Life Plan First then Business Plan

Starting a home based business requires a life plan first and then a business plan. Create your lifestyle and work your business around it. Here are some items to consider for your life plan

Sun Zi Art of War - Momentum & Timing in Strategy

In Sun Zi Art of War, Sun Zi proposed that Timing and Momentum are important aspects of strategy execution and planning. To find out more how to apply these into business strategy, please read on.

How To Make M&As Work: A Guide To Mergers And Acquisitions For Small Businesses

Mergers and acquisitions can change the entire business setup and affect everyone from management to employees. The changes must be handled properly if you do not want the employees to become demoralized by them, since this can affect your business adversely.

Long Term Thinking, Short Term Focus

The most precious commodity in this world is time. How many of us are time poor these days? Just seems to be a universal pandemic, especially in the western world.

5 Things I Wish I Would Have Known Before Selling Online

Five common mistakes to avoid that will your business to not only succeed but to prosper by using these sites as tools and not lifelines. This article explains the do's and don'ts with selling online and the great auction success ebay!

How To Implement Strategic Planning For Small Businesses

We rarely come across instances, wherein small businesses have successfully transformed themselves into large corporations with operations spread across, unless of course they are merged with or acquired by a giant. Rather such occurrences are so rare, that they have been noted down in various journals as important case studies.

How to Overcome Planning and Forecasting Challenges

In this fast paced world, a company’s plans and forecasts have to be constantly monitored, changed and updated to ensure that the business is geared up to face any challenges that may come its way. Flexibility to make necessary corrections and accuracy of the data used to create the plan is essential for a plan to succeed

Making a List and Checking it Twice: Resolve to Get Your Business Mojo On

As a business owner, if you don’t know where you stand on important strategic issues, how can you create effective interactions with those who are interested in what you have to sell? All successful entrepreneurs adhere to guiding principles that set the tone for everything they do within their business. Here is my own high octane list of rules to live by—and profit by.

Did Wal-Mart Kill JJ or Was It Suicide?

JJs House of Music is closing. Why? Don't look to blame Kmart or Wal-mart, look to the owner.

Do You Need a Business Plan

Have you ever heard of a business plan before? Each year, millions of Americans create business plans. Many of those individuals are looking to startup their very own business. If you are looking to do the same, you may be wondering whether or not you need to create a business plan.

Writing a Business Plan

Are you getting ready to start developing your business plan? If so, have you thought about how you are going to go about developing that business plan or what you should include in it?

Professional Business Plan Writer Should You Hire One

Are you interested in starting up your own business? If so, you will need to develop a business plan, at least you should. If you have never developed a business plan before, it may be a difficult, stressful, and time consuming process.

Business Plan Software Is It Worth Your Money

Are you preparing to start developing your own business plan? If so, there is a good chance that you have already done a little bit of research online. When researching business plans online, did you come across business plan software programs? If so, you are not alone. Whether you just started browsing the internet or performed a standard internet search with the words “business plans,” you likely came across business plan software programs.

Is Succession Planning in Your Future?

Some forward-thinking companies have had succession management programs for years. They make it an integral part of our leadership development process. Since change is constant, putting a succession plan in place establishes a process for the company to follow no matter who the heir apparent happens to be. Companies that don't conduct succession planning, struggle to replace key employees who leave or die. At times, an interim chief executive may be put in place until the company feels it is ready for a permanent executive at the helm. These tips for selecting a successor to pass the torch to can be challenging, as succession planning requires businesses to plan for what the company will look like and how it will operate after the transition of a new executive is at the helm. This is the reason the current CEO needs to review their succession plans carefully and on a regular basis.

Social Capital and Your Business

Why do you need to understand social capital? Because it holds the key to riding out the storms ahead and may well be the determining factor in who is left standing.