To ensure success in your business strategy, you must have partners who understand your needs, accompany you, advise and build a better and stronger image for your brand with you, so it is important that every time you choose a supplier, you decide intelligently.

If you have already had bad experiences with other providers, it will be important that from the first talk you expose your fears and concerns, from the beginning you need to establish the services you expect to receive, according to the response of the potential provider to make decisions.

What features should your promotional item provider have?
 There may be a thousand characteristics that you consider basic, however, here we leave you 5 that yes or yes you must make sure that it has:

Customer portfolio and previous work
We are not saying that new companies are not reliable, but once you know the work of a supplier, its scope and / or limitations are much clearer, so we believe that seeing previous work is the best cover letter.

Catalog of promotional items
If you do not want to have the same as your competition, you must ensure that the portfolio of items of the supplier you are interested in is vast and has enough alternatives to choose from.

It is even important that among the questions you ask the potential supplier, you consider the option of creating together new promotional items, new options, creative alternatives that have not been seen in the market before; If he is willing to innovate with you, you can score points in his favor.

Delivery times
In the ideal world, there should be no "pumping" or last minute jobs, but let's be honest, that ideal world sometimes does not exist. What would happen to be notified with little time in advance about a fair where you can have a presence? Will you say no because your provider does not have a rapid reaction capacity? I do not think so.

We are not saying that I should say yes to everything you ask, because that would leave much to be desired about your professionalism, but you should be willing to take risks with you.

Beyond emergencies, keep in mind the times in which the potential provider needs to deliver a job on time, it may be that based on that you have to plan and anticipate yourself too.

Quality of service
You may think that it is difficult to know the quality of the service of a provider if you have never worked with it, however, sometimes the attention they give you from the first moment is the main indicator.

Do you need an advisor just for your account and the provider has the resources to cover it? Check the days and hours of attention; It would seem exaggerated, but sometimes the service also depends on where they are located at and how far they are from you.

How many media are available to assist you? Do they have only one phone you dial and never answer? Pay attention to these details that may give you a headache in the future.

Payment or quotation options
There are many providers with whom it is very difficult to quote or put together payment plans, if the situation of your organization merits requesting credit for a couple of months, you need to make sure that the provider you are targeting has this alternative, otherwise , your relationship with him will not work or move forward.