All Blog Posts Tagged 'planning' (67)

You Need To Work Your Goals

When you set goals the most important task to do next is follow through on them. Most people start off setting their and then implement them for a week or two and then give up on them. What happens is most people find the goals that they would like to achieve, they then make a conscious effort to start making that goal work for them. They put all their attention and effort into reaching their goal and making it a reality. Some time goes by and nothing visible happens. This is when the person… Continue

Added by Ange Rewi on November 11, 2009 at 6:45pm — No Comments

Prioritize Strategies: Sales & Marketing

Business owners who are concerned about their sales and marketing capabilities could begin to see improvement by breaking down the term sales as it relates to marketing, into manageable elements. You end up with a checklist that can be reviewed in order to prioritize areas needing improvement 1) MARKETS: How much do you really know about your current markets or future market? Why do your customers buy from you? What could you offer that would attract more non-customers? How can you sell to mo… Continue

Added by Christopher S Borowski on November 9, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

The Olympics: 100 days to go

At the time of this writing, we are only 100 days away from the Opening ceremonies, and here are a few headlines from the last few weeks to show how we are doing. THE OLYMPIC VILLAGE: The construction of venues required was finished very early in the process. Thank God! With the recession hitting us last year, we weren’t trapped in the situation of having to complete at the last minute the way that Athens appeared to. While we are using a lot of existing venues (Look for changes to the IHF rule… Continue

Added by Steve James on November 6, 2009 at 11:51am — No Comments

Sisyphus for a New Age

Sisyphus for a New Age posted less than a minute ago Do you know the story of Sisyphus? The gods punished him for trickery. He was condemned for an eternity to roll a huge boulder uphill only to watch it roll back downhill. He had to do this over and over and over. I'm put in mind of Sisyphus when I see the rolling rubbermaid trash carts being pushed past by workers at the mall or in the airport. I'm sure they never imagined that this would be their lot in life - to collect and walk behind larg… Continue

Added by Showtyme Jazz Duo on October 28, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Planning a Thanksgiving Party: Should You Ask Your Guests for Help?

As nice as it is to host a Thanksgiving party, there is a lot of work that goes into doing so. Unfortunately, too many Thanksgiving party hosts find themselves in way over their heads. Before your Thanksgiving party turns into something that you would like to forget, you are advised to take steps that will help to make your Thanksgiving party easy to plan and prepare for. While there are a number of steps that you can take, there is one that you may seriously want to consider. That step is askin… Continue

Added by Renee Mossman on October 15, 2009 at 11:36am — No Comments

Social Marketing Momentum

In Social Marketing Leverage, I stated that the Internet gives us the ability to transfer information with relative ease and enables a great variety of online tools to provide us with a virtual type of leverage. In this article, I discuss another physical phenomenon, that of momentum, as it applies to the non-physical… Continue

Added by Larry Brauner on October 12, 2009 at 6:57pm — No Comments

5 Steps to Building a Social Networking Strategy

The Economic recession has been one of the unseen forces driving growth in social networking for business. The explosion in social networks is a response to the desire to find new routes to a more competitive market. The decline in performance of traditional SEM and e-commerce generally and the seduction in the perception of “free” marketing all helped to drive the social networking revolution. These were by no means the sole drivers of this shift and the confluence of technology and a critical… Continue

Added by Laurence Ainsworth on October 9, 2009 at 5:41pm — No Comments

Is The Savings Highway The Solution To Your Retirement Woes?

Do you know your net worth? To retire early, you need financial stability and a clear idea of what your standard of living will be. Are you saving for retirement or are you letting the government save for you? Are you currently collecting Social Security? How do you use the money? What things do you have to go without? What is your plan? After asking yourself these questions ask your self this: Could Savings Highway… Continue

Added by Angie Mitchell on October 3, 2009 at 6:36pm — No Comments

Create a powerful year end plan for your business

Do you have a strong, detailed plan in place for your business? Have you planned ahead, knowing what your end of year goals are? Don't worry if you haven't quite got the plan worked out - help is at hand! The guidelines in this article should give you more clarity. Many small business owners can be a bit reactive when it comes to deciding what to do next. We tend to look at the short term and what's right in front of us. And often, even if we make a plan, it ends up gathering dust… Continue

Added by Shona Partridge on September 23, 2009 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Motivation matters in business

If you want to keep your motivation high as you build your business, remember why you went into business for yourself in the first place. Consider what you want your business to do for you! Too often we become slaves to our businesses and lose touch with our key values and reasons for being our own bosses. It pays to step off the treadmill now and then to reconsider why you decided to run your own business. People go into business for themselves for all sorts of reasons - negative as well… Continue

Added by Shona Partridge on September 23, 2009 at 9:43am — No Comments

Tony Robbins Interview with Frank Kern and John Reese to determine the formula for taking action every time.

Tony helps us In this interview with two very successful students, Frank Kern and John Reese. Both of them are self-made multi millionaires who made their fortunes by selling products on the Internet. What’s particularly interesting about both of them is that neither had any “real” education. Neither one finished college and they both went from being broke to becoming wealthy. And they still continue to thrive in today’s economy. So the purpose of this interview is to uncover the traits that su… Continue

Added by James Bonham on August 25, 2009 at 6:48pm — No Comments

STRESS OUT

Are you STRESSED !?

Stress is a constant in our lives—

such a constant that we actually don’t realize we are under stres

… Continue

Added by Sumner M. Davenport on August 9, 2009 at 2:22pm — No Comments

Denise Griffitts Interviews Business Coach Carma Spence-Pothitt

Our BlogTalkRadio show this week will focus on just what is involved in creating a good business plan. If you are a newpreneur, this show will show you the 5 essential elements of an effectice and actionable business and marketing plan. My guest is… Continue

Added by Denise Griffitts on July 15, 2009 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Invest in Yoursef So Others Will Invest in Your Business

I'm sure you've heard it before, "You have to believe in you, because if you don't who else will?" It's a very true statement. Not only must you believe in your dreams and aspirations, you have to be willing to see them through, and that means work. Because, as another well known saying goes, "Nothing worthwhile comes easy." It may look to you that others who have achieved desired levels of success have been extremely fortunate or lucky. But even the lucky ducks know how to capitalize on their… Continue

Added by Marian White on July 14, 2009 at 10:34am — No Comments

Entrepreneurial Support and Business Mentoring

Wonderful ideas spring to mind of business success and fortune based on offers that look wonderful. Offers such as "be your own boss" and "run your own business, right now, for a bargain price". We have all seen these, right? Some of these are wonderful opportunities, but be very cautious. Make sure a solid business plan is in place and check all references before committing yourself. Draw up your own feasibility study to see for yourself whether the great plan is actually feasible, and exactly… Continue

Added by Vaughan Jones on July 13, 2009 at 11:25pm — No Comments

Conversations with Calliope- Dreamweaver Competence

Canadaway Creek

(Canadaway Creek) JOE: Good morning Calliope. CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. How's the caffeine hangover coming? JOE: Better every day. Yesterday my brain felt a little fuzzy. Still I accomplished quite a bit despite my lack of caffeine and my body's resistance to be… Continue

Added by Joseph Langen on June 25, 2009 at 6:25am — No Comments

Profiles in Success - Entrepreneurial Competence

Good Day, this is rutter radio – your guide to fast and sustainable business growth. It is 0600 eastern or -4 GMT on 24JUN09 and the show is about Profiles for Success – Entrepreneurial Competence. I am William Eastman, your host and Managing Partner for US Operations at Applied KnowledgeLabs, the show is hosted from our Atlantic Regional Office located in Richmond, Virginia. You can join the conversation by clicking chat now link on our program page or call in at 347.215.7471. The majority o… Continue

Added by William Eastman on June 24, 2009 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Are You Looking For A WALL STREET ALTERNATIVE?

Are You Looking for a viable, secure WALL STREET ALTERNATIVE June 11th, 2009 Have you ever really wanted to know how money works, how banks work, and how interest works? I know I have. But I also knew I did not have the smarts, the time or enough desire to pursue finding out. Still, that wanting to know has never left me and so I first attracted into my life United First Fin… Continue

Added by Jennifer Bhala Hansen on June 11, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Do You Have Your Hat on Backwards?

In today’s tough economy you have done your due diligence, thoroughly analyzed your income and out go, and sorted your numbers every which-way. You have discovered that your Widget A only accounts for 12% of your business. Should you drop this product line? WAIT! There are other areas to consider before you pull the plug. Have you done a full analysis of the total potential market? You are likely to find that although Widget A only represents 12% of your business, it actually represents 90% of t… Continue

Added by Ina Ross on June 10, 2009 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Financial Planning

Financial Planning Does financial planning work? Just ask yourself this, if financial planning works how come millions of people lost millions of dollars because they were convinced by their financial adviser to follow his or her plan. It is not too late to find out how you can avoid another disaster like the one you suffered and still sufferi… Continue

Added by Jack Shea on May 1, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments