Natural Solutions Alliances

Consultants
MARKETING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Ernie Schell is director of Marketing Systems Analysis, which helps companies specify, select, and implement order management, fulfillment, and database marketing software. He is also Executive Director of the GUIDE TO DIRECT COMMERCE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES.
LETT DIRECT
LETT Direct is a management consulting firm specializing in businesses that market directly to customers primarily through consumer and business-to-business catalogs. Their expertise extends to every aspect of your direct mail business, and our assignments are as diverse as the clients who come to us.
F. CURTIS BARRY & CO.
F. Curtis Barry & Company is a nationally recognized operations, fulfillment and warehouse consulting firm serving the multichannel industry. Since 1984, we have worked as catalog business consultants collaboratively developing solutions for our clients that combine proven industry best practices with the latest technology available. These solutions become part of the foundation for a client’s successful operation strategies.
TBG SECURITY
While some companies have security divisions, TBG Security was founded in 2003 with the single goal of providing world-class information security services. Our founders recognized that too many consulting shops were overly focused on selling pre-packaged, cookie-cutter services or solving security problems by pushing the products of security device vendors with whom partnerships had been formed. TBG Security does not partner with any security hardware or software vendors leaving us with a unique ability in the industry to present truly objective solutions. At TBG Security we’re agnostic when it comes to products, which affords us the opportunity to provide you with the best solution to meet your business objectives.
Fullfillment Services and Call Centers
CORPORATE SERVICES
Corporate Services is a full service Marketing Support Organization offering a wide variety of services including Database Management, Fulfillment, Internet Services, Telecommunications, Direct Mail and Promotional Projects. Service is not only our name, it's our commitment. We are driven by our client's needs and we pride ourselves on fulfilling them.
MIDCO CONNECTIONS
Midco Connections is all about extending your reach. Nothing is more important than your success. Midco will work with you to design a customer contact solution to help increase revenues and decrease expenses. Inbound, outbound, live chat, and timely email response. Find out what your customers are thinking with IVR surveys that will answer your most important questions. Hundreds of companies rely on us to represent their business and you can rely on us too. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Midco Connections. Extending Your Reach. 800-843-8800
PFC
PFC, the promotion fulfillment experts you can count on for successful program planning, development and execution. We apply our expertise and experience to deliver the most cost-effective and successful programs using the latest technology. PFC's promotion experts are with you from initial concept, through production and fulfillment, to e-reporting and final analysis. We can help you make the most of your marketing dollars.
Technology Partners
CYBERSCIENCE
Cyberscience develops premier Decision Support, Production Reporting and Rapid Application Development solutions supporting a worldwide user base of major business organizations in finance, insurance, manufacturing, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and distribution sectors together with public utilities and government departments. The ongoing commitment to research and development, software support services, and training ensures that Cyberscience continues to provide the strategic advantage.
MICROSOFT DEVELOPER NETWORK
Natural Solutions is a part of the MICROSOFT DEVELOPER NETWORK which gives us early access to all of Microsoft's technologies.
AVALARA
Avalara eliminates the hassle of managing sales and use tax complexities for businesses of all sizes through its web-based Software as a Service (SaaS) technology. Now offering integrations with more financial applications than any other sales tax solution on the market, Avalara provides the easiest, most accurate and affordable way for businesses to address all of their statutory sales and use tax requirements end to end. Learn more at www.avalara.com.
COMMERCE V3
CommerceV3 is a web-based system that allows users to create, populate, customize, maintain and track e-commerce storefronts. It makes selling online as easy as possible, without sacrificing real power. Designed from the ground up for direct-mail merchants, it features integration with order management packages as well as tools to customize pages, drive traffic, manage online inventory availability, process orders, and track revenue.
TAURUS
At Taurus Software, making data liquid means taking your information and creating business intelligence, enabling you to make smart decisions and gain the competitive edge in your industry. Our industry-leading solutions simplify ETL (extract, transform and load) tasks for data warehouse building, data integration, data synchronization, data cleansing, data quality, and data migration.
TIMBERLINE INTERACTIVE
Why should you choose Timberline as your Web partner? Simply stated: having partnered with direct marketers and online retailers since 2000, we understand your business challenges and are committed to your success. We have the expertise and experience to help with your strategic planning. We offer creative problem solving, and we always strive for long-term, win-win relationships with our clients.
CANU
Simply put, CANU helps you take advantage of revenue opportunities for software compatible products. Your company already does a great job, but what about all of the other products you or your customers purchase to go with that software to run the business? To ensure you are maximizing revenue and relationships with your customers, CANU will: Integrate the compatible products selling process with your business. We handle sales, service, sample requests and more. Create a custom e-commerce platform or work with your existing technology to own your customers’ desktops. When it’s time to buy software compatible products, they are buying them from you. Provide access to the nation’s largest print and apparel manufacturer—we make what we sell.
Associations
DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION
The Direct Marketing Association (The DMA) is the oldest and largest trade association for users and suppliers in the direct, database and interactive marketing fields.
Payment Processing Partners
PAYMENTECH
Paymentech is the payment solutions company of choice for online and offline transaction processing. A leader in the industry for more than sixteen years, Paymentech processes one out of every two U.S. Internet transactions.
TRANSFIRST
TRANSFIRST has offered innovative, reliable, comprehensive and secure credit card processing solutions since 1990. The company specializes in software, batch and e-commerce transaction driven solutions and now offers echeck payment processing.
AURIC SYSTEMS
Implementing a new payment processing system can be daunting. Auric products reduce complexity. Our products are simple to install, use, and maintain. Auric products are designed for security. All Auric products include Payment Card Industry (PCI) documentation to support your PCI/CISP/SDP compliance process. Our development practices follow the Visa U.S.A. Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) methods, including best practices for protecting customer credit card account numbers. In addition, our new PaymentVault™ account storage technology helps customers meet their own PCI data storage requirements.
LITLE & CO.
Litle & Co. is a leading provider of payment management services for businesses that sell directly to consumers through multichannel and internet retail, direct response marketing (TV, radio and telephone), and online services. Experts in card-not-present transaction processing and merchant services, and experienced in direct marketing, Litle & Co.is one of few companies dedicated to serving the payment management needs of direct sellers in cardless environments. Litle & Co.'s origins go back more than 30 years and are deeply-rooted in value innovation which benefits businesses that sell directly to consumers. In the 1970s, Litle & Co. founders ran a catalog business and created the first full-service, third-party fulfillment service bureau dedicated to serving catalogs.
MERCHANT E-SOLUTIONS
Merchant e-Solutions is an Internet technology focused company that has a full-service payment platform for financial institutions and merchants. Founded in early 2000, industry veterans, primarily former executives from Bank of America Merchant Services, took advantage of technology and experience to create an industry leading payment processing platform. Today, by combing the latest technology and industry expertise, with a customer centric focus, we continue to innovate easy-to-use solutions for the payment industry.
Manifesting Partners
FEDEX
FedEx is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies — a FedEx that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.
NEOPOST
Neopost Logistics Systems solutions are helping shippers to improve B2C order management, B2B supply chain management, and regional carrier transportation logistics.
KEWILL
Kewill has more than 28 years of experience developing business-to-business shipping automation and supply chain control software for global trading communities. More than 75,000 customers, including Federal Express, Siemens, Marks and Spencer and the United States Postal Service, use Kewill's applications to control the flow and overhead cost of their supply chains.
PITNEY BOWES
Postage Meters and Business Solutions. Whether you run a small business or large enterprise, Pitney Bowes has a business solution to meet your document management or postage needs.
UPS
UPS is the largest express carrier and package delivery company in the world, and is also a leading provider of specialized transportation, logistics, capital, and e-commerce services. Every day, they manage the flow of goods, funds, and information in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.