THE PAPER, PENS & MORE STORY

After more than two decades of continued success in doing business with both the commercial and Government sectors, our company enjoys an impressive well-earned track record of exceptional success, proven experience and widespread reputation for outstanding service.

Our story began in 1984 with a young business-to-business copier salesman. Specializing in major and national accounts, he quickly rose through the ranks and eventually became General Manager of a highly successful and respected copier dealership.

Learning every facet of the business from the ground up, the young GM soon realized there was enormous untapped opportunity just waiting for someone with the vision to recognize its exceptional potential for achievable long-term success.

The foundation for our impressive nationwide operation was subsequently created in 1987 in a most appropriate place – a basement. This home-based business initially focused on providing remanufactured laser printer cartridges and PC copier toner cartridges to numerous commercial clients in the Washington D.C. metro area.

The business proved to be quite successful, and in 1994 the first retail location was opened. This expansion allowed the offering of a full line of toner cartridges as well as computer and office supplies to their growing commercial accounts. Before long the store was successfully competing with local Staples and Office Depot super stores.

While sales remained strong, management realized they were only achieving a fraction of their true potential for continuing success. Yes, they had several impressive clients who placed frequent large orders, but in order to achieve their long-term goals of successfully competing nationwide with the big boys… they first needed to land the really big fish.

The company set its sights on the biggest customer in the entire world – the US Federal Government.

After substantial research and evaluation, management decided it was time for action and invested a great deal of time, energy and expense in properly preparing themselves for the biggest expansion effort in company history.

In 1997 the company successfully negotiated a GSA Contract allowing them to continually sell throughout the entire country a full catalog of routinely needed office products and supplies, toner replacement cartridges, IT supplies, and shipping and packaging supplies directly to the Federal Government.

With each passing year they learned more and more about the complex language, systems and procedures that must be properly adhered to in order to successfully conduct long-term business with the Federal Government. This highly specialized knowledge and experience helped turn the business into a multi-million dollar enterprise.

Understanding the critical importance of continued growth and targeted expansion into exciting new opportunities, company management once again realized it was time to take another major step forward as an innovative industry leader.

In 2002 we decided to share our success with other less experienced smaller office supply companies who were looking for exciting new opportunities for sustainable business growth. Through our first mentoring program, we taught them our proven systems and well-guarded secrets for doing business with the Federal Government, and we then provided the unique opportunity to sell their products off our GSA Contract.

Two years later we expanded our initial GSA program into a more ambitious mentoring program that over the next several years helped numerous small office supply companies successfully obtain their own GSA Contract.

Having helped so many others achieve their dreams of business expansion, we ultimately decided to create a unique and timely opportunity for approved Licensees throughout the entire country to enjoy all the money-saving business-expansion products and services that we now provide.

In 2008 a new company called Paper Pens & More was created to bring this innovative business expansion program to every qualified office supply business that is looking to grow their bottom line by doing business with the best customer in the entire world.

If you qualify, we stand ready to assist you in obtaining your own GSA Contract and approved Schedules for a wide variety of ongoing Federal Government needs including: office supplies, office furniture, computer supplies, IT supplies, new and recycled toner cartridges, shipping & packaging supplies, and more.

If you are looking to grow, let Paper Pens & More help you, like we’ve already helped so many others, achieve your long-term goals and dreams of successfully competing with the big boys with the world’s greatest customer – the US Federal Government!

Paper, Pens & More Mission Statement:

We are fully dedicated to helping independent office-based businesses increase sales of office supplies, office furniture, computer supplies, new and recycled toner, shipping & packaging supplies and IT computer supplies to both commercial businesses and to the Federal Government through our innovative Licensee Program.

Our goal is to give each of our Licensees the highest quality leadership, service and training. We stand ready to utilize our 20+ years of experience in assisting our Licensees in successfully obtaining their own GSA Contract and Schedule for selling various office products and supplies directly to the Federal Government.

In addition, to further help reduce costs and increase profits, we will also provide a comprehensive Licensee Discount program ranging from a wholesale vendor network to automated computer software. We will also offer marketing and sales materials, a massive targeted email and direct mail program, as well as ongoing GSA consulting to help our Licensees reduce costs, increase sales, and quickly resolve any compliance issues.