If you own a successful business, the time will eventually come when it starts to generate real profits. It can be exciting, but also confusing. You spend so long working hard to get to this stage that it almost seems surreal when it happens. There’s just one issue: you don’t always know how to spend the money. For instance, should you plow it straight back into your company? Or should you take it as income? If you’re confused, you’re not alone! Let’s talk about the various ways small business owners can use their profits successfully and rationally…

Reinvest In Your Business
Some businesses have a natural scale beyond which future expansion doesn’t make sense. For instance, if you run a home hairdressing business, you don’t need massive amounts of capital to keep your business plans alive. Instead, you’re often just happy going from one client to the next, styling their hair. However, if you have a scalable business that can grow exponentially, it makes sense to reinvest profits. By expanding it faster today, you can take advantage of market opportunities and more earnings tomorrow. 

Pay Down Your Debts
Here’s another idea for how to use the money: try paying down your debts. Most companies have to take out some sort of loan to get them off the ground. It’s necessary capital for product development, rental costs, and hiring staff. Loans, however, can eat into your future earnings and reduce your long-term profitability. Paying down debts, therefore, is something that you might want to try. Financial actions like this minimize interest payments and free up more money in the future. 

Invest Your Money Elsewhere
Let’s say that there are no opportunities to invest in your business right now, but you don’t want to take your profits as income. What other options do you have? One idea is to invest your money in other people’s businesses to make a return. Their companies may still need to scale to reach their potential. So by handing over your excess cash, you can help to enhance the economy and generate returns. You could also open a CFD trading account and attempt to generate returns via your capital that way. Either way, you can make positive returns to maintain your wealth. 

Save For A Rainy Day
Finance bloggers will often tell their audiences to save for a rainy day. In our view, business bloggers should do the same. Why? Because you never know when problems with the economy will temporarily undermine your business model and leave you high and dry. Saving for a rainy day, for instance, helps to protect you against future threats, like pandemics or trade disputes. Whatever the problem, you have a pile of capital you can fall back on, should things go wrong. Then, when everyone else is struggling to survive, you can draw on your savings to stay afloat. 

Finally, you can also do all of the above. Paying down debts while investing in your business is as valid a use of your profits as any. 

TDP x