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The truth is no one really comes to this business in a vacuum (without prior
knowledge). Most that come to us have learned about the promotional
products business from seeing various Franchises or Business Opportunities
presented at trade shows around the country, or from their own reading and
Internet research.
What you have no doubt discovered is that there really is a
great
opportunity within this industry to make a lot of money, have a lot of
fun
and build a successful business.
Yet there are many competing voices
trying to give you their version of the truth of this industry. Our
voice is a bit different. Because DFI is not a franchise or a
traditional “retail” business opportunity, but instead a consultative
model, our concern is that you become fully educated
BEFORE you make your decision.
That’s why we are happy that you found us in your research
process. It is far better to know all your options
BEFORE you pull the proverbial trigger.
Hindsight is always 20-20, and like I mentioned in my Intro Audio, I
hear from many people who were regrettably premature in making their
decisions, who now, with 20-20 vision realize that they should have
chosen Distributors First.
But you have also likely discovered that that
this industry can be quite difficult to get into on your own,
and not just because of the high costs to buy the business. It’s like no
one will really tell you the whole story of how to do it.
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FRANCHISES:
You are probably aware that you can buy franchises in our
industry for $35,000 - $70,000 - $150,000 or more with on-going royalties…
(But who
wants to spend that much money, especially with having to pay the yearly
on-going royalties? And in today's economy who has that much to
invest?)
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY COMPANIES:
You probably have come across
business opportunity companies who market and sell very expensive
business programs, easily ranging from $25,000 to as much as
$40,000 or more ... but the content just doesn't seem to be
there. Why are they “so expensive” when it seems like they
offer so little?
The first reason is that they pay
their sales people upwards of 25% sales commissions to make the
sale. That means you could be paying $5,000 to $10,000 or more
just to “reward the sales person” for selling their program to you…
That is a great deal of extra
money from your pocket that needs to be considered.
Especially when some of these “sales people” tell you that they are
not on commission... Don’t believe them.
The second reason they are so
expensive is that they maintain high company profiles and high
overhead. Look at their home office. Look at how many buildings
they have. How many employees do they have? Look at the bloat!
Who gets to pay for all of this? You, the customer.
Most business opportunities and
franchises could be described as “retail” offerings as opposed to
“wholesale” offerings, meaning that they are more expensive. Yet one
of the major benefits of “being in business” is that all of your
relative purchases and expansion can and should be done with
“wholesale” dollars.
Distributors First believes that even
for the act of acquiring our program, you should pay with relative
“wholesale” dollars… We do not have high business overhead. Neither
do we have a high company profile. It is not our “brand” that we are
building. It is instead your brand
that we are concerned with and are supporting. We also do not
employ any commissioned sales people. In fact, we are a small
company with a total of five (5) people on our support team.
And we like it that way because it allows us to run a lean,
efficient, knowledgeable and cost effective operation and pass the
savings on to you!
DEALERSHIPS:
On the cheaper side of the spectrum,
you have no doubt found companies who will set you up to be
”dealers” for them, where you are required to split all your
profits with the house for the privilege of selling promotional
products for and through them. (But believe it or not, this
ultimately is the most COSTLY*
way to get into the business…even if it only costs a couple of
hundred dollars to sign up with them…)
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Here’s what I mean by “most costly”:
If you sell $250,000 worth of promotional products in a year
- that will
produce $100,000 in total commission earnings based
on a 40% commission schedule. Splitting the profits
with your sponsoring company means that you only get to keep
1/2 for yourself, while you lose
$50,000 to your sponsoring company. And that’s
just for one year!
Imagine! In just your
first year of selling for someone else…you “paid” $50,000
for the privilege of working with a sponsoring company.
That’s more than what most business opportunities or
franchises cost in our industry! Do that three years in a
row and you have “lost” (paid) over $150,000 just for
the privilege of working through someone else! Do
you understand now why we say that being a dealer for
someone else is the most costly way to get into this
business? Giving up half of the
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Distributors First, and your opportunity to work
with the industry's “independent gateway”, and one of the
industry’s leading educators and trainers with the
specific expertise of helping new people from all walks of
life become successful
in the promotional products industry! |
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You can start selling promotional products quickly – because our program
gives you the “insider sources” used by industry professionals for every
phase of your businesses.
Now you can deal directly with the suppliers (no middlemen),
keep all the
profits with no profit sharing (with us or anyone) and you are building
YOUR business. It’s that simple.
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HIGH COSTS TO START UP YOUR BUSINESS: As the industry’s only
wholesale
alternative, our program has been designed around a true “wholesale”
approach without sacrificing any support needs for new distributors. There are
no franchise fees or on-going royalties. The entire program
costs less than $12,000 – just a fraction of the cost of other gateways in
the industry. With this approach, quite literally only a few
orders (instead of hundreds of orders) will give you a 100% return on your
investment, making your business profitable very quickly!
PROGRAM NOTE!
If you choose to participate in
our “Model Distributor” program your total cost will be even
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GETTING PROPERLY CONNECTED SO SUPPLIERS WILL SELL TO YOU: Our program
gives you TWO industry-recognized “distributor” numbers through PPAI*
and SAGE which
makes connecting to suppliers easy and automatic. (*
Promotional Products
Association International, the industry’s “not-for-profit” trade
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FINDING THE RIGHT PRODUCTS:
Our program includes outstanding industry-leading product &
supplier research tools that will connect you to over 900,000 products from over 4,500
industry
suppliers. Create custom product presentations for your clients with
the included presentation manager. Enjoy your own “state-of-the-art”
custom distributor website
(your words, your way!) that will give you and your clients full search capability 24/7 to make
presenting, ordering & selling promotional products easy. Plus, you will have
lifetime customer and marketing support from one of
the finest support teams in the whole industry; people who can handle your
technical, customer service and marketing questions.
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If you are anywhere on the list below the odds are strong in your favor
that you will have great success in the promotional product business:
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I am an entrepreneur and I
have always thought that this would be a fun business to start and
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I am a sales
professional and know that I could be very successful building a
promotional products business |
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I have lots of contacts in
my business community |
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I own a business and would
like to expand by adding promotional products sales |
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I am retired and looking
for something to supplement my retirement and to keep me active |
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I can devote at least 5 hours a
week to my new business |
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You are standing on the threshold of a wonderful industry. Our
“Wholesale
Alternative” independent gateway program for new distributors will deliver to you…
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…all the core
information, tools and technology used throughout
the promotional products industry by many leading
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All by yourself? --- or ---
With A TEAM?
Some people believe that they can enter
this industry on their own, that they can do it themselves, with no
help, with no support from anyone. This is true. You can also
teach yourself brain surgery in your kitchen if you choose. But
you're going to start at square one, and it's going to take a great deal
longer to achieve the results you want, because you won't have
the benefit of all the cumulative knowledge
that comes with partnering with others who have "been there, done
that"... People who understand what will work and what does not...
Companies that exist to help you do it right – right from the start.
The idea should be to start a business
and begin building it quickly so that it can meet your goals for
financial freedom. This is a robust and well-developed industry,
but one that is quite peculiar in its structure. Do it on your own
and you will experience frustration after frustration in dealing
with suppliers and vendors. If you don’t know the “language” of the
industry…everyone will assume that you are really just a customer trying
to go around the distributor to buy direct from the supplier.
The industry has created sophisticated
“privacy practices” to prevent their distribution system from being
circumvented by “end-user” customers. You need to demonstrate that you
know and understand these privacy practices in order to get the industry
to cooperate with your efforts to build a business.
The smart
money invests with an expert team. You don't have to
go it alone! Purchasing the DFI “Wholesale” Gateway is the smart
choice, because you are leveraging our years of industry
experience. We know what works and what's wasted. And
without all the bloat, we are able to do it at a much
lower price point!
It's really pretty simple actually!
We are a small company by choice - lean
and efficient. We can afford to work on smaller margins with our
structure. We understand that knowledge is power, not
packaging. That you're interested in building your business, not
paying for bloat!
Fact is we deliver a fully supported, complete program
to you for less, simply because our structure is different and because
we require less to run our company ... and because we do not have
to pay expensive sales people to develop our business. And
last but not least - we sell wholesale,
not retail. That is a better choice! But what we do
NOT skimp on is our support.
And before you leave we hope check out our
REAL PEOPLE testimonials page to see
what we mean.
EXPERT
KNOWLEDGE AND
FIRST CLASS
SUPPORT
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
membership in PPAI / UPIC, and SAGE. That means you
are fully licensed as a distributor in the eyes of every supplier
in the industry. |
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
your
product and supplier research software & tools |
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
graphic and presentation software for professional presentations |
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
client, order and artwork management software & tools. |
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
your
own website and shopping cart under your own domain name. |
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
comprehensive training and education materials from leading
industry trainers |
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
product catalogs. |
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OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES
lifetime support from one of the best teams in the industry -
technical, customer service and marketing support |
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By phone, by email, through our
distributor member website we offer outstanding business
coaching to help you grow. |
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WHAT DON'T WE OFFER?
HIGH RISK
From a risk management perspective and an
opportunity assessment perspective, We believe that wholesale is
the only way to go. It certainly makes the best use of your
money as you start this business.
The point is to
help you get into the industry, and give you the direction to grow and
expand your business any way you choose...
We have the perfect structure to do this
better than any one else in the industry. And we have the reputation of turning out successful promotional
products distributors… Which is the whole point, isn’t it?
SO WHAT ALL IS
INCLUDED?
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