Corporate Data Backup a Must in Today's Business World

In today's fast-paced and cutthroat business world, the loss of vital business documents can mean ruin and disaster for any company. Remote online backup is the most practical and cost effective way for businesses to ensure the protection of such documents.

Business Plan - Critical to Success

A business plan is a must. The process of creating one forces you to organize your dreams and goals into a specific strategy. It brings forth issues you may have forgotten – maybe not thought of at all yet. It helps organize your efforts and focus them on the ultimate goal: Success.

Making Lemonade in Your Business Venture

In any business there will be bumps and bruises - it's what you do with these business pitfalls that will make or break your business.

Strategic Planning- Document or Tool?

A strategic plan as a tool is focused on taking a realistic vision and mapping out the steps to accomplishing that vision.

Communicating Your Strategic Plan With Employees

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

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?

10 Ways to Look Chic on the Web

Marketing and selling over the internet allows you to enjoy the ever-so-fabulous pleasure of sitting around in a nighty and bunny slippers while you watch the sales and leads roll in. But no matter what you’re wearing, your web presence must still be dressed to the nines. Here are ten tips for making your website chic.

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.

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.

Business Intelligence - Better Merchandising, Better Sales

Operating within the ever-changing consumer electronics market, cellular retailers face unique merchandising challenges that extend beyond the typical lost sales due to out of stocks and markdowns from excess inventory – their business is susceptible to handset design trends, emerging technologies and of course, passing fads. When planning merchandise, however, retailers are not completely powerless. Business Intelligence (BI) software, with its predictive analytics, helps retailers improve their merchandising processes to identify hidden opportunities and eliminate lost sales and markdowns.

Requirements Matrix - A Necessary Evil

A Requirements Matrix is an essential beginning to a proposal Use it!

A Business Plan Can Secure Financing for a Professional Practice or Small to Mid Size Business

Writing a business plan can be intimidating. It is however a necessary step towards earning a business loan for the launch or expansion of a professional practice or small to mid size business. Gaining an understanding about the expectations that the bank, government or other type of investor have about the contents of your business plan can help you to get started.

Strategic Alliances - What, Why, How, Etc

A strategic alliance is one in which two companies join hands to market services and products for mutual benefit. Traditionally, strategic alliances are formed between companies that are not direct competitors of each other but have complementary products or services that are marketed to the same target audience. There are three primary types of strategic alliances - joint ventures, minority equity investments, and direct cooperation.

Differentiation - Smart Marketing Strategies for the Solo Entrepreneur

Are you ever frustrated or hesitant when you talk to prospective customers because you can’t readily explain why they should come to you rather than go to your competitors? Sure, you might have your 30-second elevator speech, but then they ask you that dreaded question, “So what makes you different?” Then, all those self-doubts creep in, and you just aren’t sure what to say. Differentiation can boost confidence--yours in yourself and that prospective customer’s confidence in you!

Top 10 Business Plan Myths of Solo Entrepreneurs

A recent study of 29,000 business startups noted that 26,000 of them failed. Of those failures, 67% had no written business plan. Think that's a coincidence?