With over 25 years of frontline experience Tom Shay is America's leading small business
management
expert. He's a "Must Have" for your next event.
This
is the pricing strategy chart that Tom shares in some of his pricing presentations:
When you read down the left column, and increase the
price of your product or service by that percentage, you look across
the top line to find your present gross profit. The resulting intersection
of the two percentages indicates what percentage of your sales you
can lose and still maintain the same amount of gross profit dollars.
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
50%
5%
33.3
25.0
20.0
16.7
14.3
12.5
11.1
9.1
6%
37.5
28.6
23.1
19.4
16.7
14.6
13.0
10.7
7%
41.2
31.8
25.9
21.9
18.9
16.7
14.9
12.3
8%
44.4
34.8
28.6
24.2
21.1
18.6
16.7
13.8
10%
50.0
40.0
33.3
28.6
25.0
22.2
20.0
16.7
11%
52.4
42.3
35.5
30.6
26.8
23.9
21.6
18.0
12%
54.5
44.4
37.5
32.4
28.6
25.5
23.1
19.4
15%
60.0
50.0
42.9
37.5
33.3
30.0
27.3
23.1
16%
61.5
51.6
44.4
39.9
34.8
31.4
28.6
24.2
18%
64.3
54.5
47.4
41.9
37.5
34.0
31.0
26.5
20%
66.6
57.1
50.0
44.4
40.0
36.4
33.3
28.6
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With over 25 years of frontline experience Tom Shay is America's leading Small Business
Management
Expert. He's a "Must Have" for your next event.
Perhaps you have investments outside of your small business; gold, stocks, bonds or money market funds. With each you likely know what the rate of return is.
What about your busines? Do you know what the rate of return is for your business? You should. After all, you do not want to be the person who has just bought themselves a job.
We see a lot of social media with what we think is a "sympathy plea" do do business with local small businesses.
It is not going to work. People select where they do business based on positive reasons. We discuss what we are seeing.
Article of the Month
A timely article for the holiday season. With any business that has inventory, are you looking at sales per square foot? Are you looking to see which is the most valuable space in your business? You can increase sales by knowing which items to place where.
Book of the Month
Fix This Next by Mike Michalowicz. We love this description of the book; The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they do not know what their biggest problem is.
If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first? Every issue seems urgent - but there is no way to address all of them at once. The results? A business that continues to go in endless circles putting out urgent fires and prioritizing the wrong things.