{"id":28,"date":"2012-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/thoughtful-thursdays-how-much-is-it-really-costing-you\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:01:29","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-how-much-is-it-really-costing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/thoughtful-thursdays-how-much-is-it-really-costing-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; How much is it really costing you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not sure or have not&nbsp;confirmed information recently,&nbsp;it&nbsp;will be beneficial&nbsp;for&nbsp;your business&nbsp;to&nbsp;block off time for the purpose of&nbsp;examining and analyzing&nbsp;your business operations processes.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of delivering products&nbsp;and services is fraught with opportunities&nbsp;that&nbsp;if unchecked&nbsp;can&nbsp;negatively affect the profitability of your business.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a small business owner, there is a likelihood you are performing many if not all business tasks yourself. This is not unusual, but you want&nbsp;to be&nbsp;knowledgeable about&nbsp;true costs of delivering your offering.<\/p>\n<p>Oversights are common when it comes to the value of one&#8217;s time. It is helpful to assign tasks to job functions even if there are not yet&nbsp;people in place and cost&nbsp;out the time taken for&nbsp;each step&nbsp;in your&nbsp;operations processes&nbsp;based on&nbsp;current acceptable rates. This will give you a realistic view of actual costs associated with labour.<\/p>\n<p>On top of these costs are costs of the business owner (you)&nbsp;and those who&nbsp;may not contribute directly to the costs of sale.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this time it takes for tasks you may be taking for granted, such&nbsp;as travel time, rework or redoing things more than once.<\/p>\n<p>You may be surprised to find out that it is costing more than you thought to run the operations part of your business.<\/p>\n<p>Being aware of all operational costs will facilitate the process of&nbsp;developing a sustainable profitable pricing model as well as the confidence to present it to your customers.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not sure or have not&nbsp;confirmed information recently,&nbsp;it&nbsp;will be beneficial&nbsp;for&nbsp;your business&nbsp;to&nbsp;block off time for the purpose of&nbsp;examining and analyzing&nbsp;your business operations processes. The cost of delivering products&nbsp;and services is fraught with opportunities&nbsp;that&nbsp;if unchecked&nbsp;can&nbsp;negatively&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/thoughtful-thursdays-how-much-is-it-really-costing-you\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-operations","category-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}