Business plan? What business plan?
A lesson in how not to create a business in France (or anywhere really)
“It would be sensible to have this all written down, to have something formal like a mission statement, or a target customer, to have a plan of some kind for what this business might actually be this year, in five years, in ten years,” I have told myself this so many times, I have planned to make a plan, to formalise it all and make it real for the last six years. But somehow, it has never happened.
Instead there are Pinterest boards, there are stored memories of places we’ve stayed, restaurants we’ve eaten in, skills I’ve gleaned from years of student waitressing jobs in busy pubs and that laid-back, relaxed feeling I’m desperate to create for each and every one of our guests.
We knew when we fell in love with this house that one day, in the not too distant future, she would have to earn her keep. We knew with the deepest conviction that our initial renovation budget would not go very far. We knew that we would have to find a way to create a business out of our tumble-down-château and that it would need to be simple.
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