100 Ways To Get More Profit From Your Business: 31-40

1. Ask every employee in the business to provide-in confidence if they wish-two ideas.
2. Look at bench-marks for costs in your industry.
3. Examine complaints-which cost money-and ensure they are being fixed and not repeated.
4. Examine customer service and ensure it is not being overly generous.
5. Examine catering and consider reducing options.
6. Check that stationery is not going home.
7. At the next company meeting, educate on cost reduction.
8. Work hard to stop (a) giving discount (b) giving so much discount.
9. Re-invent the pay and rewards system to live and breathe profitability.
10. Ensure all business decisions on growth and market-share include discussion of profitability.

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