WRITING YOUR BUSINESS PLAN: YOU CAN DO IT OK, take a deep breath… You can actually write a business plan because this software gives you everything you need to make it easy. “I teach a class for SCORE on how to prepare a business plan. You will be pleased to know that most of our…
In another lifetime long long ago, I sold word-processing systems. The crux of our sales pitch was how much time our system would save all of the secretaries and others who were constantly typing documents. To drive this point home, I created a spreadsheet to show how much time was worth. For example, if you…
Department of Labor Investigates — and wants your money Department of Labor statistics show 73% of its investigations result in violations. Four areas that regulators focus on—and that you need to double-check: (Let’s see… We need to look at just 4 areas of any business and we have a 73% $ucce$$ rate…) Employee records retention. States…
In our last post, we talked about how to segment your market. Why will you want to do this, though? It is only human to ask the question- how will this benefit ME? To put it simply, knowing your market will allow you to determine your target customer. Target Customers Now that you’ve segmented the…