My business prediction for 2010

Now that we're well in to 2010, I am in a position to make a genuine and I hope pretty accurate business projection for the year as a whole, solely based on my own company's experience.

The year got off to an incredibly slow start compared with previous years, mainly I think to the prolonged severe weather conditions across the UK, i.e. snow, and lots of it!

At that time, it was raising real concern and I just hoped that it was the weather conditions that caused sales and turnover to literally halve for the whole of January, in comparison to 2009.

Around the middle of February, things really started to turn around and the level of business literally 'rocketed' overnight and has been consistently high since.

We are now in a position where sales figures are slightly ahead of those of 2009 at this point in the year and showing no signs of slowing down.

With this in mind, I am total confident that 2010 will be yet another great year for our conservatory sales, if not for the industry as a whole and I predict that if sales continue as they are, we will be approximately 10% up on last year.

My only concern is the 2010 World Cup, which inevitably causes disruption to our business, but this is nothing new.

Conservatives for Conservatories

We all know that the Liberal Democrats will not take power this General Election so voting for them is effectively a 'wasted vote'. I will be voting Conservative in May as I hope the majority will also.

Labour is anti-business and I hate them with a passion. The worst of the worst, implementing a 50% income tax and tax relief restrictions on private pensions, they want blood from the 'better off'.

So, if you don't want another Labour government who try to restrict how far you can progress in life, vote Conservative because a vote for the Liberal Democrats will only help Labour.