Archive for August, 2007

1. You will change your business - for the better!

2. You will evolve as a person and a professional

3. You will become a better leader and manager of people

4. You will learn to delegate (better, anyway!)

5. You will learn how to evaluate the progress and success of your business

6. You will become intimately acquainted with your “numbers”

7. You will set goals, develop a plan, take action steps…and see results!

8. You will be able to compare your company to peers in your industry

9. You will develop friends and find mentors among your peers

10. You will keep growing and innovating

11. You will have fun doing it!

I have been an On Target Member for 4 years now. What I have learned from Linnea and other members has been priceless. Never do I want to take for granted what I have now, that I did not have just a few years ago. I owe this to Linnea and other members of On Target Program. In my earlier years in business I worked too hard. If I had only done this earlier! Working Smarter not Harder is what the On Target Program is about.

These are just a few of the items that I have gotten from On Target…..

• Changing from Cash to Accrual basis accounting. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO
• Installation of QuickBooks™. WHAT WAS I THINKING BEFORE
• Establishment of a Budget with comparisons
• Never Play Credit Card Roulette with Josh…
• Knowing what my bottom line is at any time.
• I now know what my Gross Profit is and how important it is to know it all the time.
• I longer go to the post office or bank
• Delegation of paying bills
• It would be a whole book to write what I learned from the shop hops….
• Establishment of a Merchant Account using Visa and Master card processing
• Some delegation in Estimating
• Hiring an Office manager. I am so lucky
• I longer have to answer my phone or return phone calls.
• I no longer have to fill out my templates by myself.
• I have a life again.
• I have met wonderful people and have established life long friends.
• Mark and Arthur only like to drink $200 bottle wine.
• The establishment of a Marketing Plan 6 - 12 months and beyond
• I have found what marketing works and does not work
• I have had some of the best times at the conferences. Except when I had to hear John sing…
• Setting up a Business Plan and working it.
• I have doubled my business and have been making 3 times more money.
• More polices have been established on better hiring.
• I now have all the computers in my office networked.
• We now use ACT!™
• Have a better customer database
• Yes, at times all this has been hard work, but in the end it is worth it…..
• Delegation feels so good…..
• Working toward an exit strategy.
• I have realized how you do not have to do it all by yourself.
• The On Target Program has made my job fun.
• Jane and I have loved all the cities we have seen at the conferences…

This would not have happened without On Target.

So what’s next….?

Fitzgerald Painting is ON Target.