Full Version: Chuck, where are you
From: logojohn [#109]
23 Jul 2006
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#108] 23 Jul 2006
quote:
I am not adverse to hiring a salesperson
The cost of marketing and selling is there whether you or someone else does it.
1. do it yourself - reduces your time that can be spent on production, planning and other activities.
2. extra help - actual salary or commission expense.
3. sell wholesale to others - The price you charge is less, sometimes half, but don't look at it as selling for less . . . it is the marketing and selling costs you only have to pay if somebody sells something for you.
After a little setup time at first, the orders they bring in will require little processing time on your part, so you are in effect outsourcing the marketing and sales.
One of the areas we do a fair amount of wholesale work for are asi salespeople, the vast majority of which are only salespeople and have no equipment. We also have a very large asi department but that hasn't been a problem since we don't steal their customers.
Check your phone book. Most cities of any size have many more ad specialty listings than award storefronts. Since you are so far from the mainland there may be a good market for lasering items for this existing sales force.
Many times they have volume orders which are less per item but more lucrative because you set up once and do multiple items.
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