The Small Business Doer

Wow, I thought October was busy. Well, November was even busier.

Dead car, but it’s all good.

I think I’m going to start sounding like a broken record, but October was busy. In fact, so busy that I pulled off my biggest sales month of the year!

Some highlights are finishing off my first ever published magazine article in EventDV magazine. This came out in the November edition of the magazine.

Also, I booked my first job off my vancouvervideographer.ca website that I launched in September.

I’m cheating on my updates.

Well, I don’t know if I’m cheating, but I’m certainly having been paying enough attention to it and I’ve been spending copious amounts of time on other things, paid things, but other things.

It is time to make amends and here it goes. Inside this update: Will sales bounce back from a not-so-hot August?

The sky is falling! Sales were down precipitously. What happened to August?

How do I grow my business? I took direct action on this question this July. Howcome I’m making less money growing my business though?

This is the semi-annual update for my 2010 business plan for Greg Lam Consulting. It is important to see how you’re tracking on a month-to-month basis, that is why I do the monthly business plan updates. However, sometimes the monthly data can be skewed in an overly busy or slow month, and you miss the big picture. With this semi-annual update, I got the chance to see how did in the first half of the year, with the peaks and valleys of business somewhat smoothed out.

I came into June with a lot of pre-bookings. Find out if it made any difference to total sales in the end.

This is my May update as part of my ongoing series of monthly updates to see how my business plan is tracking. May was slower than previous months, but still above expectations. I’ve decided that I’ll have to do up an Action Plan so that I’ll have specific targets and goals to work on in the rest of 2010.

April was another solid month. A look into the budgeting of a small business as well as the growth curves that can occur. And of course, the monthly update of the financials looking at actual figures vs. budgeted figures.

This is my March update for my business plan. Another stellar month of revenues and profits. Work has unexpectedly continued to be steady and at higher levels than predicted. Even with this, starting to think about the next steps for the business.