What will be your total revenue next month? What about the third quarter? Or the rest of the year? How do you know that your sales pipeline won’t run dry in the dog days of August? Tracking the numbers will keep the fog out of your crystal ball.
If your company operates in an industry in which advance payments are the norm, your need for outside working capital may be reduced. But in business, as in personal life, spending money before you earn it can have unfortunate consequences.
2009 is over. Your company survived. You learned a lot of lessons the hard way, by making some mistakes. You won’t make them again. But there will be other problems, other challenges to staying on track. How do you keep your focus and avoid getting derailed? You go to school with the interested advisor.
Abby was captivated. It was as if they were jumping right out of her favorite picture books. Spider monkeys, white-handed gibbons, ring-tailed lemurs, they were all there – each species on its own island. And she was in the front row of the catamaran. It was New Year’s Day, and we were cruising around the […]