Traders are losing millions of pounds every day because they are too busy to sell their products.
Increased workloads caused by rocketing government demands for statistics, compliance with new laws, and more detailed record keeping, coupled with restrictions on traditional methods of selling are stopping businessmen from giving their undivided attention to selling their goods.
One trader told us, “I work harder for the government now, than I do for myself. I’d be better off as a civil servant, regular pay, holidays, pension, no staffproblems. Instead of coping with interfering bureaucrats, I’d be one.”
The effect is particularly bad on small businesses which do not have the resources of large companies who can carry larger staffs to cope with this non-productive waste of resources. Small business owners find it difficult to make time to attend to the simplest of promotional activities, such as writing sales letters, preparing marketing material or keeping in touch with existing customers.
Roger J Gould – A Pen for Hire said, “Increasingly small to medium sized companies are coming to me because they do not have the time, or the spirit, to write their sales material, at the end of a long working day.”