Be Proactive: Plan for Price Increases in Business

Janet Johnson, MBA

If I know anything about women, it’s that we’re all savvy when it comes to money. 

However, there’s one sticky subject for all men and women entrepreneurs and that’s price increases.

What happens when your costs rise?  Do you feel comfortable calling up your customers and raising your rates?  If you say no, you’re not alone.  That’s the status quo.  It’s the status quo to “absorb those costs.”  What that means is that instead of passing on the increased costs to your customers through increased rates, you are chipping into your own profit margin and not profiting as much as you were previously.

We can do this to a point.  But sooner or later, this is going to become not worth it because you just won’t be profiting.  You will be expending all this energy to serve the customer but not doing anything to serve yourself and your bottom line.

Well, there’s a different way to deal with rising expenses and that’s the proactive way.  Listen to this audio for my 5 proven tips on how to plan for price increases so that you can do it easily and effortlessly because your customers expect price increases and you’ve included this into your strategy and focused business plan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About qrvaudio2013

Janet Delos Reyes Johnson, MBA, the Focused Business Plan Mentor, is founder of the Focused Business Plan System, the proven step-by-step program that shows established entrepreneurs exactly how to increase efficiency and create action plans in as little as four weeks. Entrepreneurs learn how to make haste, nix the waste, and focus on delivering customer value while increasing revenue and growing their business. To get your F.R.E.E. 7-day weekly planner and receive her weekly tips on how to assure business success through focused lean operations and positive leadership, visit http://www.focusedbusinessplan.com.