10 Ways To Improve Your Business Before Easter

I'm always glad to hear from local business guru Robert Craven as a free Member of his Directors' Centre Business Club, and here's a timely post from him today. You can check out the whole article here on his website, which explains each point in more detail, but here's the list:

10 Ways To Improve Your Business Before Easter
Take two hours with your best business partner, mentor or advisor and implement a plan similar to the following:

1. Put up prices by 10%
2. Decrease direct costs by 10%
3. Sack underperforming suppliers, customers and staff
4. Rethink the way you present your business
5. Sort your proposition or offer
6. Get more leads, say, 10%
7. Get better at talking to people
8. Get customers to buy more, say, 3%. (More sales)
9. Get customers to buy more often, say, 3%. (More sales)
10. Stop customers leaving
11. Collect money quicker
12. Write cheques slower
13. Decide on three things you can do right now to impress your customers

Ok, so there’s actually 13 things to do, now get doing them!