How To Provide Pre-Inflation Pricing To Your Event Clients
Don’t let inflation being up get you down. It’s still possible to provide your clients with the same low prices they’re used to, allowing you to avoid awkward conversations and become the distributor who saved the day when it comes to advertising costs.
The Problem With Price Increases
Continuous freight and shipping cost increases coupled with inflation has created a challenging environment for the entire supply chain. For many industries, including promo, projects often need to be quoted individually in order to have an accurate price – and even then, that price is only valid for a few weeks or it’s subject to change again. Not ideal!
This puts distributors like you in the uncomfortable position of having difficult conversations with clients about raised prices. As your clients have grown accustomed to certain price ranges over the years, they may understandably be upset or frustrated when you have to come back with a higher quote than what was anticipated. This makes it difficult for you to secure a sale, create a positive purchasing experience or ensure their continued business into the future.
Ameramark Is Here To Help
Thankfully, there is a way you can avoid price increases: working with the right supplier. For example, Ameramark, a signage and displays supplier, has created strong relationships with their suppliers throughout their years in business. Beginning in 2015, Ameramark implemented purchasing programs with forecasting of 24 months out, allowing their suppliers to program their production. Ameramark is then able to pass these benefits onto distributors like you. As a result, they’ve been able to maintain the same pricing on many of their products, while even lowering pricing on some mainstay products.
Ameramark believes that consistency on quality and pricing are key factors for the success of their distributor partners, and that neither aspect is negotiable: they’ll never jeopardize quality for cost. Rather than simply caring about getting a lower price from their suppliers, they prioritize efficiency and innovation while understanding that their distributors are truly a part of their company. Your success is their success.
Save the Day With Inflation-Proof Products
Delight your clients with a solution to combat price increases: reliably priced event favorites from Ameramark! There’s a wide range of product categories you can present to your clients without the risk of huge discrepancies on the expected price, such as:
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Airflate Dancers
Banners
Bin Covers
Flags
Hoodies
Pillows
Pillow Blankets
Table Covers
Tents
Umbrellas
Did You Know?
Ameramark has been able to maintain the same pricing on these products since 2017!
Best of all, this supplier’s supply chain approach isn’t the only change they’ve made in the last few years. They also have a strong commitment to reducing manufacturing waste. By making changes to their printing process, they’ve been able to reduce fabric, paper and ink consumption like never before. This allows them to lower pricing on bestsellers like tents and table covers even more, while also reducing their turnaround from an average of seven days to now just two days. Consistency pricing and quick turnarounds? Sounds good to us.