I see people asking this question, what can a watch supplier offer me?
They can design your watch, design your box, give you a professional suggestion on watches, website build service, accessories or other products souring service, video taking service, logistics warehouse, accessories or other products souring service, and product picture taking service ect.
Indeed, let’s take a look at this watch industry of ours and what services we have provided to our customers.
Design your watch
Designing your watch is very much about designing your watch to your specifications.
Everything is done under the direction of the client and the designers and suppliers only give advice on what is feasible. They do not make any decisions or changes to the design on behalf of the client.
Give you a professional suggestion on watches
Very often, many customers will come up with some very bold ideas and give some very special designs, but the supplier tells you that it can’t be done, because, the functions are all limited by the movement and the appearance is determined by the current technology. When it comes to functionality, apart from the very big brands, who are able to make their own movements and customize them for their own specific needs, some ordinary brands, or big brands, can only use movements from movement suppliers and change the appearance of the design.
When it comes to appearance or materials, some customers will have to make very small accessories or places to make a very perfect effect, in fact, many times it is not possible to achieve, because the machine is restrictive, and the manual operation of the place is also restrictive, it is not possible to meet the current technical requirements.
There are also special materials, such as titanium cases, such as meteorite facets, which are special designs that can only be prototyped as an experiment but cannot be produced in large quantities because the scrap rate is too high, or because the raw material costs are so high that the customer simply cannot meet the quantity requirements, etc.
Based on existing experience, the supplier then gives some very honest advice to allow the customer to change the design in time.
Design your box
In fact, many people who are new to the industry, or crossover, do not have the means to design their own preferred packaging well, whereas a watch manufacturer, on the other hand, will be able to meet all aspects of the requirements, as he will combine the existing watch size and dimensions, as well as the customer’s price, to recommend the most suitable package to the customer.
Help you choose the best logistics
When you are shipping, if you say to your supplier, xx, can you recommend a suitable freight forwarder to me?
They usually recommend them because the ones he recommends to you must be ones that they know and have helped them transport their goods. This way you not only have a good supplier of watches, but also some logistics providers who know your products. When you encounter problems during the logistics transport, your logistics provider and your watch supplier will also help you solve the problem together, because he does not want to lose you as a customer, does it save you a lot of time?
Or the watch manufacturer will give you several logistics options to choose from and you will be able to choose the best logistics and save some money too.
Other services
Some of the above is what a watch supplier will do for you. It is also the one that does the most. Then there are some others that I guess you may not have thought of either. These are some of the requests that some of my customers sometimes have, and we all help them on a case-by-case basis, being the other hand of the customer in China
Product Picture taking service
Because many of my clients are e-commerce businesses, selling the products online for the sake of it, and pictures are also the most important, because the photographers abroad all charge more than in China and the labor cost is expensive, so sometimes the client will ask us to help him find the right photographer to help him take pictures and retouch them. We are all happy to do that.
This saves you a lot of time as your competitors’ products are still being shipped while yours is already on display online.
Also, sometimes for publicity, you need to take some pictures of the factory, you can also try to communicate with your supplier if they can easily get pictures of the factory production without you coming to China to visit the factory?
Website build service
Some factories offer website building services to help customers market themselves better, because factories and salesmen are the ones who know the most about their products, they know what content the website needs and how to help you become more professional
Video taking service
It’s the same with product images, you can also ask your supplier to shoot a video of the factory or ask him to call a professional photographer for you to shoot the video and send it to you
Accessories or other products souring service
If you have other products to buy in China, for example in the same category, but you don’t have the time to find a supplier, or you can arrange this with a trader you work with, they will know the Chinese market better than you do, where to find the most suitable supplier and they can do far more than you can think of. Try it.
Logistics warehouse
If you have ordered different other products at the same time but want to combine containers to go together, this is a good time to discuss with your watch supplier if you can save money by putting the goods in their warehouse first and waiting for them to go together.
These are some of the services that we have done for our clients before, do you have some other ideas? You can say it and we can discuss it together, it is also a very interesting thing.
