Laser Engraving Service Business Plan, Marketing Plan, How To Guide, and Funding Directory
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People love personalized gifts, and laser engraving services are able to provide a number of products that can be customized with a person’s name or corporate logos. The equipment that is used by a laser engraving service now allows pretty much any type of image or embossing to be placed on pretty much any standard item. These businesses typically do very well when they are able to develop ongoing and continued relationships with corporate gift specialists within the United States. Almost all laser engraving services now maintain online platforms where people can directly purchase a specific item and have a customization feature where they can have a name, corporate logo, or similar engraving placed on the item. The startup cost associated with the new laser engraving service are relatively low. Usually, these businesses can be started for as little as $50,000 or as much is $100,000 depending on the amount of initial inventory that will be held by the business. Many of these businesses often generate income not only from embossing a name or logo onto a product but also from these product sales. The gross margins from product sales typically is around 50% to 70% while laser engraving services typically generate contribution margins of 90% or more.
Given the unique nature of these businesses, all financial institutions are willing to extend the business loan or line of credit in order to get these businesses off the ground. Of course, a laser engraving service business plan is going to be required. This business plan should feature a three-year profit and loss statement, cash analysis, balance sheet, breakeven analysis, and business ratios page. As it relates to industry research, laser engraving services typically generate about $3 billion a year among 5,000 companies that provide these products and services the general public. Given that most these businesses maintain an expansive online presence, a thorough demographic analysis does not necessarily need to be developed but a focus on how corporate buyer relationships will be established should be thoroughly discussed within the business plan. Additionally, a competitive analysis can also be developed in order to ensure that the business can maintain an appropriate competitive advantage – whether it’s on price or an expansive inventory listing – from the onset of operations.
A laser engraving service SWOT analysis should be included as well in order to chart the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that are normally faced by these businesses. As it relates to strengths, these businesses can have very much control their costs and they have relatively low start up expenditures. The gross margins from both product sales as well as laser engraving services is relatively high. The barriers to entry are considered to be low.
For weaknesses, the amount of technology that is available for laser engraving services has become substantial. As such, the business will face competition not only from other laser engraving services but also among companies that have purchases low-cost equipment in order to provide these services as a value-added benefit to third parties.
As it relates opportunities, these businesses can readily expand by simply increasing the scope and scale of their marketing budget online while concurrently expanding the inventory of items that are available for sale. These businesses often will seek to generate ongoing referral relationships and ongoing contractual relationships with corporate gift specialists that will place large-scale orders with the business on a regular basis.
Outside of competitive threats, there is no known issue that would impact the way that a laser engraving service business.
A laser engraving service marketing plan also needs to be developed with a heavy focus on online marketing. As many people now use the Internet to purchase these types of services, and expansive e-commerce driven website should be developed in order to ensure that people can see the entire inventory of products available while also being able to customize their order directly online without having interact with another person. This website should be mobile friendly, and an entrepreneur can expect to spend anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000 on this type of e-commerce driven platform. A search engine optimization firm as well as a pay per click marketing firm can be hired in order to drive traffic to the website at the onset of operations. This of course assumes that the business is not going to be establishing an expansive retail presence within their local market. Often, these businesses do operate solely an online capacity. A presence on social media can also be important for these businesses as during holidays as well as for corporate activities – people will want to be able to provide customize gifts to their friends, families, customers, and clients. Referrals from popular platforms such as FaceBook, Twitter, and Instagram can be a valuable source of business for this type of company.
Laser engraving services are always able to remain profitable and cash flow positive given that they typically have very low operating expenses, and the demand for the services does not typically wane during an economic recession. These businesses can expand with via an entrepreneur that knows how to properly market the services in online capacity.