[Closed] How's business?

Literally booming, struggling to find people with the right skill set.

Beating budgets it is a good year, 2009 was awful, last year was a record this year will be better.

Very well if anything it's getting busier but I don't make extra money for being busier though unless it runs into overtime.

We have had our busiest season ever, but not without difficulty. Weekend bookings down, weeks with schools etc we have worked our socks off for some new trade. Lots of other outdoor centres closing, and I think we are picking up some of their trade, plus it is a real survival of the fittest/hardest workers/best value.
Despite all this, cash is tight due to the huge increases in the food and energy bills.

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A lot busier in November than we were expecting.
Ton I wish Id known you did alarms we just had a whole new system installed.
Looking for another one at Adel if you want to give me a call.
(Ed - Crosstrax)

Breaking records every month here in export. Really.

having been laid off twice this year, i'm really happy to report that at my new job, we're busier than we can cope with.

NHS - great, the world is full of sick people.
Just keep falling off those bikes kiddies

Ton

Do you lot sell the Blade 7000s?
Probably get one after Christmas

Dead and buried - finally shut my business down back in July, still looking for something else.

Booming..

The ( Mobile) industry keeps throwing money at us..

Just taken on 7 new staff.

Busy second half of the year. Shit first half. Looking ok for Jan so far but I suspect it'll be a quiet Spring again. 😐

Almost tripled turnover this year (in the Times TechTrack 100) - but almost 100% export driven.

The world of the web has been VERY busy this year...

Good, best year since 2007-08. Although that is more down to a couple of flukey large jobs, had I not been in the right place at the right time it would have been at the other end of scale. Next year could go either way at the moment.

Ton I wish Id known you did alarms we just had a whole new system installed.
Looking for another one at Adel if you want to give me a call.
(Ed - Crosstrax)

phoned the adel shop mate..........you were not in...... 😀

Good but in very selective markets. I supply a service that is more luxury than necessity for 70% of my clients, so I've noticed some cutting back on the levels they choose.

2009 was our best, snow hit us last year and this year we are a bit down. Christmas is our peak time so we are crossing fingers.

2009 was our best, snow hit us last year and this year we are a bit down. Christmas is our peak time so we are crossing fingers.

ton give me a bell 07834055607

November has been great, October was absolutely dire but overall a good enough year. Thankfully people can't stop buying mobile phones, and they can't stop buying them for their kids either.

We're in construction, mostly public sector stuff & its bizzer than a biz thing.

Busy busy busy, stuff always grows and needs taming, this mild weather and the good start to the years means ££££££££££££££££

Was lovely outside today 😉

Cheaster where i work has had a cull of a lot of banking jobs and local council jobs, theres massive unemployment, shops are closing every day, and its really grim, nobody wants new locks or carpets or even rear gates at the present time to protect their xmas presents.

nobody wants new locks

The cheese industry is doing well for us at the moment.

Might I suggest a move into the insurance business?

been a bad year for natural disasters, the big insurers are in a bad way.

Im in the cycle industry (holidays) and its gone mental!!!! busiest we have ever been

Good 3 months which looks to be carrying in to December, strange for the mortgage industry. 😯

Summer was shite though & still suffering as a result of that. 🙁

Hoping for a good start to next year to kick things along nicely 😉

The usual - hectic at the start of the year when people come back all through of optimism, quiet over the tail end of the summer through autumn whilst they are faffing with kids n school holidays, followed by late autumn/pre Christmas PANIC WE HAVE TO GET THIS SITE SORTED YESTERDAY IT JUST CANT WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR....lots on atm.

Being a small company it's always famine/flood/famine/flood.

Busier than ever. Best results ever. Working our socks off.

We're laying off staff and implementing a pay freeze.

It's been horrendous since May - I do freelance management consultancy in the charity and public sector areas and its by far the worst period in over 10 years of doing this.

I also do voluntary work for a couple of charities and they are busier than ever providing services, but doing it with less money.

Hope 2012 turns out better.

[b] Steady as She Goes[/b] So quite steady 😀

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Since May it's been very quiet. However I set up another small business last year and that's starting to get going and filling in the gaps. http://emmyjane-design.blogspot.com/

As Matt says

plus it is a real survival of the fittest/hardest workers/best value.

I think things will get better when people realise that Cheap stuff from China is no longer inexpensive and start to buy British.
Customers want top quality stuff for nothing and I'm not willing to work for a wage that comes in under the minimum just because I'm self employed (which is what a lot of small business people are doing).

In my second year of running my own business. Turnover was 180% of what I projected in the first year and in my second year I'm looking like doing 200% of projected turnover. When the government stops building roads that need lighting, then I may struggle.

I need an alarm fitting.

😀

Booming. Oil and gas related.

In my second year of running my own business. Turnover was 180% of what I projected in the first year and in my second year I'm looking like doing 200% of projected turnover.

Rubbish projections then...

Customers want top quality stuff for nothing

This is our problem as well.

Since we first started bartering, they always have

MrSmith - Member

Might I suggest a move into the insurance business?

been a bad year for natural disasters, the big insurers are in a bad way.

Overall, we're not too bad, I think. My bit's stuffed this year, though. More big fires than usual, on top of the natural catastrophes.

Rubbish projections then...

Care to explain why? And then maybe ask about my business plan and the way that maybe my business has evolved over the last two years?

All projections are rubbish and limiting.

A business that got their projections right are probably under-performing.

Care to explain why?

Fitting woodburners, could do with a few more hours in the day at the mo....
Looking forward to quietening down a bit come spring so I can ride my bike in April as it seems to be our new summer.

Our company is booming.. we simply can't get enough of our stuff out of the door to satisfy our customers..

That said, our Board are frustrated because we're 10million down from 120 to 110 on what we were aiming at as a group.. even though our sales target has been extended twice and we're still surpassed it and we're talking [i]profit[/i] 😯

Prisons are still full, that'll do me.

I run a small printing company - we'll finish about 5% up on last year. So not too bad as I know many printers have really struggled this year.

I set up a confidential waste destruction company a month or so ago. Slow is the best way to describe it. We'll get there though.

Anyone in Greater Manchester/Cheshire wants a competitive price for the destruction on confidential waste or WEEE waste let me know 😉

Wow, judging by this thread everybody is booming across many different business sectors... so why very poor growth and GDP?

Is paranoia driving us into being a nation of 'busy fools'?

Work smarter, not harder!

Is paranoia driving us into being a nation of 'busy fools'?

Indeed anyone can be busy, i try to work smart, so i actually make money too.

I see competitors and know how little they charge, truly they are busy fools, in fact many won't be in business next year.

We will probably post our best annual profit figure ever this year.

But then most of our sales are outside the UK.

Business is dire. Never known it as bad.

sobriety - Member

Customers want top quality stuff for nothing

This is our problem as well.

theyre called shoplifters

Wow, judging by this thread everybody is booming across many different business sectors... so why very poor growth and GDP?

No, no...it's just a chance for the smug brigade to wave their willies. 🙂

I'm far from smug, on the edge of things being good or grim, and no one or nothing else to rely on...

we're flat out because they sacked half the workforce leaving the rest of us to handle the load - which is about 20% down

I'm far from smug

Yeah, I know matey. You went way beyond smug years ago. 😛

😉

retail, $hit, fuel sales $hit, animal feed $hit.

basically people aren't spending money, the weather is too warm and dry to need fuel for heating and grain dryers. and animals are still in the fields on grass rather than in sheds and on feeds.

So that covers most of the businesses core areas.