Great Tips for Your Small Business

CHAPTER 2

Planning — Be It Business or Creative — Is the Key to Success

“Since it is a given that the key to success is mostly hard work and dedication, you had better really love what you do.”

TIP #11
If you know your business is cyclical or will have slow months, prepare a list of jobs to keep you busy at that time. Prioritize them. Perhaps this is time to paint your office, catch up on your bookkeeping (how great to approach tax season with the knowledge that your books are up-to-date!), boost your inventory for the busy months ahead, or develop a new product. By having your time scheduled in this way, what had been a worrisome calendar period becomes something anticipated as a creative or important task time

Deanne Fitzpatrick’s Rug Hooking Studio is a gallery of one-of-a-kind hooked rugs that also sells rug hooking kits, supplies, patterns, and limited edition reproductions both on site and through mail order. She also offers a series of two- and three-day workshops that attract participants from all over North America, as well free on-site lessons. For many, particularly artisans, she is a role model for growing a successful business