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Pagefolio
39 Commerce Rd.
Lindsay, ON
K9V 5Y3
Email our sales manager: ronrichman@pagefolio.com
Clients
“Working with your company is always a pleasure and I'm reassured knowing that we are in very capable hands. Over the years, your organization has proven to be accurate, reliable and supportive of our business needs. Your staff’s insistence for operational excellence is admirable and truly an invaluable asset to our company.” Karen Mahabir - Market Analyst 3M Canada, Industrial Business Marketing
“We’ve been more than satisfied with the quality of work that your company provides. Your staff consistently meets our requirements and we really appreciate their commitment.” Ron Mabee and Judy Hodgins Imation Canada Inc.
“True partnerships stand the test of time, and I’ve had the pleasure of working with the Pagefolio group for almost seven years. Dependability and integrity are two attributes that describe our relationship. My projects are always time-sensitive and often very complex. The strength of our relationship lies in the confidence of knowing that the job will be done as planned and on time.” Jerry Redwood - Marketing Manager Barouh Eaton (Canada) Ltd.
“I can always count on your staff for speedy replies and for making every effort to meet tight deadlines. Their work is accurate and thorough. I appreciate that they take time to check with me to clarify my instructions, or if they catch something I have missed.” Gail Wensink - Sales Support Manager Avery Dennison Canada, Office Products Group
"We’re continually impressed with the level of service, quality and commitment exhibited by any of the personnel we have worked with over the years at Pagefolio. They consistently meet all deadlines with an incredible attention to detail and accuracy. Thank you for making our business stronger!" Rob Stewart - Marketing Manager Acme United Limited
"We’re pleased to have such a strong and personal working relationship with the staff at Pagefolio. They demonstrate a sense of urgency to constant changes in a deadline oriented environment. Their professionalism and attention to detail continue to exceed our expectations." Wendy Pole, Assistant Product Manager - Kensington ACCO Canada Inc.
“You’re doing an excellent job in interpreting our information. I’m really pleased with your product. Your group is smart, professional and very thorough.” Cindy Andreoli - Director, Marketing Communication GBC Commercial and Consumer Group, Chicago. IL USA
“Your team at Pagefolio is very organized, thorough, and friendly. They’ve provided helpful suggestions for improved design, quicker processes, and reduced costs. Working with Pagefolio has always been a positive experience.” Melissa Howie - Associate Channel Manager (Superstores) Sanford Canada
"You provide a valuable service, which we would be challenged to accomplish on our own as professionally and efficiently as you do." Mario DaCosta - Marketing Manager GBC Commercial & Consumer Group, Concord, ON Canada
Services
Take the stress out of price list preparation
A price list project involves many distinct tasks. Failure to complete any one of them accurately and on time can seriously affect the success of your project.
Of course, there are strategic issues you can only handle in house. However, there are many development and production tasks that you can safely turn over to outside experts at Pagefolio.
We’re well equipped to help you with:
We have the skills, experience and equipment you need to produce and distribute your next price list.
Choose the specific services you need – or let us look after it all
Once you’ve made the management decisions – price changes, which products to add or delete, the effective date, and so on – the nuts and bolts work begins. Pagefolio can help you with any or all of the tasks below.
1. Creation and use of special tools for gathering, organizing and communicating changes
2. Preparing the information
3. Format decisions
We’d be pleased to discuss your specific needs and suggest how we might help. You can call us at (888)-467-6879 or e-mail our sales manager: ronrichman@pagefolio.com.
Why Pagefolio?
Focus
Producing price lists and catalogs- accurately and on time - is our business. It’s been our primary focus for over twenty years. The project manager we assign to your project is experienced. Depending on the services you choose, he or she is fully responsible for completing your price list and delivering it to your customers in time to meet your target date.
To maintain this focus, your project manager will provide you with a detailed plan, with intermediate target dates for each phase of the preparation. You’ll know exactly where the project is through every step in the process.
Planning
We plan every aspect of the schedule and make sure that all activities come together at the right time. We consider:
State-of-the-art tools
Good tools make for efficient processes. The software tools we’ve developed specifically for price list production maximize every moment of time. Because your PageFolio project manager has access to a team of resources, several key activities can take place simultaneously, minimizing turn around time.
Experienced team
The PageFolio team applies highly developed skill sets, acquired over time and applied daily to many projects. We know the best procedures, the best tools for the task, and the most effective ways to use those tools.
Combine that with a proven system, plus a team focus on the mission deadline, and you get the best possible results in the least amount of time.
We’d be pleased to discuss your specific needs and suggest how we might help. You can call us at (888)-467-6879 or e-mail our sales manager ronrichman@pagefolio.com.
Corporate Advantages
Focus on your core activities. Leave the price list and catalog details to us.
With Pagefolio, you have options. You can rely on our experienced team to step up and take over this time consuming task.
Keep your focus
That means you can keep your team’s energy focused on your marketing game plan — do what you do best and let others do the rest.
Rent a price list expert
With Pagefolio, you get all the advantages of the latest price list technologies and methodologies. You’ll have access to resources and expertise that either isn’t available in house, or is difficult for your staff to maintain and acquire since it isn’t their main activity.
Make the best use of your resources
If you split up responsibility among your team, you reduce the focus of each one on their core activities. If you rely on the availability and knowledge of a single individual, it can create a level of stress that can adversely affect productivity. You also risk losing all your price list expertise should that person leave or transfer elsewhere in the organization.
Have services available when you need them
You seldom have the luxury of choosing the timing of price changes. Those decisions tend to be unpredictable and come at inopportune times. Yet completing the new price list is crucial to corporate profitability. And a document that presents a professional image of your company makes you look good too.
At Pagefolio, we’re always “on call’. We’re there for you, whether you need a full publication or urgent updates. Vacation schedules, sickness, staff turnover, and workload are no longer your problem.
Production Advantages
“Do-It-Yourself” isn’t always the best price list or catalog solution
Not when you can delegate with confidence to the professionals at Pagefolio.
You can turn the whole project over to us. Or just the parts you don’t have the time or tools to look after yourself. Here are some of the benefits you’ll gain.
Effective use and transfer of data
There’s much more to a new price list than simple price changes. Often, more of your time is spent deleting old products, adding new ones and modifying existing data. How you handle these issues directly affects the timeliness and accuracy of the final product.
We work with you closely to determine the most effective and efficient ways for you to get the change information to us. That might be as simple as having you mark up your existing hard copy and e-mailing us any special instructions. Or as sophisticated as helping you with import/export activities to take advantage of the data in your financial, marketing or other databases. We can also provide digital tools and data for you to use as work files that we can exchange.
Just tell us what works best for you, and we’ll adapt to meet your specific needs and capabilities.
Efficient use of your time
You’ll be pleased to learn how much we can do with a minimum amount of instruction. Not surprising, since we’ve been working with companies like yours for years. Our team is competent and knowledgeable. They have experience in many industries. We know how to interpret your instructions, and you can depend on us to pull it all together and do it right.
Accuracy
Price list mistakes are both embarrassing and costly. So over the years we’ve developed special validation tools and procedures to ensure that your new price list will be error free. Not just in pricing, but in all elements of the product information. If something doesn’t look right, we question it and confirm with you, rather than blindly forging ahead with the project.
Attention to details
Completing the price pages themselves doesn’t complete the whole project. We put equal effort into the other areas that are so important to users. We use special database publishing tools to create Tables of Content, Numerical Indexes, and Summaries of Changes. Like all true professionals, we pay attention to the details.
Flexibility
Using the power of database publishing, we can quickly, and inexpensively, create additional price list editions for other price levels or an additional language. We can even produce customized price list editions for specific customers or distribution channels.
Why Outsource?
“We need to get out a new price list.”
Dreaded words to most marketing departments with a broad product offering.
Producing a new price list or catalog is a complex task. The deadline is usually tight. Because it’s only done occasionally, the experience and skills needed to do the job are seldom readily available. Nor are the appropriate tools. Other important marketing activities and projects may be delayed while scarce resources are devoted to the job.
Still, there’s no way around it. Or is there?
It’s a common practice for enterprises today to outsource specialized projects and services. Is there an experienced supplier of price list and catalog services?
Yes there is. PageFolio has been providing price list and catalog service to businesses in a broad range of industries since 1979. We have the experience, skills and tools in place to take on whichever aspect of your project you need help with. Or, if you wish, to take on the whole project, end-to-end, from design to calculation to printing and distribution.
And you’ll have a new price list or catalog without the in-house hassle. One that’s well designed, accurate, ready on time – and comes in within your budget.
What makes an effective Price List or Catalog?
It’s clear, comprehensive and easy to use
Your price list or catalog may very well be the most widely used document you produce. It’s a constant source of reference for your customers. A well-designed, easy-to-use document makes it easier for them to order from you. It also illustrates your professionalism.
It complements your other marketing efforts
A good price list or catalog is a single source for all your product information. It should complement your other marketing efforts. Of course, it should adhere to industry standards and present a positive corporate image.
It makes the buying decision easy
It contains all the information buyers need and it makes it easy for them to find that information. Good layout, effective indexing, quick references, graphics and change indicators help to avoid user frustration.
It’s cost-effective
Good design also contributes to lower production costs by making efficient use of space and keeping page count to a minimum.
It’s available in a variety of media
While there will always be a need for some hard copy price lists, the era of digital pricing and product information has arrived. You can distribute this data on CDs, DVDs, by e-mail broadcast, or over the Web.
Your own company can take advantage of digital data to upload the results of the price list preparation into your financial computer systems. So can your customers.
Your sales people and customers can use digital spreadsheet files to edit and manipulate the data for other marketing purposes. You can even make your price list portable for use with Palm® and other hand held devices.
You can rely on Pagefolio for help with any or all of these issues. After all, price lists and catalogs are our business. We have the experience, skill sets and tools to ensure your price list or catalog will look good and work well.
Solutions
You can use the menu on the left to discover what makes a good price list or catalog and why outsourcing has its advantages. Find out how Pagefolio can offer production and corporate advantages and see why pagefolio should be your choice for price list and catalog solutions.
About Us
Pagefolio – The Price List and Catalog Publishing Specialists
Pagefolio has been helping North American business simplify their price list publishing since 1979.
Thirteen years in national sales and marketing positions in the office products industry convinced our founder that businesses needed a better way to produce and distribute price lists. To meet this need, he formed a new company, SIPS (Stationers Information Processing Services).
SIPS began as a provider of pricing systems to the office products industry.
Over the years our client base, and our name, changed. Now Pagefolio is a leader in the field of price list publishing. By focusing on the unique requirements of complex pricing documents, we’ve been able to develop specialized tools and techniques that reduce costs and add value.
Companies across North America rely on Pagefolio for a broad range of price list services. Many of these businesses have been with us from the start, a testament to our corporate goal of building long-term relationships with our clients.
Our distributed network houses the latest industry technology. That includes all the tools needed to develop, produce and distribute electronic price lists. Our clients can publish their price lists on CDs and DVDs, distribute them by e-mail and the Web, or through contract printers if hard copy is desired.
Confidentiality and security are top priorities
Price lists are highly sensitive documents. We’re acutely aware of how important it is to keep client data confidential.
We’re equally serious about protecting their data from loss. Our own Internet server with full high speed connectivity ensures fast and secure data transmission with our clients. We back up all data daily and store backup media off-premises, along with historical archives. Hardware protection includes redundancy planning, battery backup and full firewall protection.
Thorough and detailed procedures and controls ensure we deliver the high level of accuracy and consistency our clients demand. These procedures are carried out by veteran employees who are proud of their reputation as skilled and knowledgeable problem solvers.
