Low Cost Business Ideas: Your Small Business Plan

Here is your small business plan, the key tool for keeping focused in the right direction for businesses just getting started and those that have been around for decades. A simple, even free, business plan is often just the ticket for you. Watch this video and see how.

http://waynemessick.com/small-business/low-cost-business-ideas-small-business-plan-to-get-you-into-profit

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-plan

You Can’t Read the Label While Inside the Jar

Even if you've never heard the expression, ‘You can’t read the label when you are sitting inside the jar,’ you know what it means. Maybe that's why it is so hard to see a need and invent a way to fill that need when you’ve been inside one business or industry for a long time. Recognizing those needs requires stepping outside of the jar and viewing things from the outside, because you can’t innovate from inside the jar, and if you aren’t innovating, you’re just waiting for the expiration date on your business.

http://www.waynemessick.com/business-strategic-development/5-mistakes-that-quash-corporate-innovation