Communicating Your Strategic Plan With Employees

Robert Bradford discusses 5 key ideas for effectively communicating your strategic plan with your employees.

Creating a Successful Business Exit Strategy - Adding a Sixth Step to the Plan

The Wall Street Journal article notes that for a successful exit strategy you cannot accomplish all that you need to do in a short period of time. The planning and stages will take from five to seven years. Adding a professional writer and PR consultant to the advisory and implementation team will ensure that the process of an exit strategy flows smoothly.

Get the Money You Need to Jump-Start Your Business

Do you have a good idea, but no the money to create a business for it? Do you have a start-up planned, but no way to fund it? Do you have an existing business that needs a loan or grant to expand? Do you want to introduce a new product or service? Do you have a charity or non-profit that needs funding?

The 3 Strategies of Market Followers

One type of business plan strategy is to be a market follower. This discussion demonstrates the characteristics of the strategy and what one can expect related to business vibrancy and monetary returns.

Messiness Has Hidden Benefits

Is it really better to be organized and structured than to have free flow and flexibility? Six key benefits of messiness.

Strategic Planning - Pitfalls in Implementation

In our strategic planning work, we often work with companies who have tried strategic planning before. Almost inevitably, the companies we meet were disappointed in the results they got before using Simplified Strategic Planning.

The Easy Way to Innovate is - the Hard Way!

Robert Bradford discusses how innovation creates competitive advantage and how you can think about your innovations to create a more solid market position.

Time is Money - So Make More Money by Using Less Time!

Robert Bradford discusses how to improve profitability by paying attention to how you use time - both yours and your customers.

Strategic Planning - Understanding the Competitive Value of your Brand

Robert Bradford discusses the strategic value of branding and how to evaluate your brand, plus ways that you can increase the value of your brand.

How Your Habits Control Your Small Business Success

Habits are essential to our very existence; however, sometimes behaviors form into habits that are no longer necessary. With awareness and a strong reason or motivation to change the habit we can initiate and sustain change and rid ourselves of habits that no longer serve a purpose.

Small Business Mistakes: Are You Making Enough of Them?

One of the most important mental shifts we all need to make as self-employed business owners is from hiding and avoiding our mistakes to embracing them! Learn why.

Small Business Spoiler - Procrastination

One of the most common issues that comes up for business owners is procrastination. There are many reasons why people procrastinate: self-doubt, boredom, fear of failure, the feeling of being unready or unprepared and so on, but these feelings by themselves don’t necessarily lead to procrastination.. learn what does.

Keys to Feeling Powerful In An Uncertain World

Life is full of uncertainty and unpredictability. Learn concrete ways to feel more in control of your life regardless of your life situations at home or at work!