Pest Management Professional, October 2016
PMP Business Planner 2017 COntinued FrOm Page 86 The overall goal of your accountant should be to help you accumulate and preserve wealth Saving taxes is just a small part of the task A competent accountant recognizes the need to be a valuable member of your management team and is able to provide many more value added services than just tax preparation A growing company needs help with many of the financial aspects of its business 6 OPeratiOns and systeMatizing yOur business You want your business process to be in a format From Technician to CEO is available at PMPs online bookstore you can print and put in a book or a binder Build a manual you can hand to new employees as you expand This will help train them about the acceptable policies and procedures your company follows In this manner each service as well as each step to process new sales accounting and other paperwork can be performed in a uniform manner Using this approach you can build your business machine in a way thats entirely systematized Once youve reached this point where the business is completely systematized and the work is performed entirely by your workforce you can start working on growth strategies for the future as well as how those strategies will be implemented 7 PeOPle ManageMent The key characteristic common to all successful operations can be summed up in one word management In the service business its all about managing people If you start out as a one person operation managing people is easy because you need to manage only yourself As your organization grows you have to manage technicians salespeople and office staff Good employees are your greatest assets in the service business because companies dont offer a product they offer people and their expertise A company that offers a good product can sometimes be successful with marginal people based on the merits of the product alone but service professionals cant do that Their product is their people The service industry is full of opportunity and profitability We operate in an industry with a simple business model I say simple but its definitely not easy to execute PMP You can reach Gordon owner of PCO Bookkeepers at info@ pcobookkeepers com 88 October 2016 Pest Management Professional mypmp net
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