I think that the thing to do is figure out short term how much you stand to make from the existing contracts. Then from there I would say you have 3 avenues that money could be used for, savings, equipment and more personel to handle the increase in clientel. So then you need to figure out how to prioritize those 3 areas and how each will lead to both future gains and stability. For savings obviously if business gets slow, this will help ease things, and you can always choose to spend it later. For Equipment it will hopefully last awhile and new stuff does attract clientel and the type it attracts is usually the ones who can afford private training and such, downside if you buy too much stuff you either end up selling it at a loss or with unneeded clutter. For personel the upside is that customer service usually makes/brakes a business, the unfortunate side is that if you invest in more people but then have to let some go down the road because of a decrease in business thats not fun though it's easier to do that then deal with a surplus of equipment.
My 2 cents,
Ned
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