NAWLA Calendar of Upcoming Events

Blue Book Online Services

The answer to the lumber and building materials industries need for credit and financial information.

Brand New! Firms in the lumber and forest products industry have a new source to find business connections. Blue Book Services is now providing an online directory and credit profiles covering lumber mills, manufacturers, retailers and more. When making critical business decisions, use the Lumber Blue Book to help your team make quick decisions to grow sales while protecting your credit extensions.

Identify current and prospective customers with our powerful, real-time search engine. Save, print or export the information to create qualified lead lists for your sales and marketing teams to use.

Analyze your business relationships with useful Credit Profiles. The Lumber Blue Book will be the only industry-specific directory providing analyst-based credit ratings.

Decide with increased confidence. After finding qualified leads and analyzing your risk, you can make informed decisions. Blue Book Online Services provides you with online, lumber and building materials specific resources to manage your credit risks and grow your business.

Visit www.lumberbluebook.com and become a Blue Book Member today!

NAWLA Insurance Program

NAWLA's Insurance Program is committed to serving the unique needs of the lumber industry, by offering a custom-tailored program underwritten by Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM). This 100-year old firm provides insurance in more than Forty states and focuses on the lumber and wood products industry. Coverage includes property, liability, commercial auto, and workers compensation. To obtain your quote today, call Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual directly at (800) 752-1895, or visit their web site at www.palumbermens.com. Be sure to mention that you are affiliated with NAWLA.

NAWLA Storage Equipment & Yard Design Services

Sunbelt Storage Systems specializes in rack-supported buildings, bulk storage sheds, pre-engineered warehouses, and racking systems for the lumber industry. NAWLA members receive complete yard and building planning services that reflect traffic flow, yard safety, and inventory to determine the best design. Sunbelt has East and West coast ship points, and works in the U.S. and Canada. In order to begin your project, contact Sunbelt today at (770) 569-2244 or visit www.sunbeltracks.com and let us put our experience and industry knowledge to work for you.

NAWLA TeleLink Communication Services

NAWLA TeleLink has the formula to meet your long distance telephone needs...low, low prices, outstanding customer service, stability, simplicity and an understanding of the forest products industry. ForesTel, Inc. beats the toughest competition in the long distance industry on combined price and service measures. All long distance travels via Sprint, including customers in both the United States and Canada, and is billed directly by ForesTel for NAWLA TeleLink customers. There are no third-party providers involved in this relationship, which simplifies the process for you. Call Lou Chance at ForesTel (877) 777-7769 for more details on how this great program can save you money! Also, visit their website at www.forestel.com.

Human Resources Consulting

Caliper Management, Inc. is a human resources consulting firm whose psychological testing services are endorsed and discounted for NAWLA members. For nearly a half-century, Caliper has consulted with over 25,000 companies on improving every aspect of their workforce-from hiring and selection to employee development and succession management. Starting with accurate, objective insights Caliper's consultants gain from their time-tested personality assessment, the Caliper Profile, they are able to help their clients reduce the high cost of turnover, help first-time managers excel and create solutions that are tailored, practical and adaptable. Whether you are looking to hire top performers, develop talent, build teams or transform your organization, Caliper can help. For more information, please contact Jodi Tolman at jtolman@calipercorp.com or call 609-524-1308 and identify yourself as a NAWLA member.

Resource Communications, Inc.

Resource Communications, Inc. was established in 1998 as a provider of marketing strategies and business communications products and services. These products and services range from marketing and media strategies, graphic design, copywriting, electronic / conventional printing, internet communications services, website design / navigation, search engine and key word optimization, video / audio production. NAWLA has partnered with Resource Communications to offer NAWLA members their products and services.

Resource Communications' primary focus is on unique and new communications programs, website design, navigation and optimization or their newest product V-Wizard, which is powered by a patent pending technology, VESTIC.

As a Recommended and Approved Service Provider, Resource Communications not only will offer marketing, print and website services but primarily their V-Wizard video email program that is the next step in business communications. This offering is an on-line video Sales, Marketing, Training, Recruiting or Educational process that takes video, audio and PowerPoint processes and integrates them into a dynamic communications tool.

V-Wizard powered by VESTIC, their exclusive patent pending program, gives NAWLA and its member companies the power of the internet and the deliverability of broadcast media - all without having to install new technology or software on your computer systems. Quite simply, it's a Communications Departmental dream. Now you can improve your relationships in all your communications because now you have the power of the internet to go directly to your clients or employees and not wait for them to come to you. V-Wizard's video presentation pushes your message out through the internet and is programmed to automatically play when the email is opened by the recipient. With the power of a video message the recipient is immediately engaged in the message without having to read a text message that many times is either immediately deleted or sent to junk mail. Since we are all too busy to read lengthy text messages a short video clip provides an exciting alternative to your internet communications.

To find out more about Resource Communications, visit their website at www.vestic.net. Or, contact:

Hank Dunnick
President
Resource Communications
hdunnick@rcigr.com
www.vestic.net
616-233-0779-Office
616-822-5357-Cell
616-233-0782-Fax

Travel and Car Rental Discounts

NAWLA members have the benefit of discounted airline travel to all NAWLA events through specially arranged discounts with a designated provider. NAWLA members are also eligible for significant car rental discounts through the NAW/Hertz Business Account Program (BAP). All NAWLA members are associate members of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW), which entitles them to access several of NAW's business services, including the Hertz BAP. NAWLA members are eligible to enroll in the program online at www.naw.org/business.html by clicking on the Hertz link, or by calling Hertz toll free at 800-654-4405. Once enrolled, each member receives a New Member Package that includes the company's unique discount ID (CDP) number and complete details of the Hertz program.

NAWLA
North American Wholesale Lumber Association
3601 Algonquin Road, Suite 400, Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008
Telephone: 847-870-7470 Toll Free: 800-527-8258 Fax: 847-870-0201
E-mail: info@nawla.org