Scrapbooking Store Business Plan

It's Scrappy!

Strategy and Implementation Summary

The main financial goal for It’s Scrappy! is to increase sales by 5% for years one and two. This will be accomplished through regular advertising and mailings to our target markets, plus monitoring of our competitor’s pricing and our supplier’s costs to help maintain a competitive edge.

5.1 Competitive Edge

Stock all standard exempt supplies in store and provide reasonable pricing for special order items through our catalog.

Have our supplies priced at or lower than competitors in our area.
Take special interest in the children of our community by offering special classes and a membership plan tailored to their age group and interests.
Keep our employees up to date on new exempt ideas and techniques, and teaching them to our customers
Maintain a website that supports our store to help generate more customers in the long term. Our specially-designed “Tips” web page will make it easy for potential customers from all over to learn more about this hobby.

5.2 Sales Strategy

We will track our local competitor’s prices and compare their prices to our supplier’s prices. This will help us achieve our lowest price goals and still stay within our target markup.

5.2.1 Sales Forecast

The following is our projected sales forecast. We project a 5% increase in sales for each of the first two years, so that our third year of sales will be 10% above year one. These are estimated figures using the monthly costs of our overhead and supplies along with our percent markup and the prices we will charge for classes and page design.

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Sales Forecast
	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
Sales
SCRAPBOOK SUPPLIES	$50,000	$52,500	$55,000
CLASSES	$26,400	$27,720	$29,040
PAGE DESIGN	$10,750	$11,288	$11,825
Other	$0	$0	$0
Total Sales	$87,150	$91,508	$95,865

Direct Cost of Sales	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
SCRAPBOOK SUPPLIES	$12,500	$13,125	$13,781
CLASSES	$6,600	$6,930	$7,277
PAGE DESIGN	$2,688	$2,822	$2,963
Other	$0	$0	$0
Subtotal Direct Cost of Sales	$21,788	$22,877	$24,021

5.3 Milestones

The following milestones outline the main tasks for the first year of operation.

Milestones

Milestone	Start Date	End Date	Budget	Manager	Department
Open business account	11/1/2004	11/1/2004	$500	Owner	Department
Class Schedule Design	12/15/2004	12/20/2004	$0	Owner	Department
Class Handouts Design/Print	11/30/2004	12/15/2004	$100	Owner	Department
Mailing list (purchase)	11/1/2004	12/1/2004	$250	Owner	Department
Ads for Part-time hires	11/1/2004	11/8/2004	$50	Owner	Department
Training part-time hires	11/29/2004	11/30/2004	$1,000	Owner	Department
Newspaper ad–Grand Opening	12/26/2004	1/1/2005	$500	Owner	Department
Order-G. Opening Refreshments	12/10/2004	12/10/2004	$300	Owner	Department
Class Mailing (first)	1/10/2005	1/10/2005	$250	Owner	Department
Misc.	1/1/2005	1/1/2005	$0	ABC	Department
Totals			$2,950

5.4 Marketing Strategy

We will be promoting the store via the local newspaper. We will also have a grand opening “Get to Know Us” scrapbook party where we will offer refreshments, introduction to our staff, and tours of our store as well as sale pricing on many basic exempt supplies.

In the future, we will be pursuing mailings to regular customers and special mailings to potential customers in our target market areas as well as looking into billboard advertising.