In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, much of the market is dominated by mega-corporations and e-commerce behemoths. So, it’s easy to overlook the hidden gems – small businesses like us at Bore Tide One Source! While it may be tempting to stick with familiar names, there are compelling reasons to explore and support smaller players in the market.
Corporations v. Small Businesses
Service and Solutions
Unlike larger corporations, small businesses offer a superior level of personalized and custom solutions. While large corporations are stocked with a sizeable quantity of items, you must sift through them yourself. This leaves questions about their quality unanswered until the item is received. Small businesses, on the other hand, help you navigate their catalogue of items, informing you which products are the highest caliber and making sure they suit your needs. More personalized services tend to lead to greater positive outcomes for your business.
Larger corporations often have less personability, seeing you as a faceless customer — one of a seemingly endless number. Small businesses will take time and effort to understand your distinct challenges and goals, because they recognize you are more than a number on a spreadsheet.
Adaptability
Large corporations have internal bureaucratic structures, resulting in slow, trickledown decision-making; however, small businesses are far more agile, allowing quick adaptation to sudden market changes. This translates into faster response times and flexibility and meeting the overall goals and expectations you may have as a consumer.
Shopping at small businesses gives you access to the latest and greatest solutions that may not be available through larger companies. Small businesses are versatile, whether a catering company with flavor or a landscaping company with flowers; they can tailor products to your specific needs, giving you a competitive, creative edge in your industry.
Local Economies and Communities
Small businesses contribute to the growth and development of local economies and communities by providing jobs, paying taxes, and fostering a sense of belonging. For many communities, small businesses are their lifeblood, because they promote prosperity. When partnering with small businesses, you are actively contributing to the economic success of a local community.
The positive impacts go beyond economic factors, because small businesses often engage in philanthropic activities, like supporting local charities, events, and initiatives. A partnership with a small business helps build stronger connections with their communities.
Communication
Small businesses’ communication is refreshing if you are accustomed to dealing with large corporations‘ template-based, often lackluster, correspondence. Small businesses are known for openly conversing, using direct communication, and bolstering lifelong relationships. This candidness allows for successful collaboration.
Long-Term Partnerships
Although building strong, lasting relationships is a cornerstone for any business, small businesses are more adeptly equipped for fostering relationships like these. Using a customer-centric approach showcases a genuine willingness to go the extra mile. This paves the foundation for a meaningful, long-term partnerships that extends beyond the transactional.
Small Business the Bore Tide One Source Way
Service and Solutions
At Bore Tide One Source, we love finding personalized solutions that fit your businesses’ personality! Whether we are producing items for a trade show, client gifts, or something as simple as business cards, we find enjoyment in catering to each of our partner’s unique needs.
We are human, too, and follow the golden rule — “treat others how you want to be treated.” We do not want to be another order number, and we do not want you to be either! Instead, we WANT to take time and effort to understand your business and its distinct challenges and goals, allowing us to offer the best, most fine-tuned solutions for you individually.
Adaptability
Versatility — it’s one of the traits that define us. Like any business, large or small, our workloads fluctuate throughout the year; luckily, our dynamic duo, Charles Leshan and Kayla Janssen, adapt quickly and efficiently, monitoring rapidly changing trends and supply chain issues (should they arise).
This ensures your orders are taken care of and deadlines are met. Acting as a Yin and Yang pair, their versatility and industry know-how give them the tools to help your business stay on top!
Communication
We prioritize open communication because it allows us to find the best promotional products to represent your brand. With our full transparency approach to the order process, no question goes unanswered, helping put your mind at ease.
Long-Term Partnerships
We believe the success of our partners reflects our own. We provide the same level of dedication, support, and collaboration to all our customers, because we succeed together! We want to be seen as not only a partner, but a reliable ally, invested on a personal level to your growth and prosperity.
These are our core beliefs, the foundation we use to build bridges with our customers.
Awash with Exciting Opportunities
Bore Tide One Source, and other small businesses, make it our mission to find the next new and exciting thing. For some, it is new coffee flavors, others it is a new sewing machine, but in our case, it is the perfect print and promotional items to enhance your brand. From personalized services and innovation to community-driven support and honest communication, we take charge to help you! Working with us here at Bore Tide One Source has its advantages — and we love to prove that time and time again!