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What Are your suppliers worth to you?
“Together Everyone Achieves More!”
Are they a number on a spreadsheet or are they an extension to your team?
Whether you’re a freelancer, running a small business or leading a large corporate, your suppliers should be just as important as your clients. At the end of the day it’s these guys who help you deliver to your clients which in turn leads to you growing your revenue. It’s common sense to look after them.
I’ve witnessed several cases over the last few months where suppliers are strung along for months on end thinking they have the contract only to be told at the 11th hour that their prospect is going elsewhere with all of their hard work because it's more 'cost effective'.
In addition they’re also played off against one another in terms of pricing and I’ll admit I was guilty of doing that at one time too. I now work with a select number of suppliers who I’ve built relationships with over the last 12 years and trust them to deliver, even if it means working through the night. I don’t really need to price check anymore because I'm confident that they will help me out of a sticky situation as I’ve experienced on numerous occasions!
So in answer to my question at the start of this post, without my suppliers I probably wouldn’t be able to deliver the best I can to my clients and without my clients I wouldn’t have a business. My suppliers will always play a huge part in developing my business; to me my suppliers are my team.