Is Your Revenue Stagnant or Declining?
You can increase your revenue with several different approaches that don’t necessarily mean having to focus on selling more. Also scrutinise the areas of your business that directly relate to Revenue increase to see if you can benefit from other techniques as well.
Revenue Increase Problems in Your Business?
Undertake an investigation into Sales; Marketing; Pricing; Customer Retention; Product Range; Distribution Systems. Then eliminate inefficiencies. Consequently, achieve Revenue increase. See below for the links to fixes.
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Revenue Increase Choices
How to Improve Sales and Marketing
Overhaul your Sales and Marketing processes to increase your business Revenue. Learn about Marketing Plans, Sales Funnels, Lead management.
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Distribution Channels: Wholesale and Retail
Are your suppliers difficult to deal with? Holding too much inventory? Or not enough and losing sales! Includes eCommerce, distributors and agents, shopfronts and other retail outlets.
Cost Reduction: Same Outcome as Growing Revenue
Reduce Overhead, Production and Operating Costs and see the savings go straight to your Profit. Improve productivity; reduce waste; analyse, monitor and manage your costs. Direct link to Tools are available at this link.
Revenue Increase: Expanding Sales Territory
Investigate what to consider before you make the decision to expand your sales territory. Revenue increase can occur with optimisation of your current sales territory alone. Who are your current and potential customers?
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Pricing Strategies: How to Find the Best
Learn how to use discounting, increase prices and optimise pricing. Research shows that a 1% increase in price delivered an average 11% increase in Profit. What are you waiting for? Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
Revenue Increase: Growth by Acquisition
Rapid growth can be achieved by acquiring and ‘bolting on’ another business. It comes with risks so read up on the subject first.
Revenue Increase: How to Select Product Range
Learn about Merchandise Planning. What does this consist of? Consider various issues effecting pricing – like surplus capacity. Also, learn how to optimise your product range – smaller or larger range, target audience. Find out how the Boston Consulting Group Growth Share Matrix helps. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
Managing Industry Wide Disruption
Whole industries are disrupted by changes in technology (e.g. vinyl records to streaming services), marketing channels (e.g. e-commerce) etc. If you can’t manage the disruption, maybe consider an exit by selling your business.
How to Improve Customer Retention
Learn how to maximise your customers lifetime value. This has an enormous multiplier effect on your Profit. At the same time, increase their average spend. Click here and see how.
Managing New Local Competition
Do you have new competitors, locally or via the internet? How are you responding? Think about Amazon’s impact on bricks and mortar shops. You can achieve revenue increase and reverse the decline. Look at your Pricing Strategies and Merchandise Planning. Outsmart your competition. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
Revenue Increase: Growth Through Innovation
Learn how to maximise customers lifetime value for Profit. What products are working, what need replacing. Are your competitors innovating and moving ahead? Work on your innovation strategy now and achieve revenue increase. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
Improve The Usefulness of Accounting Data
Many accounting systems use historical data based on the flow of cash in and out of your business (cash accounting). For most industries, this gives a very misleading picture of the true health of the business. Revenue increase will be easier to achieve using more forward looking accounting systems, like accrual accounting. Direct link to Tools are available at this link.
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Business Symptoms of Unknown Cause
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How to Increase Business Revenue
Investigate Sales, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Retention, Product Range, Distribution Systems symptoms and then eliminate inefficiencies to increase Revenue
See how to Reduce Operating Costs
Reduce Cost of Goods Sold, Production Costs and Operating Costs by improving productivity as discovered by Henry Ford and later improved by Toyota.
Ways to Reduce Overhead Costs
Overhead Costs or Fixed Costs like rent, permanent labour and other costs that do not fluctuate with your day-to-day production levels directly impact on your Operating Profit
Issues with Business Information Systems
Finance, accounting, IT and legals are information systems a business needs. Find solutions to common issues here.
Managing Staff and Your own Productivty
Managing staff and your own productivity are critical issues because people make your business work. Learn more on problem resolution
Business Planning and Business Decision Making Techniques
Planning need not be complex. We show simple solutions with proven effectiveness. Along the way, we introduce some decision making tools to simplify hard decisions.