If you could only choose one, would you focus on increasing revenue or decreasing expenses over the the next 12 months?
Increase revenue81%
Decrease expenses18%
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Increase revenue81%
Decrease expenses18%
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I picked increasing revenue as I believe that is a long term strategy. cutting expenses is a short term strategy, and usually has other unintended consequences like lower employee moral. That being said, the strategy I was almost always forced to follow was cutting expenses..... 95% of the time.