My business partner has always told me that we should constantly be looking for cheaper supply companies. He has changed our insurance company three times in the past two years because he found us a better rate. He has also found us a cheaper office supplies company that gets us everything we need for half the price of what we used to pay.

I will never forget about four years ago when he found a website that sold discount office supplies and he started to compare each item that we ordered from our old company and was looking at prices from each of them. He determined that we could save fifty percent by going with the online discount office supplies company and dropping our current supplier. It just so happened that our current supplier was a company that was located directly across the street from us. They had been selling office supply products for more than fifty years and were owned by some good friends of my parents.

I was the one to go over and let them know that it was not personal but we would not need their services anymore. I explained that the online company’s prices for office supplies were too low to not switch to them. They understood and went out of business about six months later.