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CLIENT CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
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The registration deadline has passed but late registrations are being accepted. Use this link to register online for our April 14-16, 2004 National Client Conference at the Eldorado Hotel Casino in Reno, NV. Plan now to attend! You can check out the conference agenda below.
ONLINE REGISTRATION
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WELCOME, NEW QUANTUM CLIENTS
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| NEW QUANTUM CLIENTS |
| Alpha Business Forms |
Tallahassee, FL |
| BPL Company |
Cincinnati, OH |
| Bradley Marketing Group |
Fairfield, NJ |
| Corporate Business Forms |
Springfield, MO |
| Greystone Printing |
Carson City, NV |
| Holden Custom Products |
Richardson, TX |
| Hub Business Graphics |
Newton, MA |
| Performance, Inc. |
Baltimore, MD |
| Signature Media Group |
Eden Prairie, MN |
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| NEW QUANTUM NET CLIENTS |
| Boise Cascade Office Products |
Kent, WA |
| Bradley Marketing Group |
Fairfield, NJ |
| Corporate Business Forms |
Springfield, MO |
| Financial Printing Solutions |
Preston, CT |
| Prestige Business Forms |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| Signature Media Group |
Eden Prairie, MN |
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100+ Clients Already Registered For Reno Conference
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Don’t miss YOUR opportunity for education, networking and FUN! There’s still time to join the more than 100 Quantum clients who have already registered for our April National Client Conference. The conference will consist of software training, educational speakers, previews of coming software enhancements and round table forum discussions. . |
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Panelists for the Round Table Forum “Growing Your Company with E-Commerce” are: |
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| Rick Field |
CTP Solutions |
Agoura Hills, CA |
| David Geddes |
JDP Print Management |
Melbourne, AUS |
| Steve Gent |
Maine Printing |
Portland, ME |
| Matt Wilson |
Print Management Group |
Indian Trails, NC |
| Nathan Goldberg |
SOS Office Solutions |
Phoenix, AZ |
| Holly Ramsay |
T.R. Burke Company |
Lenexa, KS |
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Panelists for the Round Table Forum “How To Market Promotional Products” are: |
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| Marie Zinzer |
Barker Business Systems |
Reno, NV |
| Eric Snelz |
Intraform, Inc. |
Phoenix, AZ |
| Robert Penn |
Prime Business Solutions |
Akron, OH |
| Judy Coovert |
Printcom, Inc. |
Seattle, WA |
| Phil Taylor |
Taylor Business Products |
N. Wilkesboro, NC |
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Listen, Learn and Profit
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The conference will feature several speakers. Eric Snelz, EVP of Intraform, Inc., a 2003 DMIA Top 50 Distributorship, will discuss the strategic marketing plan behind Intraform's major entry into promotional product sales. Susan Simpson of InfoSpectrum will show how to use GoldMine contact management to improve customer relations. And, David Pydlek of United Stationers will show how easily and successfully office products can be added to your Quantum Net e-commerce site to increase sales.
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NEW Quantum Digital Assistant!
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A new software module, Quantum Digital Assistant (QDA), will be introduced at the conference. QDA provides sales reps a computer in the "palm" of their hand. Download client files, item catalogs, purchase history and reorder notices into your QDA for instant reference. Enter PO's, releases, RFQ's and client quotes by simply docking your QDA and uploading to Quantum. Save time, make money and impress your clients with the all new Quantum Digital Assistant!
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April Client Conference Agenda
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The Quantum Spring Client Conference will be held April 14-16 at the Eldorado Hotel & Casino in Reno, NV. Mark your calendars NOW and plan to attend this exciting, educational event. LATE REGISTATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED. |
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| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14th, 2004 |
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| 6-9 p.m. |
Welcome Reception |
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Eldorado Hotel & Casino |
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| THURSDAY, APRIL 15th, 2004 |
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| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration, Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome/Conference Overview |
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Ross Barker, CEO, FMDS |
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| 9:00 a.m. |
e-Quantum : What's New? |
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FMDS Staff |
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Discover all about the major enhancements in your latest Quantum release. Our FMDS commitment to you: we enhance our software, so you can enhance your profits. |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Q-STORE For Retail Internet Sales |
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FMDS Staff |
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Learn how e-commerce can be even more profitable and powerful for your company using our new Q-STORE module for company stores and retail websites. |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Inventory Management: Receiving, Releases, Reorders |
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FMDS Staff |
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Training will be done on Quantum’s three R’s: Receiving, Releases and Reorders. New features will cover Generating Purchase Orders from a Reorders List, and printing Bargraph Reorder Notices. |
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| 11:00 a.m. |
Dynamic Promotional Product Sales |
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Guest speaker |
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Promotional products are a rapidly increasing revenue source for today’s successful distributors. Learn how to institute a dynamic program to increase promotional product sales in your company. |
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| 11.00 a.m. |
Imprints and Attributes - Purchase Orders to Invoices |
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FMDS Staff |
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Learn how to enter Purchase Orders for attributes and imprints and how to create an imprint warehouse release. This PO will be invoiced explaining how extra charges can be detailed separately or included on the line item. |
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| Noon |
Luncheon, Hosted by Team Quantum |
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| 1:30 p.m. |
Promotional Products Roundtable |
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FMDS Distributor Clients |
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Don’t miss this open forum roundtable opportunity to learn from your peers and share your successes. Distributors from around the country will share their success stories and relate ways to increase promotional product sales and profits. |
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| 1:30 p.m. |
Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable |
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FMDS Staff |
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Learn to enter deposits and use the deposit slip feature, enter deposits against POs, create write-offs, enter receipts for credit cards and run AR month-end reports. The AP discussion will cover how to post expenses from AP to POs, void checks, perform check reconciliation and AP Period End Processing. |
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| 2:30 p.m. |
Break |
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| 2:45 p.m. |
Credit Cards, Freight, Sales Tax |
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FMDS Staff |
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This session will cover how to accept, verify, authorize and process credit cards online. How to setup Freight and Sales Tax tables to automatically add to your Quantum Net and Q-Store orders. |
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| 2:45 p.m. |
Quantum Net - New Variable Print Imaging |
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John Freeman, FMDS |
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Learn how Quantum Net’s new, enhanced template capabilities, including one-to-one marketing and electronic file transfers for variable imaging can spell “profits” for you. |
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| 5:30 p.m. |
Dinner and Show |
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Registration/reservations required. Enjoy a group dinner at the Eldorado Hotel & Casino followed by the fast paced floor show Broadway, The Star-Spangled Celebration. A glittering salute to the Best of Broadway. You’ll enjoy spectacular highlights from the greatest shows of all time, including: Grease, Chicago, 42nd Street, Les Miserable, and lots more. |
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| Friday, April 16th, 2004 |
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| 8:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:30 a.m. |
New Quantum Digital Assistant |
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Rob Buntin, FMDS |
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Now sales representatives can carry a computer in the “palm” of their hand. Learn how Quantum Digital Assistant (QDA) holds the secret to sales success. QDA puts client files, item catalogs, reorder notification and perpetual inventories in the “palm” of your hand. RFQ’s, client quotes, PO’s and releases can also be automatically generated in Quantum from your QDA. Give your company an amazing sales advantage (and your CSR’s a break). |
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| 9:00 a.m. |
Growing Your Company With E-Commerce |
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Roundtable Forum |
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Hear from the REAL experts--FMDS distributors who have successfully used Quantum Net to increase sales and profits, generate new product sales, and build customer confidence. This will be a lively, interactive roundtable discussion that will leave you energized and ready to try some new ideas in your business. |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Using Quantum Net, From A to Z |
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FMDS Staff |
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If you're just starting down the e-commerce road, you'll want to attend this session. The FMDS staff will help you learn how to set up Internet clients and items, perform data exports and imports, and allow your clients to place all orders -- from custom imprints to stock catalog items -- using e-commerce. |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Selling Office Products is Easy and Profitable |
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Brian Cusick, USSCo |
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Electronic ordering makes selling office products easy. It’s a natural addition to our traditional product lines. Brian will explain how you can become a USSCo distributor and how USSCo will assist you to become a successful office products distributor. |
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| 11:00 a.m. |
Commercial Print-Speclets |
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FMDS Staff |
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Distributors specializing in commercial printing can use our new, user definable speclets. Speclets can be defined in the RFQ, Quote and/or the Purchase Order. The quote contains a new worksheet that accumulates vendor expenses and determines margin for each expense. A multiple vendor commercial print P O processes orders with the artwork files attached. Learn how PO Follow Up Status and Billing Notes offer enhanced order tracking. |
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| 11:00 a.m. |
Inventory-Updating General Ledger |
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FMDS Staff |
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Learn how to update General Ledger when Releasing, Receiving, Adjusting and Returning distributor Owned inventory. Department setup, formatting GL reports, Pensoft interface will be covered. |
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| Noon |
Luncheon, Hosted by Team Quantum |
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| 1:30 p.m . |
Q-Send- Interfaces to UPS/Federal Express and Exports |
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FMDS Staff |
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Discover how the new Quantum interfaces to UPS World Ship and FedEx will save you invoicing and shipping time. Learn how you can now send warehouse releases electronically to remote warehouses. |
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| 1:30 p.m. |
Price Plans |
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Learn to customize client pricing to help ensure bottom line profitability. Now Quantum lets you set different prices for different customers, regions, competitive situations or other conditions. This feature offers flexible, user-defined formula-based pricing calculations. Item price levels can be defined at both the customer and item level. |
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| 2:15 p.m. |
GoldMine Contact Manager |
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Susan Simpson, InfoSpectrum |
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Combine Quantum, the forms industry’s best-selling software, with Goldmine’s award-winning client management and watch your business soar! Learn to use GoldMine to leverage the power of Quantum. Susan is a Senior Implementation Specialist with infoSpectrum, an Authorized GoldMine Reseller that has helped a number of Quantum users improve their customer management with GoldMine. |
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| 3:00 p.m. |
Break |
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| 3:15 p.m. |
Royalties and Commissions |
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FMDS Staff |
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Need help with calculating commissions and royalties? Let our FMDS staff explain all the capabilities of your Quantum system, including our most recent enhancements. |
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| 4:00 p.m |
Time Saving Tips For Quantum Use |
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FMDS Staff |
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Quantum is full of time saving features of which many clients are unaware, including “jumps” and displays. Attend this session and learn time saving tips that will make your Quantum use easier and faster. |
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| 4:30 p.m. |
Blue Sky Session/Conclusion |
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