Karen, what if we charge a range of prices, with exceptions and add ons, can we see a form ? I haven't seen one. I think Tessy tried to send me a form I couldn't open. I actually have never participated except to say I copy Calico Corners local prices because I couldn't reduce it to a simple answer.
Let's say for instance I have a decorator price. That also happens to be my january and august sale price, and my volume price ( for a whole house ). I add or take off for hard fabrics or for duplicates. Which price should I base it on, and how much extra should I comment on ? Poor Denise. Basically, I copy a base price by what the local fabric stores charge, who are all remarkably consistent with one another.
Back to my original question, is there a form we can print to look at ourselves ?
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Saturday, February 07, 2004
SlipcoverNetwork.com Pricing Survey
We need your help, and hope you are willing to answer the Slipcover Pricing Survey 2004 for the Slipcover Network at www.slipcovernetwork.com.
Since 1999, slipcover professionals have been networking together sharing and talking about their businesses across the USA and Canada online at www.slipcovernetwork.com. The subject of pricing ones work has always been one of the top topics of discussion. In the Winter of 2000 the first committee of volunteers agreed to survey those who were in the business of Slipcovering and the results were the Summary of Slipcover Prices for 2000. Knowing that cost of living had risen, in 2002 another volunteer committee was united and a new survey was created with results being the Summary of Slipcover Prices for 2002. Now in 2004 to keep up to date with the economy, another volunteer committee has been formed to collect pricing information for 2004.
How will the survey help your business?
As you will note the survey covers two aspects of business; demographics of where you live, and actually pricing of the work that you do. The information you supply us is collected and tabulated into results from the questions and information you provide us. Though we do asked from business information, your business name will not be included in the results of the survey. So no one will know who you are, and what you are charging. You will however receive results of the survey which definitely should help with the pricing issue.
The survey has been designed to give guidelines as to what people are charging in certain parts of the country. Population size, resort community, or one type of industry where you live would have a big impact on who your customers are. Results will be tabulated in highs and lows with a medium range of pricing. So if you are below the lowest, then you may want to raise your prices, or higher than the highest then you are really doing something right!
Please note that only those in the business of Slipcovering, going to be in business, adding onto their business, will have access to the results of this survey. All who request the information collected from the survey must supply proof of being in business. The Summary of Slipcover Pricing will be copy written by the Slipcover Network, and will not be for publication by any other source. Those who have not participated in answering the survey and would like a summary copy mailed to them, will be charged a nominal fee of $5. You may also receive the summary online via a request to info@slipcovernetwork.com
Collecting Survey Information
3 wonderful volunteers have agreed to collect the information for the summary. They each are slipcover makers, have their own business, and live in different areas of North America. They will be happy to submit the survey to you via email, fax, by phone or snailmail and are hoping that you will return it to them completely answered by Feb 28, 2004. Results will be available to you by April 1, 2004. If you can help please call or email the volunteer in your area so she can get a survey to you.
Thank you so much for your time
always
Karen with www.slipcovernetwork.com
info@slipcovernetwork.com
Western States will be collected by Kim email address
kirufisher@hotmail.com fax 503-359-4600 phone 503-359-4600
Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kansas.
Central States will be collected by Tessy
cozy_cottage@netzero.com Fax 216 749-1829 phone 216 749-1829
Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, and Michigan.
Eastern States will be collected by Denise
PizzazzItUP@comcast.net fax 301-869-3163 phone 240-481-2017
Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Maryland.
We need your help, and hope you are willing to answer the Slipcover Pricing Survey 2004 for the Slipcover Network at www.slipcovernetwork.com.
Since 1999, slipcover professionals have been networking together sharing and talking about their businesses across the USA and Canada online at www.slipcovernetwork.com. The subject of pricing ones work has always been one of the top topics of discussion. In the Winter of 2000 the first committee of volunteers agreed to survey those who were in the business of Slipcovering and the results were the Summary of Slipcover Prices for 2000. Knowing that cost of living had risen, in 2002 another volunteer committee was united and a new survey was created with results being the Summary of Slipcover Prices for 2002. Now in 2004 to keep up to date with the economy, another volunteer committee has been formed to collect pricing information for 2004.
How will the survey help your business?
As you will note the survey covers two aspects of business; demographics of where you live, and actually pricing of the work that you do. The information you supply us is collected and tabulated into results from the questions and information you provide us. Though we do asked from business information, your business name will not be included in the results of the survey. So no one will know who you are, and what you are charging. You will however receive results of the survey which definitely should help with the pricing issue.
The survey has been designed to give guidelines as to what people are charging in certain parts of the country. Population size, resort community, or one type of industry where you live would have a big impact on who your customers are. Results will be tabulated in highs and lows with a medium range of pricing. So if you are below the lowest, then you may want to raise your prices, or higher than the highest then you are really doing something right!
Please note that only those in the business of Slipcovering, going to be in business, adding onto their business, will have access to the results of this survey. All who request the information collected from the survey must supply proof of being in business. The Summary of Slipcover Pricing will be copy written by the Slipcover Network, and will not be for publication by any other source. Those who have not participated in answering the survey and would like a summary copy mailed to them, will be charged a nominal fee of $5. You may also receive the summary online via a request to info@slipcovernetwork.com
Collecting Survey Information
3 wonderful volunteers have agreed to collect the information for the summary. They each are slipcover makers, have their own business, and live in different areas of North America. They will be happy to submit the survey to you via email, fax, by phone or snailmail and are hoping that you will return it to them completely answered by Feb 28, 2004. Results will be available to you by April 1, 2004. If you can help please call or email the volunteer in your area so she can get a survey to you.
Thank you so much for your time
always
Karen with www.slipcovernetwork.com
info@slipcovernetwork.com
Western States will be collected by Kim email address
kirufisher@hotmail.com fax 503-359-4600 phone 503-359-4600
Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kansas.
Central States will be collected by Tessy
cozy_cottage@netzero.com Fax 216 749-1829 phone 216 749-1829
Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, and Michigan.
Eastern States will be collected by Denise
PizzazzItUP@comcast.net fax 301-869-3163 phone 240-481-2017
Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Maryland.
That is great, it will be good to have on the site.
Well it is your website...why would anyone else care????
I really link the great thing is the link to professionals on the Slipcover Network Directory. I keep that site up to date, and folks then can find a good slipcover person.
You have got me going.
K
ps but I do need to get some work done too
Well it is your website...why would anyone else care????
I really link the great thing is the link to professionals on the Slipcover Network Directory. I keep that site up to date, and folks then can find a good slipcover person.
You have got me going.
K
ps but I do need to get some work done too
Tessy sent me 6 exactly perfect pictures.
One of herself, one of her business card, and two very different before and afters.
Karen, please, if you will prompt Bill and send him what he needs to use professionalslipcovers.com ( aka slipcoverprofessionals.com) to list and link the summit. Heck, I think that wouldn't offend a soul ? Am I wrong ? See the forum board in the next five minutes and we'll find out if anyone is offended.
One of herself, one of her business card, and two very different before and afters.
Karen, please, if you will prompt Bill and send him what he needs to use professionalslipcovers.com ( aka slipcoverprofessionals.com) to list and link the summit. Heck, I think that wouldn't offend a soul ? Am I wrong ? See the forum board in the next five minutes and we'll find out if anyone is offended.
Shirley so lets get you up and running.... When will it happen. Bill has pics of me already doing stuff. I can send him more if it helps and before and afters.....
I love the idea and will you have a link to professionals on the Slipcover Network page? That would be super.......................
always
K
I love the idea and will you have a link to professionals on the Slipcover Network page? That would be super.......................
always
K
Dee making an announcement is a great idea, and it will take a little work. I am not sure how to do this exactly from that location.
Would you be willing to post information on the upholstery.com forum from the Slipcover Network for us regarding the Summit???
Tessy would you be will to post info on the carr. upholster forum for us too about the Summit???
This way it isn't just me talking about it. All posts need to be made twice a month...
Anyone on WCAA or Drapery PRO? That would be helpful too.....
K
Would you be willing to post information on the upholstery.com forum from the Slipcover Network for us regarding the Summit???
Tessy would you be will to post info on the carr. upholster forum for us too about the Summit???
This way it isn't just me talking about it. All posts need to be made twice a month...
Anyone on WCAA or Drapery PRO? That would be helpful too.....
K
Friday, February 06, 2004
With the professional slipcover site at this time, I am open to suggestions. What I cannot afford to do is offend.
I want everyone to go there, and no one to be afraid to send customers there.
Like Karen, when I do finally use it to sell, it will be teaching and products that teach, but I have so much on my plate I cannot see me doing that for 2-3 years.
For the time ebing, I want to portray, in pictures, the process of ordering, having cut, and having installed a custom cover. It would make clear a person comes to the house, asks you what you want. Makes suggestions about cleaning the final product, and makes style plans according the customer input.
The installation of the final product is done by the person who comes again, and the benefits are listed and contrasted to the kind you order by mail.
I want to benefit with information the people who sell them, the people who buy them, and the people who sell fabric that could be made into slipcovers. So, for the time being, I am not sure giving out a couple peolple's business info ( including mine ) is compatable with that. One the other hand, they will see you in the picture, and will know it is in fact you.
At some point I will add registration page, which will be password protected. To send a person to the site and not have them see links or say, the slipcover network directory, I may have that page outside of the reach of a person you give that password to. Still working on it.
I want everyone to go there, and no one to be afraid to send customers there.
Like Karen, when I do finally use it to sell, it will be teaching and products that teach, but I have so much on my plate I cannot see me doing that for 2-3 years.
For the time ebing, I want to portray, in pictures, the process of ordering, having cut, and having installed a custom cover. It would make clear a person comes to the house, asks you what you want. Makes suggestions about cleaning the final product, and makes style plans according the customer input.
The installation of the final product is done by the person who comes again, and the benefits are listed and contrasted to the kind you order by mail.
I want to benefit with information the people who sell them, the people who buy them, and the people who sell fabric that could be made into slipcovers. So, for the time being, I am not sure giving out a couple peolple's business info ( including mine ) is compatable with that. One the other hand, they will see you in the picture, and will know it is in fact you.
At some point I will add registration page, which will be password protected. To send a person to the site and not have them see links or say, the slipcover network directory, I may have that page outside of the reach of a person you give that password to. Still working on it.
Another thought: Make an annoucement on the www.upholster.com Discussion Board, which is where I learned about a local upholstery course. There's a great deal of overlap between the two industries.
Re: Announcement on "Other" Forum
Karen, I've had e-mail solicitations from Forum members who market/promote various goods and services; they obviously got my name/e-mail from the Forum. I don't know if they paid She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named for an e-mail list - maybe they simply gleaned addresses from the Forum themselves.
Could you do this? Go through the Slipcover Forum, and use the e-mail function to make a member-by-member announcement without actually posting.
Karen, I've had e-mail solicitations from Forum members who market/promote various goods and services; they obviously got my name/e-mail from the Forum. I don't know if they paid She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named for an e-mail list - maybe they simply gleaned addresses from the Forum themselves.
Could you do this? Go through the Slipcover Forum, and use the e-mail function to make a member-by-member announcement without actually posting.
Registration is open for the Slipcover Summit.... We need to announce this to everyone we know. There has been a lot of excitment, and some registrations so far.
Some how we need to let others know about it on some of the other forums. We are not allowed to really advertise, so how do we go about getting the word out?
Some how we need to let others know about it on some of the other forums. We are not allowed to really advertise, so how do we go about getting the word out?
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Hi, Shirley, and I'm thrilled with what you are proposing. It will be great to have a site that we can post pics and a spot about ourselves... sort of like an on-line slipcover yellow pages!
The tough part for me is going to be finding the time to write, in a pleasant way, why clients will be happier with our custom (or made-to-measure) offerings instead of the "one-size-doesn't-fit-anything" slipcovers offered by the heavily-advertized mass-produced slipcover company we are all familiar with... Just when I don't think it can get any busier, somehow it does.
The tough part for me is going to be finding the time to write, in a pleasant way, why clients will be happier with our custom (or made-to-measure) offerings instead of the "one-size-doesn't-fit-anything" slipcovers offered by the heavily-advertized mass-produced slipcover company we are all familiar with... Just when I don't think it can get any busier, somehow it does.
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
narrowed down the purpose of professionalslipcovers.com . I am asking for pictures of you all cutting out slipcovers on furniture and your before and afters. Include a picture of you and a business card to blow up for layout.
The new and limited purpose at this time is anti propaganda. The search engines respond to the key words " custom slipcovers " with 99% ready mades. I will have great fun with this. If you want ( and it's free ) you can play too.
Send also well written objective reasons ( leave words like nasty out ) why to buy true custom and not the elastci arm front kind. Needing also a well written paragrapgh on why a made to measure slipcover can be just as well made as custom, from some one who does them that way. Our contrast is only geared at you know who. Pictures on a disc and whatever needs mailing, meail me first, I will give you web master info, and tell him what to expect.
I have a budget, first come, first serve. I cannot have 900 pages for this.
The new and limited purpose at this time is anti propaganda. The search engines respond to the key words " custom slipcovers " with 99% ready mades. I will have great fun with this. If you want ( and it's free ) you can play too.
Send also well written objective reasons ( leave words like nasty out ) why to buy true custom and not the elastci arm front kind. Needing also a well written paragrapgh on why a made to measure slipcover can be just as well made as custom, from some one who does them that way. Our contrast is only geared at you know who. Pictures on a disc and whatever needs mailing, meail me first, I will give you web master info, and tell him what to expect.
I have a budget, first come, first serve. I cannot have 900 pages for this.
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Well I am glad to learn that she is still around....
Of course I remember her. Just sent here an invite. Home she can chat too.
always
K
Martha's Morris is standing here ! Martha wants an invitation, remember her ? Conference 2001, Swanannoa ? BensBBQ@aol.com if you could send her an invitation, Karen ?
Of course I remember her. Just sent here an invite. Home she can chat too.
always
K
Martha's Morris is standing here ! Martha wants an invitation, remember her ? Conference 2001, Swanannoa ? BensBBQ@aol.com if you could send her an invitation, Karen ?
Still needing Volunteers in Baltimore....
So far Shirley there is you, myself and Donna. Is Judit coming to town?
Maybe be Cathy from Baltimore, she just joined our group.
Donna and I will be driving in as we will have stuff for display.
What about Denise??? Also Maureen said she could come down for the day.
So far Shirley there is you, myself and Donna. Is Judit coming to town?
Maybe be Cathy from Baltimore, she just joined our group.
Donna and I will be driving in as we will have stuff for display.
What about Denise??? Also Maureen said she could come down for the day.
you can see elegantandpracticalslipcovers.com not that there's much to see yet.
Stumbled across Magna Fabric on the internet yesterday. That site and two more I couldn't get any parts of the sites to respond to my mouse.........? If someone else wants to check it out they offered lots of denims for 35 cents a yd. Needless to say, that's a confusing claim ( to me ).
Stumbled across Magna Fabric on the internet yesterday. That site and two more I couldn't get any parts of the sites to respond to my mouse.........? If someone else wants to check it out they offered lots of denims for 35 cents a yd. Needless to say, that's a confusing claim ( to me ).
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