Advertorial: DFS
For more than 30 years, DFS has exclusively served the print trade. Today, the company continues to broaden and deepen its line of products and services.
“Our ‘core’ users are from a wide variety of business segments and business sizes,” says DFS President Fred Collins, “including printers, distributors, office product resellers, promotional product distributors, VARS and graphic designers.”
The Groton, Massachusetts-based company currently offers more than 2,000 products geared to help resellers’ customers do two things: manage operations and market themselves. Product lines — offered in both standard formats and fully customizable options — include checks and forms, stationery and correspondence materials, promotional products, business-to-customer greeting cards, marketing materials and retailer supplies.
At the same time, DFS puts great effort into its reseller service and support. For instance, by leveraging multiple printing sites across North American, the company can turn around standard orders within three business days and most customized orders within six days. And backing most orders is a one hundred-percent, no-questions-asked satisfaction guarantee.
“We’re really focused on resellers,” said Collins, “how we can create an even closer partnership with them and what we can provide to help them thrive.”
In fact, to enhance that partnership, DFS introduced myDFShub.com for resellers. It’s a free online resource portal that provides resellers with tips, insights and an assortment of sales tools for online and off-line marketing. Tools include reseller-branded catalogs, banner ads and emails they can use with customers and potential customers.
This philosophy of support is evident in the company’s dedicated website specifically for its full-color products. Designated DFSfullcolor.com, the site provides resellers with lower prices and faster ordering than before, quick response and delivery, and easy, direct access to full color marketing materials, as well as design templates and archiving.
In 2015, DFS made news when it began selling an innovative email-able digital check, called eChecksPro. The product has been shown to save customers as much as one dollar per payment over paper checks and dramatically decrease the risk of fraud.
“It’s an important addition for our resellers,” said Collins at the launch. “With basically no added workload to their already busy days, eChecks helps them offer their customers a new way to pay bills. It also allows resellers to attract and retain more customers, provides a new revenue stream and helps them stay ahead of the competition.”
Also this year, DFS added the Signature Packaging line to help those resellers reach deeper into the retail markets. The line offers customizable shopper bags, boxes, tissue paper, gift wrap, ribbon and other accessories, and this year features a 56-page catalog, updated twice each year with new designs.
Other product lines offered by DFS include customizable greeting cards and gifts for the holiday season — as well as cards for many personal occasions such as birthdays — logo design services and tax forms.
For more information about DFS, visit DFSonline.com or call 800-225-9528.
