Reducing Operating Costs – Fencing Rental or Hire
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Margins in the Fencing rental – Fencing hire sector have been under pressure as sales have declined in recent months with the downturn.
But there are positive prospects on the horizon with construction projects being the major intent of stimulus packages in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
The key question for many is how to reduce operating costs
One area often neglected is to look at doing things more efficiently. That is cutting out waste from the business operation. Consider your business, reflect on each area starting with marketing.
How much time do you spend on marketing?
- Things such as preparing brochures,
- Paying for the outside printing costs,
- Updating the web site,
- Paying for the web site to be updated etc.
- Even how much your adwords costs
How long does it take your sales staff to gather the information to prepare a client quote?
- Checking product or solution set availabilities?
- Gathering product information?
- Preparing quotes?
- Enhancing quote appearance?
- Managing sales lead information?
- Converting quotes to sales?
- Providing sales reports on the pipeline and opportunities?
Contractor and Service Staff managing their availabilties, jobs and tasking
- How much clerical and management time is spent managing service staff and contractors?
- How many errors are made when contractors do not confirm jobs?
- How much time is spent contacting contractors about jobs and their availability?
How much time is spent by Accounts double entering Sales Orders, Returns etc
- If your scaffolding hire and rental operations system is not linked to your accounts how much time do you spend double entering data?
- How much time does the finance department spend trying to get sales forecasts as a guide to cashflow?
If answering these questions has provoked your thoughts, then consider this. HireEzy has been shown to eliminate about 30 % of these costs. Whilst giving you significant marketing advantages as well.
Want proof or more information, then arrange for an online demonstration of HireEzy, it could save you from making the harder choice of regarding redundancies. Book a demo on line at www.makinglifeezy.com.au
It could be the best decision you make!
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