Strategic Planning Articles

Business » Strategic Planning | By Amy Nutt @ Friday, 16th May 2008 @ 8:02 AM

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard or PCI DSS levies requirements on credit card merchants to safeguard consumers' credit information from malicious behaviour from identity thieves. The payment card industry providers such as VISA, MasterCard and American Express are now enforcing PCI compliance. Non-compliance can result in fines, restrictions or possibly permanent expulsion from card acceptance programs. If your business depends on accepting credit cards, then you ha... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Todd Ash @ Tuesday, 6th May 2008 @ 4:49 PM

Article marketing can be one such linchpin of your search engine optimization strategy. You can create keyword targeted, information rich articles for your prospective customers, in order to lure them to your business domain. This can do a number of things for your site. First,it allows you to write fresh and enticing content that readers will be astonished by. Article marketing can be considered a hidden source of traffic - you don't have to advertise for traffic. Submitting articl... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Todd Ash @ Friday, 25th April 2008 @ 1:07 AM

Pay per click is an extremely effective marketing tool. It aims to bring the most qualified, and the most targeted traffic to your website. Pay Per Click is a quick way to put your site on top of the search engines and bring targeted traffic to your site. We provide PPC on several search engines such as Google and Yahoo, the two biggest search engines bringing in millions of people daily. Pay per click is a very controllable way of marketing your site. You may change your bids up or down... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Todd Ash @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 7:03 PM

Video marketing is a very cheap alternative to traditional advertising. Just one viral video can take the place of multiple forms of promotion.It is another online marketing technique that can drive tons of traffic at low cost. Video marketing is exploding and will soon be the most popular online marketing strategy. While your high school English teacher may not be happy to hear this, recent surveys estimate that the vast majority of all people would rather watch a video about a company ... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Todd Ash @ Wednesday, 23rd April 2008 @ 11:05 PM

Article marketing will not work if you publish information with little value. This reflects poorly on you and your products. Article marketing will boost your cash flow, expand visitor counts, and allow you the luxury of reallocating limited budgets to special projects. It will improve your link popularity and increasing your page rank because this way you will have one way back links to your site, from the high PR article directories and other websites that your article may reach. more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By John Pawlak @ Saturday, 19th April 2008 @ 10:23 AM

The fashion and music industries have always had many common components and invariably a new movement in the recording business has resulted in the development of new fashion styles for the fans. I still remember when the Beatles were hitting the American shores for the first time, how everyone just "had to have" a John Lennon Beatle Hat. Tie-Dye and low riders are other examples of fashions that had their roots in the music industry. Having said this, it does seem a bit surprisin... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Scott Letourneau @ Friday, 11th April 2008 @ 7:16 PM

Sandy Botkin is a former IRS attorney with real IRS experience, as well as a CPA. He was also a trainer of IRS attorneys. Sandy was involved is a lot of the stuff that goes on with audits and things like that. Plus, he was one of the founding members of the IRS Tax Shelter Committee, which is why the initial IRS attack on tax shelters was really because of Sandy and five other guys. Mr. Botkin is an author of the best-selling book called Lower Your Taxes - Big-Time, and if you look at i... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Sean Tan @ Thursday, 3rd April 2008 @ 2:56 AM

There are a lot of people who are living a delusionary opportunity. They are dealing with so various people who might be cheating them behind their backs. Their friends might be taking benefit of them, their employers or employees might be doing so, even their family members might be into it. This can be happening with you too. Is there any way you can prevent the event, make sure that you are not being taken advantage of? If you know about the backgrounds of the people you are dealing wi... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Eric Corl @ Monday, 31st March 2008 @ 2:26 PM

In the understandable excitement and inspirational fire of creation, many inventors rush into the patent process without doing their homework. Unfortunately, their zeal to push forward often comes back to haunt them in the form of longer wait times, higher fees, and more work that could have been avoided with proper planning. The purpose of this article is to steer you clear of these pitfalls and help you patent your new idea as painlessly as possible. One of the biggest mistakes many inv... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Sandra Noble @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 9:28 PM

Choices you make could be a matter of life and death. Or they could be a matter of joy or despair. Sometimes we're not happy with any of our alternatives. But champions know how to take lemons and make lemonade. There's lots of excitement and enthusiasm about the 2008 US presidential campaign. Reporter, journalists and political scientist are loving it. I've received numerous emails with different angles and perspective on the candidates and issues. I'm pleased that th... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Karen Scharf @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 6:47 AM

Can you believe the first quarter of the year is almost over?! When you look at your business, the amount of money you've earned, the number of new clients you've added, are you 25% to where you want to be for the year? If not, why not? And what do you plan to do about it? I'm sure you've heard the adage, "If you're failing to plan, you're planning to fail." And you probably thought, "Gee that's clever, a little corny, but it doesn't rea... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Jack Deal @ Wednesday, 26th March 2008 @ 2:20 AM

It happens in business, it happens in politics, it happens in life. There are those that wait for things to happen and there are those that make things happen. There are those that are in control and those that are controlled. There are those that have concluded it is easier and more enlightening to let things go and let things happen as they do. Perhaps secretly they want to become Buddhist monks and pledge a life of poverty. Clearly fatalistic, their idea is i... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Steve Albright @ Tuesday, 25th March 2008 @ 3:56 PM

Creating your own product to sell online is not as hard as it may seem at first. These days digital products are a hot commodity simply because they are informative, easily obtainable, and cost less than physical products. The first step to creating a product that will sell well and will easily make you several thousand dollars is market research. You want to use a variety of keyword research tools to find out exactly what people are searching for on the internet. This will help you na... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Scott Letourneau @ Friday, 21st March 2008 @ 7:25 PM

Some individuals looking to form a Nevada corporation or LLC are hoping that if they get sued no one will find out who the owner of the corporation or LLC is, thus, preventing them from being the target of frivolous lawsuits. In the context of litigation, the best scenario is presenting a properly structured business model and having the court rule in your favor with the end result being your assets are protected! Now, if it takes longer for someone to get to first base in your situation... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Jack Deal @ Tuesday, 18th March 2008 @ 1:23 AM

You get what you pay for is the consumer's mantra. Common sense knows that if it costs less it is more likely of inferior quality. Unfortunately quality is relative and subjective and even unwieldy. For that reason and common sense the value the customer puts on quality is where the quality line should be drawn. Still it is not rocket science here; a rather straightforward case of supply and demand. If the consumer cannot tell the difference in an improvement, why do it... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Glen Smith @ Monday, 17th March 2008 @ 12:34 PM

Once you have decided on your big goal, it's time to start putting resources in place that you need. Firstly, complete a Concept Card (1), fill in the details of your coach, key advisors and key resources but right now I am only going to talk about selecting a coach. You will probably have to pay for coaching one way or another and the reason to have a coach is to avoid the pitfalls along the way and to not start off by developing bad habits. I prefer to start off with relativ... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Donald Mitchell @ Thursday, 13th March 2008 @ 11:18 AM

Put the average company into a high-growth situation (for its industry) for the first time, and you'll soon see overoptimism sprouting everywhere. In the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo and the subsequent rise in the cost of energy, Americans began using all sorts of new ways to reduce their energy use and costs. One idea for heating your home was to cut your own wood to burn in wood stoves and fireplaces. Soon, every wooded neighborhood was abuzz with the sound of busy chain saws... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Ambar Hamid @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 7:40 AM

There is a lot of confusion with the majority of the public today about wealth. When people think of wealth building or the accumulation of wealth, they think of making more money and spending less money. Yes there is some truth in that. It's certainly difficult to deny that. But most importantly, we cannot hide from the fact that the majority of people who craves for wealth tend to fail in achieving their true wealth. A great many of them have invested intense amount of det... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Jack Deal @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 2:41 AM

Growth is what it is all about. Companies that do not grow do not make money. There is a direct correlation between growth and making money. Historically growth has most often been expensive and somewhat illusory hence the willingness to accept as much growth as fast as possible. Anyone that has ever tried to grow a stagnating business knows how hard getting any growth can be so few can resist the lure of fast growth. But there negatives associated with fast growth... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Ingrid Cliff @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 12:42 AM

Let me take you back a few years to my government days, when I was head of the Corporate Development team within a peak government department. One of the areas my team looked after was Strategic and Business Planning for the department and all of the little units within the department. Now at that time the department was renowned for its planning. They loved having other departments take time to plan their strategies, projects and priorities. They created massive guideline manuals that m... more...