Every customer pays the same rate card. Some of them cost twice as much to serve.
Most firms know their margin by product. Far fewer know it by customer, and the difference between the two is…
Your longest-standing customers are on your weakest price
Every price rise that applies only to new business quietly turns loyalty into a discount, and the gap compounds faster than most owners realise.
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