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Why should I become a Diamond Network Partner? Can’t I do it myself?

A Diamond Network Partnership can help logistics businesses expand into express parcels, international shipping, same-day courier services and eCommerce fulfilment.

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So, final killer question: why should you become a Diamond Network Partner? Why can’t you do this all by yourself?

How much time have we got? There are millions of reasons why you should become a Network Partner, but I guess the key ones are if you’re reliant upon one or two clients and want to take control by gaining business directly with the people who are spending the money, diversifying and adding those additional services.

I think, if you want to learn from a business that’s got over 30 years of experience, we’ve made lots of mistakes over the years that we’ve been in business, and you learn from those mistakes. Rather than reinventing the wheel, joining the Network Partnership means that you avoid some of those key mistakes that we’ve made over the years.

There’s also the technological solution that we’re able to provide. As mentioned earlier, we’ve invested over £2.5 million in Despatchlab as it stands at the minute. For many localised logistics businesses, that would certainly be unachievable. The fact that we’ve done that on behalf of our network adds huge weight to the entire offering.

Being a local business means that you sometimes might find it difficult to drive the buying power that you need. Through the collaboration that we’ve got across our entire network, we’re able to join forces and improve the buying power we can achieve through the scale we’ve got across the network. That is really important.

I have to say, our carriers are managed incredibly well and we get the very best deals, enabling our Network Partners to put their margin on top of that. That is our collective buying power.

In addition to that, and we’re starting to see this now that we’ve got our key 30 in place, there’s the opportunity to get involved in nationwide contracts as well. As an individual courier company, you simply wouldn’t have access to those. They want to have nationwide headquarters managing it for them, so that’s another part of being part of the Diamond family.

The brand is really important to us. It doesn’t mean that you lose your own identity as the local business you’ve built up, in some cases over many years, and that you should be very passionate about. We don’t want you to lose that identity.

Joining forces with a big nationwide brand like Diamond Logistics adds weight. You get the best blend of both worlds: local brands that people associate with the care and attention that comes with a small business, coupled with the infrastructure, technology and buying power of a big brand, and all of the marketing and what that attracts into our business. That is vital.