
Tuesday 01 December 2009, make a note of it in your diary as it was the first time that I have voluntarily walked out of the office! We each have a list of jobs or tasks to perform, and these are carefully written up on the Friday ready for Monday morning (my list always seems to be the longest though!) but NOWHERE on these lists were "Put up the Christmas Decorations"! As soon as I saw the christmas tree coming through the door that was it.....I was off, ring me when you're finished!!
We have been busy with our business plan this last few weeks, and armed with some comments from this
thread we have been out at the weekends to speak to some grass roots goalkeepers to gain their feedback also. It was a great exercise to do because as I've said before goalkeepers are just SO passionate about the position and chatting to them in their natural habitat provides wonderful unbiased feedback that is absolutely priceless for any business. This feedback is helping to cement our original thoughts on how to organically grow WarbyGK and provides us with a clear vision of how to move forward and I think that people from the outside looking in will inevitably have their own opinions, but I have always been BIG on staying loyal to your beliefs and am extremely confident that we are doing things the right way. I am lucky in that I am surrounded by contacts with enough business experience to turn to for re-assurance and advice, and as easy as it would have been to jump straight in at the deep end (my normal habit!) with raising finance, investment etc to immediately challenge the established brands but I feel that the way that we have established ourselves in a very crowded market will give us the necessary platform to grow. "Any man can buy a field of corn to feed his family once, but the real winner is the man that can grow his own corn and feed his family forever" - Bob Warby 2009 (I'm now a philosophist too! I'm adding that to my CV!)