Christopher V. Flett

Hello loyal followers. I just completed my Q1 review of this year’s business experiment. Here is a recap of what we were trying to do:

• Have major growth on personal billing side
• Bring on new professionals as partners/coaches
• Look at more corporate development work (stuff we’ve done in years past but been unfocussed on due to other shiny things)
• Staying out of challenging partnerships
• Finding more HWs and RKs in the world of business to partner with

Here’s the update:

• Have added 34 clients to my coaching client roster
• Have had the pleasure of working with both Moss Adams and HSBC Securities in Q1 with more work to discuss this year
• Connected with some great professionals in Toronto/Calgary
• Have met literally dozens of amazing professional women in Seattle.
• Have added a consultant to the Seattle scene (hi Kerry) and looking at how to move forward with our work after May in a slightly different direction.
• Have just added a new Ghost Adviser to the team Friday. Pierre Piche was a summer student I hired about 9 years ago for a company I was the contracted Director of Marketing for. It was an absolutely horrible situation (financially and with the venture capital group we were working for), but I had the chance to work with Pierre to show him how I developed out markets from a ‘grass roots’ perspective. Fast forward and after having working in the corporate world and then running his own high-end beverage company, we have decided that he will join the Ghost CEO team servicing Kelowna and the Interior. I think this will be a great fit because he delivers results, was trained by yours truly, he’s a hunter, and is a battle proven entrepreneur.
• My billings (personal/non-license) are up 136% over this time last year. My expenses are down 64% For those keeners out there, you can figure out that the margins just got much fatter.
• Simple Bookkeeping Systems and Lullably League are cruising along. We are getting ready to let LL full out of the gates and we have 9 interested parties waiting to look at licensing documents
• We are about to complete our first Campus CEO at UBC. I’m expecting business plans tonight and we will be having the judges panel on May 11th on campus. This is a program I’m going to be rolling out at the University of Toronto and UCLA in either Fall 2010 or Spring 2011. We will likely be running these regularly at UBC and the gals involved in this one have been stars.
• Two more companies are poised to launch. I’m having difficulties with scheduling with these two partners, but I think they will by dynamite business models once we put some horsepower behind them.

In the end, a very powerful start to a very important year. I’m dyno testing (a test mechanics use to figure out horsepower of an engine) my own coaching practice and will take it up to 100 clients. I’m poised to be in this position by end of Q4 this year. The Seattle market continues to heat up and I can forecast at least 20% of the clients being from Seattle. It’s a quick drive from the house and the level of clients coming out of that market are absolutely amazing.

That’s all for now. Need to get ready for a handful of prospect calls this morning, some conference calls with business owners later today, and drinks with a friend afterwork to discuss money-making ideas. Get in the groove my friends, it’s yours for the taking.

C/