One Page Business Plan Category: Recent Episodes
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In the book, it seemed that you stayed away from discussing just the VC funding type which in software seems so prevalent and is that directly related to that midlife entrepreneur that he has assets and everything? I asked that question of Bill Seagraves, author of Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur. Read More ...
I want to mention that you used some traditional methods or practices. I mean the vital few, Balance Scorecards, SWOT. It was a tool with kind of a different concept. It was like you modernized all those things to 2015. It wasn’t that you took the crux out of it, you know the main ingredient Read More ...
For quite a few years, I have used this outline to organize marketing campaigns, create web pages or so-called squeeze pages and many other marketing efforts. I first ran across this outline in the book, The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market by Jahn Zagula and Richard Read More ...
Do we focus on the customer too much? Most of us would disagree and say no that we should focus on the customer more. However, recently we have seen a tremendous amount of books written on organizational clarity. One of the reasons is that without understanding our purpose as an organization or as an employee Read More ...
In this Thursday edition of the Business901 Podcast, Mick Campbell co-founder and Managing Partner of OPPM International discusses the most recent book, The New One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper. This replaces the first book and has a section on Agile Project management. The One-Page Project Manager Read More ...
If you read this blog, you know that I am a big advocate of the Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (Wiley Desktop Editions). I have bought this book at least four times since I ended up giving it away. Though I have blogged about it and listen to Steve Read More ...
Tim is right on target, a must watch video, especially for marketers. Keyword: Participatory Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.” Read More ...
How can I accelerate a turnaround or for that matter any implementation? I can’t wait; I have to do it NOW!! The first item on your list is to stop running on overload. Remember, it’s not a matter of time but a matter of priorities. Define your goals and needs correctly, create realistic completion dates, Read More ...
The third installment of the "WoMEN: What Mom Entrepreneurs Need" teleseminar series offered by Lara Galloway, The Mom Biz Coach. The WoMEN teleseminar series continues Tuesday, April 28th at Noon ET with Lara Galloway interviewing Melodie Lane, a single mom of four children and National Marketing Manager for the One Page Business Plan Company. You Read More ...
In this May 21st Workshop You’ll Learn: The 5 essential ingredients every business plan must have to be successful. How to write a vision statement that graphically describes your business in two sentences or less. How to create a mission statement that attracts your ideal customers. How to design quantitative business and financial objectives that Read More ...
Many believe that the vision should have a grand scale, be meaningful and be measurable. Your vision should represent the broadest perspective but I encourage you to be specific with the message. What are you building? – The One Page Business Plan ® uses this simple question to define your vision. I have yet to Read More ...
I am going to print a trillion dollars to make it through the next couple of years. That is good sound advice that I can give you and let YOU IMPLEMENT IT! If you pull it off, I can be the hero. By the way can I have a referral? Oh, you want an alternative Read More ...
Are your employees productive? Do they have specific objectives and measurements? One Page Management offers a system for all personnel and a key to high production and realized goals. In a growing company finding quality personnel is one of the most difficult task. As a result, managing that talent has become more difficult and demanding. Read More ...
Ok, this is a relatively unimportant blog post but you have to have some fun sometime. One of my goals occasionally is to find out where I can get to on Google Search. Well, the last few weeks I have been trying to beat Amazon on two Google search terms: One Page Business Plan and Read More ...
CNN Money Magazine wrote a entrepreneur’s handbook The last day of a recession is the best day to start a business, the saying goes. So tackle the 10 steps in this guide now – and be ready to ride the rebound when it comes. Step 1: Interview yourself for the job Step 2: Have a Read More ...
The One Page Business PlanTM one day event is a fast pace series that will allow you to develop not only business plans, but a performance model for companies, divisions, departments and individuals. To execute better, faster and cheaper comes from the ability to implement common processes and practices across your entire organization. Without clarity Read More ...
The 28 Day Plans are really kits that have been compiled from the best material that these products offer and establishes a basic understanding on how to apply the principles of each through an initial seminar and then 28 days of coaching. By participating in group coaching it is like being a part of a Read More ...
How would you know if you are in trouble? One thing I will say though: “It seldom happens overnight.” Even in turbulent times you typically will see signs of it coming. So here are some suggestions to know when drastic measures are needed: The obvious: sales are decreasing faster than the economy is shrinking. Customers Read More ...
There are a lot of gadgets out there claiming to be able to make things easy for you and many think of the The One Page Business Plan as one of them. But it has been a shame because I feel quite of bit of effort has been used in convincing people that the OPBP Read More ...
Training is dead! That caught my attention. It’s what I am doing. I offer training packages and services, well not quite, what I do is offer planning methodologies. Not exactly training, but the heading did get me to think. Training is dead! How many times do you go to a seminar or a conference and Read More ...
In the legal profession it is a joke that if you can get a file to be over one inch thick that it will start contradicting itself. Is that they way your most important document in your organization should be constructed? People may look at The One Page Business Plan for the Creative Entrepreneur as Read More ...
Name the most famous documents! Most of U.S. origins will name the Declaration of Independence or the Gettysburg Address. Most Englishman would name the Magna Carter. Imagine, with one piece of paper people have changed the world! Business today competes on clarity and there is not anything that drives execution more than clarity. And without Read More ...