Starting Up
Reevaluating Your Business Plan
26 May, 2009, 8:00 am
Every business has slumps. Some struggle to get off the ground, others boom for several years and then hit a slow period. These slow periods have a few things in common. Understanding why your business is not performing as expected is essential to turning it around so you can reach your daily, weekly, and monthly [...]
Read More >>Does Your Business have a Strategy?
25 May, 2009, 8:00 am
It hasn’t been long since we talked about how to go about creating good business goals. Now I want to take a few minutes of your time to talk about forming a strategy to reach those goals.
Goals do not come to you
I talk to a lot of entrepreneurs. Some are unbelievable successes while others are [...]
Setting Good Business Goals
27 April, 2009, 7:09 am
Setting goals is one of the hardest things a new business owner can do. It is my goal to help you set good goals and then even more importantly, acheive those goals.
Start with the Mission
What is your mission statement. By this point you should have one. If not go review the other posts in this [...]
Creating A Business Budget
24 April, 2009, 7:33 am
Creating a budget is one of the most difficult things for most entrepreneurs to do. Most entrepreneurs are risk taking visionaries, by default this means they are not always that great with numbers and details. Different people are wired differently. But if you are going to run your own business, you absolutely must learn to [...]
Read More >>Forming a Business Plan
22 April, 2009, 7:35 am
Step One of starting your business is to form a Business Plan. I have said this before, but I am going to say it again because it is a model to live by. My Dad used to tell me to “plan your work and work your plan.”
The first thing you need to do is plan [...]
Get Off It and Start Your Business
20 April, 2009, 8:36 am
By “it” I mean your lazy bum! We have a problem in this country. People are lazy and want everything handed to them. This occurred to me the other night when I saw one of those commercials about how easy it is to get free money from the government to do pretty much whatever you [...]
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