New Year’s Resolutions for Your Business by LeeAnn Reed Designer and author of The Designer’s Survival Guide to QuickBooks

2007 has been a challenging year for all of us in the design, workroom, and housing industries.  We had to work smarter and more efficiently to maintain and attract new customers, while hopefully increasing profits.  To ensure continued growth for the upcoming year, now is the time to ask yourself, “What are my Business Goals for 2008?”, and “What are my plans for achieving them?”

It has been said that “If you don’t know where you are going, you will never get there”. The same is true for your business.  Most of us find the thought of creating a Business Plan rather daunting, so we avoid it like the plague.  Then we wonder why we did not increase our annual sales as much as we had hoped.  Why? Because we did not have a plan.  OK, now we have accepted the fact that a plan is critical to our continued growth, but where do we begin?  To make the creation of our plan less daunting, think of it as a New Year’s Resolution for your business, and keep it simple.  As a start, define two primary business goals, and then Action Items and Tools/Software required to achieve each goal.

Here is a simple, yet highly effective Business Plan example:

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