10 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Business Costs

By Anders Eriksson - Owner and Webmaster of
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1. Barter
If you have a business you should be bartering goods
and services with other businesses. You should try to
trade for something before you buy it. Barter deals
usually require little or no money.


2. Network
Try networking your business with other businesses.
You could trade leads or mailing lists. This will cut
down on your marketing and advertising costs. You
may also try bartering goods and services with them.


3. Wholesale/Bulk
You'll save money buying your business supplies in
bulk quantities. You could get a membership at a
wholesale warehouse or buy them through a mail
order wholesaler. Buy the supplies you are always
running out of.


4. Free Stuff
You should try visiting the thousands of freebie sites
on the internet before buying your business supplies.
You can find free software, graphics, backgrounds,
online business services etc.


5. Borrow/Rent
Have you ever purchased business equipment you
only needed for a small period of time? You could
have just borrowed the equipment from someone
else or rented the equipment from a "rent-all" store.


6. Online/Offline Auctions
You can find lower prices on business supplies and
equipment at online and offline auctions. I'm not
saying all the time, but before you go pay retail for
these items try bidding on them first.


7. Plan Ahead
Make a list of business supplies or equipment you'll
need in the future. Keep an eye out for stores that
have big sales. Purchase the supplies when they go
on sale before you need them.


8. Used Stuff
If your business equipment and supplies don't need
to be new, buy them used. You can find used items
at yard and garage sales, used stores, used stuff
for sale message boards and newsgroups etc.


9. Negotiate
You should always try negotiate a lower price for
any business equipment or supplies. It doesn't hurt
to try. Pretend you are talking to a salesman at a car
lot.


10. Search
You can always be searching for new suppliers for
your business supplies and equipment. Look for
suppliers with lower prices and better quality. Don't
just be satisfied with a few.

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Make your web site look professional. People
will get turned off and leave if they see a lot of
spelling and grammatical mistakes. You don't want
any broken graphics or links either. Make sure your
background colors don't make your text hard to
read.


Sell your back-end products to your customers
right after they order. Take them to a "Thank You"
web page that includes other products you sell. For
example, if you were selling perfume you could
offer make-up as a back-end product. Another
example, if you were selling coffee you could sell
coffee cups as a back-end product.


Create a memorable logo and slogan to brand
your business on the Internet. When people see
your slogan or logo it will remind them of your
business. For example, how many times have you
heard a product name and thought of their slogan?
How many times have you seen a logo and it made
you think of a business or product.


List how many famous or respected people have
purchased your product in your ad. These people
should be fairly well-known by your target audience.
For example, you could say "Just look below to see
a list all the corporate clients we've helped!" Another
example, “We've had many experts buy our product
in the past, just take a look:…"


Have a professional looking web site to publish
your ad on. When people visit your site and it looks
unprofessional, they'll relate that to your product.
For example, haven't you ever read an ad that made
you really want to buy, but the look of the web site
turned you off so much that you just walked away?


Design web sites for other businesses for free.
Just require them to publish your banner or text ad
somewhere on their home page. For example, you
could create web page templates and graphics for
them. Other people will see your work and want
to visit your main web site for more information.


Sell gift certificates for your products. You'll make
sales from the purchase of the gift certificate when
the recipient cashes it in. They could also buy other
items from your web site. For example, it seems that
a lot of people nowadays like to buy gift certificates
for holidays and birthdays because they never know
what to get the person.


Give people a free online utility. When you offer
a utility that can solve a person's problem, people
will definitely visit your web site. You could also
allow other people to give it away as long as your
ad is included in it. This would make a very powerful
viral marketing tool.


Pick a good name for your business and product.
Your names should be memorable and describe the
kind of product you're offering. Names that rhyme
are easy to remember. If you're selling information
products you may want the word "publisher" in your
business name. You also don't want your name to
have any offensive words or phrases in it.