The Buy-Sell Agreement- Why It Is The Simple Solution

Studies have shown that 46% of business owners do not intend to ever retire from their businesses. Amidst the sophisticated estate planning techniques for business succession planning, the simple buy-sell agreement solves a myriad of post-death problems. Here's how...

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.

Have You Considered Succession Planning?

Here today. Gone tomorrow. This is obviously something most businesses do not want to think about, but should for the benefit of a business carrying on after the loss of key employees or owners.

The 3 Critical Business Plan Segmenting Areas

You must segment the business plan market to understand the environment where you will compete. Discover three critical areas you will cover and become familiar with the questions that lead to segmenting the market.

Mind Mapping Yourself Into Focus

Mind mapping can seem like such a disorderly process. You pull out a big sheet of paper, get the markers rounded up, and start writing, drawing circles and lines in all directions. How can this help with focus?

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.

Annuitize Your Biz

What's better than making a dollar today? Making a dollar the next day and the next day and the next day. Build long term relationships with your customers for success!

Align Employees With Your Strategic Plan - Five Quick Steps

5 quick ways to improve the alignment between your employees and your strategy from Robert Bradford, author of Simplified Strategic Planning.

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.

What's Your Business Model?

During business plan creation, a business model must evolve that is properly focused but broad enough to to be successful. There are four critical areas to be considered in developing the business model and incorporating it into the business plan. This article discusses them.

Opening a Dollar Store - Get Others Excited by Being Excited!

Do you want to know one of the secrets to success after opening a dollar store? It is to get everyone excited about you and your business. But that is easier said than done for some entrepreneurs. They don’t realize that excitement actually begins with them and the way that they appear.

Three Critical Business Plan Perspectives

Business Plans require many different perspectives. Here we discuss the three critical ones that help us to formulate a vision for the business. Without these views, our plan will be critically deficient.

Opening Minds to Diversity

In the world of human resources (HR), everywhere you turn these days people are talking about diversity in the workforce. In particular, companies that operate globally are aware that to go beyond what is required of them legally and morally in eradicating discrimination can bring about a positive climate that will engage their employees, improve their productivity and enhance the effectiveness of their organization.

Strategic Planning Should Not Forget Goal Achievement Training and Development

Strategic planning centers around goal achievement. Are your people trained to consistently achieve goals?

Executable Strategic Planning Is Effective Delegation of Who Does What By When

Does your strategic plan indicate who does what by when? If not, it should.