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The difficulties that big businesses have experienced over the past several months are opening doors for small business owners to achieve renewed success.  It’s important for the entrepreneur to be primed for success, and a good control of business expenses, both fixed expenses and variable expenses, is a great place to start. 

Banks have increase many small business’ debt service expense by amortizing out previously revolving lines of credit.  And other expenses, such as advertising and personnel can only be cut so far without sacrificing precious leads and sales.  These challenges demand that the small business owner always be looking for new and improved ways to manage their other expenses. 

Pool Resources Where You Can

Many business owners are working with non-competitive business associates in a collaborative method in order to cut expenses.  One example is that many business owners have combined resources to share office space rather than each having to foot the large fixed expense alone. 

Others have created co-op marketing campaigns and shared the expense. 

Strategically combining resources is a great way to immediately improve what could otherwise be costly fixed expenses, an almost instant improvement to the small business owner’s bottom line.  Another added bonus is that sales often increase due to referrals that you wouldn’t have otherwise received. 

Replace Expensive Staff Overhead Where You Can

A number of small business owners have decided to forgo costly employee overhead and are instead using non-traditional staffing techniques to meet their needs.  Is it possible to outsource, or to use contract or part time labor so that you are only paying for work that actually needs to be done?  By shifting these costs from a fixed to a variable expense, you can often reduce your overhead substantially, a direct impact on your bottom line. 

While sales staff is key to most successful businesses, there are some creative ways to keep this expense down as well.  Why not consider putting your customers and business associates to work referring you business by offering a referral fee each time a lead they send you becomes a sale?  By using these resources, you will only have to pay when you actually make a sale.  Not bad! 

Rebid Necessary Expenses

Reality is that there will always be expenses you just can’t avoid, such as telephone, insurance, and bankcard processing.  But, as the economy becomes more competitive, so do many of these businesses, and it is important to be always on the lookout for the best deal.  Get new bids on these expenses frequently and your total expenses will decrease.  Even previously challenging expense categories, such as contract labor can now be renegotiated, because layoffs and dull economic conditions are creating a pool of more capable resources to choose from. 

This year can provide amazing advantages for the small business owner who is more flexible and can make changes quickly.  Studying your expenses and adjusting where it is possible is a terrific way to further improve that success. 

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