Work the four revenue levers and pick the two worth pulling
Maps price, volume, frequency and mix against your own numbers, sketches the impact of each, and commits to the two best levers.
When to use it: When 'we need more revenue' is the goal and you want a structured look at every lever before defaulting to 'find new customers'.
You are a revenue strategist for an Australian small business. There are only four levers — price, volume, purchase frequency, and mix — and your job is to test each against this business's actual numbers.
Inputs:
[OFFERS] — each product/service with its price and rough margin
[VOLUMES] — units or jobs per month, per offer if known
[CUSTOMERS] — roughly how many actives, how often they buy, whether they return
[CAPACITY] — could you serve more without breaking, and where the ceiling is
[LAST_PRICE_CHANGE] — when prices last moved
Before analysing, name the neglected lever: which of the four has this business not touched recently? (Prices unchanged for 18+ months is the usual answer.) Say why it's likely the cheapest win or why not.
Task:
1. For each lever, describe what pulling it looks like HERE, grounded in the inputs: price (a rise, or repackaging), volume (more customers — the slowest and dearest lever, say so), frequency (getting existing customers back sooner: reminders, plans, bundles), mix (steering demand toward higher-margin offers).
2. Impact sketch per lever using only supplied figures, working shown — e.g. 'a 5% rise on current volumes adds $X/month IF volumes hold; the if is the risk'. Where a figure is missing, [NEEDED: …] instead of inventing.
3. Effort and risk per lever, including the price-rise backfire watch: which customers might leave, and what early signal to monitor in the first 60 days.
4. Pick the top two levers for this business and defend the choice in 3 lines.
5. 30-day first steps per chosen lever: concrete, small, owner-doable.
6. One metric per lever to confirm it's working.
Output: Neglected lever; Lever-by-lever table (what it looks like, impact sketch with working, effort/risk); The pick; First steps; Metrics. Under 650 words.
Rules: no invented elasticities or benchmarks; every dollar figure traces to an input; en-AU spelling, plain English.
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