How To Increase Your Business Profits

Delivering Increased Business Profits

Increasing profits is probably the most usual yet challenging business objective. The challenge is how to do this without reducing value to customers, losing customers, or jeopardising future income streams.

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Mathematically it seems quite simple. Maintain or grow income and hold costs, or maintain or grow income and reduce costs. However, as we all know, growing income and reducing costs can be challenging.

Income is always more challenging as it requires customers to make different decisions.

Whilst costs are usually easier to control, this is not always the case. Just look at the present business challenges of rising unit costs and wage inflation.

A Structured Approach to Profitability Improvement

However, there are always opportunities to increase profits, and I think the key areas to look for more profits are;

New customers, more sales from existing customers, portfolio development, and revised pricing.
Increased asset utilisation, effective investment in new or digital processes.
Reduced cost of sale, improved income management, improved cashflow, and better debt management
Process improvement and personal performance. improvement ( I talk about “Working more effectively” in another section).

Improving Profitability Step-by-Step

I will

Develop a framework to assess the potential opportunities to increase profits in our business.
Work with you and your business to conduct an initial review to assess the financial impact of each potential opportunity.
Coach and support you and your business as you implement changes to increase profits.

We will

Develop a clear plan of prioritised actions to increase profits.
Engage your business to develop actions, support, and ownership to implement critical changes and actions.
Review each risk to success and evaluate a plan of mitigation or potential aversion for each risk (risk management).
Implement measures, controls, and change to increase profits.
Develop a culture that continuously reviews and implements profit improvement changes.

You will

Deliver increased profits.
Continuously review and challenge the key drivers and opportunities of more profits in your business.
Develop a focus, culture, mindset, and processes geared towards continuously improving your business profits.

Develop a profit mindset. Profits come from specific actions first, then mathematics.