Vendors Extend Credit and Provide Trade References

• IMPORTANT!!! – For ALL of the vendors, when giving your company address, you MUST use the EXACT address that is on file with the secretary of state – click here to verify the address is EXACTLY the same
• The web site address for Effective Mass Marketing: www.effectivemassmarketing.com
• NO personal guarantee is required to get approved
• NO Paydex is required to get approved
• They do not report to D&B or Experian
• They will give you terms of Net 30
• They DO report to both business credit bureaus Cortera and Credit.net
• INFORMATION ALERT: Effective Mass Marketing does not perform search engine optimization or pay per click services for clients who have not purchased a website through them.
• No trade references are required to get approved. Simply apply for business credit.
• Phone: 207-512-5293
• HOW should you apply to Effective Mass Marketing? Over the internet. You should order something – such as the Marketing Education Package or a Website, and as part of the order, fill out a credit application. You will be notified of approval or denial within a couple of days.
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING ACTION:
• Best way to apply: go to their website: http://www.effectivemassmarketing.comClick on Products. Select your product (usually either Marketing Education Package or a Website), and then fill out the business credit application and the order form in full. Do NOT put a personal guarantee on – even if you are a new business. Our experience is that even new businesses that skip the personal guarantee get approved.
• Wait two business days from when you submitted the application, and you should have an email notifying you of their decision.
Gemplers – apply here fifth and pre-pay your order IF they don’t approve you
NOTICE/ DISCLAIMER: THE IMAGES BELOW HAVE BEEN REPRODUCED FROM GEMPLERS’ WEBSITE: GEMPLERS.COM. ALL IMAGES AND INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN ARE THE PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF GEMPLERS AND USE AND DISPLAY OF THESE IMAGES ARE REPRODUCED FOR THE EXPRESS AND LIMITED PURPOSE OF REFERENCE TO GEMPLERS’ WEBSITE. BUSINESS BUILDER ENTERPRISES, INC. IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH OR SPONSORED BY GEMPLERS, OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES. NO UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ANY IMAGE OR INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH IMAGE IS PERMITTED BY GEMPLERS PURSUANT TO ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL AND STATE TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT AND/OR TRADE SECRET LAWS.
• IMPORTANT!!! – For ALL of the vendors, when giving your company address, you MUST use the EXACT address that is on file with the secretary of state – click here to verify the address is EXACTLY the same
• The website address for Gemplers: www.gemplers.com
• NO personal guarantee is required to get approved.
• NO Paydex is required to get approved.
• They often give a “basic credit account limit” of $300
• For new businesses, it is possible that they will make you prepay for your first one or two orders, and then they will grant you terms of net 30.
• They DO report to D&B
• They do not report to Experian
• Gemplers reports to D&B quarterly
• Best way to apply: Online
• Hours: Monday – Friday 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Central Standard Time and Saturday from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Central Standard Time
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING ACTION:
• Find an item you wish to purchase and add it to your cart.
• Make sure your shopping cart is correct and click “Checkout”
• Fill out your business information (remember to use the address you filed with the secretary of state as your billing address. You may use a PO Box or another address as your shipping address if you wish.
• Only choose the “Ship Freight Collect Using My Carrior ” option if you have an account set up with a shipping company such as UPS/etc.
• IMPORTANT: Make sure you click the “Pay Using an Account ” option. DO NOT input your credit card information!
• You will need to create a purchase order number for your shipment. This can be a made up number but we recommend making it a number that you can understand because this will be what is used to keep track of your shipment.
• Click “Place Order”!
• Because you checked the “Pay Using Account” option (which is net 30 terms on your order), the order will be submitted to the credit department. If the credit department has any concerns or questions, they will call you, otherwise, if you don’t hear from them within a day the order will just ship out to you on net 30.
• IF YOU ARE DENIED, they may ask you pre-pay. It is OK to pre-pay, but you want to make sure you go back to the website and purchase another item under the Net30 account within 24-48 hours!
• IMPORTANT: You will need to pay for your purchase between 20 and 25 days from the date you ordered! If you pay before 20 days Gemplers will not report your purchase to Dun & Bradstreet.
Grainger – Apply here sixth
NOTICE/ DISCLAIMER: THE IMAGES BELOW HAVE BEEN REPRODUCED FROM GRAINGER’S WEBSITE: GRAINGER.COM. ALL IMAGES AND INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN ARE THE PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF GRAINGER AND USE AND DISPLAY OF THESE IMAGES ARE REPRODUCED FOR THE EXPRESS AND LIMITED PURPOSE OF REFERENCE TO GRAINGER’S WEBSITE. BUSINESS BUILDER ENTERPRISES, INC. IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH OR SPONSORED BY GRAINGER, OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES. NO UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ANY IMAGE OR INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH IMAGE IS PERMITTED BY GRAINGER PURSUANT TO ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL AND STATE TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT AND/OR TRADE SECRET LAWS.
• IMPORTANT!!! – For ALL of the vendors, when giving your company address, you MUST use the EXACT address that is on file with the secretary of state – click here to verify the address is EXACTLY the same
• The web site address for Grainger: www.grainger.com
• NO personal guarantee is required to get approved
• NO Paydex is required to get approved
• No trade references are required to get approved. Simply apply for $1000 or less in credit. You WILL need two trade references, and a bank reference if you apply for over $1000 in credit.
• They will give you terms of Net 30
• They may report to D&B
• They do NOT report to Experian
• INFORMATION ALERT: As recently as January 2011, we have received reports by clients who have made small purchases with Grainger, and that they have seen Grainger report to D&B automatically. We have ALSO had clients tell us that Grainger has told them that they won’t report to D&B unless a total of $1,000 worth or products are purchased from Grainger. We have also been told by clients that Grainger has told them that they won’t report unless $250 in products have been purchased from Grainger.
• We have also had clients who have made small purchases of $50-$100 tell us that Grainger has reported their account to D&B. This is obviously conflicting information.
• We highly, highly advise you to apply for and obtain the Grainger credit account. It is a standard part of our program. However, we do not want you to “RELY” on Grainger as being one of the two to three accounts that you need in order to get your PAYDEX score because they may not report, OR they may not report right away (they’ve said they only report quarterly). Grainger makes an excellent and powerful credit reference for your future applications because you will have a $1,000+ credit line with them, which is the biggest reason why we highly recommend you obtain this account.
• Phone: 888-361-8649
• HOW should you apply to Grainger? By Fax, and then call two days later to order something by phone
• Click here to listento what the conversation will sound like
• Click here to see a transcriptof how the conversation will go
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING ACTION:
• Best way to apply: find the fax number of your LOCAL office and fax in a completed application to them and then follow up with a phone call one business day later to order a product
• Click here for a pdf application: Grainger PDF Application
• To find a Grainger branch close to you, search using your zip code or telephone area code here: find a branch
• After finding your local Grainger store, note down their phone number (for future follow up) and their fax number, and fax your application to that store.
• Wait two business days from when you faxed in the application, and call to follow up with the specific branch that you faxed your application to. They will probably connect you with the new accounts team for further follow up. (The credit department may end up later asking you to fax them two forms of identification – one for yourself, which would be a copy of your driver’s license, and one form of ID for your business: either a faxed copy of your business card, OR a company check, OR a business license, OR a resale card.)
• Double click on the video “play” button below for a video showing how to fill out the Grainger application:
• IF YOU ARE DENIED, they may ask you pre-pay. It is OK to pre-pay, but you want to make sure you go back to the website and purchase another item under the Net30 account within 24-48 hours!
• IMPORTANT: You will need to pay for your purchase between 20 and 25 days from the date you ordered! If you pay before 20 days Grainger will not report your purchase to Dun & Bradstreet.
On Step 2 the two “KEY VENDORS” you NEED to get credit approvals with are Uline and Reliable. You NEED to get approved for a “credit account” by Uline and Reliable, PLUS you need to have paid for at least one order with Quill and at least one order with Gemplers. If you get denied for either Uline or Reliable, you need to pre-pay the order and order another product a few days later, asking for credit again from whichever vendor (Uline or Reliable) denied you. If they STILL want you to prepay, then prepay AGAIN, and then order another product a few days later, asking for credit again from whichever vendor (Uline or Reliable) denied you. If you have prepaid THREE times from whichever of these two vendors have denied you (Uline and/or Reliable) and you still have not been granted a credit account, then THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST DO NEXT. You must get one or two credit accounts from the Step 2 backup vendors.
THIS IS A MORE TECHNICAL EXPLANATION OF WHY THE BACKUP VENDORS STEP EXISTS. On Step 2 you need EITHER a minimum of THREE credit account approvals that will quickly show up on your Dun and Bradstreet report OR a minimum of TWO credit account approvals plus ONE cash experience that show up quickly on your Dun and Bradstreet report. The “KEYS” to getting this done are your Uline and Reliable credit approvals. The cash experiences portion of these requirements is easy to accomplish – for instance if Quill and Gemplers ask you to prepay, and you prepay both, between the two vendors, you’ll get at least one cash experience to report quickly (even if the other reports slowly). There is never any problem accomplishing the cash experience requirement because even if Quill and Gemplers don’t happen to approve you for credit, they will always be willing to sell to you on a “you pay first basis” – this is simple. So now let’s talk again about the more challenging portion of the requirements. Obtaining the two credit accounts from Uline and Reliable is the KEY. That is why if either Uline or Reliable denies you, you must prepay the order, then call back WITHIN A FEW DAYS and order something else (asking for credit again on this order.) You are hoping that on your second or third attempt that they will give you a credit account. You must get at least two credit accounts (and logically the two you normally must get approved for are Uline and Reliable.) If you fail to get Uline or Reliable to approve you, then you will use the “backup vendors” to replace the two accounts you need. So for example, if you got approved for Uline but not Reliable, then you would need ONE of the backup vendors to approve you. If for example you could not get approved (despite three attempts) with either Uline or Reliable, then you would need TWO backup vendors to approve you.
IMPORTANT NOTE: These backup vendors may ask for a large order before approving you for a Net 30 account. We believe that in most cases it is faster and less expensive to pre-pay Uline and Reliable a few times that it would be to use these back up vendors.
Additional Important Information:
It is VERY important to PAY ON TIME to keep your credit score high.
You should be simultaneously working on Step 3. Do not wait until you are done with Step 2 to be working on Step 3.
Generally, it should take no more than one to two hours of total time for you to apply to all of the Step 2 vendors. Keep track of when you’ve gotten your approvals AND ordered something. At the point that you have gotten approved with Uline, Reliable, (plus any others) OR Uline, Reliable, and have pre-paid at least once with Gemplers and Quill – mark your calendar. Then wait 45 days from that day and start on step3.5 In the meantime, you should be working on other steps.