Most entrepreneurs and small business owners have more than one way available to them to grow a business. The process of deciding on a business growth strategy is ongoing, and the decisions that result can be critical to future success.

The search for real business growth, by creating permanent increases in profit as a direct result of measurable and sustained increases in sales volume, may not only be a reaction to opportunities in the marketplace, but also a requirement in order for your business to maintain market share.

The right decisions can conceivably have a major positive impact on your business´ bottom line, thereby creating real business growth. However, if you choose unwisely, or decide to do nothing when action is clearly warranted, the results can lead to a loss of growth potential, or even a period of negative growth (decreased sales and profitability).

Business growth decisions should be based on objective financial data, consisting of relevant estimates and projections. Not every business growth strategy can be expected to impact a business in the same manner, and over the same time period.

Think of your decisions in the context of ROI analysis. Each growth opportunity has an investment component, money you will be required to spend as a part of the process of implementing a specific business growth strategy. The corresponding return you can expect from your investment in business growth can be represented as the increased profit your business is projected to incur, directly as a result of the sales increases created by your growth strategy.

Once each business growth strategy is converted into an ROI percentage, you can compare dissimilar growth options, and ROI can be used as a critical financial component in any business growth decision.

Furthermore, just as ROI analysis can be used to evaluate these additional growth strategies, it also can be used to evaluate business ideas, such as those of entirely new businesses. And fortunately, ROI analysis can be applied to these new business ideas well before an owner ever decides to invest in that new business.

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