Is Internet Article Marketing Part of Your Strategic Plan?

Internet article marketing is a great business building strategy for many including business coaches, executive coaches, small business owners and speakers. Is Internet article marketing included within your strategic plan?

Does Your Strategic Plan Address Increasing Employee Costs and Decreasing Employee Productivity?

Does your strategic plan include employee costs? Are you aware that current research suggests that almost 60% of all U.S. employees are not engaged? What else don't you know and are not addressing in your strategic plan?

Structuring Your Business Properly

Various ways to structure your business and steps to take in setting up your business properly.

Problem Solving 101

Problem solving is thinking. Problems may be simple or complicated, but as long as intellectual function in determining the solution is involved, it only comes to show that a cognitive process was utilized.

Into The Goal Mine - The Heart Of Goal Setting

Many organisations and the people in them start 2007 with boundless energy, hope and eagerness to reach new goals, to succeed even more than last year, to change for the better. Some celebrate their achievements with champagne while others who weren't so lucky hide in shame. What exactly turns a goal into gold?

Planning and Execution - Lessons from Prisoners

In both leading an organization and in the classic film: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Self-motivation a Hidden Benefit Within the Strategic Planning Process For Any Business

Are you tired of less than spectacular sales results, employees who you believe do not come to work thinking how they are going to muck up the works but their performance is less than stellar and working smarter not harder? Maybe the answer to all of these issues is far closer than you think.

The Value of Core Values in Strategic Thinking and Business Planning

A often overlooked component of self written business plans is a statement of core values. We explore not only the importance of communicating your core values but committing to them without compromise.

Little-Known Marketing Roadshow - Tradeshow Strategies To Boost Sales!

Here are little-known marketing strategies that you can apply to boost your roadshow and exhibition sales - with NO additional expenses!

Business Growth - Exploring The Ambidextrous Organization

The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes – one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General Managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the products and processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future.

Business Growth - Looking At Darwin And The Demon

As commercial processes commoditize in a developed economy, they are outsourced or transferred offshore or both, leaving onshore companies with unrelenting pressure to come up with the next wave of innovation. Failure to innovate equals failure to differentiate equals failure to garner the profits and revenues needed to attract capital investment. It behooves us all to use our brains to get out in front of this Darwinian process.

Opening A Dollar Store - Inventory Turns are Important

When opening a dollar store there are many indicators of success. They range from bottom line profit to undesired employee turnover. However one of the most important is inventory turns.

Can Your Business Be Attractive to Investors? Thoughts From A Business Coach

If your company is at a point in its history and experiencing solid growth where you are considering looking for outside investors for your capital needs, then you want to know if your business will be or can be attractive to investors. If you plan to search for equity investors, you should know that they will expect a significant return on their investment (20% to 50% is not uncommon) and many times within 5 years. These investors will look carefully at the candidate company to characteristics that include, but are not limited to: a solid and proven management team; potential company growth; solid business plan; and evidence of strategic thinking and planning in a strategic plan with vision, mission core values and short term & long term goals.

A Strategic Approach To Setting & Achieving Your Goals For The New Year

The end of the calendar year or the end of the company's fiscal year presents an opportune time to review the performance of the past year and to develop some solid business goals for the new calendar or fiscal year. Using some strategic thinking, here are a few tips for setting and achieving your goals for the new year.