Planning is the topic of episode 2 of The Great Big Small Business Show. Stop by for insight on project planning, planning to avoid crises, planning to protect your business ideas, planning your marketing, and planning your pitch. The great thing about this show is we include the views of eight small business experts. It’s…
Mark Taylor, another small town Oklahoman, put together his experience in business, education and workforce development, and came up with this article on changing your thinking. Albert Einstein once said, “The significant challenges that we face today can not be solved at the same level of thinking at which they were created”. The world of…
Darn few businesses have marketing plans. Most businesses need one. Just like our simplified business plans and simplified online marketing, a simplified marketing plan for the real world helps guide you in growing your business. Simplified Marketing Plan Outline Name and describe each market Tell what methods you will use to reach them Establish the…
Are you prepared? Jeff Cornwall, author of The Entrepreneurial Mind, has written an excellent guide to preparing for any kind of disaster, Get Ready. Read it and bookmark it! small biz rural entrepreneurship disaster planning preparedness resources
Chris Brogan is still Getting Things Done. His latest post is on setting micro-goals. It’s like the old saying, you can eat an elephant one bite at a time. The key is to set the goals JUST high enough that they’re not meaningless and trivial, but they’re not so big a bite that you’ve got…
According to the National Main Street Center’s Institute for Professional Downtown Management:The cornerstone of a dowtown business’ activities is a business plan.Why? to learn about the business opportunity itself to provide insight to the potential for development to identify human and financial needs of the business Key uses include: describe the key planning elements describe…
“It takes just as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” Eleanor Roosevelt You know you should have a business plan, but you honestly don’t have one. Too hard, too complicated, too much! So let go of the old idea, and draw up something simple for your own use. Make it something that…
In a word, yes.I know exactly one business person that I consider successful at small biz survival who had no plan. Now, he possesses way more than his share of innate good business sense. (Maybe that explains why some people have way less than their share.)If you want to survive in the midst of decline,…
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