Customers go quiet… they just do. They may no longer buy a product or service, or they may have stopped interacting with the brand altogether Read More
The Memorial Day weekend is a great time to check your 2010 goals and see where your company is in achieving those goals. While you are at it, look at your whole business and make sure you are serving your customers and improving your products. All while you take some quality time with family, friends and neighbors around the BBQ Read More
So you wonder whether you want a business plan for your business. You've heard that business plans are about raising money, perhaps, and it sounds like it might be hard to do. You don't have that MBA degree or CPA certification. So thank goodness, you don't need it. What a relief. Here are 6 suggestions from planning expert, Tim Berry Read More
Selling your business is one form of business succession planning. Planning how you will exit your business is important Read More
I just finished reading The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. It was an assigned reading for an Operations Management class, and I wasn't looking forward to reading it. After all, how interesting can a book about business operations be?

Turns out it was quite insightful.. Read More
Every business owner has those moments where they realize they can't keep doing it all, some thing needs to be sacrificed in order to maintain the quality of the rest. You can try to do it all, but my philosophy is that it is better to do what you do FANTASTICALLY, then do everything AVERAGELY. So where do you cut? How do you decide what you need to focus on and what you need to put to the side Read More
Strategic planning enables people to influence the future of their company by focusing on the important resources of time, talent, and money.. Read More
It's imperative that you assemble an Annual Operating Budget and Cash Flow Estimate and that you determine financial requirements for achieving revenue goals Read More
Strategic planning is difficult to do (and we seldom see it done well). But executing strategy is even more difficult. Here are some of the challenges managers must overcom Read More
Marketing plans are necessary to keep focused on how to get the word out but there may be a missing ingredient to the whole of your business plan. Do you want your target market to discover you or your business? The real question-do you have to be sexy or boring to build a successful business Read More
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