What should my profit margin be? 5 strategies to improve it

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In this episode, Mena and Stuart delve into acceptable profit margins and strategies to improve them. They emphasise regularly reviewing and adjusting pricing to reflect cost increases while considering pricing power (Episode 5, Season 1). The hosts recommend analysing profit and loss statements, negotiating better supplier prices, and exploring alternatives to optimise input costs and inventory management.
They discuss evaluating employee performance, providing training, ensuring productivity-enhancing tools, and considering outsourcing to optimise labour costs. Maximising customer spending by offering higher-margin-related products/services is highlighted, using examples like Morning Market, Marian Wine Bar, and Cutler & Co.
The episode references a previous discussion (Episode 8, Season 4) on using cost accounting to gain granular insights into revenue and profitability by product, client, category, etc. Overall, it's a comprehensive, actionable guide for understanding and improving profit margins.

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