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As a Leading Edge Telecoms Member, you will have a network of colleagues across the country and you will always find someone to assist you with your business needs.
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Leading Edge Group have been assisting independent businesses develop and grow since 1986. We currently have over 1350 Member stores spanning Australia.
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The Leading Edge Telecoms Group has experienced professionals supporting our Telecoms Members. We provide general business advice, as well as support in specific areas of business such as product, sales and marketing. We also play a key role in obtaining your Telstra Dealer licence.
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The size and power of our organisation enables our Members to have access to many leading suppliers and global manufacturers. Many of our partners, including Telstra, provide dedicated sales representatives, Account Managers and other points of contact for your business. As we manage these accounts nationally, you will benefit from competitive pricing negotiated for you. By offering you financial credit, you can order goods from all of our suppliers and only pay one bill.
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To further assist your business, Leading Edge Telecoms executes various marketing campaigns at competitive rates, including catalogues, press advertising and even Television ads. We enable Member access to some marketing funds and use of 'Leading Edge Telecoms' branding.
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All Leading Edge Members also have access to a range of Non-Trade Benefits - which are specific deals and cost saving initiatives negotiated specifically for small business owners. We also provide an intranet which is the hub of all information and communication.
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To stay in touch with our member's, Leading Edge Telecoms has developed an intranet website which houses a lot of information that can help you run your business and keep in touch with other Leading Edge Telecoms stores. We also run a National Conference each year, where you can take time out of your business to work on your business. You can get away and spend some time with vendors, suppliers, Telstra, other Members and Leading Edge staff.
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At Leading Edge Telecoms, we enable you to maintain your own business culture and unique identity while leveraging from our brand and the benefits we provide.
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Our members benefit through our core value propositions:
- Increased sales from proactive marketing and sales activity
- Increased margins through effective supplier initiatives
- Improved profitability, through savings in operating costs
- Improved management skills
- Improved funding through more flexible credit terms
- Increased productivity through the operation of a single purchasing account
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Here's what Kerrin from Leading Edge Telecoms Loxton thinks about being a Member of Leading Edge Telecoms:
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Membership of LET has given our business a number of significant benefits including:
- Access to better buy prices than we could achieve as a small business
- Legal protection through contract negotiations and conditions with suppliers and partners
- Access to a large knowledge base throughout Australia
- Opportunity to piggy-back off a well known brand
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Overall, our LET membership has contributed to our growth as a retail store by giving us opportunities to increase margins, attract more customers and provide additional incentives above that which we may have received as an independent dealer. The cost of membership is negligible in comparison to the advantages we receive.
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We are able to focus more on our business at a local level instead of having to worry about organizing the next advertising "campaign" or catalogue layout. Our marketing has become more pro-active through the use LET's marketing initiatives in conjunction with or own.
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We have benefited greatly from annual and state conferences and the opportunity they present to develop long-lasting relationships with suppliers, other store owners and the management team at LET.
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I take pride in telling people we are members of LET as I feel the brand and image suits our own ideal of professionalism. We are at the forefront of technology and we have a supporting group that is well positioned to offer the best expertise to assist us in running our business well.
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A number of factors have resulted in significant cost savings through our LET membership such as increased advertising opportunities through subsidized catalogues, buying power for TV/radio commercial spots, website etc. and we take advantage of Non-Trade Benefits where possible; including reduced cost EFTPOS merchant facilities, fuel and vehicle purchases, car hires, unaddressed (letterbox) delivery rates and newspaper insertion rates.
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Our business has also benefited as a direct result of the knowledge we are able to obtain through our connections with LET Head Office, other LET members and LET account managers at Telstra. This can include technical, marketing, financial or instructional information.
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At conferences we are privy to a good blend of presenters who always offer something new for us to soak up and take home. With our small budget, these presenters would not normally be accessible to us but with the combined financial power of the group, we are able to benefit from the expertise of many industry specialists.
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One of the immediate benefits we noticed above all others was the advantage from increased credit terms through suppliers as well as more flexibility with our accounts. This directly improved our cash flow which resulted in more business and buying opportunities.
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Our contractual agreement with LET and our major partner (Telstra) has given us access to many more sales opportunities than we would probably have as an independent store. Being able to offer a whole of business solution is vital to any small business trying to survive in today's marketplace and we are able to do that through LET.
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Since experiencing success as a Member of Leading Edge Telecoms, Kerrin and her business partner have opened a store in Renmark and are about to open in Berry.
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For more information or to find out how to become a Member of Leading Edge Telecoms please complete the form
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To find out on more information, Become a Member of Leading Edge Telecoms.
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