The Pricing Conundrum
You’ve just had an on-site visit from a traditional temp labor provider. The visit went well. The labor provider’s representatives were friendly and informative. They talked a lot about how their people could help you business achieve objectives X, Y, and Z. They described their processes in exacting detail.
Your direct labor is vital to the success of your company.
The costs for that direct labor are also choking your company, denying you the budget you need to truly improve the business.
We can learn a great deal about human nature when we re-examine all that transpired in Spring 2020. We can learn a massive amount about persistence and sacrifice when we recall the long, hard seasons that followed and the unpredictability we all lived through.
“How does nGROUP produce results? How does my company know our investment is actually paying off?” These are two of the most common questions we answer during initial conversations with a prospective partner. That’s not surprising, given they are two of the most important questions in any nGROUP partnership, and not only for our client….
Over the past few years, the debate around raising the minimum wage has intensified. Several states and localities have taken their own steps to increase the wage floor in their jurisdictions, but no action has yet been taken by the federal government. In fact, the last raise to the federal minimum wage was enacted July…
In her book “Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing,” author and professor Kate Vitasek redefined how businesses and their outsourcing partners should view their relationships. The foundational idea is that both customer and vendor should become vested in one another’s success. By doing that, not only will the day-to-day relationship run smoothly and…
Sometimes it may seem as if there’s a different pricing model for every B2B service provider out there. It can be confusing, time-consuming, and utterly tedious to discover the ins and outs of every model or proposal. There are major categories of pricing, however. Most of the schemes and models constructed by service providers usually…
Let’s be honest: purchasing a B2B service just isn’t fun. For one thing, there’s almost zero chance of receiving any sort of instant gratification. Hiring a general contractor, for example, doesn’t give the same buzz that comes with picking up a new TV from the local big-box store. The contractor will simply take longer to…
For logistics, distribution, and light manufacturing operations, outsourcing labor is often a crucial factor in success. It can make the difference between ending the quarter in the black, or in the red. Many times, outsourcing is also the most manageable way to acquire and utilize a productive workforce. Letting someone else handle the recruiting and…
The fight against rising costs is as old as business itself. Since the first cavepeople established the first cave-companies (and successfully litigated the first cave-trademark lawsuits), their eternal struggle to keep costs low has been passed down to every corporate generation since. For some businesses, that struggle can be won with careful consideration of every…