Tips For Boosting Your Businesses Bottom Line

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Tips For Boosting Your Businesses Bottom Line
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• There may be many factors at play for those
  businesses dealing with flat profits every year,
  or no profit at all, from the health of the whole
  economy, to consumers changing needs and desires.
  Whatever the reason behind a businesses dire
  bottom line, it will not be able to survive for
  long with little or no sign of improvement, so
  what can companies do to get profits growing
  again?
• Look to change the rules a little
• Generating more sales while cutting costs is the
  magic formula that any successful company needs
  to follow to see a rise in profits.
  Administrative costs should be kept at a minimum
  and cross selling can be one solution for this.
  Offering

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• customers new products or services that enhance
  and complement what you are already offering, can
  be successful if carried out well, such as a
  hairdresser selling shampoos and other hair care
  products.
• Check also to see if there are any processes
  related to the running of your business that can
  be reduced, automated or outsourced.
• Stay visible, stay modern
• An effective and innovative advertising campaign
  could be the difference between success and
  failure for any business, and remember that if
  you want folks to buy your product or service,
  they need to know that you exist, and they need
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• to see you without having to search high and low.
  Make the most of free advertising on social media
  sites and design an attractive and inspiring
  campaign or even a webinar. Some advanced forms
  of software can help you measure the return on
  investment for your online marketing campaigns.
  You may even be able to partner with other
  businesses for advertising purposes.
• Make the most of your cash flow
• Try offering your customers discounts for prepaid
  payments or subscriptions, and with regards to
  accounts payable, do your best to ensure that all
  payments are timely to avoid costly penalties.

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• Be ruthless with management costs
• If you can automate accounts receivable, customer
  lead management and employee productivity
  tracking, then do so. To know whether your
  business could cope without the physical staff
  who fulfil these roles, track them to find out
  who may be dispensable.
• Make your entire team salespeople
• Anybody and everybody within your company who has
  any contact with customers, should be up to speed
  with your products and services, know how to sell
  them and how to treat customers appropriately.

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• Keep an eye on credit terms
• Late paying customers can be a blight for any
  business, and if yours has a lot of them, you
  might want to consider revising your credit terms
  or offering less credit. You might even want to
  employ the services of an outside company to help
  you collect late fees.
• All good bookkeeping companies will help
  businesses to boost their bottom line and better
  manage their cashflows, so if you havent engaged
  with a reputable bookkeeping firm yet and your
  profits are stagnant, perhaps its time that you
  did.

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