Elements to Increase Your Company Value – Financially Part II

Rifle vs. Shotgun Marketing ®

Today’s blog will present Part II of how to increase your business value FINANCIALLY – with a Rifle vs. Shot Gun Marketing®

This concept is the Rifle vs. Shotgun Marketing®  that combines industry segment growth rates and gross margin for each segment. This is to help determine the highest value segments to concentrate on with a marketing program.

What is the value of a high-growth industry?

Some examples will help explain.

What if your industry’s growth rate is 2% per year but your financial projections show a 20% growth rate? Where do you get the 18% growth from (20% projected growth vs. 2% industry growth)?

It must come from the competitor’s market share. It is very expensive to take market share from competitors. Therefore, your projections will have more doubt and less value to a potential investor or buyer.

What if the industry is growing at 20% and your projections are at 20% growth? You can obtain that growth from the industry growth rather than taking it from competitors. This is a more probable scenario and would have a higher value component.

One CEO in New York was in a 2% growth industry but discovered a sub-segment that was growing at 200%. He shifted his marketing efforts to that segment and for the last three years, they grew at 150% without taking market share from others.

Examine your product lines, market segments and find the segment(s) that have the highest growth rate. Then times that by the gross margin. Make a list of the combined scores from highest to lowest. The highest value segment has the highest potential company financial return. Focus the marketing and promotion efforts and expenses in that area. This will give the greatest return on the investment and higher value probability.

Ultimately, it is also fundamental to remember that taking an omnichannel approach to your marketing efforts is vital. In highly competitive industries such as finance, for example, businesses can now use everything from automated email campaigns to appointment setting tools to communicate with their clients and customers in new and exciting ways.

You can learn more about the potential marketing benefits of appointment setting tools here: https://www.leadjig.com/appointment-setting-services-for-financial-advisors/. Above all, while some marketing tools and strategies might seem to be industry specific, there is no denying that companies from all sectors can learn from the marketing efforts of others.

Topics on Financial value increase tools to follow include:

Net Profit: History and Potential: Management Accounting vs. Financial Accounting

• $1 Expense Reduction = $1 Net Profit Gain
• $1 Sales Gain @ 25% Cont. Margin = $0.25 N Profit Gain
• Contribution Margin: Break–even

Financial Qualitative Performance

• A/R Days – A/P Days
• Cash Flow
• Valuation Metrics
• Performance Dashboard