How to do a SWOT analysis (part 2)
Step 2. Analysis of the business environment In this step of the SWOT analysis, we must analyze in more detail all of the above factors and understand what they actually…

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What a business depends on - 5 digits that an entrepreneur must know (part 1)
Are you an entrepreneur and do you have your own business? Or strive to open a business and become an entrepreneur? Have you ever wondered what the business depends on…

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How to increase business efficiency or reduce inventory
Entrepreneurs always have the question of how to increase business efficiency. Efficiency in a small business needs to be increased constantly, looking for new ways and opportunities. And one of…

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What a business depends on – 5 digits that an entrepreneur must know (part 2)

5. Lifetime value of the client / Cost of attracting one client

This indicator will allow you to understand how much you will get back from each invested ruble. In our case, it looks like this: 28750/500 = 57.5. For each invested ruble in attracting customers, you get in the long term (i.e. for the time during which the client buys goods or services from you) 57.5 rubles. Very good, by the way :-). But this is just an example, of course. By the way, this shows how important it is to work with regular customers.

This parameter very clearly shows the long-term prospects of your business. If every invested ruble brings you 2 or 5, then this is a bad business, you know. Draw conclusions and make corrections. Continue reading

How to increase profits in your business (part 2)

How much will profit increase?
Above, we have listed five methods for increasing profits. How much profit will increase depends on how effectively we implement all the changes in the business and how much we are able to “work” them together. Let’s look at a specific example of how much we can increase profits if we improve each of the 5 indicators by 10%. At the same time, of course, it will be difficult to do this, but it can be done gradually and in turn.

So, we are analyzing not a real, but a fictional, but still a concrete example, with numbers. Let’s see what we get, how much profit will increase.

Our initial figures are as follows: 500,000 rubles revenue, 1,000 potential customers, 10% conversion (100 real buyers), 25% repeat sales (i.e. 25 additional sales to old customers), we sell goods with a margin of 100%. It is easy to calculate that we have only 125 sales for 4000 each. Continue reading

Copying a business, or how to capitalize on other people's ideas (part 1)
Copying a business is a really powerful tool for creating a truly solid business. And let them say that it’s bad, that originality and creativity are valued higher, that copying…

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How to make a marketing plan from 7 offers
Today a very short article will turn out, I think. Let's talk about how to draw up a marketing plan in 7 sentences. Perhaps the article will be voluminous, but…

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Copying a business, or how to capitalize on other people's ideas (part 2)
How to capitalize on other people's ideas, or how to copy a business? Firstly, a little reservation. I do not want to say that the world does not need new…

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