{"id":15917,"date":"2021-07-28T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T08:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=15917"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T08:30:43","slug":"business-savings-are-everywhere-if-you-know-where-to-look-start-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/business-savings-are-everywhere-if-you-know-where-to-look-start-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Savings Are Everywhere If You Know Where to Look, Start Here"},"content":{"rendered":"
Businesses are always looking for ways to make more money. At times, their efforts to make money end up costing them the very resource they were trying to increase. If sales are low, you don\u2019t necessarily increase sales by hiring more salespeople. If you have a deficiency in training, you will just pass that deficiency to a new crop of trainees. In trying to fix the problem, you have made it worse in the most expensive possible way. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way. Before you can solve the problem, you have to know what is causing it. That can be an expensive lesson to learn.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, less really is more. You can make more money by reducing waste and inefficiencies. It can be hard to know what aspects of your business are truly wasteful. You might look at the amount you are spending on condiments and decide that you can save a lot of money by switching to cheaper products. But if none of your workers like the alternative, they might stop eating in the cafeteria and start eating out, making them either late for work or rushed and out of sorts. Perhaps you should keep stocking the good catsup. Instead, try cutting the following.<\/p>\n
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By switching to something like demand management<\/a>, you can not only cut your energy costs, but get paid just for being willing to reduce power during high-demand events when the grid is undergoing too much load. On those scorching hot days when no one is questioning the concept of global warming, every air conditioner connected to a wall socket is running on full. This leads to those rolling blackouts that constitutes a bad day for everyone. Some of those blackouts don\u2019t have to happen. There are ways to budget one\u2019s power and save big on the bill.<\/p>\n Electricity is not the only way. You can also utilize solar. There are still deep tax credits for homeowners and many benefits for businesses that invest in solar<\/a>. One of the greatest benefits is diversification. If you know you are doing business in an area where the grid can\u2019t handle the load, solar gives you another option when the lights go dark for everyone else. There are ways to deal with the upfront investment. And the long-term savings benefits are hard to deny. By cutting wasteful energy use, you will save a lot of money. And the planet will thank you.<\/p>\nReduce Hazards<\/h2>\n