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This week's survey
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(These survey questions are sent in by our readers. Please spend a minute to give your answer to this week's survey as one or possibly more of your industry peers thinks this question is important and wishes to see your point of view as well as others in the industry.)
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Last week's survey results...
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As a small business operator have you ever dealt with a small supplier for many years only to find that when they become a big business they usually brush the small business operator aside only to be interested in the big orders and make you wait?
- No. I've been in the industry long enough that most of the big players now, were small players then. The only issue I have found is that although I've been loyal to a couple of suppliers for many years, when times get a little tough, they rarely take into account your long term loyalty. They have years of trading history to look back on, but invariably they are only interested in the previous 60 or 90 days. It has forced me to change my thinking too. Rather than be loyal and pay a fair price, I have started buying on price alone as loyalty means zero to most account managers now, with one or two exceptions in the market right now.
- Can't say I have experienced this but I understand that it has happened with a couple of small suppliers who grow and then employ salespeople. Then you can lose that personal "one on one" relationship with the person who started the business.
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