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Impossible Membership Requirements to meet
ANNUAL FEES for Membership & Research / Website Subscriptions
Securing Competent Support for your business
High costs of Franchises & Business Opportunities
What you don't know...can and will hurt you.
The promotional products industry has a million moving parts: Suppliers, Products, Vendors, Service Providers, Teachers, Trainers. How do you connect the dots? Who do you know? Who do you trust?
The industry also has some peculiar rules, too.
You cannot become a distributor just because you want to.
The promotional products industry utilizes a "closed distribution system" that requires proof that you are already selling promotional products as a distributor in order to become a promotional products distributor.
If you can’t provide their proof requirements (multiple invoices in multiple client names, a history of working with suppliers, etc.) you won’t be "QUALIFIED" to be a distributor.
It’s a true
“Catch-22"
If you do it right, you will build a successful business. If you do it wrong, without due diligence...you can be certain that...
FAILURE IS NOT FUN!
The Distributors First Gateway for Independent Distributors
*Complete with connections to premier industry suppliers
*Technology Platform that includes your research software and eCommerce enabled website(s)
NO MEMBERSHIP FEES - EVER
NO TECH SUBSCRIPTION FEES - EVER
You can....
Buy an industry franchise ($35,000+) and pay royalties of 10% on average on your gross sales....
And renew your membership & tech subscriptions every year to the tune of $1,000 to $2,000 each year.
Or....
Buy a business opportunity, ie., screen printers, pad printers, embroidery systems (tens of thousands of dollars invested in equipment & overhead) and still renew your industry memberships and tech subscription fees each year to the tune of $1,000 to $2,000 each year.
Or....
Become a dealer for a distributor for little more than your time invested, but give up literally half of your profits to the distributor you are working for, while losing ownership in your client records.
Dealers are NOT distributors.
Distributors are always the owner of record for client orders. You have no industry fees as a dealer, but if your sales generated $40,000 in gross profits each year...you lose $20,000 to the distributor you work for every year. NOT a good choice.
Or...
Choose the new way...
Hire me, Vince Whaley with Distributors First and VDW Consultants. Let me help you with my 22+ years industry experience and connections to help you do this in the right way.
Our motto is summed up in our name: Distributors First ~ "Where distributors come...first!" Our goal is to help you successfully create your new business or revenue stream for your "B2B" company.
At the outset, I have already saved you over $1,000 to $2,000 in your 1st year membership & subscription fees.
Over the next 5 years you will have saved over $7,500 more in "renewal fees"... Because you chose DFI.
With DFI, you will have a "state-of-the-art" technology platform for your research and public facing website...and a support mechanism to help you grow your own successful "Lifetime Business".
*Very Small Investment
*Average Profits Earned: 40% +/-
*Average Orders: $800 to $1,200 per order
*Repeat Business - Clients order 2 to 6 times per year on average
*Part-time Income - A couple thousand $$/mo.
*Full-time Income - 5 to 6 figure income/year
*Distributors are well paid in our industry.
Any discussion of "how much money" you can make is only a discussion of possibilities, of averages, of effort spent in building a business.
There are no guarantees. If you work and apply youself, you really can make full-time income in your part-time business. Only you can determine the answer to the question of how much.
For the B2B company investigating this, you already know the majority of your business clients buy promotional products, from somebody else. That's why you are trying to plug the hole. If your clients only knew they could buy their promotional products from you...they would. Problem solved. Win-Win. Your business revenues are increasing!
Whether you are a start-up entrepreneur or a seasoned business veteran, every day you are losing money and opportuntiy if you are not in this business.
There has NEVER been as powerful or profitable entry point for new distributors than the Distributors First Gateway.
If you are sincere in your investigation, don't step over dollars to pick up dimes. Don't let grass grow. Lose the lens of fear; instead view this through the lens of great possilibities.
And then, let me show you how you can actually "zero out the cost" in the routine function of your business...in very short order.
When you achieve a complete "ROI" your risks for starting your business are over!
7 days from when you read this, you could be fully engaged in your new "lifetime" venture.
Because... The most important person in the promotional products industry IS the distributor, and the most important concern for the distributor...is the client. Distributors First serves these needs above all others!
And, because...you need to know what I know.
YOU NEED A CONNECTING POINT TO BECOME A DISTRIBUTOR
That's what Distributors First provides..
Distributors First IS the independent connection point for new distributors. Our "gateway" is not encumbered with expensive memberships or big subscription fees.
I have earned the trust of the industry to bring new distributors forward, with over 22 years of distributor connections and 15 years as the "New & Novice Distributor Trainer" at the leading Trade Show in our industry. (The PPAI Expo - Promotional Products Association International - PPAI.)
The Distributors First program will connect you to literaly HUNDREDS of the leading suppliers in the industry, offering well over 400,000 promotional products in every branding category that businesses need and want.
In addition to your industry connections we provide coaching and support for your business that we call, "C.E.T.S." Connection. Education. Training & Support.
We help you start a true business, your business, with no strings attached. Meaning no royalties, no profit-splitting, ever. Meaning all the profits are yours. All the customers are yours. True equity. True ownership.
You supply your commitment in both time and money to build a successful business, and we will be by your side every step of the way!
Does the Distributors First program cost something?
Of course it does...but not much.
We bring a great deal of expertise and insider’s knowledge to your table to help you build a successful business....for less than the cost of a new sofa & loveseat.
The best part is that our fee is a "one-time" fee for helping you establish a permanent, life-time business.
That's why you need
Distributors First!
You came here with questions, looking for answers. Every voice you hear tells you their story. My voice echos your story.
Distributors First means just that...distributors... first.
Isn’t it nice to know that there is someone out there willing to take this journey with you step-by-step?
You need Distributors First. You need our connections and our support. Anything less than our new gateway is a variation on the theme of the "old industry-based membership & subscription fees business model".
Distributors First is the shortest distance between where you are now and where you want to be, whether you are an entrepreneur or an established B2B company.
No more excusess. No more reasons to delay. If you're serious...we're serious, too.
We are on the sidelines of your business, helping you achieve your goals...which is what you were hoping for when you first reached out.