It’s so easy to get stuck, isn’t it? We go about our lives, doing our work, pretty much on auto-pilot, and before we know it we’re stuck. Nothing is growing or changing or progressing; we’ve just been doing the same things day in and day out for weeks, months, and even years hoping that miraculously [...]
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I don’t know what it is about Marketing, but everyone on earth seems to think they can do it. And yet I see so many people NOT doing it or wasting thousands of dollars and not getting results. I see business owners try the same things over and over, wasting more money, more time, and [...]
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The latest contribution to our popular series, Back to the Fundamentals of business planning, is highlighting our Bplans.com Break-even Calculator, which is one of our FREE tools, available to help you write your business plan. One of the most fundamental questions in starting a new business is “When will I break-even and start to make [...]
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Today we are continuing our popular series, Back to the Fundamentals of business planning, by highlighting our Bplans.com Starting Costs Estimator Calculator, which is one of our FREE tools, available to help you write your business plan. Getting a handle on what it will cost you to get your business started and running is about [...]
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As an extension of my earlier blog on fuel efficiency comparisons, I continued my research and put together a fuel efficiency article that I’ve posted on our business-planning resource site, Bplans.com. This article, Dealing with rising gas costs, includes tips on gas mileage, alternative fuels, how to be more fuel efficient when traveling on business, [...]
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With the plethora of instant text communciations it is easy for us to become sloppy in our spelling, and when using texting, reducing words to rebuses and abbreviations is near-mandatory. Still, when you are involved in any form of business writing, especially where you have an outside audience, an audience that has some control over [...]
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I’m sure almost everyone is familiar with the story that Thomas Edison discovered 99 ways to NOT make a light bulb. That’s 99 no to reach 1 yes. The point here is that a negative result, proving something didn’t work or was not so, is just as valuable as a positive result. Sadly, scientific research [...]
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Planning, monitoring, tracking, and managing your cash flow and cash balance is always important. In an economic downturn this becomes, perhaps, your most important business management activity. In this next addition to our Global Entrepreneurship Week series of “Back to the Fundamentals” business planning articles we look at The importance of cash flow during an [...]
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Survey says… Every now and then you have to stop guessing about what your customers are doing and actually ask them. This fall, we conducted a survey of over 650 entrepreneurs and business planners who are using our software. Their responses yielded some helpful information for others tackling the most challenging aspects of business planning. [...]
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For those of you who attended Monday’s Back to the Fundamentals webinar, you heard a lot of references to some websites, books and blogs. For the reference of those people looking for more information and for those of you who weren’t able to make it to the webinar, I’m going to put a reference list [...]
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