Strategic Planning Articles
In this article, we'll consider a basic outline for your business plan document.
Fri, 20 Mar 2009: 8 Strategies for Pricing Your Products
As a small business owner, you know how difficult it can be to determine appropriate prices for your goods and services. Ask too much and you'll turn customers off to your business. Ask too little and you'll be shortchanging yourself.
Thu, 19 Mar 2009: 14 Business Lessons to Learn From the Olympics
You would've had to have been living under a rock not to notice the beauty and the pageantry of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This particular Olympics was more widely covered by the media than any of the past Olympic Games, and there was plenty of scandal to boot.
Thu, 19 Mar 2009: How To Write An Offer & Call for Action
Your offer, even if you've already stated it clearly in your headline and elsewhere in your message, must be re-stated at the end of your message. Be clear and be specific so there is nothing left to the imagination of your audience.
Wed, 18 Mar 2009: How Do Search Engines Operate?
Search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN perform four basic tasks. They use programmes called 'bots' or 'spiders' to 'crawl' the internet looking for pages. When they find and crawl the page, they can then store the details in the search engine's database.
Thu, 26 Feb 2009: How To Decide On A Sourcing Strategy
Retailers find product from a variety of sources. The sources that you use depend on the nature of your business and product, your capacity for inventory and so on.
Wed, 25 Feb 2009: Plan for Coaching Business Success
Lack of planning is major cause for coaching business failure. Plan your coaching business success by adopting these simple guidlines. You will see results immediatly!
Mon, 2 Feb 2009: Why Strategic Facilities Management Should Be Integral To Any Business
An article explaining how a business can improve its performance and save money by looking at the way it manages its buildings and physical assets.
Thu, 22 Jan 2009: [Book Report] Lower Your Taxes Big Time, By Sandy Botkin
If you're a business owner, now is a good time to make sure you're getting all business deductions you're entitled to for 2008, and to think about tax planning for the new year.
Sat, 10 Jan 2009: Why Use 101 Marketing Strategies For Success When a Couple of Good Ones Will Do It
Having access to 101 marketing strategies for your business would be considered by most as shear luxury.
But you don't need them anyway, a couple of cost effective & well proven methods will do the trick.
Tue, 6 Jan 2009: How Mergers Could Be The Answer To The Recession Problem
An article highlighting how companies are looking at potential mergers as a way to avoid going into administration and explaining exactly what a merger is.
Thu, 18 Dec 2008: Five Common Strategic Planning Mistakes
Strategic planning in schools and other organizations can fail if simple, but important, issues are not taken into account. This article explains how to avoid the traps that might derail your strategic progress.
Mon, 15 Dec 2008: Palm's Demise: Strategy Analysis
This article analyzes Palm's fall from an "undoubtedly" successful company to the failure it represents today. This article also looks at the basics of the nature of competition while analyzing why Palm's strategy, or lack of it, failed to maintain the company's success.
Thu, 11 Dec 2008: Vision, Mission and Values - What is the Difference?
Strategic Planning requires that you are clear about the Vision, Mission and Values of your organization. This article clearly explains those differences.
Mon, 8 Dec 2008: Picking the Best Wealth Advisor is a Daunting Challenge
Picking through a web of financial advisors to find the right person and institution to manage wealth does not get easier as individuals rise up the financial pecking order.
Fri, 5 Dec 2008: Privatize Your Life Using Asset Protection Strategy
To develop an effective asset protection strategy, you need to understand what can put you at risk and what steps you can take to protect yourself from that risk.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008: Focus on Four Critical Aspects of Business During Uncertain Times
As a business grows, the rules begin to change. The business owner can't grow the company by simply doing more of the same. Here are four areas that a business owner should address to improve revenue and profits.
Tue, 18 Nov 2008: How To Build A Successful Business Plan
By definition, a business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable and the plan for reaching those goals. They are used in both primary and secondary programs to teach economic principles. A business plan having changes in perception and branding as its primary goals is called a marketing plan.
Tue, 18 Nov 2008: Six Sigma Green Belt Improvement of Business Processes
Six sigma green belts improve business processes reducing the number of defects in our products and services for our customers.
Sat, 1 Nov 2008: Measure What Matters, Dump What Doesn't
I recently met with my friend Neil to discuss several business building strategies. I shared with him a tool that I use in my own business on a daily basis. You can
create this tool on your own, it's super easy to use, and I guarantee it will help you grow your business exponentially.
Tue, 21 Oct 2008: Pay a Little Now or Pay Someone Else a Whole Lot Later
Champagne strategic planning approach on a beer budget. Rapid contingency planning on your business during our turbulent roller coater world may stench the bleeding to save your company or provide money to pay for a more sophisticated system later. This article suggest a framework to hunker down in your business as your customers, vendors and financing sources go through a similar process.
Thu, 16 Oct 2008: The Best Five Tips for Successful Strategic Planning
The article provides simple, clear tips for people beginning school strategic planning
Tue, 7 Oct 2008: Proven Formula For Setting Your 2009 Income Goals
I just finished up my business plan for 2009 (and if you haven't updated your 2009 plan yet, I urge you to get started soon!) and I'm working with several clients to update their plans also. One of the roadblocks many of clients run into is the difficulty of setting concrete goals and objectives.
Fri, 26 Sep 2008: 4 Keys to a Successful Sales Strategy
This article is a detailed summary of some of the essential components that every business should have in place when building a successful sales strategy.
Sat, 20 Sep 2008: The Benefits Of Developing Yourself A Business Plan
Discover the secret strategies used to from a business plan that works.
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