As promised, here are the questions asked during the “The Lies You’ve Been Told About Business Planning” webinar that we did not have time to address. Q: Hello. We are a small manufacturing company in business for 3 years producing a few products for 2 separate companies. We are currently branding two of our own [...]
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The 3rd annual Global Entrepreneurship Week at UnleashingIdeas.org is ending today. Palo Alto Software was pleased to participate once again in this event. As in years past, we added to the conversation about entrepreneurship by offering some one-on-one time with our President and founder, Tim Berry. On Wednesday, Tim spent an hour going over the [...]
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Business plans are a waste of time? Don’t bother? Nobody’s going to read it anyhow? Do you think setting goals and steps to implement them are a waste of time? What about establishing how to measure progress and performance, setting it down, and then tracking it, so you can optimize your management? Do you think [...]
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As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009, I presented a webinar titled “Build Your Business, Not Just Your Business Plan, on Thursday Nov. 19, 2009. The recording of that webinar, plus an additional segment of questions and answers, is now available on YouTube. If for any reason you don’t see that video embedded here, you [...]
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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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Interesting article today on Businessweek.com about the importance of recognizing your business costs and getting them under control now verses later, when it could be too late: “…by recognizing the problem early and making moderate reductions, small firms can avoid more severe cuts later on, financial experts say. Companies that ignore warning signs can erode [...]
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There’s a lot of talk in the media and the blogsphere about the economy and how businesses will be reacting to the climate. Many are guessing there will be layoffs coming in the next several months. PR and Marketing departments are tightening their belts and some companies are cutting those departments altogether. Pretty scary times. [...]
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Taking a little time out here to make a couple announcements: 1) We had a bit of an issue with our blog and some of you were not getting any of the blog posts in your RSS feeds for a while. We’ve fixed that and you should be able to see all of them now. [...]
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