Why Selling a Business is Different from Selling Anything Else

You've sold many things in the past. But, prepare yourself. Selling a business is completely different. Throw out everything you know about selling and find out why selling your business requires a completely different mindset.

The Tea Room Business Plan – Basic Concepts

Business planning and the start of a new tea room venture is more of a process than an event. A new business is a separate entity that is very much like a garden: planning is required to start, certain mandatory steps are required and constant management and pruning must occur to produce a successful venture.

How Planning the Work and Working the Plan Can Catapult Your Marketing Success

A marketing plan is vital to the success of your business. Without a plan, even the best intentions may never be realized. You must plan the work and then work the plan, or your goals will not be accomplished. They key is to not only have a plan but to implement that plan. Implementation is golden.

Skip the Resolutions!

Did you take some time this past week to think about and perhaps even write down your resolutions for 2007? To be honest, I'm not exactly a fan of resolutions - really, what's so different about December 31 than January 1 that's going to make a dramatic difference in whether or not you keep your resolutions?

Achieving Your Goals - Keeping Things On Track

Apparently when riding the underground people look up at the map and check their progress on average every 40 seconds. Most of these people know exactly where they are going and when they will get there, so why do they do it? I suspect the answer has a lot to do with the need to track advancement and ensure that they are indeed reaching their destination, which is a bit strange considering they are on a rail and the likelihood of them not getting there is pretty much zero.

Spending Your Business To Death

Spend your business money wisely or else. Here are a few tips and tricks to avoid getting burned.

What Is Your Plan?

To some extent, we all multi-task and have numerous responsibilities that can, at times, seem overwhelming. The key is to learn how to manage the responsibility by planning for it. Believe it or not, day to day activities are less stressful when you implement a plan.

One Key to Strategic Planning is to Confront Your Assumptions

Strategic planning is designed to help companies go beyond surviving to thriving. However, there are certain dangerous assumptions that can take any company down the wrong path. Read a story that may help you explain how those assumptions actually work.

Into The Goal Mine - The Heart Of Goal Setting

Many organisations and the people in them start 2007 with boundless energy, hope and eagerness to reach new goals, to succeed even more than last year, to change for the better. Some celebrate their achievements with champagne while others who weren't so lucky hide in shame. What exactly turns a goal into gold?

Self-motivation a Hidden Benefit Within the Strategic Planning Process For Any Business

Are you tired of less than spectacular sales results, employees who you believe do not come to work thinking how they are going to muck up the works but their performance is less than stellar and working smarter not harder? Maybe the answer to all of these issues is far closer than you think.

Asset Management in the Supply Chain

Over the last decade more and more companies have implemented returnable and reusable transit packaging fleets and pools, whether it is pallets, tote bins, steel stillage, cages or even wooden crates. What is guaranteed is that these fleets require a capital investment, (whether directly or by a fleet / pool provider), and should be protected as you would any other company asset.

Taking A Systematic Approach To Organizational Change

In today's highly competitive marketplace, the fundamental challenge for most management teams and the number 1 reason companies fail to fulfill their annual growth objectives, is their inability to execute the company’s strategic initiatives as well as anticipated.

Opening A Dollar Store - Tip on Steps to Take Before You Open!

One of the most challenging events that occur prior to opening a dollar store is the preparation. It is all about making sure that everything is done and that everything is done properly. If all of the pre-work is completed correctly, the grand opening is sure to come much more successfully.

Seven Strategic Actions To Deal With Change And Uncertainty In Business And Life

Dealing with and handling change and uncertainty is one of the major challenges each of us faces in today’s world. And we face it in our business and personal lives. It can be said that change and uncertainty arrive together and that most people find it much more difficult to manage and endure ambiguity and waiting than to deal with changes as they happen. And, in my opinion, on thing is certain – each of us will face some type of change and uncertainty at multiple times during our life. So, what are some strategic actions we can take to deal with this change and uncertainty? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach researched this question and developed seven (7) strategic actions to recommend dealing with change and uncertainty in business and life.