Yesterday was my second to last day in my production space in 2007. I'm heading off for a belated honeymoon pretty soon so gave up my rental space for December since I won't really be around. Thankfully, my landlords have said they'd try to hold open my normal hours as I've been a very reliable renter. Hopefully it will hold true.
So I'm spending most of this week trying to build up the very last bit of inventory which will hopefully carry through the new year and next week when I'm home more often I'll refocus on trying to get all papers and "office" organization actually organized.
In fact, one of things I've been working on has been an Operations Manual. I started it because I realized that if I want to grow this business beyond simply little ol me, I need to have the company's procedures written down in a way that anyone could pick up the manual and continue the business without my guidance (or even without me!). As I've been putting it together I've been a little surprised by how much knowledge is saved in this head of mine. Nothing overwhelming, but - for example - the passwords to access various online programs that we use daily. Then of course there's the instructions for how to create our product, accept and process wholesale orders, invoice clients, pay commissions, etc. So there's a lot of information I'm trying to put down on paper.
My hope is to have a lot of the actual "accepting and processing orders" portion of it complete before I leave for my honeymoon as I'm leaving my mom in charge of the company (go mom!) while I'm away and want to make things as easy as possible for her. Then, if my grand plan works out, I'll finish up with a lot of the "production instructions" end of things in the first quarter prior to hopefully hiring on part-time help second quarter next year.
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