How we can offer a price match promise
It's plain and simple as to how AdMain can offer a price match promise or any quote beaten business model. It's purely down to consolidating all our offices into Sweden and also to numbers, which more specifically means running costs. If you sell a product online, or even in the real world, setting your product or service price is determined not only be the cost of what you pay for your product wholesale, but all the other business expenses accrued to bring your service or product to market. In this instance, we will will compare with the likely overheads of what we reckon equates to 99% of SEO (search engine optimisation) companies in the UK. We will work our finding out on a UK based online marketing company with ten staff.
Office space rental. For an SEO company to operate, it needs an office. In Lancashire, a typical sized office to house web developers, telephone people and admin staff is on average (depending on location) between £700 and £1500 per month. AdMain own their offices. We do not rent. No rent to us, means savings for our clients. £18000.00 on floor space alone.
Business tax. For 2009/10 the standard multiplier has been set at 48.5p to give business rates payables for 2009/10 of £7,275 for the county of Lancashire. Business tax in Sweden does not exist. Our council does not charge us anything for being a business.
Already, based on the top end office prices and local business tax rates, we can pass on savings to our clients of £25725.00 each year, AND, this is just on ground office set up fees. Can you see where we are coming from?
Employers National insurance contributions. A marketing company in Lancashire employs 10 people earning on average £500.00 per week. 500 multiplied by 10 multiplied by 13.8% give employers contribution of £690 per week, which is £17250.00 over the year. As our English staff are working abroad, there is no National Insurance to be paid by employers, saving us £17250 per every 10 staff.
Internet connection. The standard BT business broadband connection is £15.00 per month for unlimited usage with up to 20mb(this is dependent on your geographical location). 10 lines for 10 staff, equates to £150.00 per month. Due to the severe weather conditions and literally metres of snow that falls in the winter, there are very few telegraph poles in Sweden. Everything is cable, and lucky for us, is far more advanced than in the UK. We currently have a 4000Mb Internet connection on just one line, which is the equivalent of around £20.00 per month, which not only saves us money, but allows us to run many many computers through just one Internet connection. Based on the BT package, we could actually run 2000 PC's and still have the same bandwidth. Cost of broadband for a Lancashire office of ten people over a year is £1500.00. Ours is £200.00 saving us £1300.00 on Internet connection.
Even our telephone calls are to England are free via VoIP, and the quality is not distorted due to the massive amount of bandwidth available. For an SEO company in the UK with an outbound call centre, you are looking at in excess of £750.00 per month in call charges and line rental. Ours is zero, saving us over £9000.00 per year.
We could go on and on, but just off those figures above, and there are also plenty more things we could mention, it actually works out more than £53,000.00 cheaper to have our office at our Euro base, based on an office of ten people.
All these savings are being passed on to our clients and you could benefit too by switching your marketing campaigns to us.
However, if that doesn't sell you, Europe is one hour in front, so technically we open one hour earlier, 7:00am UK time to be precise, and our office's officially close at 9:30pm UK time, with no early finishes on Fridays. Even a direct line to the M.D. Of your current/potential online marketing company wouldn't give you as much contact time.
We've raised the bar, so don't be shy, give us a call today, you are guaranteed to be answered by a native English person.
VAT Free marketing
The savings with AdMain don't just stop their either. They get even better at the point of sale.
If you are a UK business with a VAT number, we can also offer you VAT free invoicing. That's right people. UK businesses DO NOT pay Swedish VAT registered companies VAT. We are basically talking an immediate saving of 20% at the point of sale.
To simplify, if you have been quoted, or if your current marketing outfit charge you £1000.00 per month, since the start of 2011, as I'm sure you are well aware, VAT increased by 2.5%, meaning that you would have to pay £200.00 VAT at the point of sale.
Immediately, on top of the price match promise, or any quote beaten promise, you have save an instant £200.00 per month just on the VAT alone. A staggering £2400.00 per year, per thousand pounds.
We understand that eventually you can offset or claim back the VAT, but it still means paying it out in the first place. In these tough economical times, even though UK business has 'turned a corner' not having to pay out, at the point of sale, an extra £200.00 per month per thousand pounds can have a massive effect on cash flow situations.
Don't be shy to give us a call. Even though we are based in Sweden, calls will still be fielded by real English people.
Learn more about how we can offer VAT free marketing without actually loading it into price before hand. On our beat the VAT trap page.
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