Advantage+plus
Advantage+plus … a program for participating studios to increase their sales of
sandblasted doors and glass by expanding their local sales network – a great way
of developing repeat business and referrals
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+plus … reduced prices on stencils
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+plus … higher profits
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Our many years in the art glass business made us realize four important facts:
- We love repeat business. Repeat business saves lots
of time because you don’t have to go prospecting for every new order. Developing
a mutually beneficial sales or referral network is a great way to develop repeat
business – and is easy to do.
- Customers can take lots of time - your time - in trying
to make design decisions. If you develop a referral network, their customers
can also eat away at their time. Wanting to increase the appeal for door shops to
use us for sandblasting, we posted high quality sandblasted door designs on our
website. In this way, the door companies that use us can refer their customers to
that site to review designs and make their selection. Thus, the customers like it
but the door companies like it even more because their sales staff is not tied up
with a customer on what they may consider a secondary item.
- Having a web presence that is meaningful provides a degree
of professionalism to your business and sets you above most other competitors in
the area.
- Sandblasting is VERY profitable – but only if stencils
can be used to reduce labor requirements and costs. This includes production labor.
As important, it saves time for some of the most valuable people in your organization
– sales, designer, and owner. If you perform all of these functions just add up
the time savings. Or- the increased amount of work that can be done in the same
amount of time.
What exactly is Advantage+plus - it provides the following benefits:
- ProStencil provides a link that allows your customers or referral network to view
over 170 high quality sandblasted door designs by accessing them from your website.
In fact, your customers will think they are still in your website. They view these
as a PDF documents which means they can view them and print them from their home,
office or the local Starbucks. When they finish viewing the door designs, they go
back to your website. These door designs are not just a bunch of clipart thrown
together. They are designs we have developed for clients and have proven to be desirable.
How difficult is it to establish the link between my website and ProStencil.com.
We provide a simple set of instructions along with password instructions to make
this relatively painless. If you do not have a website, several site hosting providers
offer template systems that make putting together a basic site quite easy. There
are also webmasters that specialize in basic systems for a reasonable fee.
- Having a quality website that can benefit local businesses makes it easier to develop
a broader sales and referral network. This is especially true if you offer a wholesale
price structure that lets them make some compensation for their sales time and effort.
This is very enticing to them as they have a profit possibility with no investment
or inventory costs.
- As an Advantage+plus affiliate, you receive a 15% discount on all stencils purchased
from ProStencil.
- Sandblasted Door Design books are also available to supplement the online design
access. There are incentives which will provide this $39.95 book for no charge.
Who Should Take Advantage of This Program?
This program is greatly beneficial if you offer sandblasted designs on glass or
other media
- … or want to expand that part of your business
- … or want to start a new sandblasting business
What Are My Benefits?
Good Profits, Less Time Required for Sales, Design and Production, Easy to Learn
or Train. This is like having a larger sales, design and production staff without
the headaches, space and trained personnel requirements or the payroll taxes
The Keys!
Using the web in conjunction with your referral network to increase sales Using
high quality customizable stencils to give you the design flexibility needed for
your customers … while reducing labor requirements.
Does This Really Work? YES!!
We have been using these methods in our own business and can say with certainty
that they really do work. We quickly built a sales network with local prehang door
shops and home centers and continue working with them. We posted our sandblasted
door designs online as a place they could refer their customers to select designs.
We also provided them with trifold brochures and a book of our designs. This approach
was greatly received because it gave them an easy way to offer customized sandblasted
door designs without a large investment of time. It also gave them a profit item
with NO inventory cost. We have just increased our door design selections to over
170 and these will be available to their customers on the web.
What’s the cost?
The cost is $19.95 per month. There is no setup charge. There is a three month minimum
initial term payable by automatic credit card charges monthly. There are incentives
if you prepay for six months in advance. This can be split into two payments. The
savings in stencils should help cover, if not entirely cover your monthly cost of
being an affiliate.