most cases, small businesses can save more than 50 percent by printing in-house versus outsourcing. To aid in these efforts, United is offering In-House Marketing Bundles that are available exclusively to our dealers. Custom bundles contain four toner cartridges, a pack of glossy brochure paper and HP Business Marketing Software. This bundle will help your customers create and print professional marketing pieces at a fraction of the price for an outsourced job. Contact your United account manager for additional details.

Don’t Miss OfficeLine’s Special Furniture Issue

With annual sales of more than $11 billion, the office furniture business is huge — and so are the opportunities for United dealers to get more than their fair share of the sales and profits it generates. To help in that effort we’ve published a special Furniture Edition of OfficeLine. Whether your business currently sells furniture on a transactional basis from the pages of the General Line catalog or has a division dedicated to large furniture projects, you'll find value in the topics, insights and perspectives addressed in this special issue. The special Furniture Edition, included with the May/June issue of OfficeLine, is in the mail now so keep your eyes open for it or check it out online.

Be Sure to Visit
United's Showing at NeoCon This June

United Stationers will showcase featured furniture products and programs at this June's NeoCon. On display will be top quality Alera products, including the modular veneer Verona and the contemporary modular laminate Seville casegoods, as well as the new contemporary EQ chair and several other new chairs. United's Direct Access program will be well-represented by both the Simon and the Suzy panel systems and the A-grade files of McDowell-Craig. And there will be live demonstrations of both the Online Furniture Catalog and enhanced e-commerce capabilities and the Visual Planner layout and sales productivity tool. See a demo of both the Online Catalog and the Visual Planner to be included in a drawing for several prizes including a Wii Bundle, Bluetooth headsets, and iPod Shuffles, or a custom designed website! Visit the United Stationers NeoCon booth on the 7th floor, booth #7062, June 9-11 at Chicago's Merchandise Mart.

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Master HP Savings
Up to 35% With
Kung Fu Panda™

When your customers log onto to PurchasEdge.com this quarter, they'll get a 10%–30% discount toward their next point redemption. When they’re online at PurchasEdge they can try to beat the Kung Fu Panda memory game to increase their savings by another 5%. PurchasEdge keeps customers combing back. On average customers who join the program increase their HP supplies purchases at a compound annual growth rate of 26%.

HP Big Deals

HP Big Deals are quotes that contain specially negotiated HP hardware and supplies cost reductions, designed to offer end-user discounts through channel partners that make HP more competitive to the customer. Big Deals are granted in competitive situations where there is a strategic partnership between HP and the end user. The minimum annual sales to qualify for a Big Deal is $250,000 for supplies and $25,000 for hardware. When creating a Big Deal, an end user will identify HP resellers that it will seek quotes from. If you are listed as an authorized reseller on a Big Deal, please contact your United Stationers Technology Sales representative for a price quote.

What can we
do for you?
97% of customers remain with the reseller who originally signed them up for PurchasEdge. And, on average, customers who join the program increase their HP supplies purchases at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 36.5%. Visit the Web site to learn more about the latest member promotions.

When independent office products
dealers want to grow, they turn to software from ECi. Whether growth means adding new accounts or boosting the bottom line with improved operational control, ECi has solutions for dealers of every size and business model. Support for additional lines of business like furniture, equipment and jan/san; employees with practical industry experience; customer involvement in development — these are just a few of the reasons why more dealers rely on ECi software than all other industry-specific software packages combined.

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How to Stay
Well-Informed
If you’re not receiving OfficeLine magazine from United Stationers you’re not getting all the latest information on new products, new promotions, merchandising developments and everything you need to know about how to make your dealership more productive and more profitable.

Subscribing is easy. Just log onto the OfficeLine Web site, fill out the form, click on “submit” and you’ll be sure to receive the very next issue.