136 | How I do my annual strategy planning with Katie Hunt
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Hey friends, I have been getting a lot of requests from people curious about how I map out my annual plan for the business, and how I work my family schedule into that. I\\u2019m going to be honest, balancing a busy family schedule and a very busy business schedule can be hard. There\'s a number of things that I need to consider and weigh in on when I\'m making decisions in my business. And that really ties into how I plan my year because I don\'t want to overload myself with too many things, only to do all of them less than stellar. I want to do my best at everything.
In this episode, I get granular about how I do my big picture, strategic planning each year for my business so that I\'m not overloading myself, my team or my family.\\xa0 I talk about what reports I look at, how I analyze what\'s working and what\'s not working to decide which programs, products and services we\'ll offer the following year.
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Reports I pull:
2019 YTD Profit & Loss statement
2018 Profit & Loss for year over year comparison
2019 Marketing calendar so I can see where income coordinated with program sales
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Things I look at for each revenue stream (including any sub-categories):
Profitability
Time spent
Excitement / Passion Level
Impact
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Tools I use:
Quickbooks online
Downloadable Calendar from MaylemMade on Etsy\\xa0
Huge wall post-its\\xa0
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Quick links to thinks I talked about:
Paper Camp\\xa0
Friends of Proof to Product Facebook group
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