Save Your Business a Bundle: 202 Ways to Cut Costs & Boost Profits Companies - Hardcover

Kehrer, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671788930 ISBN 13: 9780671788933

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1994

Synopsis

In Save Your Business a Bundle, Daniel Kehrer delivers a bonanza of do-able cost-cutting tactics that can give your business a competitive edge - starting today!
Using the hands-on ideas and tactics in this book, you can boost your business by cutting overhead, pumping up your productivity, managing leaner, traveling smarter, negotiating harder. With a dynamic, straight-shooting style, Kehrer gives specific, real business examples - practical solutions, not gimmicks or theoretical mind-candy - that can put your company on track toward a permanently flatter tummy.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In this glib book, which reads like a newsletter and lacks intrinsic coherence, Kehrer ( 12 Steps to a Worry-Free Retirement ) argues that "the results of a slow-motion cost-cutting revolution will jam the business profitability accelerator to the floor." He outlines his solutions. Curb mailing costs ("pre-sorting mail gets you a discount of about 15%"); develop cash-generating recycling programs; reduce packaging costs; review travel and entertainment expenditures ("the biggest travel savings of all come from not traveling "); and use technology ("electronic payments also ensure that quick payers can earn early payment discounts right up to the deadline") Some of his suggestions are questionable (fix your own computer). While uneven, the book presents several sensible ideas. Fortune Book Club alternate.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist:

Cheapskates are no longer maligned, especially in today's lean, mean business world. Yet, although consumers flock to discount outlets and malls, corporate executives seem to have no systematized manner to pinch pennies. Now, publisher and author Kehrer details 202 ways to cut costs. Each of his 17 chapters, divided by type of expense, not only describes the savings shortcuts but also provides the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of helpful organizations. UPS, for example, will pick up hundreds of packages for a flat $4.50, and avoiding the 411 call and relying on telephone directories will eliminate excessive phone charges. Although a few of the tips are to be questioned (for example, do your own desktop publishing at the risk of having your materials look like "loving hands at home"), most represent sound advice. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0671788930
• ISBN 13: 9780671788933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320