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  • Big VS. Small Company Pricing

    BROAD Assumptions ... small company sells $300,000 a year, owner makes let's say $75,000 net for himself. Assume that each $100,000 in sales throws off $25,000 toward his $75 grand making each $100,000 increment in sales "important". Big company comes along bids only a $10,000 net of one of his $100,000 contracts ... coming in $15,000 below the smaller company. It gets worse. Big company coming into a new market needs $500,000 in sales to carry and justify a branch location. In the beginning they are not looking for profit ... just dollars to carry the branch the first year so they bid the small company's $300,000 at $75,000 less than the small company did.

    Question ... if the small company does $300,000 in sales, throws off $75,000 net for the owner ... on the very next incremental $100,000 in sales should the owner bid as if to create another $25,000 profit for himself from that job as well?

    Phil

  • #2
    A question without a 100% correct answer, but a good question.

    It depends on YOUR market and YOUR position in it. If you are in a tough market, flooded with competition, you had better sharpen your pencil pretty sharp to survive! When the "big boys" come to town to play, the game gets pretty exciting!
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    • #3
      Go Earnhardt!!!!!

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      • #4
        Sounds to me like " little guy " had better find a way to differentiate himself while also cutting expenses. Take that 25,000 from that next increment and plow it into a REAL good public relations campaign to explain to his market why people should buy local, focus on quality, etc...

        Oh, and lotts of prayers would'nt hurt.
        Aint compeition a bi....sometimes.
        If the grass is greener on the other side, move your fence.

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        • #5
          No.









          Jeff Gordon! ....#24!!!! Ye haa!
          "Bustin' ass cuttin' grass"

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          • #6
            No, better take all the first 300,000 to lunch this week.

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            • #7
              Too many eggs in one basket. $100,00 in one contract is 1/3 of your business. You should never depend on one account to make your living for you.
              ]"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!"

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              • #8
                Dumb

                LOl I am feeling pretty stupid tonite I did not even get what phil was tryign to say in that post LOL
                "Life was meant to be lived"

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