Do You Have A Strategic Planning Team In Place Right Now?

That was a silly question wasn't it? Not only do you not have a strategic planning team in place you never will. The result will inevitably be either a failure to realize your full potential, the missing of some key opportunities for growth...

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Strategic Marketing Management

"Strategic" is the word generally used to describe actions that may have an impact on the organization over the long haul. In the case of strategic marketing management you'll find the relationship between today's actions and tomorrow's result...

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Michael E. Gerber: How to Awaken the Steve Jobs in You

Anyone Can Learn What Came Naturally to Apple’s Founder Just like everyone else, small business owners get caught up in their personal economic successes and woes. They’re trying to find more time; trying to deal with the exigencies of life;...

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Finances of a Small Business

Financial planning and managing the finances of a business can be a challenge. In this episode of StartMeUp Videos, Philip Maguire talks about the different aspects of managing finances of a small business for entrepreneurs. The conversatio...

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Your Company's Strategic Planning Staff

Now I am not idiotic, I realize you do not have a strategic marketing team, a strategic planning team, and for that matter a strategic anything team. I am sure that everybody within your business is much too focused doing what should be accomp...

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Strategic Competitive Advantage With A Little Help From Your Friends

It only makes common sense that in order to become and remain successful in business and in life you must make the decisions that will keep you moving toward your goals. Any actions that do not take you directly toward your objectives - take you...

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Video: Small Business Succes Story

"Lead with your heart and the rest will follow" sums up Ray Li and John Vitug's Heart Juice story. These two young guys, with a passion to make a difference, were inspired by a young professor's heart attack, a family history of heart disease,...

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Video: Rapid Strategy Development and Implementation Get Engagement and Results Quicker!!!

Innovation Partners International (IPI) is a truly unique consulting firm that has developed a revolutionary approach for Rapid Strategy Development and Implementation, with a foundation in Appreciative Inquiry and other whole-system change model...

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Video: Strategy 101: How the Macro-Environment Influences Business Strategies

The Macro environment can affect our strategies in many ways. In the political environment there may be new laws we have to adjust to. In the economic environment there may be financial crisis we must deal with. In the social cultural envir...

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Small Business Transition Planning is Strategic Planning

Succession planning, by way of definition, is the organized changeover of the small business from the current generation of owners to the next, people who are going to be owning and operating the business in the 21st. Century. Easy management suc...

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Video: Closing the gap between strategy and execution: Strategy and

Closing the gap between strategy and execution. Individuals and organizations who think strategically, plan comprehensively, and execute flawlessly will almost certainly eclipse those who simply set goals and hope for the best. In the first...

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Video: Business Plan Template Website

There are lots of variations on what makes up a business plan. It's not necessary to pay consultants to create yours. In fact it's not the fine points within the layout of the business plan that's important. It's that you have gone through the...

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