"Business Plan" Posts
GPS Reviews: We’re Business Owners, Now, Rather Than Our Business Owning Us!
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Situation
Married owners of a screen printing shop, opened in 2007, struggled, at first, with bringing in GPS as “deciding to put that much money into this project was concerning as young business owners.” They realized, however, that while they had the artistic vision, their management direction was less clear. “My hope was that we would one day look back and think that it was one of the best decisions that we have ever made…”
Process
“Today is that day!
We are so pleased that we made the decision that we did. Not only have we noticed a renewed …
Make No Little Plans!
By Ken DiPrima
Is a Goal Enough to Enable Change?
How are your New Year resolutions going? Have they been helpful? Have you ever achieved any of them, anytime in the past?
Why do they always seem to fade into never-never land, while life marches on?
Most of us never stay on target, long enough, to actually achieve our stated objectives. January, which is usually the coldest, darkest and dreariest month of the year in the Midwest, can also be the most depressing. Not only for the weather, but for the likely-hood of well intentioned resolutions going astray, leading people to burden themselves …
GPS Reviews: Provided Assistance In Achieving My Goals
Situation
The editor & publisher of a weekly community newspaper decided to engage GPS “after a year of trying to run the paper after my husband died. He was a former banker, as well as a newspaper man, and handled all financial matters relating to the business.”
She had, first, signed up for a seminar for small business owners, but she quickly realized that “I did not have the background to implement the suggestions presented for improving profitability.
I also needed help with developing realistic sales targets to use in comparing our current numbers and what I wanted to achieve …
GPS Reviews: Distributor & Dealer Needed The Culture Changed
Situation
A distributor and dealer of farm equipment, supplies, and services, hired GPS for an enhancement project, so that his business would, in the words of the client, “continue to grow and be viable for the future of our customers, employees, and my family”
Process
From the day that the GPS team arrived, “we have been examining, soul searching, stretching, learning and growing. I find that all of these things are somewhat painful and extremely challenging, but, at the same time, necessary for what we want to accomplish.”
The GPS consultant “has been very helpful in this process. All of …
GPS Reviews: The Business Now Has Direction
Situation
The client brought in GPS to assist with expanding his relatively new automotive dent/hail damage repair business. “I don’t have a college background, so that going through this process was a necessity for my growing company.”
Process
Financial and management systems were implemented along with processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
“The GPS consultant was, obviously, very intelligent, but he was able to explain things in a way that everyone could understand.”
“I have learned about profit and loss statements and balance sheets. I have also learned about staying compliant in the eyes of the IRS. …
GPS Reviews: I Have My Excitement Back
Situation
The owner of a RV dealership was contacted by GPS “and asked if they could take a look at our business to see if we could be more profitable. I have to admit that I was a little reluctant about someone coming into my business, which I have lived for the past 40 years, and tell me what I could do to make more money.
I did know that we were not taking full advantage of the opportunities that were blessing our family business. I was ready to call it quits, I had been working 12 or 13 hours …
GPS Reviews: The Benefits Far Outweigh The Costs
Situation
A third generation manufacturing company, started in 1961 by the client’s grandfather, sought GPS’ consulting services for enhancement of the business and sales, as “what worked to get you started, doesn’t necessarily work 50 years later.”
Process
The client found himself immersed in a business boot camp, “my brain has been stretched, scrunched, split, formed and molded into a more usable shape so that I can implement the lifetime of real world business sense that the GPS consultant imparted onto my staff and myself.”
A plan was crafted, along with systems and processes implemented, to take the company to …
