If you increase all of those factors by just 10 percent, you can give your bottom line a massive boost.

Here are five simple, proven and low-cost strategies you can implement immediately to get more profit into your business. Most of them involve resources you probably already have or may just  require small “tweaks” to strategies you already use.

   1. Bestselling Product
Find your bestselling product and increase the price by 10 percent. If you don’t know what your strongest product is, now is the time to find out. Once you figure it out, boost the price on that item or service by 10 percent. It’s a manageable size increase and is small enough that most people won’t even notice yet the impact on the business could be material.

   2. Sales scripts 
Creating sales scripts for you, and particularly for your salespeople, can help boost your average rand sale – the average amount made per sale, estimated over the course of a year. Sales scripts help to frame your sales process, especially if you don’t consider yourself a natural ‘salesperson’. A sales script will also help your salespeople initiate and build rapport, which leads to higher sales.

   3. Loyalty programs
To increase your average number of transactions, create loyalty and referral programs. However, just having a loyalty strategy doesn’t equate to instant success; to get the most out of a reward program, it should be targeted at your highest-yield customers – loyal customers or clients who don’t quibble over price.

The first step is segmenting your client base and identifying who these people are. An effectively implemented rewards or referral program is not just a tool that defaults to discounts or giveaways, but something that leads to measurable profit increases.

   4. Guarantees
Guarantees go a long way in improving conversion rates, especially if none of your competitors have them. Guarantees are especially good for establishing long-term customer relationships. When developing a guarantee, start by identifying what makes your business or product unique. In other words, what is your unique selling proposition? Guarantees take the risk of the purchase out of the equation for customers and help you to make the sale.

Start by interviewing your top customers to ascertain what your Unique Selling Proposition is and then build your guarantee around that. It is important to get word out about the guarantees you offer, so advertising is essential to success. Guarantees also boost the number of referrals from existing clients and can increase leads.

   5. Evolving advertising
Lead generation through advertising is the most costly profit-boosting strategy option, so start with low-cost ways you can track results before you start spending large amounts on an advertising campaign. What’s low cost? Something as simple as a direct-response print advert or well-placed online advertising.

The key is to ensure you know who you are trying to reach and using the best medium to do so. Once you have that base, a compelling offer and good creative copy that is sales and response oriented will seal the deal.