Posts Tagged ‘Planning’
4 Simple Ways to Get Started on Your Branding Strategy
Good branding is essential for every business, no matter how big or small. Your branding strategy tells your customers exactly what they can expect from products and services, how your company differs from its competitors, and how they perceive your company overall.
Read More The Value of Conflicting Opinions on a Corporate Advisory Board
When President Lincoln was choosing his Cabinet, he turned to his three fiercest Republican rivals—people against whom he’d run!—and top Democrats. Lincoln virtually assured that every meeting would erupt in conflict.
Read More Strategic Goal Planning for Savvy Businesses
A strategic goal is a statement of what you want to achieve over a specific period, i.e the next year or the next two quarters. It involves careful analysis and lots of brainstorming, because after all, your goal(s) will set the course for the strategies you formulate, actions you take, and dollars you expend.
Read More Startup Budgeting for Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
You have a great idea for a small business—and the business know-how to pull it off. You’ve done your market research and written an airtight business plan. If you think this means there’s no way your business can fail, you may want to take a closer look at your financial plans.
Read More Follow These Recommendations to be a High-Performing Organization
A recent Harvard Business Review article by Marc de Swaan Arons, Frank van den Driest, and Keith Weed, uncovers what it takes to be a high-performing company. The Marketing2020 study has some excellent observations from which any sized business or nonprofit organization can benefit.
Read More Be Prepared: 6 Details That Can Shut Down a Small Business
Whether your business is in its first year, or going strong and turning a consistent profit, here are six details to keep an eye on. Overlooking these business aspects can cause financial hardship, decrease your profits, or even lead to having to close your doors permanently.
Read More 5 Ways to Keep Your Content Marketing Strategy Healthy
When you stop and think about it, all great content marketing strategies are very similar to healthy lifestyles. A lot goes in to living healthy. You have to eat right, exercise often, get a lot of sleep, minimize stress, and make good life choices.
Read More Safety Standards: Keep Your Employees Safe with These Tips
The financial repercussions of poor security practices can sink any SMB no matter how careful you are. As such, it’s important to focus on mishap prevention to reduce negative outcomes. Whether your business measures annual sales in thousands of dollars or millions, sound security precautions are imperative.
Read More 8 Tips for Reaching Maximum Productivity
Remember when a phone was just a phone, and the most distracting thing it did was ring? Now, you can’t get through a conversation, meal, or project without checking your inbox, retweeting a picture, or responding to a text.
Read More How Business is Like Tennis
I am often asked what it is like to own and run a business. I normally make a tennis analogy because playing tennis is something I really enjoy and it really just seems to fit.
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