Whats happening in my business now?

I am going to interrupt my background series of posts for a minute to fill you in on what is going in my business now.

I feel like I can be more specific in alot of areas if I remain anonymous and that this information will be more beneficial to readers of this blog. What I actually do is not as important in the grand scheme of things, because every business operates using essentially the same resources - and has basically the same issues.

Well its almost the end of the month, and the end of the first quarter. My company has been in business for almost 3 full years. We are budgeted to do about 70% growth over last year. As you can imagine this is a challenge from many aspects. We are slightly behind on our first quarter goal right now but we are hanging in there and moving in the right direction - we actually have a great shot at hitting it.

Another interesting thing is that we currently (today and tomorrow) have someone visiting from our corporate office - the corporate spy- as some of our employees call him. He is doing an inspection of our operation plus helping me plan and get focused on some things. Its usually a pretty valuable exercise. It is part of the franchise agreement that this happens at least once a year and we usually have a more focused 1 day visit with him at least one other time during the year. We run a pretty tight operation so I am not worried about any negative results- we probably have a few minor issues but all in all our team is top notch by design. We have pretty stringent recruiting and hiring practices.

So I am going to be somewhat pre-occupied with that until Wednesday morning.