Do You Really Need a Business Plan?
As a consultant, I have people ask me "How can I increase my business?" The answer is often easier than they think. But before figuring out how, they must decide where they want to take their business. This is why everyone in business should have a business plan, not just the people seeking venture capital.
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How To Kick Start Your Business And Double Your Profits
This will make some people angry as hell, but it's time to debunk the myth of 'Time Management' while sharing the real secret of the super successful. Let's face it, many so called "business gurus" t...
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Insurance Requirements in Franchised Companies
Franchised companies often require what some believe to be excessive insurance requirements. This is because so often if a franchise is sued for any reason that the Lawyers go after the big money of the franchisors and name them in the lawsuit.
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Online Promotion: 10 Ways To Use Focus Groups To Ignite Your Profits
A focus group is a group of employees or current
customers that discuss and brainstorm new ways
to improve different parts of your business.
Below are online promotion secrets to use focus
groups for marketing intelligence.
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Succession Planning for Business - 10 Key Points You Must Know
Succession Planning isn't just about preparing for boardroom changes or grooming your son or daughter to take over when you want to retire. It's much more about how those managing others create seamless changeovers, preparing who you have, for opportunities that might present themselves. And it's about making managing people much more effective, creating spaces for whoever you are, with people management responsibilities, to focus on your job, not theirs. Through empowering them, you generate enthusiasm and engagement. Everyone thrives, especially your business or organisation your business.
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3 "P"s of Planning - Prepare, Personalize, Pilot
This article shows leaders how to prepare, personalize and
pilot their strategic plans and use these principles for
creating breakthrough improvements in skills, goals,
performance and...
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Benefiting from Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking involves a group effort of brainstorming ideas, initiating change, and finding solutions...
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Business Plan: Planning the Operations
Writing a business plan is no easy task, sure you can whip something together in a day or so, but without proper planning you are setting yourself up to fail. Many first time entrepreneurs have a bit of trouble writing a business plan, which will be acceptable to bankers and investors.
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Don't Allow Yourself to Get Burned
I am not a big fisherman, but I do enjoy it whenever the opportunity comes my way. I have some friends who are fanatics and occasionally I will go out with one of them. They have nice boats and it ...
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GOT MEME? How to Attract Your Clients' and Customers' Attention
No "meme" isn't a typo and Got Milk, the more commonly know phrase, is actually a marketing meme. If you've opened up a magazine or watched TV in the last ten years you've seen the fun and memorable ...
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Laying It Out On Paper
Why do you need a business plan? Knowing understanding your industry is completely different from pinpointing exactly where you want your business to go. When you empty vague ideas out of your head and solidify them on paper, suddenly, it seems easier to move forward on projects for your business.
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Menu Driven Business Planning
So you want to open a restaurant? Many people come to me with their plans, and ideas after they have decided to build or open a restaurant. It is my responsibility to assist them in their planning process and determine how clearly they have thought their concept through. I ask them to show me a menu, and if their initial response is "I haven't gotten that far in my planning process yet," my response is “You haven't started the planning process yet”.
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Microsoft Great Plains in Agriculture – implementation highlights
In this small article we'll concentrate on farmers associations and non-profit state-sponsored organizations, dealing with subsidized state and federal programs distribution and management – loans to farmers and rural communities. As we realized this is relatively narrow market niche and it is almost ignored by software developers. In the typical case you should take generic ERP application, such as Microsoft Great Plains and integrate it with legacy systems or create custom piece in Great Plains to serve your association needs.
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Top 10 Tips to Create A Business Plan! (For People Who Hate Business Plans)
One of the key challenges for any business is to remain focused and invest resources for maximum pay-off. It's said that 80% of a business's activity accounts for only 20% of total profits. In plain language, most of the work we do is unfocused, poorly designed and ineffective. In today's competitive world, no business, whether it's an individual professional or a large manufacturing operation, can survive with that much lost time and wasted effort. A business plan can help, but most small business owners (and some managers/supervisors) hate doing them! In the spirit that any map is better than no map, here are my top ten keys to creating your own map to success:
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Why Create an Annual Plan?
Plan for success; it's about setting a direction and working towards it. Getting your thoughts down on paper helps you articulte your success.
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Completing the Annual Planning Process
As this year is starting to come to an end, many organizations are starting their planning processes for 2005. This includes building new marketing plans. VisionEdge Marketing has worked with many companies on their marketing plans, and one thing we often run into is a lack of established metrics to measure the effectiveness of their activities to the business plan, so that they may prove marketing's effectiveness. A couple of key points about this article your readers may find of interest are: marketing can be measured and marketing can prove its worthiness.
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How to Achieve E-commerce Success –You Gotta Plan!
Want to achieve success in e-commerce, and create a website people will WANT to visit and buy from? Here are some tips to help you get started.
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Microsoft Great Plains in Advertising & Publishing – implementation highlights
Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Dynamics is excellent fit for service oriented business and in this small article we'll give you magazine publisher and advertiser implementation and reporting scenarios. The system we describe is not real, we are putting together industry specifics, based on our consulting practice. In the case if you do not see some unique features of your publishing business – this just means that publishing industry is diversified and say, regional newspaper publishing is quite different from magazine with narrow specialization.
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The Importance of Value Mix
This article highlights the importance of understanding Value Mix as applicable to products and services.The three components of value, namely, Functional, Economic and Psychological, and their right quantum mix will dictate business success. Value mix is what must guide the design & development and marketing of a product or service.
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Troubled Waters Require Capable Leaders at the Helm
Canada's lean leaders need to look beyond the horizon and chart the future In stormy times, true leadership skills emerge, says Larry Coté, the President of Lean Advisors Inc. (www.leanadvisors.com) ...
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Alice In Wonderland - A Parable for A Business Plan
Alice didn't know where to go, had no plan, no goals, and ended up at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Many small businesses are in the same quandry. A Plan and a Strategy would have helped Alice and, most certainly, will help your business.
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Getting Started: Creating a Business Plan
Strategic plan for the person starting a business on the internet. How to attract customers. What is unique about your product compared to the opposition.
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Planning For The Slow Season Of Your Business To Increase Sales
A free article for publication. Must be used exactly as is with resource book and active URL links.
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The Top 10 Priorities That Guard Your Five-Star Reputation
Making money doesn't make your reputation... your reputation makes you money. Gala Gorman Whether your business is product or service-oriented, the loyalty and dedication of your customers is greatl...
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Top Ten Traits of Strategic Thinkers
To be strategic is to be innovative, resourceful, purposeful and intentional which is why so many top businesses use a strategic planning process to stay ahead of their competition. By thinking and planning strategically, corporations and individuals are able to define a clear vision of their objectives, identify where the greatest opportunity lies, and create and implement an action plan geared for optimum results and success.
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