Lisa Brock

Vita,
I’m not very good expressing my appreciation but hopefully this note will help someone else that may be looking into signing up for your class.

This class has been helpful on a new level! I have enjoyed the push from Vita to get in the weeds with my business. I am learning my need to focus. Focus ON my business. Focus IN my business. This class has been well worth the financial investment to take my business to the next level. Thank you Vita!

Vita, the PDF version isn’t any better for me. Anyone else having a difficult time downloading a clear Estimate: Summary vs Detailed slides?

Wow Amy yall are on it !!!
I’ve been looking over my financials in relation to your percentages and I’m not far off except expenses. This year is my first full year and I decided to go all in and borrowed money for the machines and equipment to help with production and classes like this one. I see light at the end of the tunnel with recovery on this decision financially. It’s hard to have that debt hanging over my head but it will keep you going day in and day out!!
As far as my KPI, so far every sell has closed, estimates outstanding are just waiting to decide on fabric, I have 3 designer that consistently give me work and probably too many retail clients because I cant do all the small side jobs for the designers that I’d like to be able to do. I have done plenty of time studies but have failed to study them, ha!

Vita, can you send another copy of your chart of accounts? The slide is not readable. I went through my COA and made lists of ways to improve the list in order to see exactly where my money is going. That was eye opening just for the first 4.5 months of this year.

Vita, I’m setting up my Airtable and was curious if you will go in-depth into the “Expediting Tasks” tab in future classes?

Vita, I printed off the Estimates: Summary vs Detailed slide and it is not legible. Is there another way to get a hard copy of it? If not I can just go back through the video.
Class was so good today. Now I get how to give an estimate without going into so much detail and potentially waiting time! And I loved seeing the content of your SOP. I am such a visual learner so it was good to see what topics you address.

When you tell a client what the lead time will be is that based on knowing what seems to be the general time for items to come in and fabrication time needed? Some workrooms say once they have the deposit and all products in hand then they will set a date for install so many weeks from that date, 6-8 weeks not the 2 weeks you referenced in your flow chart. Vita, you mentioned you once were 4-6 weeks then 6-8 weeks and so on, what determines these lead times? This whole lead time is getting me in trouble with designers. Retail clients are not near as demanding on time but I am trying to figure out how to quit “over promising and underperforming”, ugh!!