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BestPC Business Plan JPGB
BestPC Business Plan JPGB
Business Plan
Growth Change and Expectations
Highlights
Currently the company works with list of customers that net an average sale of $2.4 million
pesos per month on monthly maintenance contracts. Alongside this we have opened our
offices in prime location to maximize our Technical Support Department, which will open
during the month of August. To lower costs, we have sublet part of the office space,
increasing our sales, but basically lowering our operating costs.
Financial Overview
$140,000,000
Sales
$120,000,000
Net
$100,000,000
Profit
$80,000,000
$60,000,000
$40,000,000
$20,000,000
$0
2015 2016 2017 2018
($20,000,000)
Objectives
2014 - Consolidate the business and come to terms with Sebastian Alarcon, Roy
Schneider and Juan Pablo Goñi Baeza as well as get to know the customer, how they
work, their format, makeup and type.
2017 - Review and Evaluate. IT moves too quickly and too fast to plan so much in
advance.
Mission Statement
To Offer Outsource Solutions for Redundant Maintenance tasks with professionals to
ensure Continuity of Business, Business Processes and Simplify of IT for Businesses.
Keys to Success
We need to focus on the following Key Issues;
Description of Business
Location
For our offices, we chose the borough of Las Condes in Santiago. There are many reasons
why the location was chosen which we will enlist now;
Interior
The office was design with the intent of growth. More technicians, more technical support.
More equipment, more work. We have work space and prepared work stations for future
growth, ready when needed. The visualization of the office and location were done with this
in mind and that is what we expect to happen.
Hours of Operation
We open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 7 pm, yet we expect some customers to ask
us to deal with their more immediate problems during the weekends. For those customers
we are going to offer them a more tailor made service, bespoke IT where we can better
take care of their specific needs, which will be fashioned on a client per client basis.
- Monthly IT Support
- Hosting & Web Sites
- Hardware
- Technical Support
Monthly IT Support - Comprise of all the current and future customers that are given a
regular service, which is billed on a monthly or on a scheduled basis. Most of these
customers start us single purchase customers that come for a single service, but we are
able to turn them into repeat users. The services we offer them range and are not limited
to;
Hardware – Through alliances with vendors we purchase equipment for our customers.
Guaranteeing that our customers does not pay any extra, but we make a commission for
the purchase, while at the same time the customer gets the benefits of our
recommendation. Usually we are asked to install the equipment, which also usually means
we get to charge for the installation too.
Technical Support – Computers can be left at our offices to be looked by our technicians, so
that they can be evaluated, quoted and then fixed.
Service
Currently the feeling is that people do not meet expectations. They do not fulfil their
promises or commitments. This is happening more and more in business and this is what
Sebastian and I both agree must stand us out from the rest. We need to be able to meet our
agreements, deadlines and times. With this in mind, when something cannot be done, be
upfront about it rather than beat around the bush. This is not something that is common in
Chile.
This level of Service throughout the sales process, before, during and after, is what is going
to make us stand out.
Management
Sebastian Alarcon is the IT Manager;
Accounting Department
Financial Management
This has been an issue that has plagued us part of 2015 and to this end we have already
taken steps to change our Financial Policy. In the past we used to work with a policy,
where after the work was done, a bill was supplied and payment was expected.
Unfortunately lately, more and more people have taken to pay later and later. In the past
15 to 30 days was the norm, but now they are taking 45 to 60 days. We do not offer 30
days, yet people still take 30 or more days, therefore our policies have change.
We now ask for at least 50% up-front payment before we begin any new work and balance
payment upon completion. This way we at least have our costs at the beginning of the job.
We are also looking at the option of changing our monthly customers to pay at the
beginning of the month rather than at the end of the month, since the majority are paying
on the 15th or 20th, when they should have paid on the 1st or 2nd.
Technical Support will not give us this problem as it will be a direct transaction business,
although we do not wish to deal with money directly. To this end, we will be getting a Debit
Card Machine, so that we can charge Debit Cards and Credit Card, this way we do not have
to keep cash in the premise, we have better control of funds, we automatically give a
receipt as now in Chile the card receipt is legal receipt and the money goes directly to our
account.
Marketing
Already we have started with our Digital Marketing with our Best PC website, which was
launched over a month ago. We are spreading the word of mouth, yet we had not launched
officially the Technical Support Office until now, as we were looking for more Staff. Now
we are ready to canvass the area with flyers and start a more active campaign to bring
business to our doors.
Market Analysis
Our Target Market is ABC1 in and around Las Condes and Vitacura, this is a very large
area, but to start off we will focus to the immediate area of Las Condes between
Apumanque and Parque Arauco, which has a huge concentration of offices, business and
even residential. The number I do not have, but the area is affluent, the potential is
lucrative, yet the information is not at hand. What we do know is that there are at least 6
office building being built or ready to go around the 4 square block, which means that
there are going to be 800 new offices in the next 6 months alone.