Conducting Risk Assessment

A Risk Assessment is identifying, analyzing, and weighing all the potential risks, threats and hazards to the business’s internal and external environment.

Tips on Writing a Business Plan

When you're ready to start your own business - whether you plan to start a home based business, retail store, service based business, online shopping site or otherwise - the first step often involves writing a business plan. Without a business plan, you won't know how to get started, or how to grow and maintain your new business.

Every Business Needs a BHAG

Do you have a BHAG? Do you know what a BHAG is? Read on and all your questions will be answered.

Developing a Solid Business Plan - Part II

Developing a Solid Business Plan: essential categories that you'll want to include in your plan.

Scheduling Your Time Using Top Producer

In real estate, you deal with the unknown every day. A promising floor call, a client dropping in, an offer coming through - it's impossible to plan for every instance when you're a Realtor.

Choosing The Right Retail Premises for Your Business, Part II

Parameters for Attracting Customers - Location, Building, Future Growth, Running Costs, Renovation Costs, Planning Consent,

Help With Your First Invention - Provisional Patent Application

Purpose of Provisional Patent Application, its benefits and drawbacks. Provisional Patent Application allows inventors to start patent process without incurring the high cost of patent lawyers. However, because Provisional Applications are simpler to complete then the Regular Patent Application, it doesn’t mean that inventors should take them lightly.

Event Marketing What, Why and When?

The event marketing is something that will appeal to targeted audience. means you need to create some events with the help of well known personalities and invite all those persons that are interested about this event and here you needs to demonstrate your product that is useful for these type of consumers, here your this efforts give you maximum ROI.

Why Small Engineering Companies Should Seek Out An Experienced Business Strategist

Engineers are trained to think in a linear fashion - answer question one before going on to number two. Business events occur spherically - unrelated but impacting questions require answers according to their own deadlines. This article explains why and what to do about it.

Tips for Better Strategic Planning in the Smaller Company

Robert Bradford offers 8 solid tips for better strategic planning in smaller companies with a limited management staff and less than 50 employees, based on 20 years of experience doing strategic planning.

Strategic Planning- Resistance is Futile!

When preparing for the future, credit union CEOs will encounter people who dig in their heels and resist change because they want to keep things exactly how they have been for years. Some of these people will be credit union board members, and some will be in the managerial ranks.

Does Your Strategic Plan Include a Proven Goal Setting Process?

Strategic planning is corrals a lot of information and then develops strategies to out last and out survive the competition. Goals are part of any executable plan and there should be a proven goal setting process to expedite the execution of your strategic plan.

Strategic Planning – The 2 Gaping Pitfalls

Strategic Planning is the most important tool for any business success. Yet there are 2 pitfalls for any plan. Large, multi-billion dollar corporations often make these 2 simple mistakes and significantly reduce the opportunity to reach their organization's goals.