As we discussed in Two Crucial Planning Steps for Small Business Decision Making it is imperative that a small business utilize their limited resources on projects and initiatives that provide them with the largest and most immediate payback. We saw how by using a two step approach to identify your business’ Critical Success Factors (the […]

In a prior small business planning article, Use Critical Success Factors for Small Business Planning I shared how one of our clients narrowed down their potential list of new initiatives, projects or tasks from 20 tasks to 7 in only two short hours. They were able to do this because they first identified their Critical […]

As a small business planning firm one of the consistent questions that business owners ask us is, “I have limited financial resources for my business where should I invest them?” This occurred recently when one of our clients, a heating and air conditioning contractor said to me, “George I want to expand my business significantly […]

As I discussed in two prior articles, I was recently talking to Peter, who is one of our small business planning clients and he told me that one of the best thing about his business is that he is happy with his business. As I reflected on his statement I realized that so many business […]

As a small business planning firm a tool that we found invaluable in assisting a small business owner to ferret out the initiatives that will truly be beneficial to them is to identify a business’ Critical Success Factors. In the article How to Use Your Small Business’ Limited Resources Wisely I discuss the fact that […]

In a previous article I shared that I was recently talking to Peter, who is one of our small business planning clients and he told me that one of the best thing about his business is that he is happy with his small business. As I reflected on his statement I realized that so many […]

I was talking to Peter one of our clients recently and he told me that one of the best thing about his small business is that he is happy with his business. He has operated his small business for many years and as I reflected on his statement I realized that so many small business […]

From an overall standpoint the top reward for engaging in planning for your small business is that you are able to operate your business as a fully systematized factory versus a fruit-stand business. The specifics of this are that you: 1. Reach more customers 2. Generate greater revenue 3. Serve your customers better because your […]

In providing small business planning services we regularly assist people with starting a business and I would like to share a recent example of someone who was starting a new business. A couple weeks ago Terri, a new client of ours called me to let me know that she started a new business. She is […]

As the owner of a small business planning firm let me tell you about a friend of mine, Jeff who lives on a teeter-totter. He does not literally live on a teeter-totter, but his business makes him feel like he does. Jeff is an engineer who works by himself in a “fruit-stand” type business. Jeff’s […]