From our Business Improvement Club at the end of 2008. Useful for getting you and your business ready for 2009.

1. Business Improvement Club Your plan for 2009? Paul and Sarah Hopwood

3. HOW do we get there? Business Plan Strategic Planning WHERE will we be in the future? NOW – WHERE - HOW

5. What is success? (Emerson) To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.

6. What is success? (Churchill) ...the ability to go from one failure to another without a loss of enthusiasm…

7. What is success? (Earl Nightingale)

8. Using your time If I could help you release 30 hours a week, how would you spend them? (Doing what you love allows you to chase your passion rather than your pension)

9. Barriers What is stopping you strategically?

11. Double our sales. Price points that maximise sales and margin. Management involvement in the sales process. Innovative incentive program for the sales team. No poor quality customers. No bad debts. Everyone pays on time. Leading edge product development. Global sales to reduce risk & local economic issues. Staff Retention. Video links to customers and field staff.       Small highly focussed sales force. Lessen Product Range. New Website. Launch New Product. Improve client selection process. Implement contact program. Reduce costs by 10%. Change Organisations structure. Close Plant. Succession Plan. Clearer Vision. Outsource more. Competitor Analysis. Cut unprofitable products.       PARETO – TOP 3 Top Three Issues 1. Clearer Vision 2. Reduce costs by 10% 3. Double our Sales