By swapping heavy-overhead sales offices for a lean crew of engineers.
Otherwise they can't vie with online outlets that have advantages of their own -- low overhead, no sales tax, huge inventory.
With otherwise low overhead, high sales and marketing costs eat up most of the company's profits.
These funds offer a compelling blend of good performance (on a risk-adjusted basis) and low cost (in annual overhead and sales commissions).
The cash flow was great, but I always had to anticipate the pressures of the following month, with its payroll, overhead, necessary sales, and "emergencies" I knew I'd have to handle.
The upside of the commissioned employee is that there is very little overhead without sales; employees only make money when the business makes money.
You might think that's nothing new; plenty of small businesses prefer low-overhead online sales to brick-and-mortar shops, particularly if, like Mr Gingrich, they already have a brand.
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Low-overhead direct sales are one key reason Cisco's operating margins are a lofty 25%.
This time seemed to favor scale and efficiency over service or brand, for commodities like insurance cover or processing power, the overheads of sales, marketing and retail footprint were stripped away.
A perfect storm of high overhead and lagging sales led Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell, the store's owners, to conclude that they were running "a free museum" and that "the old paradigm wasn't working," Mr. Moss explained.
