Strategic Planning Articles

Business » Strategic Planning | By Chris Rohrer @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 6:05 PM

Are you struggling to start a home business? Finding it hard to make sales? Either way you are about to discover the 10 most amazing ways to jump-start your business and sales. I have put together a list that goes over some of the hottest tricks to help increase your profits. 1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones that have the same objective. You can trade leads, share marketing info, sell package deals, and might even be able to team up later on down the line. Also you can... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Chris Rohrer @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 6:03 PM

Did you ever wonder how you could quickly increase the number of sales your making online? Well sit back because you are about to learn the Internets 10 hottest ways to increase your sales and drive more money into your pockets! 1. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. You could follow-up with a thank you email and include an advertisement for other products you sell. Or you could follow up with a simple phone call and explain to them what else it is you do to make ... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Chris Rohrer @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 6:02 PM

Do you find it hard to keep the orders flowing in month after month? I have come up with ten awesome ways that you can now start to attract more orders for your business. This means more money for you! So stop what your doing and take the time to read the top ten ways so you can start putting them into affect right away. 1. Create a free ebook directory on a specific topic at your web site. People will visit your web site to read the free ebooks and may see your product ad. 2. Tu... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Michele Pariza Wacek @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 5:56 AM

I finished walking my first marathon in San Diego a week ago. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. But, it was also an amazing accomplishment. One thing that struck me while hoofing it toward the finish line was the similarities between running a business and running a marathon (or in my case, walking a marathon). 1. It's all about the mind. There was a quote posted around 18, 19 miles that said "I run marathons because after mile 20, it's all about your mi... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Chris Rohrer @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 1:00 AM

Do you post to message boards, e-mail discussion lists, classified ads sites, FFA sites or newsgroups? People will usually read the subject line before they read your ad or message, so it's important they get noticed. Below are ten simple, but powerful tips to get your ads or messages noticed. If you do not know how to post on messages boards correctly you could do a lot of work and get little or no results. Posting the correct way can have a drastic effect on your business. 1... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Randy Gilbert @ Wednesday, 10th October 2007 @ 10:37 AM

According to US Small Business Administration, more than 50% of small businesses fail in first year of business while 95% fail within the first 5 years. Brian Hazelgren, author of Tactical Entrepreneur says, There has to be a solid, sound strategy in mind of taking care of the short term aspects of business, but also keeping enough focus on the future of how do we actually grow this business. Get everything lined up now, so that you are successful and have good solid foundation to oper... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Michele Pariza Wacek @ Tuesday, 9th October 2007 @ 6:04 PM

I finished walking my first marathon in San Diego a couple of weeks ago. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. But, it was also an amazing accomplishment. One thing that struck me while hoofing it toward the finish line was the similarities between running a business and running a marathon (or in my case, walking a marathon). Here are 3 more things. 1. There is no "should." When you picture the type of people who do marathons, who do you see? Young, thin, at... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Thursday, 16th August 2007 @ 12:37 PM

Human beings sometimes depend on others for solving their information problems. Why and which situation made man to request professional intermediaries in solving their informational problems? Quite often the most important financial decision we take is the choice to sell our business. We may owe it to our family, employees etc for its sale with great planning and dedication. Here comes the professional intermediary who has complete interest in their mind and helps to attract eminent buyers for ... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Sean Burton @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 10:57 AM

One way successful online businesses do business is through the enlistment and help of other websites to promote their products through affiliate programs. Your marketing success is all about creating a strategy, building a plan, and executing it consistently. Strategies are best explained as the direction the marketing effort will take over a certain period of time, while tactics are the steps or decisions made in order to follow the strategies established. Strategies and how to implem... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Sean Burton @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 9:44 AM

Success online is not really as difficult as most people think. Success online is not the ability to successfully imitate someone else. Success online demands an arduous commitment to success. Success online is all about accessibility and there's no better way to become findable than strategic use of blogging. Success online is all about "location" too. One faucet of success online is all about creating more links back to your own web site through articles. For some o... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Chris Rohrer @ Tuesday, 31st July 2007 @ 1:18 PM

If your trying to start up a home based business there is a process one must follow in order to experience true success. For someone just starting out this process may seem a bit confusing, and they might not understand it at first however with a little help and time anyone cause use it to their advantage. So what is the three step process to online success? Well its quite simple actually but let me take you over each step so you know what you must do for it to work correctly. As... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Tuesday, 31st July 2007 @ 10:15 AM

It's been happening rapidly and it's been happening (with the odd hiccup) consistently. For 10 years the PRC has been growing at a break neck pace at something like 10 per cent per annum. Fishing villages like Shenzhen (the closest city in the PRC bordering Hong Kong) have become cities and cities like Shanghai have become mega cities with the immense Pudong financial district rising from paddy fields in a decade. Urban legend? It has been said that at one point half the world's c... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Linda Morton @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 3:10 PM

A psychographic profile of Asian Americans provides business owners with information about an important market. Asian Americans represent the fastest-growing market in the USA for two major reasons: First, their numbers are growing rapidly with a projected growth of 213 percent by 2050, compared to 50 percent for the overall population. Second, they are the wealthiest of all minorities. They are the only minority to earn more than Caucasians. The psychographic information b... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Saleem Rana @ Saturday, 14th July 2007 @ 5:32 PM

You want to improve your success, but don't know where to start. It's only human to strive for our best. How do you get the ball rolling? Here are 10 questions to create success, unconventional success, because the answers come from you, and not from some book on success. I suggest that you don't just read this article but write a one page response to each of the questions. When you do this, you'll get a better idea of how to create success your w... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Saleem Rana @ Tuesday, 10th July 2007 @ 8:18 PM

With so many methods and tools taught on goal setting, from high priced seminars to moderately priced books, it can bewildering sorting out what works. Personal development has become increasingly popular in today's busy world for everything from career improvement and weight loss to public speaking. Unfortunately, people are now even more confused on what are the best choices to follow. Still, there are a number of simple, fundamental steps that can be used to get you started... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Obinna Heche @ Tuesday, 10th July 2007 @ 2:25 PM

A strategic business plan is a document that all businesses should have before or after they begin operating. Business plans outline all expenses, marketing campaigns, customer service provisions, expected income, emergency funds and any other items that are crucial for the success of the business. Since these goals can change from year to year, it is important to update your business plan to reflect these changes. When writing a business plan, it is important to understand what you are ... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Tim Rhodes @ Thursday, 5th July 2007 @ 2:19 PM

It was just a decade ago when companies could mandate that all employees, vendors and partners sign a confidentiality statement upon hire or project collaboration and feel reasonably confident that proprietary company information would remain safe. After all, data leaks can considerably damage a company's reputation, revenue stream and competitive positioning. Even worse, it can impact stock price, lead to unfair trading or violate federal or industry regulations such as HIPAA or Sarbanes O... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Randy Gilbert @ Friday, 22nd June 2007 @ 11:21 PM

According to US Small Business Administration, more than 50% of small businesses fail in first year of business while 95% fail within the first 5 years. Brian Hazelgren, author of Tactical Entrepreneur says, There has to be a solid, sound strategy in mind of taking care of the short term aspects of business, but also keeping enough focus on the future of how do we actually grow this business. Get everything lined up now, so that you are successful and have good solid foundation to oper... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Rose Rivera @ Monday, 11th June 2007 @ 2:51 PM

Investing overseas can help a firm protect its domestic market in three different ways. The first is to establish foreign operations in countries where the firm has major clients (Ball et al., 61, 2006). For example, if a U.S. firm has many customers in France, establishing subsidiaries in France to service those customers will prevent competition by similar firms in France from acquiring those customers. This strengthens the U.S. firm because they now have the opportunity to prove that ... more...

Business » Strategic Planning | By Mayoor Patel @ Sunday, 10th June 2007 @ 12:59 AM

While there are all sorts of financial experts who watch economic trends and duly report their projections, we as consumers may also benefit from watching the rise and fall of the daily crude oil prices. Here are a couple of reasons why monitoring this activity may be in our best interests. When the price of crude oil goes up, we see a direct impact on what we will pay for petroleum products in the future. Generally, the first increase we see is as the gas pump. Prices of gasoline begin ... more...