Saturday, April 13, 2019

Deadline coming: Prices Going Up

This year we will be coming to our sixteenth year in business.  We're so proud of the over 40,000 charts we have printed that now blanket the world. We're grateful for the trust you all have given us to display your precious family history.  We consider it a sacred privilege and honor to help you communicate your heritage to your loved ones and  honor your ancestors.

As such, we've tried really hard over the years to keep our charts as affordable as possible so that we can help as many families as we can.  We've only raised prices twice in our existence, and some of our products are still the same prices we introduced them with in 2003.  Likewise, we produce amazing customized charts with unlimited design help for not much more than it would cost to reproduce a photograph at the same size.  We've run this company on a shoestring, figuring out how to make plotter and computer repairs ourselves and putting in long hours trying to market with a tiny budget.  In some ways that has hindered our progress, but we're proud to run a company that has had no debt and has been able to provide good, flexible jobs to some amazing people.

However, costs of the supplies, the tools, and all of the bills have continued to increase.  And unlike many small genealogy companies, we are looking to the future and the long term development of our company.  We want to be stable so that we can continue creating beautiful family history displays far into the future.  In fact, we are in the process of developing some new automated solutions that will actually allow us to offer more styles and more charts at lower prices in coming years.  So we've come to the point that we need to raise prices on some of our higher end, extremely customized charts.  We offer charts that not available anywhere else in the world.  We will continue to offer printing options at several different price points.  We want to make sure we can continue to do all of that for generations to come.


So, effective May15th, all new orders will be under our new 2019 pricing structure.  We've given you a month to prepare.  If you can submit your free consultation for a chart before that time, we'd be happy to honor the current pricing.

We assure you that we will help us continue to offer our amazing, comprehensive customer service and producing exquisite, striking genealogy displays.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at 801-872-4278 or info@familychartmasters.com.  We appreciate your patronage and look forward to helping you create more amazing family history charts in the future.

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