Management Exchange

摘要

In the tree care business, increasing sales is not always the road to increasing profits. In fact, invisible profit leaks in your business could convert more sales into less profit. Here are 10 costly profit robbers along with advice on how to keep them from harming your business this year - and in all the years to come. Forgetting that electricity is money If you maintain your own office or shop, don't look on that big electric bill every month as a necessary evil. Failing to adopt procedures to save energy can mean a costly profit leak. Here are some steps that can provide significant savings in your monthly bill. For example, swapping incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescents can make a significant cut in electricity usage. Wherever possible, switching regular incan-descents for low energy CFLs or LEDs, despite the higher initial cost for the bulbs, can provide big savings over the projected 10-year life of the bulbs.