This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Reed is in Pittsburgh.

Hey, Reed, what's up?

Hey, Dave, how are you doing?

Better than I deserve.

How can I help?

So I recently, about a year and a half ago, started working with a friend of mine back home,

and we're trying to figure out why we can't. We just break even every year. We can't seem

to make a profit no matter how much our shells go up in the business. It's just kind of boggling my

mind a little bit. What's your top line revenues?

Your gross revenue.

So right now, when this year we're on track to do 300 in total sales, 300K, when I started,

it was like 120 that he did on average every year.

And even though the sales went up, we just, we're not breaking even.

I don't get it.

Okay.

So are you selling an item?

Yeah, item and services. It's an archery pro shop. It's a what? Archery pro shop. We sell

bows and arrows. Okay. All right. And so what is your margin? So we make about 40% on the average of the store.

Okay.

So you should have $120,000 gross profit then.

Well, we don't pay that much in payroll.

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