Is It Time to Raise Prices?

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Is It Time to Raise Prices?: "There's no more important number than the one on your price tag, and nothing provokes a case of the cold sweats like the thought of raising it. After years of almost no inflation, relentless downward pressure from places like China and India on the price of almost everything, and comparison shopping at the click of a mouse, it's more competitive than ever out there. It's easy to see why fewer than one-third of business owners surveyed by the National Federation of Independent Business reported in February that they had increased their prices over the previous three months."