A person emailed me about small town retail development a while back. I recommended he talk to Mandy Vavrinak and listed her email address. He emailed back, asking for more information about her. I thought to myself, “What more could he need?” That’s me with Mandy Vavrinak,At the 2011 Social Media Tulsa Conference. If he’d […]
Another business plan alternative: your calendar
Reader Carrie Bodeman at As Good As New sent this alternative to traditional business planning. You might like it too. –Becky Sometimes you have to look back to see forward. We keep a daily log of all activity so I can look back several years at a glance. We print out a blank calendar and each […]
Almost half the year is gone; time to review your goals
You can’t score a slam dunk if you don’t know your goal. We’re coming up on the halfway point in the year. How are you doing? Great? Not so good? Or can’t tell, because you don’t have usable goals? Goals are the basis of all your plans.You have to get good at goal setting and […]
My Weekly Planner
After I told you about my project folder, Jen asked for my day-to-day planning tool. So here it is: a simple weekly calendar. Before I start my work week, I review the projects in my project folder and assign the next actions to particular days on my weekly planner. I use the six most important […]
