Today is Thursday February 09, 2012

Thought For The Day

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
-Betty Smith

I Have Been Thinking

When you know those actions that contribute to your income then you can set a number to them to track. Some of them are very easy others take some thinking. When you do the Content Management and Records course, you receive copies of my outlines and templates. On the daily action plan template there is a list of statistics I have found very helpful.

Gross Income – This is the total amount of income received for the day from any and every source. Providing you are banking every penny before you spend it, this total should be readily available from your check book(s) deposits.

Retail Sales Volume – This is income receive directly from retail sales.

Net Income – This is total income minus expenses.

Expenses – What did you spend? Just a note about expenses beware the Misc category. It can be a trap when it comes to determining what is and what isn’t legally deductible.

New Members/ Customers / Clients – When you are running a membership site, this is the bottom line. There is no faking this number, new members are either signing up or they are not. They are either signing up for your services or they are not.

New Contacts – How many people did you talk to today I have a definition of new – never encountered, wanting. The goal is two people a day. That doesn’t sound like much, but two a day is 730 people in a year that have expressed some kind of interest in what we have talked about.

Support Issues Completed – If your business depends on handling people’s problems then tracking questions in and questions answered may help you to know how and were to fix content in your website. This is the substance of FAQs and new products. Support issues may also have notes attached to the individual contact.

Projects Started – When you are writing projects to follow through to a done, this statistic coupled with it’s counterpart Projects Completed is an excellent indicator of your determination to follow through.

Total Tasks Completed – I have found that two stats work together quite well. The total number of tasks compared to the number set to do in a day is a percentage of completed tasks. There may be times when looking at these numbers is a difficult thing to do. The stat itself indicates your effectiveness at getting things done.

Keeping these numbers doesn’t have to be difficult nor does it take a long time to do not if they are built into your daily action plan. I did include these stats in the daily action plan template You may find different number that help you to manage your business just try not to manage more than ten each day.

I find that summarizing then at the end of each week and balancing bank accounts weekly take about 30 minutes each week where if you leave this task to once each month can take considerably longer.

Setting up statistics in Open Office Calc if you are not using a Finance application like Quicken or Quick Books can take much of the errors in adding the stats out of the equation since the spreadsheet can add the columns of figures for you.

Opportunity is never lost
It goes To Those Ready to Accept It!
Your Success is my Greatest Interest
CWinslow

Ice Breakers

Humor in Uniform

When my best friend, James, came home on his first Army
leave, my little brother asked him what he did in the
service. “I do calisthenics, shoot guns, and follow orders,”
James replied.

Walking in town that day, James and I ran into a buddy who
also asked him what he did in the Army. James gave the same
reply: “I do calisthenics, shoot guns, and follow orders.”

A while later, we met a former classmate, an attractive
woman, and she asked the same question. This time, James
said, “I’m studying communications, learning foreign
languages, and traveling around the world.”

Grandma Wisdom

 

When my husband passed away, I found after 23 years of marriage that he had managed all of the finances. I had absolutely no idea what we owed or the state of accounts. I had to scramble to get a handle on all of the numbers. Fortunately I knew where and how to look for the figures. My organizational skills made it a quick matter of putting order into the piles of paper. Once the computer came along, I learned how to use the tools for all they were worth. You can too.