{"id":794,"date":"2022-03-25T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graphicwarehouse.co.uk\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:23:04","slug":"the-hidden-costs-in-your-business-inflation-and-increasing-your-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graphicwarehouse.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/03\/25\/the-hidden-costs-in-your-business-inflation-and-increasing-your-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cHidden\u201d Costs in Your Business, Inflation and Increasing Your Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"794\" class=\"elementor elementor-794\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8b9c530 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8b9c530\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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previous contract rate was 13.7p per KWH.\u00a0 We eventually entered contract for 2 years on 27p, through gritted teeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the vice president for <a href=\"https:\/\/print-scotland.com\/\">Print Scotland<\/a> and this gives a great insight into our neighbouring industries.\u00a0 Paper has seen a 50% increase in the last year.\u00a0 This is particularly worrying as many of these businesses will struggle to gain repeat orders of annual reports and further education prospectuses as this will now become more digitally focused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Now in March we have the world in turmoil as Ukraine is invaded by Russia and as political leaders turn their eyes on trade and economic embargoes with Russia, does this affect our businesses?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt we are and will see further price disruption to our business supplies, the obvious ones being material and energy driven by oil, gas and wheat.\u00a0 What we are also seeing is the other overheads rising and with inflation at its highest rate in many years what impact will this have on employee pay expectations?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>We will also see on our customers invoices surcharges on fuel but not just couriers.\u00a0 Last week we purchased glass and it had an energy surcharge, which I had not noticed in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>We run management reports that are published on the 10<sup>th<\/sup> of each month, and it is becoming more important now to watch how \u201chidden\u201d areas of our business are seeing creep in costs.\u00a0 For example, we probably all use nitril gloves, blades, packaging and many other things that are not entered into our quoting system to cover these consumables.\u00a0 All of these \u201chidden costs\u201d are going up in price and are likely not accounted for when working out our prices.\u00a0 For those of us that have installation crews, I urge you to look at your costs to run a van, our annual fuel bill was eye-watering and that cost is increasing daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>So, the obvious answer is to increase prices.\u00a0 This is always a daunting consideration, let alone activity but the long and short of it is that if we do not increase price then our own net profit will decrease.\u00a0 Our business overheads are going to increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>My point is, don\u2019t just look at the materials when working out pricing, it\u2019s everything, from office stationery, diesel in your van, inflation that will raise questions about pay increases and the many other things I have not noticed and probably, neither will you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>However, there may be a non-confrontational bright side to this.\u00a0 Those of us who have a business model which is based on \u201cmany transactions for many customers\u201d will find that the jobs are not repeats &#8211; Each client places a different order each time, of a different product and this a different price.\u00a0 Therefore, these customers may not identify price increases, other than commoditised products, like banner and roll up banner stands (although you will notice that the \u00a321 roll up banner appears to have disappeared, you know who I am talking about).\u00a0 These customers will simply accept the price offered, especially if there is a positive relationship there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph 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