I’m pleased to see that Rieva Lesonsky has published Secrets of Success: Tim Berry at her blog Forum.web.com. I’m proud of what I have to say there. Rieva asked really
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What would you think of a restaurant that offered really good food, but the salad is free and the dressing is extra? The potatoes are free but the sour cream
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I’m amazed at the quality of questions and answers on Quora. Do you know Quora? If not, you’re missing a really intriguing resource. Recently I found this question on Quora:
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Do you need a business plan? This is for you. You don’t? But wait a minute, don’t you want to manage your business better? Can you afford not to do
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I like to think of defining flesh and bones as setting the steps. You have a strategy, you’ve got the heart of your business settled, but you want to set
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Are you using social media for your business? Is it working for you? Last week Jim Blasingame, the small business advocate, asked his newsletter subscribers — not a random group,
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My thanks to Angel Investment Network Blog for this Infographic – US Venture Capital Trends by State and Industry:
This is me giving back, making it up to all the spreadsheet haters. It’s a non spreadsheet: lists, tables, yes; but no formulas, functions, or programming. It just adds the
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This my answer to a Quora question, what are good ways to turn a business idea into a business plan: Think of a business plan as a collection of interconnected
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Here’s a great update: It’s almost two years now since I posted Tell Your Story Well, on my main blog here at plans, recommending Nancy Duarte’s brilliant book Resonate. Nancy
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Manage your long-term goals and the short-term steps to achieve them. Develop measurement and accountability. Optimize your use of resources. Manage your business better. All of these benefits can be
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Your sales forecast is the backbone of your business plan. People measure a business and its growth by sales, and your sales forecast sets the standard for expenses, profits and
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Startups: Investors expect new marketing. The fundamentals still apply but tools and realities are different now. If you don’t understand the broader implications of social media, content marketing, curation, engagement,
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My thanks to greatbusinessschools.org for this interesting info graphic, published as Entrepreneur U: Schools for Start Ups. I’m posting it here despite its showing schools other than Stanford as tops
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Every so often I stumble on interesting statistics and good simple business graphics that show them. That applies to this line chart of Median age at first marriage by sex:
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These are highlights from last week’s podcast interview of Fran Tarkenton by Stephen Lahey on Small Business Talent. These are direct quotes: When your mission is to help people, you’ve
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It used to be that most of the business world understood that simple, clear business writing was a powerful skill. We needed to communicate, explain and convince people in memos,
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Don’t dismiss business planning just because you don’t need to show a document to anybody. One of the best fringe benefits of a good business planning process is the teamwork
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I love this: So completely true. Vivek Wadhwa calls out the all-too-common talks by successful entrepreneurs who supposedly “sales smoothly to success.” He corrects that in Entrepreneurship is a Roller
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I grew up believing that facts, like research, numbers and percentages, told the truth. I believed in objective, verifiable truth, based on fact. I distinguished that from mystical religious truth,
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How do you get started on a business plan? It depends on who you are, what you like, what you do well and how you think. People are all different.
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I just read Social Proof Is the New Currency on the Social Media Today blog. Author Daniel Lay writes: Whether you like Mark Zuckerberg’s mug or not, the social web
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If you’re still thinking of a business plan as a formal, static document, then you’re sadly out of date and you’re missing out on real business planning, which is a
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Are you running a business? Thinking of starting one? Trying to grow one? Even if you don’t need a business plan to show to bankers or investors, don’t cheat yourself
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I just answered a social media consulting inquiry with this… No, I’m sorry, that’s not what we really do well. We’re a business, so we’d have to charge you; and
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I really like this 2-minute explanation Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Steve Teig, Tabula – Right Time to Start a Company. He’s clearly focusing on tech companies and the web, but the
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The patent system as it relates to software and the web and mobile apps is broken. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t protect the right people and it’s being used by
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