Case Study: Fulfillment Services

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How The Aldo Leopold Foundation increased calendar sales by 6x with help from Thysse’s fulfillment services

The Client: The Aldo Leopold Foundation 

The famed Leopold Shack. Baraboo, WI. Photo credit: fieldguide.capitalinstitute.org

One of the most influential conservationists of the 20th century, Aldo Leopold is considered a founding father of modern wildlife ecology. Leopold is best known for his most renowned work, A Sand County Almanac, a book detailing his observations while restoring a plot of worn-out farmland along the Wisconsin River.

Leopold’s eloquent documentation of his restoration would lay the foundation for key land ethics and stewardship practices still widely referenced today. Founded in 1982 by his wife and children, The Aldo Leopold Foundation (ALF) is a nonprofit that works to “inspire an ethical relationship between people and nature through Leopold’s legacy”.

The Project: The Annual Phenology Calendar Fundraiser

The Aldo Leopold Foundation’s 2022 Phenology Calendar. Photo credit: aldoleopold.org

Every fall, the nonprofit releases a unique fundraising calendar to build support and awareness for its mission. The calendar features local wildlife photography, and details notable seasonal changes in the ecosystem as they occur throughout the year – a branch of study called phenology. The calendar is also packaged with a custom envelope and a one-page glossy insert introducing the calendar and outlining the foundation’s mission.

The phenology calendar encourages the public to get outdoors and promotes the observation of the intricacies of the natural environment around them. It’s a significant source of income for the foundation and a consistent top seller in the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center’s bookstore. The calendar also serves as an extra touchpoint around the holidays to show appreciation for the foundation’s top donors.  

Why Thysse? Customer service and quality

Though the calendars had been part of the foundation’s fundraising efforts since 2005, it wasn’t until 2017 that ALF began handling all aspects of the calendar’s design and content curation in-house. The shift led the company to seek out a new partner to manage the printing of their calendars.

As an environmentally-conscious nonprofit, ALF needed a local printer sensitive to their desired quality and budget. They also required timely, detail-oriented customer service to ensure reliable turnaround and quality control that could guarantee a professional final product every time. Luckily, Thysse was the perfect match on all accounts.

The Challenge: Efficiently produce, store, package, and mail calendars to thousands nationwide with limited staff

Prior to 2020, the packaging and mailing of calendar orders were handled in-house by a limited-term employee. However, the arrival of the pandemic introduced three significant changes:

1. 2020 was the first year ALF tested out a pre-sale campaign for its calendars. It turned out to be a raging success, but more on that in a moment.

2. People were going outside in droves, buying up all available stock of outdoor gear and finding renewed interest in ALF programs.

3. Smaller staff, larger distribution. There were few employees on-site, but more orders to manage than ever.

With no one in the office to handle the packaging and shipment of the calendars, how would ALF get the calendars to those who purchased them?

The Solution: Thysse’s fulfillment services

Fulfillment storage shelving at THysse

Starting in October of 2020, the Foundation began incorporating a month of pre-sales campaigning into its marketing strategy. This would provide a more accurate count of calendars to have produced upfront, and allow ALF to submit larger orders to Thysse to help reduce overall production cost.

In addition to printing ALF’s bulk orders, Thysse also began managing the storage and fulfillment of calendar orders in our 8,750-square-foot fulfillment and pick-and-pack assembly area. This included:

1. Production: Every calendar, insert, and envelope was made right here at our facility.

2. Assembly: We sorted and stuffed the components in their envelopes.

3. Distribution: Thysse mailed to ALF’s list of pre-order recipients.

Previous campaign performance informed storage needs; Thysse was there to offer warehousing as well. These stored quantities would be used to fulfill weekly calendar orders placed after the presale period. Thysse also used Informed Delivery® with the mailings to generate added excitement for subscribers to anticipate when the new calendars were arriving in the mail.

The Outcome: Decreased cost and increased efficiency

Knowing the presale quantity and repeat customers, ALF was able to produce at a higher initial volume, reducing their calendar production cost, while improving their overall margin. The calendars were mailed in bulk, which allowed Thysse to optimize the mailings for USPS automation requirements – a process that allows the post office to process mailings more efficiently, resulting in significant postage discounts.

By partnering with Thysse to manage all storage, fulfillment, and mailing aspects of the project, the amount of time ALF staff spent juggling order fulfillment logistics and communicating with vendors was greatly reduced. This allowed staff to maintain their focus on more essential job duties – like raising awareness of ALF’s mission, fostering community engagement, and expanding public education efforts.

Thysse managed all production and order fulfillment processes so efficiently that the Foundation continued to utilize Thysse’s full grouping of services long after onsite staffing returned to normal. From year one of Thysse’s involvement to 2022, ALF’s total annual calendar sales increased by about six times!

Thysse is proud to play a role in helping nonprofits like The Aldo Leopold Foundation succeed.

Landowner Education and Services Associate, Emily Oyos, says, “The calendars are a great way for us to continue Leopold’s legacy of phenology record keeping. It encourages people to get out in nature, noticing and growing an appreciation for the little things happening around them.” 

When ALF’s annual calendar sales are successful, it does more than just raise important funds for the foundation. It helps foster a sense of moral responsibility to the community, the land, and strengthens the important relationship between them. 

For more information about The Aldo Leopold Foundation, read more about their mission here. For more on fulfillment services, drop us a line, or head to our fulfillment services page to explore more on your own.

Online Storefront Portals Unpacked

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What is an online Storefront, and how can it transform the way you manage your printed marketing materials?

Your company’s printed assets, in the eye of the beholder, are a direct reflection of the quality of its services. That’s why marketing materials should be eye-catching, in-sync with your company’s brand, and, of course, informationally-accurate. Yet, if you have multiple office locations and lines of business – all with slightly different needs at different times – procuring your printed assets can spiral into a never-ending game of phone tag.

If the above sounds familiar, then you’ve got room for improvement in your ordering workflows. The solution? An online Storefront to alleviate some of the pain points in the process. What’s more, it could also free you up to better leverage the power of your printed assets – a winning combination.

But what is Storefront, and how is it right for your business? 

In a metaphorical sense, Storefront is the ever-elusive ‘Easy’ button you’ve been searching for to manage your company’s printed assets. Technically speaking, it’s an inventory management and print on-demand tool that helps you deliver customized marketing materials across all channels of your business. From one centralized online portal, Storefront allows you to track inventory and place orders anytime, from anywhere, and ship to your various office locations. That means you can order items like: 

  • Business stationary (business cards, envelopes, forms) at midnight from your bathtub
  • Marketing materials (brochures, folders, postcards) from the couch (PJs optional)
  • Posters and banners (POP and trade show displays) from your airport gate – just don’t miss your flight!
  • Promotional items (apparel, pens and water bottles) while you peruse the zoo. Grrrr.

Managing your printed assets via Storefront comes with a few other perks too. For one, it allows you to significantly reduce (or cut out completely) back and forth communication with your printer. Storefront can also reduce your overall production and storage costs, decrease necessary lead times, and provide quicker turnaround. 

Each Storefront is custom-built to include your company’s branding and customized user access settings. Aside from visual and security configurations, the actual items and fulfillment options available on your Storefront catalog can vary greatly. Knowing your options, and the unique benefits of each, will help steer you in the right direction during the initial set up. 

What kinds of orders can Storefront handle?

The items in your Storefront catalog typically fall into one of four categories – although all four can be (and often are) combined in a single portal. 

1. Fulfillment-Based Orders for Savings and Speed 

Fulfillment-based orders include pre-produced items sourced from stored inventory in Thysse’s warehouse. This category has a myriad of benefits for businesses including shorter turnarounds (because the items are produced ahead of time), and cost savings (because producing larger quantities in advance incurs bulk printing discounts). Additionally, utilizing your printer’s warehouse for storage frees up valuable office space, which typically comes with a premium price tag – something we explore in detail here.  

For instance, say you’re a business that regularly gives out branded promo gear to ‘woo’ new hires or clients. If the trend continues in 2022, promo gear requires significant lead times thanks to nationwide shipping debacles and supply chain issues. With fulfillment-based Storefront orders, branded water bottles, pens, mugs and notebooks can be produced in bulk ahead of time, and stored on site to be at-the-ready when you need them. 

2. Print On-Demand Orders for Reduced Obsolete Inventory 

Unlike fulfillment-based orders where items are pre-produced, on-demand orders involve items that are produced after an order is placed. While these orders may have longer turnarounds and require more lead time, on-demand orders interest businesses who don’t want to risk the possibility of ending up with obsolete inventory. 

Companies who anticipate a rebrand in the near future, for example, or those who are just plain old uncertain of the quantities of an item they might need, may prefer the on-demand print option. Keep in mind that some printed items also don’t store well long-term – such as envelopes – which can lose their adhesive quality over long periods in storage.  

3. Kitted Orders for Unrivaled Efficiency 

This category involves multiple printed items that are assembled together, or ‘kitted’, and shipped as a bundle. Individual items included in the kits can be printed on-demand, fulfilled from stored inventory, or a combination of both depending on your needs. Kits are listed as a single item on your portal for efficiency.

An insurance company is a great example of a business that might benefit from having kitted order options on their Storefront. Each new client receives the same welcome folder that includes individual items like brochures, provider options, and a summary of benefits. Thysse can print on-demand (or fulfill from stored inventory) each of the individual printed pieces, order them neatly in pre-produced folders, and ship them out in a tidy bundle with little more than a click.

4. Direct Mail Orders for Click and Ship Ease 

Direct mail storefront items allow you print and ship customized mail pieces to a specified list of recipients. Choose from preloaded templates/artwork for your piece, attach a mail list, and view postage costs before adding your order to the cart. Thysse can even perform list maintenance before finalizing your order to ensure you only pay for the necessary quantities.  

Take a lawn care company, for example. The user can pull up their online portal, select a postcard template, choose from snow plow artwork or lawn mower artwork, attach the desired list of recipients, select the quantity, add to cart, and voila! Custom direct mailers on doorsteps – without so much as leaving the desk. 

If you’ve made it this far – congrats! However, if you like what you see but still have a few questions about how this whole Storefront concept fits in with your business’s needs, that’s where we come in. Thysse helps our clients work through Storefront setups and configurations every day, and we’re happy to answer any questions regarding different Storefront options, set up, or any others that come to mind. If you’re more the research-on-your-own type, swing on over to the additional resources here. If you’re really hoping to see our Technical Services Director nerd out for 30 minutes, you can always give us a shout to schedule a live Storefront demo.

A Crash Course in Kit Packing

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Kit packing 101: Efficiency Meets Impact

Let’s get the first question out of the way, shall we? Just what exactly is kit-packing? We’ll start by un-packing the term itself. In general, kit packing is assembling multiple related items into a single package and shipping them to a list of recipients. Think trade show displays, welcome kits, signage resets, benefits packages, instructional materials and the like. 

Because picking, packing, and shipping products separately takes time (and money), packing certain items together streamlines processes and reduces costs related to storage, shipping and inventory management.

Thysse understands the literal and logistical hoops you’re jumping through when working with multiple production vendors and office locations and how those can be compounded when you needed the items yesterday. We’ve seen the pain in your eyes as you retell the last attempt at employee appreciation gifts which ended with your HR’s “fun committee” in tears as they packaged up dozens of bath bombs while cross-referencing address spreadsheets as the pizza ran out and the Mountain Dew went flat. 

Too specific? Probably, but as usual, you know we get it and we’ve got the fix! 

So what kind of kit makes sense for you? Let’s break it down one step further and consider kits as they pertain to three different categories: Inventory-Managed Kits, On-Demand Printed Kits and Promotional Kits. 

CUT COSTS WITH INVENTORY-MANAGED KITS 

You’ve got employees and locations across the country, all using collateral at alarming but varied rates. How do you ensure the right volumes of business cards, brochures, informational materials, and branded merchandise get to the right place, at the right time? 

Using Thysse’s Storefront platform, it’s easy to manage shipping and inventory with the touch of a button to track store-branded merchandise, marketing materials, business cards, and more in our warehouses – from anywhere. Here’s a quick rundown of the wrongs these kits make oh-so-right:

  • Never utter the words: “Larry, the warehouse is full.” Thysse can produce and store your materials in our 8,000 sq. ft. fulfillment center. 
  • You went trigger-happy trying to cut costs and now you’re up to your eyeballs in out-dated inventory… We help you hone in on your stored-inventory sweet spot. 
  • Night sweats because you forgot to re-up on those legal agreement forms? Rest easy knowing your custom-branded portal is available 24/7. 
  • You know your sales rep. better than your significant other… With Storefront, users can order more materials and monitor inventory levels with the click of a button – no sales rep. required. 
  • Worried that the receptionist you recruited forced to pack your 200 new employee welcome kits is going to have a crinkle paper meltdown and forget to include the contracts? We carefully pick, assemble and package your items into one organized kit and get them where they need to be on time, every time.

Storefront-initiated kits also cut lead times down to just 48 hours, freeing up valuable workspace and reducing obsolete inventory. 

TAKE EVENTS TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH ON-DEMAND PRINTED KITS 

2020 hit the business world hard. As in-person seminars and tradeshows shifted to online events, some got smart about their budget reallocations, shifting dollars toward enhancing the at-home experience for attendees. Yet, even after face-to-face events resumed, the newly-realized impact of promotional kits has event planners coming back for more. Why?

On-Demand Printed Kits allow us to meet the one-off kit demands of customers who don’t necessarily benefit from having pre-produced inventory stored in a warehouse, but still want the consistency, quality, and reliability of having one company handle the project from start to finish.

Got a breakfast seminar next Friday with 26 people? We can print you 26 promo boxes with the name of each attendee for a personalized experience they’ll remember long after the deviled eggs. Not only do our kit-packing services help you cater to every client on an individual level, but they also mean you don’t have to order any more than you need (or hold onto excess inventory!).

CREATE A LASTING IMPACT WITH PROMOTIONAL KITS 

Success in any line of business is dependent on strong relationships –  that’s relationships with employees, customers, and prospects you hope to one day turn into customers. When it comes to promotional kits, however, it’s not just sending a gift that makes an impression, it’s what you pick and how you pack the gift that determines its success rate. 

Let’s use a non-profit as an example. You’re a non-profit focused on native bee conservation. You send a kit to potential donors featuring local honey, a packet of wildflower seeds, assorted teas, a branded mug, and a copy of your newsletter. Thysse can source and produce all of these items in-house, significantly reducing your packaging and shipping pain points. 

The real magic, however, happens when your box makes it to the hands of the recipient. Your prospect feels valued, seen and understood. The quality of your brand’s services is reflected in something tangible, useful and downright good looking – if we may be so bold. 

Let us handle the messy stuff so you can concentrate on what you do best – whether it’s clinching that new deal or coming out with a stellar new product. Thysse’s team is ready and waiting to run full support.

Questions about the services mentioned in this article? Contact us today and let us know how we can help!

You’ve Cut Your Print Spend, But Are You Spending Smarter? 13 Ways to Reduce Printing Costs

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13 Ways to Spend Your Print Budget Smarter

Even if your print budget is leaner than ever, you still have opportunities to spend smarter. But how? The best way is to leverage your printer’s expertise while you focus on your business. Here are 13 ways you can lean on your printer to help you stay lean. 

  • Save money by using select printer services
  • Use your print materials more strategically 
  • Create print projects that are more cost-effective
Rethink using the high-end paper you've always used.

1. Use your printer’s house stocks

If you’ve been hooked on a certain high-end paper for a while, consider looking for a near-equivalent in your printer’s house stocks.

Printers designate house stocks based on volume pricing from their vendors. That means when your printer saves, you could too when you opt for house stocks.

2. Seek opportunities for longer-term printing commitments

If you want a quote for a thousand newsletters, maybe what you should really ask is, What would it look like if you took over our monthly newsletter?

“Oh, sure,” you’re thinking. “You’re a printer—of course you want a long-term commitment.”

Well, yes, we do. But understand that long-term project commitments are a two-way street. You’ll enjoy much better rates thanks to greater volume pricing.

And don’t forget what happens when competent pros (i.e., both you and your printer) continue to work together. Trust and mutual understanding grow and, more specifically, projects become increasingly efficient over time. That means they also become more cost-effective.

Have different material for different prospectives.

3. Save your best stuff for the best prospects

When it comes to distributing your print materials, never lose sight of the actual end user. If you’re handing material out at a trade show, for instance, have a postcard or flyer for the general masses.

For those interactions that seem like truly promising leads, now you can reach for the multi-page brochure or pocket folder you put so much effort and expense into.

4. Tweak projects to create efficiencies and best yields

If you’re in the design stage, check for small modifications that could result in a much more cost-effective project. 

For example, rather than sending a 6” x 11” self-mailer at the USPS Marketing Mail flat rate, you could send a 6” x 10 ½” piece at the USPS Marketing Mail letter rate. For a for-profit business, the savings in postage alone would be somewhere between $131 to $367 per thousand pieces. A nonprofit could save $74 to $310 per thousand pieces.

Similarly, if you’re ordering only a few banners, you may still be charged for the entire sheet of banner substrate. How many banners can fit on that sheet? Consider making the most of your large-format order by looking to your future needs. 

Standardized pricing can create huge cost savings.

5. Create big-time cost savings with standardized pricing

Some of your print needs are one-offs. But a lot of them aren’t. Rather than constantly going on time-consuming quote hunts, ask your printer about different pricing approaches.

Take standardized pricing. A printer can analyze your projected print needs to find opportunities for economy-of-scale pricing. From that analysis, the printer turns to suppliers to buy print materials more strategically and cost-effectively.

As a result, you get a value-based, standardized price list that can save you time and money. In fact, by seeing your printing needs as more than a series of individual projects, standardized pricing can transform not just your spending but your overall budget planning.

Incorporate evergreen material to keep costs low.

6. Leverage volume pricing for evergreen materials 

For printed information that won’t change for a while, take advantage of volume pricing. For instance, if you have customer forms or product brochures that rarely change, go for larger orders.

But here’s a caveat: Work with a trusted printer to find the volume sweet spot. Nobody wants to see three skids of brochures headed to recycling.

7. Pick print-on-demand services for ever-evolving pieces 

Certain documents and collateral are just too fluid to print in bulk. But thanks to digital printing advancements, producing smaller quantities essentially on-the-fly can be more affordable than ever. (Also, the quality for shorter digital printing continues to improve.)

You can request the exact needed amount of, say, a frequently-changing flyer and have your order turned around in a relatively short time.

Meanwhile, today’s digital printing technology allows you to continually—and conveniently—customize that flyer’s message for subsequent print-on-demand orders.

Deadlines will help your project move along.

8. Set early (and hard) deadlines for event material 

Events in particular can cause logistic nightmares. Do all you can to get info like the following as early as possible:

  • Sponsor logos
  • Presentation outlines
  • Speaker bios
  • Speaker photos

Alert all parties months in advance of what you need and, of course, when you need it. (And keep alerting them.) Also, remind them to confirm that reviewers and final-approvers will be available to sign off on everything. 

Shipping an order three days out vs. overnight could be the difference between a couple hundred or a couple thousand dollars. 

Using fulfillment experts can be a cost-effective option.

9. Rely on fulfillment experts (not your staff) to pick and pack

Rather than all-hands-on-deck pick-and-pack marathons at your office, your printer’s fulfillment services could be a much smarter and more cost-effective option.

If they have fulfillment expertise, not only can your printer do a great job with even the most complicated kinds of projects; they can allow your own staff to do what they were hired for (and what they actually want to be doing).

(Check out this related fulfillment case study.)

10. Plan ahead for preprint/imprint projects

For projects that demand a complex and more expensive setup, consider a preprint/imprint model.

Take foil stamping on your business cards as an example. You can have a large run of foil-stamped cards produced just once. Now the most expensive part of the project is over. 

Later, you can have these pre-printed cards imprinted with individual employee information when the need arises—as opposed to paying for the foil stamp setup for each order.    

11. Ship directly from your printer

Why have your printed materials sent to another vendor for final mailing? See if you can rely on your printer’s distribution team. They should be familiar with the various shipping options that exist, e.g., USPS, UPS, FedEx, local carriers, LTL (less than truckload), and others. 

Shipping directly from your printer creates a more efficient and cost-effective process. In fact, see if your printer can put both the printing and mailing services into a single quote for you.  

12. Clean up that mailing list 

Of course you know it’s a good idea to update the mailing list. But how long has it been since you’ve done it? 

Imagine sending 10,000 personalized pieces quarterly—but with 25% of your recipients no longer matching the address. That’s 2,500 items, sent four times a year, with little to no chance for conversion! (For additional direct mail support, see below.) 

Maximize direct mail's effectiveness.

13. Use your printer’s direct mail expertise to drive better results

Your printer may have the latest tools and software to maximize your direct mail’s effectiveness. Are you using them? For example, advanced variable data printing lets you customize individual pieces like never before:

  • Go way beyond “Dear Customer” and connect more personally with each recipient.
  • Customize donation suggestions based on prior giving.
  • Deliver targeted messaging from hundreds of variables like age, geography, home value, and purchasing history.  

Lean on your printer to help you see beyond the single project

A printing partnership should be about so much more than moving quickly from one project to the next. 

Now that you’ve seen 13 ways to spend smarter with your print budget, maybe you also noticed the common thread running through many of them: A strong relationship with your printer can be the key to improving your spending habits.

If any of the tips above resonate with you, bring them up with your printer. You’ve put a lot of work into planning your print budget. Now see how far you can go with it—with the guidance and support of a trusted printer.

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4 Powerful Ways Standardized Pricing Can Improve Your Print Spend

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Standardized pricing has many benefits.

For companies and organizations with large print expenditures, standardized pricing isn’t just some jargony print term. It’s a pricing option that gives a competitive advantage. Here’s how it can work for you.

A standardized pricing approach assumes your print needs are more than a series of single projects. It involves a print vendor taking the time to analyze and evaluate your projected print projects to maximize your economy-of-scale pricing. 

If print jobs are more than single projects, standardized pricing may be beneficial.

From that analysis, the printer can then turn to their suppliers to buy print materials more strategically and cost-effectively. 

The advantages are then passed on to you in the form of a value-based, standardized price list that, among other benefits, saves you time and money. 

We’ll take a closer look at those benefits below. But first, let’s make sure we understand exactly what standardized pricing is.

Before standardized pricing: The old way 

Let’s say you contact three printers to price an order of 5’ x 3’ banners. Typically, they’re going to develop a quote based on the physical dimension of the item and your requested quantity.

Unfortunately, this approach not only means you’re at the mercy of unpredictable pricing, it also requires a time-consuming process on your end that involves:

  • Documenting the print specs for every project and distributing to multiple vendors
  • Waiting for the questions to come in and then responding accordingly to each
  • Waiting some more for the all price quotes to arrive
  • Taking the time to finally choose an option and green-lighting the project
  • Hoping you don’t get bait-and-switched after the fact due to differing “interpretations” of your specs

After standardized pricing: The new way

To continue our banner scenario, here’s an example of what standardized pricing looks like.

Rather than give you a single price on a one-off printing project, a printer with a standardized pricing option would instead follow-up your request with questions like:

  • How many of these banners do you produce a year?
  • How many do you produce a month?
  • Do you order them in mass quantities, like 10 at a time, or is it always just one?
  • Is your need for these banners predictable or unpredictable?

Now let’s say this printer discovers you actually need 30 of these banners every month. They go back to their banner substrate supplier and say something like, “Instead of buying just one roll of this at a time, we’d like to buy 12 in advance. What kind of discount can we get?”

Assuming the supplier values the long-term relationship, the printer will get a significant discount. And that transforms the entire pricing dynamic. 

Standardized pricing has many benefits.

4 game-changing advantages of standardized pricing

The benefits to this approach really start to add up:

1. Save through bulk purchasing and discounted raw material costs

Standardized pricing creates long-term cost savings. Your print vendor’s upfront efforts to secure bulk discounts and economy-of-scale pricing creates an advantage that conventional per-project quoting simply can’t.

2. Save time by bypassing the quote hunting 

If you’re in procurement, you know gathering quotes can burn up hours of your time. And the inconsistency of per-project prices can make the process even more painful. But when you’re working from a standardized price list, you can literally price a project yourself.

3. Predict spending confidently and accurately

Whether it’s at the project, campaign, or program level, standardized pricing empowers you to forecast spending accurately. So when your VP of Marketing wants to see that print budget, you can now do that confidently–and almost immediately–with standardized pricing.

4. Enjoy a pricing structure that fosters a strong, transparent partnership   

Standardized pricing doesn’t mean prices are mysteriously fixed. You can and should know exactly what factors are determining your costs—because those factors may change. 

Contractual arrangements are a win for both you and print vendor.

In fact, if you’re spending upwards of $250,000 or so a year on print and print-related services,  you should consider a contractual arrangement with your print vendor. This can include meeting quarterly to review your prices and updating them based on market conditions. 

This is what a long-lasting, mutually advantageous partnership with your printer can look like. 

The logic of standardized pricing: It’s a win-win for both parties 

It takes a lot of time and effort for a printer to develop a standardized pricing list for you. So why would they opt for this kind of individualized cost structure?

Because when customers use standardized pricing, the printer can predict their own workload more accurately and then adjust their staffing accordingly. 

Moreover, by understanding customers’ long-term needs, the printer can turn to their own supply vendors to help solve challenges, not just provide a commodity.

Meanwhile, you’re saving time, transforming your print spend for the long-term, and managing a process you once had little control over. 

Would you like to gain greater control of your print budget and spend less time on pricing projects? Learn more about how a standardized pricing option can help your organization by contacting Thysse today! 

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