Are you losing business because you are a small business?

Re: Are you losing business because you are a small business?

We have lost business because we are not able to compete with larger businesses for turn around time on project. We have tried using independent consultants but it really hasnt worked out.

Re: Are you losing business because you are a small business?

Alot of our business is driven off of internet sales and often our toughest competition is much larger they have a better developed site and more product and because of the volume they can sell it at a lower cost.

Re: Are you losing business because you are a small business?

Where we lose business to larger companies is when people want a whole branding package we only offer logos and it is hard enough to keep up with that!

Re: Are you losing business because you are a small business?

I've 'lost' business when clients have jumped to the conclusion that I'm too expensive. They obviously hadn't done their research or I was their first quote.

Oh well, their loss. 🙂

Re: Are you losing business because you are a small business?

We have lost business to people to who wanted a dedicated project manager - we just do not have the resources to offer that.

Re: Are you losing business because you are a small business?

CCC;31262 wrote: We have lost business because we are not able to compete with larger businesses for turn around time on project. We have tried using independent consultants but it really hasnt worked out.

I am having the same kind of problem with my interior design business. We have many projects but since we do it in a small (well I would say medium) scale we have problems with turn around times. Our clients pay us too check ranging from $20-40k per project but the initial cash flow needed is the problem.