Making your business more profitable involves looking at ways to increase sales revenue as well as decreasing your costs and benchmarking your business to see where you can save money.
Here are seven effective strategies to improve profit:
1. Eradicate unpopular Products and Services
The products or services with the biggest gross profit margin are the most valuable to your business. Once you have identified your most profitable products or services you should concentrate on them only and that is the best thing to do to increase your profit even more.
You will need to determine if the unpopular products or services should be utterly removed or reviewed for areas of improvement.
2. Search new clients
New customers can help grow your business. However, this can sometimes be the most expensive strategy for generating additional revenue. On average it costs eight times the amount of money to acquire a new customer as it does to retain a current customer.
The simplest (and most cost-effective) way to get new customers is to offer incentives to your current customers and motivate them to initiate referrals for you.
3. Stay Visible and Connected
Accreditations, licenses, and certifications for your business or individual employees can set you apart from your competition.
Take your reputation online, using social media, your website, and a blog to connect with clients and make strategic alliances.
4. Make Everyone a Salesperson
From telephone to email to face-to-face meetings, every employee has the opportunity to spread your company’s message and engage in potential sales-generating behavior.
Everyone needs to pitch in to help by cutting costs, selling, networking on the web, marketing, and more.
5. Negotiate hard.
Take the time to plan out your negotiation strategically. Create a competition for your dollars. Create a list of concessions you want, with extras for you to trade-off.
Research the market to better understand the best deal you can expect. Even hire an experienced negotiator to help you make the purchase at the best price and terms you can.
6. Evaluate the Value of Each Client and Job
Use accurate job costing and cost allocation to determine which of your clients or types of jobs are the most profitable and which are the least profitable.
Adjust pricing structure or eliminate the products and services which are not as profitable to focus on those which generate the most profits.
7. Prioritize Higher-End Products
When your profit margins dip, it’s easy to take an “anything goes” approach to marketing and production. This approach may backfire in the long run, since a low-margin product produces less bang for your buck.
To increase your profit and overall margin numbers, focus on products that sell best and deliver the highest profit. Quality products inspire loyalty as well as boost revenues.
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