For 3M authorized distributors
Cross-Sellin a Box

Your customers already buy these products together. Make sure they buy them from you.

3M's ecommerce data shows exactly which products get bought together, because they solve the same job. Cross-Sell in a Box hands you everything to sell the pairing: a shoppable page, ads, emails, and reporting, with every Buy Now button wired to your cart. Not Amazon's. Yours. And the co-op you have already earned pays for it.

Program explainer

A two-minute walkthrough of the program is on its way. Book a meeting for the live version.

One program, three jobs
Drive traffic Convert business Retain customers
The problem

Where the reorders go

Your customers keep buying. The question is where, and how much of the basket you get.

Gap 01

Between orders, they shop the nearest open door

Amazon does not beat you on price. It wins by being the easiest thing to click at the exact moment someone needs something. Between orders, your customers forget your door exists, and the reorder goes to whoever is closest when the need hits.

Gap 02

Your site sells one SKU at a time

Nobody has ever wanted a grinding disc. They want a clean weld, finished faster, with their eyesight and hearing intact. Buyers are solving a whole job, but most distributor sites still sell products one lonely SKU at a time, so the rest of the basket gets bought somewhere else.

Gap 03

Co-op you cannot act on

The money to fix this already exists. You earn co-op on every 3M sale, and it is meant to come back as marketing. But turning it into campaigns takes writers, designers, and web work you do not have on the bench, so it sits unspent or dribbles into swag.

Product pairings

Nobody has ever wanted a grinding disc

They want the job done right. That is why certain products keep leaving in the same cart. 3M's own purchase data shows which products solve a job together, and each of those combinations becomes a pairing.

Abrasives for the cut and grind A welding helmet with the right shade Hearing protection rated for the shop A respirator matched to the fume
One pairing

A co-branded, shoppable page that sells the whole solution, with every product one click from your cart.

You start with four pairings, chosen from what your customers already buy from you. When they prove out, you add more.
What's in the box

Everything to sell the pairing, in one spot

Each pairing ships as a complete kit, built and branded for you. Your team plugs it in and presses go.

Co-branded shoppable pairing page with Buy Now buttons
Shoppable

A pre-built pairing page

A co-branded landing page for each pairing, built for you, with every Buy Now button dropping the product straight into your cart.

Banner ads and social posts from a finished kit
Ads + social

Banners, ads, and posts

Web banners and social posts in the sizes that matter, built from 3M campaign creative and claims, running under your name.

Ready-to-send campaign email mockup
Ready to send

Emails, written and built

Campaign emails formatted for your platform, plus thank-you and order follow-up messages that put the pairing in front of every buyer.

In your cart

Basket-building data

Related-to files for your ecommerce platform that power the frequently-bought-together carousel, so the pairing appears at the exact add-to-cart moment.

Asset library

Every image, photo, and PDF

The full 3M asset library for each pairing: high-resolution images, web-ready images, and print materials, organized and ready to use anywhere.

Print + physical

QR codes that keep connecting

Codes for business cards, email signatures, and packing slips, so the paper you already send points people back to your pairing page.

And underneath it all, back-end reporting that tracks each pairing's progress. For once, you can see exactly what your co-op bought.
What it does

Three jobs, one box

Every piece in the kit is doing one of three things for your business.

Drive traffic

Put your door in front of them

Banners, posts, emails, and QR codes on everything from packing slips to signatures, all pointing at your pairing page instead of a search bar.

Convert business

Sell the job, not the SKU

Shoppable pairing pages and frequently-bought-together carousels that turn one-item orders into full baskets, checked out in your cart.

Retain customers

Stay the easiest click

Thank-you pages, follow-up emails, and targeted campaigns that bring buyers back to your door between orders, before habit takes them elsewhere.

How it works

From purchase data to your first pairing

Four steps, and almost none of your team's time. Our content team does the building. You approve, plug in, and press go.

1

Pick your pairings

Chosen from what your customers already buy from you, guided by 3M's purchase data and your own sales team's instincts.

2

Our content team builds your box

The shoppable page, banners, posts, and emails, built to 3M brand guidelines and approved before anything ships.

3

We help you plug it in

Buy Now buttons wired to your cart, carousel data loaded into your platform, QR codes on the touchpoints you already print and send. Integration help included.

4

You watch it work

The kit goes live under your name, and the reporting shows each pairing's traffic and progress while you sell.

Built to 3M's brand guidelines and checked at every phase, so everything you publish is on brand and accurate.

See the finished work

The quality your name goes on

Real clips from finished co-branded kits. Vertical, captioned, and ready to post, with the distributor leading and the manufacturer credentialing.

Sample vertical safety clip
Fall protection, in under a minute
Sample vertical safety clip
What the standard actually requires
Sample vertical safety clip
The hazard crews walk past

Want to see a live pairing page and the full kit behind it? We will walk you through the real thing on the call.

Proof

A wall of work, ready to publish

Real assets from finished kits. Look at who leads every card: the distributor. That is exactly how your buyers would see you.

Click any card or one-pager to enlarge it

Saf-T-Gard and 3M Safety Moment one-pager
Saf-T-Gard
Verona Safety and AccuformNMC Safety Moment one-pager
Verona Safety
Saf-T-Gard and 3M Safety Moment one-pager
Saf-T-Gard
Verona Safety and AccuformNMC Safety Moment one-pager
Verona Safety
Why it converts

Teaching sells what ads cannot

The content wrapped around each pairing is not an ad. It teaches: how the products work together, what the standards require, what a crew gets wrong. It is published under your name, in the voice of the local partner who walks the buyer's facility, and the 3M mark credentials every piece. Safety professionals read it because it is useful, and people buy where they learned.

OSHAANSINIOSH ASTMNFPACSA

Every technical claim, anchored to a standard your buyers already trust.

Co-op and MDF

Built to spend the co-op you have already earned

Co-op exists to turn product sales into marketing, and that is exactly what the box is. Every piece visibly carries the 3M mark and promotes 3M products, which is what co-op dollars are meant to fund. Final eligibility always depends on your program terms, and we help you document the deliverables and the brand placement so the claim goes through cleanly.

Questions

Common questions

Is this really covered by my co-op?
The box is co-branded marketing for 3M products, the exact use co-op is designed for, with the 3M mark visible on every asset. Eligibility depends on your specific program terms, and we help you document the deliverables and brand placement so the claim is straightforward.
Does it work with my ecommerce platform?
The kit is built to fit the platform you have. Buy Now buttons link to your product pages, the related-to files load into your carousel, and integration help is part of the box. If your site is mid-rebuild, we time the rollout with you.
Who does the work?
Our content team builds everything in the box and helps wire it in. Your side is approvals and access: your logo, your brand basics, and the product links on your site. No writers to hire, no agency to manage.
Will it actually look and sound like mine?
Yes. Your logo and your voice lead every asset, and the writing reads like a knowledgeable local partner, not a vendor. The 3M mark appears as the credentialing brand, always subordinate to yours.
What do I see in the reporting?
Each pairing tracks its own progress: the traffic reaching your page and how the campaign is performing, in back-end reporting you can actually look at. It is the visibility co-op spending has never had.
Who owns the customers and the leads?
You do. The pages link to your cart, the emails run to your customers from your platform, and every order and inquiry the box generates is yours. The program builds your basket, not someone else's.
How fast can we start?
Once your pairings are picked and your brand basics are set, production begins, and the kit arrives ready to plug in, page first, then the campaigns that drive to it. Book a meeting and we will map your first four.
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Get the Cross-Sell in a Box
media kit

See a pairing page up close, what ships in the box, and how the co-op funding works. Enter your details and the media kit goes straight to your inbox.

  • The full kit, piece by piece, and how each one gets used.
  • How the co-op you have earned pays for it.
  • Prefer to talk it through? Use the Book a Meeting button at the top.

The pairings are already in your sales data. Put your name on them.

Your customers are buying these combinations somewhere. Book a meeting and we will map your first four pairings to what they already buy from you.