Reduce your Costs by 10%

"A Few Notes about Reducing Overheads"

If you increase your sales then you should make more profit.

If you decrease your overheads, your profits should increase too.

But did you know how much your profit increases?

Let me give you an example.
(I sometimes cite this example when showing people that they need to increase their website conversion rate)

Let's assume that you buy 'widgets' at £20 and sell them for £30.
This means each one costs you £20.

Let's also say you run an online marketing campaign that costs you £300,
and that you sell 40 widgets as a result.

So, your Sales Turnover is (40 x £30) = £1200 Turnover.

Your costs are (40 x £20) for the widgets + £300 advertising = £1100 costs

Thus, Your NET Profit is (Revenue - Costs) = £100 Profit.

I know this is simplistic and doesn't take into consideration VAT, fixed costs such as wages etc but please bear with me for now - it helps to illustrate a point.

Now, let's see what happens when you REDUCE your Marketing costs by just 10% whilst maintaining the same amount of sales.

This means that instead of £300, your marketing has cost you £270

So, your Sales Turnover is STILL (40 x £30) = £1200 Turnover.

Your Costs are now (£20 x 40) + £270 = £1070 Costs

Your NET Profit is (Revenue - Costs) = £1200 - £1070 = £130

This is GREAT because it means that it's 30% more than £100 which it was last time.

i.e. Shaving your Marketing Costs by 10% Boosts your PROFIT by 30%

I'm fairly confident that when you know how to apply some of the techniques that we teach here at MKLINK, you can reduce your marketing costs by more than
a measly 10% !

This isn't unrealistic however, as when you look at increasing your website's conversion rate (which very few people bother to do) then essentially, you get more customers for the same cost. Effectively, this has the effect of making your marketing cost less for the same result.

However, let's see what happens when you reduce your marketing costs by just 10%(Which you should be able to do if you've listened to my lectures on Web Analytics)
AND increase your conversion rate by 10%

NEW sales revenue is 44 Widgets @ £30 each = £1320

NEW costs are (£20 x 44) Plus £270 marketing = £1150

Therefore New PROFIT = £170.

Remember the original profit was just £100...
so by reducing your marketing costs by 10% ...
and increasing your conversion rate by just 10% ...

... means you have increased your profit by 70%.

Let's be honest, 10% can't be THAT hard to achieve!

This stuff really isn't difficult yet so few people work on getting better results.
There are tons of ways of increasing your conversion rate or reducing your costs.

If you'd like to know how to do this or indeed any more information about your internet marketing, then checkout my training system at http://www.mklink.com/training/

Final thoughts.

Because most people focus on TURNOVER rather than PROFIT, you can outrun your competitors when it comes to internet marketing by simply learning how to improve your conversion rate, measure your profitability and lower your costs.

- Checkout http://www.mklink.com/training/
for more details.

'till next time,

Mike Knight.
http://www.mklink.com