Thursday, January 23, 2014

To Van or Not to Van, That is the Question?

First Aid Supplies Online had been dedicated to the success of all first aid supply do it yourselfers since we launched our first commercial website back in 1999!  We are gung ho on saving our customers time and money that’s we developed out online do it yourself tools.

Those tools have been used by thousands of companies and institutions over the last 15 years and save hundreds of thousands of dollars for our customers.  This has been such a successful campaign that sometimes we get complacent and take it for granted.  So in this blog post I wanted to relate a recent customer anecdote to put this in to perspective.

The customer is a large culinary college in the Midwest with 14 different first aid kit locations.  They approached us last spring and asked us to provide our price on a list of products they were getting from a large National van based First Aid Service Company.  We provided the prices and although we didn’t get to see the competitor’s pricing the college did go with us as their vendor and they became first aid supply do it yourselfers.

We got a nice email from them at the first of the year and they wanted us to know how much they had saved.  It turns out that the van first aid company had been coming in once a month to service the first aid kits and the average monthly bill was $750.00.  They went on to explain that since they became first aid supply do it yourselfers they’ve cut their cost by over 80% which means they are on schedule to save about $7,200.00 a year on first aid supplies.  Are they happy?  You bet.

Why did they get such outstanding results you ask?  It is a really simple formula that relies on taking responsibility for your first aid supplies in house and finding a vendor partner with the tools and the experience to help.  That’s what we do at First Aid Supplies Online and we’d be delighted to show you how we can make that formula work for your organization.

Watch our informative 3 minute video "Get off the van" and learn how to save 50% on first aid supplies.