In this video, an introduction to business plans, by Speaker: Joe Hadzima, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management you'll get great business insights from someone who's also an academic.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/introduction-to-business-plans-refining-and-presenting-your-venture-idea-part-a-onlinefile-movWednesday, July 31, 2013
Five Tips For Spotting Your Next Business Opportunity
History is filled with people who risked and lost much, yet went on to change the world. From religious leaders to Christopher Columbus to Winston Churchill to today’s budding entrepreneurs...
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/how-to-spot-business-opportunity-in-tomorrows-economyTuesday, July 30, 2013
Tips for Finding Work that Feeds the Soul by Betty Hechtman
Betty Hechtman warns us to do our homework before changing careers. There’s nothing more disappointing them jumping in to something new only to become disillusioned and frustrated because you didn’t take the time to prepare.
http://www.waynemessick.com/business-strategic-development/mother-of-re-invention-shares-tips-for-finding-work-that-feeds-the-soulInternet Marketing For Your Small Business
Successful small business owners want to increase their market share in their traditional marketing area and they want to extend their marketing area online.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/the-internet-your-bridge-to-the-21st-centuryNot Just A Property Management Business Plan
Ok this video is about a free property management business plan. However there are things here any business owners can learn from when it comes to their business plan.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/property-management-business-plan-2Monday, July 29, 2013
Key Components of An Effective Small Business Plan
Writing a business plan takes time but your small business health depends on it, as long as you undertake the process seriously and for the right reasons.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/key-components-of-an-effective-small-business-plan-layoutThursday, July 25, 2013
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Should You Advertise Your Business Online Or Off?
From our experience advertising and promotion should be a coordinated activity encompassing Facebook, local newspapers, local high school and community events, email, and pay per click ads online. The objective of advertising in this way? Every place your target customer looks there should be something that makes them feel better about doing business with you. One of those times they just might conclude that they think they want to do business with you, because you value what's important to them.
http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/how-to-advertise-your-businessTuesday, July 23, 2013
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3 Keys to Tactical Marketing Development
It is cliche' to say "nothing happens until a sale is made" but it is just as true today as it was when whoever first said it coined the expression. Today there is a lot of confusion between what some people call marketing and what is actually selling. When considering business growth people consider the role of sales in making it possible.
http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/three-important-keys-to-tactical-marketing-developmentWednesday, July 17, 2013
For Successful Marketing Measure Twice, Cut Once
When it comes to developing a marketing strategy, why is it that so many organizations are in such a hurry to get momentum, to get traction from their initiatives, that they forget the age old rule - accuracy first, momentum second?
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/the-three-principle-keys-to-strategic-business-marketingTuesday, July 16, 2013
Transitioning from CEO to Retiree: Why You Need a 5-Year Plan
Today’s 50-something CEOs tend to have vague dreams of more fishing, traveling or sailing when they retire, but they don’t know when that might be so they haven’t begun planning for it. That’s a mistake.
http://www.waynemessick.com/succession-planning/transitioning-from-ceo-to-retiree-why-you-need-a-5-year-planJoAnn Corley: How to Handle Conflict & Confrontation
Workplace conflict and its resolution is rightly an important aspect of human resources - however, the most successful organizations are those where each individual is empowered with the skills typically associated with self-mediation. JoAnn Corley speaks to a group of Human Resource Professionals in Dallas at a Speaker's showcase.
http://www.waynemessick.com/conflict-resolution/how-to-handle-conflict-confrontationMonday, July 15, 2013
Insurance Agent Jobs, Do You Have What it Takes?
Find an insurance agent job in your neighborhood right here on our web site. Insurance agent jobs require just the right balance of commission-driven ambition with an analytic approach that is adapted toward individual clients. Insurance agent jobs are only suitable for individuals who are willing to get paid only when they have achieved success, unlike other professionals who bill by the hour and whose personal success is tied to the actions their clients are willing to take.
http://www.familybusinessprofessionals.com/Insurance-Agent-Jobs.phpYour Marketing Business Strategy as An Element of Business Development
Business development - not the strategy but the end results, is the combination of really everything you are doing in your business. No actions or lack of actions take place in a vacuum, everything counts toward your success or failure. Everything you do must consider more than the net profit of this or that sale or the promotion of this or that product or service - as it impacts the here and now. It must be another brick in the wall of the business you are building for the future.
http://www.waynemessick.com/strategic-planning/marketing-business-strategyFamily Business Succession Planning Should Include Executive Succession Planning Too
Most articles and speeches by folks claiming to know everything there is to know about family business succession planning invariably focus on the financial aspects. These issues and their solution have everything to do with whether or not the otherwise successful business will survive the transfer to the next generation or not. But long term survival will depend on the talent in place to run the business into the future.
http://www.waynemessick.com/business-strategic-development/executive-succession-planninghttp://Friday, July 12, 2013
University of Virginia Video: Writing a Business Plan
This business plan writing video is another example of how colleges and universities serve multiple constituencies and whose mission benefits the population in general and their students in particular. In this case it's the University of Virginia. The business students benefit, local business owners benefit, and so does the whole community.
http://www.waynemessick.com/strategic-planning/writing-a-business-planThursday, July 11, 2013
Does Your Leadership Measure Up by Barbara Trautlein
Today’s marketplace is in a state of constant change, and successful companies are those that can also respond and quickly adapt to the changes around them. That requires leaders who are able to lead with the head – focusing on the big-picture goal and business objectives; the heart – knowing how to engage, coach and motivate people; and with your hands – providing the tactical tools and skills necessary like a project manager.
http://www.waynemessick.com/leadership-development/does-your-leadership-measure-upWednesday, July 10, 2013
One Key Parallel Between Small Business Internet Marketing & Fishing
If there is one characteristic that's required to be successful marketing your organization on the Internet and fly fishing, it's patience. Today we all expect to tweet a few, post a view, make a few videos, and post to a few social media sites and voila' we have marketing success for our business. That's BS and you know it.
http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/is-there-a-relationship-between-small-business-marketing-on-the-internet-and-sport-fishingIf Your Family Business Strategic Plan Doesn't Include Succession Planning It's Not Strategic
Business development strategies is sort of a catch-all phrase because it is often used to describe the combined activities and strategies public companies separate into strategic planning which includes as a component succession planning. And it includes the leadership development required to implement both of them plus the other elements of a comprehensive long term strategy.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/small-business-succession-planning-happens-to-be-strategic-planningTuesday, July 9, 2013
How is Innovation Like Baseball?
To succeed today, businesses absolutely must be innovative, and they can’t be if they’re unwilling to have some failures. And too many companies punish failure and fail to adequately reward success. To succeed you must motivate the employees with great new ideas.
http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/how-is-innovation-like-baseballPromote Your Business Through Facebook's Influence
To get people you don't know to visit your web site or stop by your business you have to first connect with them. You can use all sorts of advertising to get them to come to where you are. This is like ads for cars - designed to get you to drive out to where the dealers can demonstrate their vehicles to you. Another, much more cost effective strategy is to show up where they are - where they spend their time, and do it in a way that causes them to consider what you have on offer first, before you ask them to do anything.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/how-to-promote-your-business-through-facebook-englishMonday, July 8, 2013
5 Common Mistakes With Wall Mounted Wine Racks
For example, when storing wine, the novice in us may immediately consider the area where those wall mounted wine racks will look good. It's perfectly natural to want to show off our wine collection and have the bonus of a great decor piece that looks just right in the living room. Usually living rooms are bright, sunny places with nice bay windows. Looks fresh and pretty but is a disaster when it comes to storing wine.
http://www.selfdirectedpeergroups.com/5-Hot-Tips-to-Avoid-Common-Wall-Mounted-Wine-Racks-Mistakes.phpCan You Really Develop Leadership Skills?
Leadership skills are arguably the most important characteristic of successful people. We've all heard the expression, spoken in awe, that someone is a born leader. If that was a comment used to describe every successful people we'd have to say that you've either got it (leadership ability) or you don't. Since that's not the case and leadership skills can be developed over time, the real question is how do you develop them?
http://www.waynemessick.com/leadership-development/leadership-skills-how-do-you-develop-leadership-skillsCollaboration Is The Key Element in Workplace Conflict Resolution
Every relationship has goals and objectives just like businesses do, not bottom-line and easily definable but relationship goals and objectives are just as important as the money. The same principles apply in any sort of person to person conflict resolution because conflict is an emotional reaction and whenever there are long term interdependent relationships, such as in a family owned business - virtually everything is personal. Issues that you'd think would be just business have all sorts of emotions tied to them.
http://www.waynemessick.com/conflict-resolution/how-to-turn-a-conflict-into-a-collaborative-discussionInternet Marketing Strategies For Small Businesses
Online companies get all the buzz these days. They are so much cooler and fun to talk about. In fact if you get your news online and follow Twitter and Facebook you'd get the impression that all businesses are online. You'd be wrong.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/stick-strategies-for-small-businesses-internet-marketers-preneurcast-ep61Sunday, July 7, 2013
Can You Really Can Dominate Google With Online Marketing?
Is dominating Google's search engine for your selected keyword phrases important to your online success? The answer may surprise you. Naturally you want people to find you, but there's a lot more to it than that.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/local-business-marketing-how-you-can-dominate-google-with-online-marketing-tips-and-techniques-2Friday, July 5, 2013
Top 10 Financial Services Careers Job Opportunities
The expression financial services careers means so many things these days that it almost means everything or nothing. For example being an auditor, an underwriter, having something to do with payroll, on the one hand. And everything from account assistants to private equity just to name a few. Banking jobs top the list of all financial sector jobs. The huge number of banks and its branches all over the globe make it one of the largest intakes for financial jobs. If you have what it takes these jobs - right here in your local community will be listed on our web site.
http://www.diystrategicplanning.com/Financial-Services-Careers-Top-10-Financial-Job-Opportunities.phpSuccession Planning: Identifying Who's Going To Run The Place
Add to death and taxes the inevitability of business succession. Whether you plan for it or not. Whether you identify the people who will run the business in the future or not. And whether your desires are converted into strategies. Nothing can stop the clock - every day you get closer to the time when you'll either be glad you did your succession planning or the day you'll be sorry you didn't.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/identifying-future-talent-succession-planningWorkplace Conflict Resolution Techniques
You would think with so many workplace conflict resolution checklists, videos, workbooks etc. around that there would not be any workplace conflict left to resolve wouldn't you? What's so often missing is the desire required to go to the trouble of applying the strategies. Simply things like finding the time and place to have even an initial conversation about the matter.
http://www.waynemessick.com/conflict-resolution/conflict-resolution-in-the-workplace-conflict-resolution-techniquesThursday, July 4, 2013
The Bose Speaker System Of Your Dreams Is As Close As Your Keyboard
Bose speaker systems have brought home entertainment a long way since the days of old fashioned massive HiFi stereos. Now, you can have Boses professional quality sound for your stereo system or home theater with state of the art speakers no matter how large or how small your home or apartment is. And you can find great deals on Bose speaker systems by shopping locally online.
http://www.21stcenturyinstantaudio.com/Bose-Speaker-System-Of-Your-Dreams-Is-As-Close-As-Your-Keyboard.phpBest Practices: Some Excellent Small Business Plan Examples
Folks who have trouble writing a business plan are usually the ones who are most concerned with how it looks, trying to pretend they are business plan writing experts instead of the small business owners they actually are. Business plan best practices, in order to be really best practices, should focus on the business plan's substance and its practicality and not on whether or not it would win prices simply because it ticks all the boxes in some sort of business plan writing competition.
http://www.waynemessick.com/strategic-planning/business-plan-examples-and-best-practices-of-business-plan-writingWednesday, July 3, 2013
Start Acting Like You Own The Place!
I know what you're probably thinking, "I DO own the business", but the work still has to get done. Sitting around with your feet propped up acting like a big shot, telling everybody what to do, won't help you succeed. It could have very different consequences very quickly. On the other hand believing that "if you want it done right you've got to do it yourself" will actually make it impossible for you to grow from where you are now to where you want to be.
http://www.waynemessick.com/business-strategic-development/business-development-strategy-become-the-ownerHere Are Some Simple Business Plan Examples For Your Small Business Business Plan
Easy to use business plan software can show you how to reduce the many unique elements of your business into a simple formula using standard principles - accepted terms your banker and accountant will both understand and agree on. And when the family understands why you are working so hard they not only reduce their complaining, their demands for attention, and their wasteful spending, they may actually get on board with the concept of delayed gratification - hey, you never know.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/business-plan-examples-business-plan-software-small-business-plan-how-to-make-a-business-planEasily Find Your Next Sheet Metal Job in Los Angeles Here
The diversity of skills required of sheet metal workers seeking sheet metal jobs in Los Angeles is vast. People familiar with this know that sheet metal workers have to have a broad spectrum of education involving everything from working with the metal itself to reading and understanding blueprints. In Los Angeles at least, sheet metal jobs are among the most precise and specialized in the construction industry. We created this web site where you can easily locate a cross section of sheet metal jobs in Los Angeles, updates daily, without leaving home.
http://www.familybusinesstoolkit.com/Sheet-Metal-Job-In-Los-Angeles-Find-It-Online.phpTuesday, July 2, 2013
Succession Planning Video by Kelly Coyle Wyngarden
Savvy business owners know that leaving the businesses long term future to chance of succession planning they will begin someday are for the losers. People whose businesses they will no doubt be able to acquire for pennies on the dollar to expand their successful enterprise.
http://www.waynemessick.com/succession-planning/succession-planning-kelly-coyle-wyngardenSerious Business Plans Reduce Investment Risks
You know that the vast majority of all businesses fail long before they are a decade old, everybody knows that, so what makes people think they are going to beat the odds? There are literally and almost unlimited ways and reasons for a business failure - those in their first five years and those that have been around a generation or more. Here are the top four reasons for business failure.
http://www.waynemessick.com/strategic-planning/investment-risk-management-music-business-plans-reduce-the-risksMonday, July 1, 2013
Every Business MUST Have A Facebook Page
Today your small business promotion strategy must incorporate every medium - especially the online social media such as Facebook and Twitter in order to bring down your cost per contact, because with today's evaporating attention spans, you have to connect at minimum severn times with a suspect to get them interested enough to call them a prospect. If your Facebook promotion strategy gets that done for you - making your face to face contact with the folks who have already identified themselves a prospects, you are much more likely to achieve a successful result.
http://www.waynemessick.com/small-business/7-amazing-ways-to-promote-your-business-on-facebookUC Santa Barbara Technology Management Business Plan Video
One of the major benefits for owners of small businesses actually comes from their area colleges. For example, in this YouTube video we have student groups from the Technology Management Program at UC Santa Barbara presented their proposals for new products/services to a panel of "real world" high technology professionals.
http://www.waynemessick.com/business-strategic-development/technology-management-ucsbbusiness-planYour Best Resource For Drywall Prices and Construction Supplies, The Internet
Installing drywall is the final step of construction before you paint and finish a room and it is crucial that it be done right. This means having the proper supplies such as drywall tools and naturally the drywall itself on hand, so there is no delay once the framing is done. There are quite a few supplies you'll need and unless this is your first attempt of building something you already know what they are. And fortunately you can find reasonable drywall prices at various online suppliers. A real 21st century example is a site like ours where you can check drywall prices and buy drywall itself locally - online.
http://www.doingitright.biz/Your-Best-Resource-For-Construction-Supplies.php
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