While speaking at Entrepreneur magazine’s Growth Conference in Atlanta this week, I spoke to small business owners in a talk I’m calling 3 Weeks to Startup after the book that I co-authored. I went over the basic assumptions behind starting a business in three weeks – that it’s a tight schedule, and very quick, but [...]
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Talking about starting a business? Before you start the talking, identify yourself and your business on this scale. It makes a huge difference. Try to choose one of three possible choices, the one that most applies to you and your business. Just get going: you don’t need anybody’s approval except possibly your first customer or [...]
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Yes, you could win good money and travel benefits, but you have to get your act together soon. Entries close August 20. Click here to enter. This is the Marriott’s Fairfield Inn & Suites $20,000 Small Business Challenge, which is, apparently, exactly what the headline suggests: a chance to win some money, plus some travel [...]
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// I’m quoted a lot in “Writing a Business Plan: 5 Things You Need to Know” by Charlotte Jensen on the AOL Small Business site this morning. Those 5 things are: Chances are, you need a plan. Business planning should be ongoing. Review your plan on a regular basis. Don’t complicate things. Even a good [...]
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Gulp. Business planning for the rest of us, in less than four minutes? It was fun to do, great exposure and, what the heck, I at least tried to keep it short. For the rest of us, in this case, means all of those businesses that aren’t entering a business plan competition, don’t need to [...]
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This good short video on writing a business plan came out over the weekend on Bloomberg: Your Money’s Engage Today segment. It seems nicely done to me, a good summary: If you don’t see the video here, you can click this link to go directly to the Bloomberg site.
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We’re in the middle of business plan competition season, and we’re seeing some great plans, and a lot of common mistakes. We’ve assembled some of our best advice on business competitions, below. Ask Tim Berry – Tips for Business Plan Competitions Don’t Shade Your Eyes, Summarize: “I don’t care if you’re the next big thing, [...]
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Can you communicate the core of your business plan in just a couple of minutes? How about in a single 140-character tweet? Our new Bplans Business Pitch tool can help you develop and refine your core message. Add your pitch now and you can even get a FREE copy of our best-selling Business Plan Pro [...]
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You don’t have to do a formal business plan to get the benefit of business planning. Why not start the planning process today; or, if you’ve done a plan in the past, reinvigorate the planning process. Real planning is modular, and iterative, not step by step. Here are some things you could do today. Set [...]
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This is a five-minute answer in video to a very common question. If you can’t see the video here, please click here to go to the source on YouTube.
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