Παρασκευή 27 Απριλίου 2012

How to increase business profits

Businesses can increase profits using a number of strategies. Most businesses will like to focus on getting more customers and therefore sales. There are other low-cost and effective methods a business could use to increase profits.
Here are some proven and low-cost strategies that can be used immediately to increase business profits. 

Increasing price:
Find out what product is best selling in your business and increase the price up as much as 10%. You can increase the price slightly so that your customers are not largely affected rather than a huge rise in price. This should help to bring in more profit.  

Learn to sell:
Often businesses do not know how to sell due to lack of sales training. This is particularly true when you are working for yourself and have no staff. To overcome this problem you can create a sales script to make communication between you and the customer easier and to be able to sell.
Loyalty:
Customer loyalty is a must to create more sales. To make this strategy more effective target only loyal customers who buy often and much. These customers are the ones who come to shop on a regular basis and end up buying large volumes. You can offer discounts or giveaways.
Marketing:
Low-cost marketing plans will help to boost profit. You can use social networking sites to promote your business or to let customers know of a sale that is ending soon. Emailing customers and sending newsletters are other ways that you can market your business and thus create more profit.
Sales:
There are many customers who will visit your store when you have sales or deals on products. Holding sales and offering discount prices can help to get more products shifted. You can use buy-one-get-one-free offers or you could have a buy-one-get-one-half-price offer.

Reducing costs:
Saving money in certain areas can help a business to increase profits. Too many businesses waste their money on unnecessary tools that they do not require. Create a list of all the things that your business needs and then try and find cheaper alternatives that can keep your business running.
There are many ways that a business is able to save money to reduce costs. Find out how your business can save money by clicking here.
A business should keep up-to-date with everything that is available to them. They should also focus on reducing costs where necessary so that they end up making more profit. Having a business plan and measuring success also helps you to know how well your business is doing.


by Amreen Bi
http://www.helium.com

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