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10 Effective Ways
To Reduce Your Business Costs
An article by Gary Durkin
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10 Effective Ways To Reduce Your
Business Costs
1. Barter
If you have a business you should
be bartering goods
and services with other
businesses. You should try to
trade for something before you
buy it. Barter deals
usually require little or no
money.
2. Network
Try networking your business with
other businesses.
You could trade leads or mailing
lists. This will cut
down on your marketing and
advertising costs. You
may also try bartering goods and
services with them.
3. Wholesale/Bulk
You'll save money buying your
business supplies in
bulk quantities. You could get a
membership at a
wholesale warehouse or buy them
through a mail
order wholesaler. Buy the
supplies you are always
running out of.
4. Free Stuff
You should try visiting the
thousands of freebie sites
on the internet before buying
your business supplies.
You can find free software,
graphics, backgrounds,
online business services etc.
5. Borrow/Rent
Have you ever purchased business
equipment you
only needed for a small period of
time? You could
have just borrowed the equipment
from someone
else or rented the equipment from
a "rent-all" store.
6. Online/Offline Auctions
You can find lower prices on
business supplies and
equipment at online and offline
auctions. I'm not
saying all the time, but before
you go pay retail for
these items try bidding on them
first.
7. Plan Ahead
Make a list of business supplies
or equipment you'll
need in the future. Keep an eye
out for stores that
have big sales. Purchase the
supplies when they go
on sale before you need them.
8. Used Stuff
If your business equipment and
supplies don't need
to be new, buy them used. You can
find used items
at yard and garage sales, used
stores, used stuff
for sale message boards and
newsgroups etc.
9. Negotiate
You should always try negotiate a
lower price for
any business equipment or
supplies. It doesn't hurt
to try. Pretend you are talking
to a salesman at a car
lot.
10. Search
You can always be searching for
new suppliers for
your business supplies and
equipment. Look for
suppliers with lower prices and
better quality. Don't
just be satisfied with a few.
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An article by Gary
Durkin
Founder of the Internet Advice Center®
http://www.InternetAdviceCenter.com
Gary has more than
a decade of offline international
business success
behind him - each day controlling
millions of
dollars of investments world-wide,
and has been doing
business online for 6 years.
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