Come on folks you are professionals doing a professional job. Charge a professional rate with a quality image and people will pay for it. Be professional, think professional, charge the right money. A mechanic is going to cost you £30 to £150 per hour, I have just used a solicitor @ £250 per hour plus VAT...why...because he was the best in his field. Can you produce the image, print the slates, do the paperwork and cover your delivery cost and earn a professional income....not on some of the figures I see waved about on this forum.
I charge more trade for slates than you are talking retail.
Arthur "To put it into perspective - one retailer was selling printed mugs in a gift box - not a cheap clear plastic box but a squat, cylindrical cardboard drum with a lid, printed to look like a gift box - just put a ribbon around it and its ready to go. The mugs were bone china and were well produced - nice designs etc. They were selling these from six to eight quid a pop! That means they were buying from under two quid with the box! I don't see any point in trying to compete with that!" Why would you compete...they are mass produced.
Does the shop want to make £6 off a mug or £15 off a slate? They will want £15! Or what about a bespoke design mug only available in their gift shop... £7 from you £8.00 profit for them...you have just raised their profit from £6.00 to £8.00..... a 33% increase. Would you like your profit to go up by 33%?
Be professional, think professional, charge like a professional.....if the solicitor was £15 per hour would I have any faith in him...errr no.
I'll get off my soapbox but sometimes I just want to bang members heads together..
I'll never change any of you, I accept that, but if I can make you pause for a second (even just to call me a w~~~~r!) then perhaps I have done something useful.
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Untwist nickers, extract head from my arse, and breathe.....