{"id":150,"date":"2012-07-02T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:45:26","slug":"another-business-plan-alternative-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2012\/07\/another-business-plan-alternative-your.html","title":{"rendered":"Another business plan alternative: your calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Reader Carrie Bodeman at <a href=\"http:\/\/asgoodasnew.net\/\">As Good As New<\/a>\u00a0sent this alternative to traditional business planning. You might like it too. &#8211;Becky\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have to look back to see forward. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjmccray\/7456634082\/\" title=\"July calendar page by bjmccray, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"July calendar page\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7135\/7456634082_f90143e420_m.jpg\" width=\"144\"><\/a>We keep a daily log of all activity so I can look back several years at a glance. \u00a0We print out a blank calendar and each day fill in our gross sales, discounts, how many customers were in that day, weather and anything else that might affect that days sales. \u00a0I highlight days that we put a promotion on (mailer, facebook promo, email etc) \u00a0I total each week and month and also total all Mondays, Tues etc to see how we compare year to year. \u00a0I calculate total sales by customers and see our average sale for the week\/month. \u00a0<span>It makes you look at a customer different when you see that person walking in the door is worth $40 or whatever!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how accurate it is in forecasting sales. \u00a0I staple all Jan calendars together, Feb calendars together etc. from each year. If I see a week that has been historically slow, I try to figure out why and fix it! We&#8217;ve been lucky to have consistently higher sales each year in the 9 years we&#8217;ve been open!<\/p>\n<p>Start a Calendar today!!!!<\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks, Carrie!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Carrie Bodeman at As Good As New\u00a0sent this alternative to traditional business planning. You might like it too. &#8211;Becky\u00a0 Sometimes you have to look back to see forward. We keep a daily log of all activity so I can look back several years at a glance. \u00a0We print out a blank calendar and each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7013,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}