General Business: How's your business doing this week?

How's your business doing this week?

is it slow?
Hectic?
What are the diffulcuties?
What are the challenges your busines are facing?

Well, I have had my first client for a long while. This is actually a barter deal where I am going to be setting up their phone system for them (they are buying it themselves), and they will be doing some legal work for (as they are lawyers by trade, but have a non-legal venture they are working on). So, that is great, but I need money too.

I have been working with my real estate agent on this one. She has got to be the best real estate agent in the world. I have no idea how she is able to manage her time, but she is the branch manager of a real estate office, the president of MIBOR (the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors), and lobby's real estate laws. She is also on the Mooresville (a suburb of Indianapolis) Chamber of Commerce. She has a lot of contacts. I have done work on her computer for her for about four years. It gives me a little side money, here and there, but her computer is doing great, so not much lately. However, I have made a deal for her to spread the word about my company in exchange for free credits for computer work. Basically, I am giving 5% commission on contracts that people refer to me. She did not want to take my money, so I told her that I would convert that 5% into credit for service.

I want to have three retainer clients by January. At that point, I can quit my job. Five to eight is my target range, however. I am thinking that I may be able to actually get more clients, as well, if I can get it to the point where most of the support is remote. Then I can hire someone to handle remote calls and do 50+% of the support work, while I grow the business.

I have another blog I started this past weekend as well. I like these blogs, because I am just writing about stuff I usually think about. I have a few regular readers already, as well. I am not making much money, yet, however. I think it could take off in a couple of months, though.

[quote="ewindsor"]Auto Biz This Week

1. Busy, but not in the profitable sense. This week we spent fine tuning and preparing/fixing little things on the cars to make them perfectly sellable.

2. Difficulties: Rear passenger window in the limo wouldn't go down (worked when we got it) - we bought a new window motor, new module, etc. - took both doors apart to try to swap out modules, and after hours and hours of work we figured out that there was a cut wire in the door jamb harness. Took 15 minutes to soder/fix. Frustrating to do all the other stuff for nothing, but it's working now!

3. No challenges yet, gotta wait to start showing the cars.[/quote]

This week has been -- i think -- the best week sales wise since i launched Paws Up Pet Supply (havent exactly added everything up.

I have been very busy this week - i had to enter item numbers and weights into each of the products on our site. I got my sister to help me (paid of course) and between the two of us it took us about 40 hours. to finish. I also am in the process of getting all of our prices lowered to be the cheapest online. I just negotiated new discounts with my suppliers to be able to do that. Sales will double at least once we lower our prices to the lowest on most of our products. I also am in the process of opening a new store in the next couple months - petsupplydude.com - one of the logo concepts is attached ... let me know what you think.

Thats been my week in a nut shell -- I go back to school on monday so this weekend is going to full of fun :) I only have school two days a week though, so i am able to still run my business.

Cheers,

Business this week is awesome!!

Everything overall have doubled or tripled.. gotta love it.

Karen

[quote="ewindsor"][quote="jpomerenke"]

Hey Eric - why dont you let us attach pics ;)[/quote]

Apparently I'm the only one workin' here! :)[/quote]

I dont think i have admin access anymore - or maybe i dont know how to use it :) - i was going to turn it on myself but it seems i dont have the admin access anymore :)

This week has been so damn busy! I'm hoping to wrap up 4 projects this weekend so I can focus on mid-terms coming up in school next week.

My deal cycle tends to be fairly long, so evaluating it weekly doesn't always give the best window into what's really going on.

Anyway, in a more general sense, business is pretty good in the sense that wealth is being generated at minimal risk to capital. I suppose that's really all I can ask for. By almost any outside standard, my margins are positively insane, I'm just not getting as much business done as I would like, due in large part to constraints on capital, time, and physical space (just like anyone else).

So yeah, I like to ramble. Business is good though.

If i dont get up by 8 every morning I am feeling sleepy all day. The days of sleeping in are behind me, I am just in the habit of getting up early and getting a start on things whenever I can.

hahaha Poker is awesome though. I know alot of the really good players play overnight and sleep during the day because thats when thereis better competition!

Isn't that always the case :P

WOW! congrats on selling all of those cars.