Do You Have a Business Plan?

What is a Business Plan? Do you have one in place for your business? A Business Plan is critical to the success of your business so if you don't have one in place, you need to read this article to learn more about what it entails.

What is the Cost of Not Having a Strategic Plan?

Strategic planning is a necessary element for business success. What is the cost to your business by not having a strategic plan?

Distractions: How Costly Are They?

When was the last time you completed the six most important activities for that day? With this simple tool, you can easily do it on a regular basis and you will be amazed at how such a simple idea can make an enormous impact on your auctioneer business.

Sun Zi Art of War - A Critical Point to Note for Strategy Planning

In Chapter Seven, Sun Zi mentioned about rushing troops to battlefields and what is the results of it. Inside those sentences lies a very critical point about Strategy Planning? Want to know what it is? Read on to find out more.

What Essential Marketing Models Are Within Your Strategic Plan?

Marketing is an essential piece of any strategic plan. What models are you using to increase your sales or bottom line results?

Skip the Resolutions!

Did you take some time this past week to think about and perhaps even write down your resolutions for 2007? To be honest, I'm not exactly a fan of resolutions - really, what's so different about December 31 than January 1 that's going to make a dramatic difference in whether or not you keep your resolutions?

Strategic Management

Strategic management is the process of specifying an organization's objectives, developing policies and plans to achieve these objectives, and allocating resources so as to implement the plans.

Are You Ready To Start Your Home Based Business?

An introduction in to the steps you need to take to start your own business and create your own bullet-proof business plan.

Structuring Your Business Properly

Various ways to structure your business and steps to take in setting up your business properly.

Kmart and Sears - Defying Botton-Line Gravity

Every once in awhile someone comes along to rewrites the accepted rules of their business. Henry Ford redesigned auto making. Woolworth rewrote the rules of retailing. Today Sears and K-mart have a business strategy defying the rules of the bottom-line.

Opening A Dollar Store - Growing Your Business

One of the challenges that every retailer faces is continually growing sales. Opening a dollar store is no different. It is important to know the current level of sales. It is also important to have established future sales goals.

Problem Solving 101

Problem solving is thinking. Problems may be simple or complicated, but as long as intellectual function in determining the solution is involved, it only comes to show that a cognitive process was utilized.

How to Measure Trends?

Wouldn't it be great to predict your future? To know exactly what your customers and suppliers think and want? When you check trends in your industry will this help you to put the chess pieces in the right position on the board to win the game? This article will focus on how to deal with trends to sharpen your business focus.