Business looking up for 2010

I hope everyone else is having the same experience as we are with our business so far in 2010. At WriteItClearly.com (http://www.writeitclearly.com/) we have had an increase in requests for work in these first couple of weeks, which is a boost for us in difficult economic times.

Don't get me wrong. It's not easy, and where we've increased the amount of work coming in, we could still do with more!

However, it's been busy enough for us to have to review our plans for 2010. Previously, we were looking at a 20-30% increase in turnover, but now we're more optimistic about a 40% increase.

Much of the success in 2010 depends on a new venture, clearercvs (http://www.clearercvs.co.uk/), but we are hopeful that this will go well this year, and our plans only include a slow start with this venture, anyway. We first put plans in place for this new venture in August 2009, and we had a six-month plan with a target of going live on 1 February 2010. I'm delighted to say that I'm still confident we will meet that deadline.

Having work in IT for many years and see so many projects miss their target dates, I am keen to prove that IT projects (and this is essentially one of those) can meet their deadlines and come in on budget too.