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    Where's the logic please....

    Dave I've done wedding stationery and wondering if there could be a gap in the market for an envelopments type business on this side of the Atlantic. www.envelopments.com I'm a member of a wedding stationery forum, US based, and they all seem to be able to buy cardstock, envelopes, pocketfolds...
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    RRP- should you mention it?

    I'm pitching to a few clients and I have my list price. Should I give them an RRP? What's the benefit?
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    Need some advice for advertising a wedding stationary business

    I do wedding stationery. If you're not competing with other suppliers then it doesn't hurt for them to give you a mention. Some thoughts Do up a facebook page and like the pages of other suppliers Post your designs on facebook Run a facebook comp Run a targetted ad on facebook - I did a...
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    Would you pay someone if they could introduce you to a new client?

    Well, he is self employed so no fears re his employer. Are you paying 10% for the lifetime of the customer? Or just the first year. Also, if I get an introduction and the multiple starts buying my papers and then further down the line they take other lines off me, do I pay the commission on...
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    Would you pay someone if they could introduce you to a new client?

    It's not that I wouldn't, I just don't know what the amount would be - a flat fee or a % If the multiple ordered from me I'd be over the moon. Just don't know what figure you'd put on this or if it was based on year 1 sales or what. Also, the person in question hasn't suggested a figure and I...
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    Would you pay someone if they could introduce you to a new client?

    I've been contacted by someone who is interested in some of my products. He also supplies to a large mutiple. He wouldn't be buying my products to supply to them, more to his local retail contacts. But he could introduce me to the multiple. Would this be something that you can put a price on? If...
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    Politely ask customer to do some marketing?

    Thanks. I did send out a mailshot to let customers know that they products were available from this company. But the company I supply to would have a much larger database and repeat customers. They may not need the extra business but I would like it.
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    Politely ask customer to do some marketing?

    I've started supplying papers to an online retailer. This company would sell to a lot of crafters/people making wedding stationery and I would think that they have a large database. The problem is that this company does barely any marketing. Even if they did a mailshot to their database, letting...
  9. M

    Family business and brother keeps making mistakes!

    Is he embarassed by the mistakes? Could he need glasses? Could he be dyslexic? I'd get every order double checked by someone else, not him
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    Stumped re margins

    If I start from the other end, if I say to a distributor for £1, what will they sell to a retailer for and what will a retailter retail at?
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    Stumped re margins

    ok. thought that the vat rate was 20%
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    Stumped re margins

    If the retailer gets 40p and the taxman gets 20p then there is 40p left between manufacturer and distributor. Just wondering how much the distributor will take
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    New boss asking for customer lists etc

    are they not going to know who is on the list anyway, when the sales are processed? obviously it won't be revealed all at once but surely over time they will get your leads.....or am I missing something?
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    Stumped re margins

    I just have a brain block on margins. If the product retails at £1 then the VAT is 20p and the retailer wants to get 40p. So of the 40p from the selling price, how much would go to a distributor and how much to the manufacturer?
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    Messed up with client, how to make right

    It's not possible for me to personally delivery the order - I'm in a different country and it is very bulky. Ferry/petrol would wipe out my profit. Customer got back to me and all is well. They mentioned placing orders in the future and that 'these things happen'. I'm actually going to see it as...
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