Planning for 2009
I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season. Ours was really wonderful.
I've been in business for about 5 years now and I have never planned ahead or thought about where I wanted my business to go in the future. Well, I have thought about where I wanted it go but never actually broke it down and figured out how I am going to get there. So these next few weeks will be full of planning and figuring. We are working through our end of the year inventory, which is quite a project and if you've been to my workshop you know what I mean :0) It's amazing how many different herbs, oils, essential oils, packaging pieces and soap related stuff that a small soap lady can acquire over the years. OMG I had no idea how many end pieces of soap that I had until yesterday, what I am going to do with them all. After inventory is put in the computer and all my numbers are run I will be forming a plan. Sounds scary to me though I think it's high time I do it.
Some big steps that we took last year were most recently hiring 2 part time employees.
Jessica is my production assistant/whatever needs to be done lady and she does a
mighty fine job as well. Amber, who has very nicely organized my files and does all my
office stuff that I am not good at. I'd much rather be making goodies of course.
We are working Monday – Thursday from 9is to 4ish, if you'd like to stop by our soap workshop please feel free too. Give me a call first and I will give you directions. Fridays are my catch up days but often I am here :0) I'd love to have you stop by and say Hi, Oh you could take home an end piece of soap too if you'd like.
Hey there! Donna Maria is hostessing an Indie Beauty Blog Tag Party! I'm tagging you! I hope you enjoy thinking about why you love being an Indie as much as I did! Happy New Year! Heather
ps here's the link to dM's post.
http://www.indiebusinessblog.com/indie_business/2009/01/indie-beauty-blog-tag-party-ten-things-i-love-about-being-indie.html
Posted by: Heather | January 23, 2009 at 05:06 PM