What’s Your Business EP?
August 19, 2009 by Kim Beasley
Filed under Business
As a business owner, understand what your earning potential (EP) is can be very important to your finances. Or is it? Putting it simply, EP is your revenue minus your expenses and reinvestment monies back into your business. Determining your EP is important because it can affect the direction you take in expanding your business or even hiring employees or contractor.
As you assess your EP, there are a few things that you should keep in mind, such as:
- Check you expenses to see if there are any areas where you have waste.
- As you review your assets, determine their worth and catalog what you have.
- Research your market to determine the earnings trend and make sure that you have built into your business a way to capture these earnings.
- Make sure that you assess your business equity (assets minus liabilities).
- Review the pricing of your products or services and make sure that they are competitive.
- Research to determine if you setup an affiliate program for your business to see how it would affect your earnings.
This is just a short list of things that you need to assess as your determine your EP. To find out more things that can help you, watch the video below.














