Sales remain the most important element in the growth and survival of any business. If people aren’t buying your products or services, your business won’t generate any revenue.
To increase revenue means to increase sales, especially at the lowest cost possible. While some businesses generate high revenues, most generate far lower revenues. But the most important factor for every existing business is to increase revenue.
Revenue growth helps to define what direction a business is moving in, and this is seen when the previous month’s metrics versus the next month’s are analysed, the previous year’s versus the next year’s, and so on. If your revenue remains on a positive track at a low cost of acquisition, your business is growing ideally.
The key concern with most businesses is how to grow their revenues. With different strategies executed and changed quickly to see what works, many executives and business owners constantly hit gridlocks with their plans. Rather than a positive increment, their projections mostly follow a negative route.
If you’re having problems growing the revenue of your business, here are 7 surefire ways to immediately increase your business revenues today.
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1). Raise Your Prices:
One way to grow your revenues is to raise your prices where appropriate. Prices change constantly because of different factors ranging from higher manufacturing costs, higher shipping costs, inflation, and a lot more. Explain to your customers the factors affecting the price increments and how you intend to manage them better.
When you do this, even if your sales remain the same while your prices rise, your revenues would rise.
2). Offer Special Discounts:
Everyone loves a good old deal. If a frequent customer realises that he/she could get a special discount for buying an additional item that’s useful to them, they’d likely take the deal.
Rewarding your customers with mouthwatering incentives, discounts, and more, would motivate them to shop more frequently.
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3). Up-Sell Your Products/Services:
Identify one of your products or services that your customers are happy using. Research what other benefits they’d love to experience, then create a better, more concise premium version of that service that encompasses a lot that would make your customers totally satisfied, and give them better results.
Educate your customers about this new product or service and how it would help them better. For every customer that signs up for the upgraded service, you increase your revenues.
4). Cross-Sell Your Products/Services:
Inform all your customers about all the products and services your business offers, then constantly recommend other products or services you have for different problems they are experiencing.
For example, if a customer mostly purchases only cars from you, you can inform them about a car security product you also sell that would solve their security concerns and ensure their cars never get stolen.
By cross-selling your products and services, you increase what your customers buy from your business and your revenues grow.
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5). Offer Complimentary Products/Services:
Identify what products can perfectly go along with what your customers already purchase from you and provide them for sale.
By understanding what your customers get before, during, and after they purchase your products or services, you can acquire those same items and offer them for sale to them at a lower price. This way, you reduce the pre and post-purchase of your customers from other vendors and maximize your revenues.
Offering complimentary products/services is a great way to increase revenue.
6). Bundle Products:
People are always tempted to make a purchase when they feel they are getting more for less. Bundling complementary products together at a lesser cost and offering them to your customers will concurrently increase your sales.
For example, instead of costing a website design job for 200,000 Naira ($667), logo design for 25,000 Naira ($83.4), Banner designs for 30,000 Naira ($100), complimentary card design for 40,000 Naira ($133.4), you could bundle them all up together and offer the full package to your customer for 250,000 Naira ($833).
This saves them 45,000 Naira ($150), and would better motivate them to act on the purchase. Bundling right always increases revenues.
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7). Increase Your Customer Base:
You can increase your customer base by running ad campaigns or expanding to a different geographical location.
By limiting your location to your current business environment, your small business revenues will maintain a slow growth rate or possibly decrease.
More customers result in more sales, which subsequently translates into higher revenues.
By having branches in surrounding cities, you expand your reach.
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What are your thoughts on how to immediately increase revenue in your business? Please let me know by leaving a comment below.
Keep up the good work. Your tips for business start ups were what was used when starting my business and it worked. Kudos
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Have a great time running your business!
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