Del Mar Photonics - Business Development - Sales
Current Sales are 1.5-2M$ per year
Why not higher?
1) we do not have professional sales people - sales are performed by
technical personnel and basic administration
2) limited manufacturing capabilities - unable to manufacture larger quantities
to have basic systems in stock
3) we often quote very long delivery times that results in the loss of potential
orders
4) first years we had a lack of references and could not provide examples of
where our lasers installed
5) we do not have demo center where people can come to see actual product
6) committed to product improvements and custom orders instead of scaling up of
standard products
Investment will help to increase sales and reduce costs resulting in substantially larger profits
1) we'll be able to hire few professional sales people
2) we have good standard products and can manufacture standard components in
larger quantities in order to reduce cost and lead time for standard products
3) we can have many smaller standard products in stock (autocorrelators, Faraday
Isolators, femtosecond lasers kits, Fiber lasers etc..) and have shorter lead
time on many other products.
4) now we can refer to many customers in USA and abroad, and even establish long
term partnerships with existing customers for development of new products
(multiphoton microscope based on Mavericks for neurobiology, AOTF tuning ...)
3) we'll be able to build a demo/R&D lab where potential customers can see
actual products, work on integration of complete systems and perform tests of
different potential applications (micromachining, imaging)