Things are going well with my $100 business challenge. I even got a new customer this week! An Assisted Living Facility here in town. While I'm still waiting to meet up with the Landscaping / Nursery owner to go over creative directions that he would like me to take, we are making a lot of progress. We have planned for a time to meet next week to go over those things and so I'm excited to report back next week. Since he also owns a landscaping company, I'm hoping that there will be a chance to build an additional website just for that one, though, he may want to incorporate the two together. Again, I will try and talk him out of that.
This week we learned in Harvard Manage Mentor about budgeting and forecasting. It made me really open my eyes to how easy, yet how difficult this can be. It also made me reflect at how I struggle to enact a budget in my personal life and realize that this is also why I struggle to do so in my business life. At this point in my business career, even as a Regional Sales Manager, I've never had to submit a budget. But I can tell you that in my calling as a Ward Clerk, I've been learning more about the budgeting functions of the MLS program. My whole first year we didn't have a budget and the clerk before me said he never did one either. So this year I've been making changed and working closely with the Bishop to put in budgets for all of the different auxilleries and keeping them apprised as to where they are at on a regular basis. This has cut down a lot on the amount of times that auxillary leaders are making requests to me about how much of their budget they have left. It kind of goes hand in hand with templated standardized reports. They don't need to guess where they are at with their budget because I give them regular updates!
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