Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
Knowing how well your products are competing and keeping tabs on your customers’ changing needs will help you create a winning strategic plan.
Figuring out what you do best is tougher. For each job, you have to estimate whether you made money or lost money. If you group them by product again, you can find out which products made money and which products lost money. As long as your pricing is competitive with outside sources, then the products you made the most money with are the ones you are most cost efficient at producing, and therefore your best products.
Howie Fenton is an independent consultant who focuses on analyzing/benchmarking the performance of printing operations. Fenton helps companies use metrics, best practices and workflow strategies to streamline operations. Call (720) 872-6339 or email howie@howiefentonconsulting.com
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