SelfGrowth.com articles for Strategic Planning

Competency and Trust are Critical Components of Reputation Capital

dnour@nourgroup.com — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 9:36:58 am

Reputation Capital is a measure of how effective you are in promoting and delivering value. As the delivery of that value is recognized, you start to accumulate Reputation Capital. The two fundamental pillars of Reputation Capital are competency and trust. The following provides some insight ...

Improving How You Sell Yourself as a Professional

dnour@nourgroup.com — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:00:00 am

Many technical professionals are often horrible at selling themselves. Many accountants, attorneys, consultants, and engineers don’t think of themselves as salespeople – and they don’t want to! Although their academic and educational foundation and their professional development includes ...

Strategies Behind Crisis Management

info@crownedgrace.com — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:00:00 am

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and All the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again This past week I attended a conference of business leaders desiring to take their business to the next level. On the second day, I met a leader ...

5 Ways to Build Brand Recognition Online

tjmpott@gmail.com — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

Developing brand recognition online is one of the greatest marketing advantages you can attain to grow your business. With so many other online marketers promoting their goods and services it is very easy to be lost in the shuffle. The choice is either to be more dominant than your competitors ...

Why Your Online Brand Is Important

tjmpott@gmail.com — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

Why should anybody be concerned with their online brand? Aren't there other aspects of Marketing on the internet that are more important than online branding? Well this is a loaded question that will require a little bit of an explanation. The fact of the matter is that online branding plays a ...

Two Questions to Help Maintain Your Strategic Focus

dnour@nourgroup.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

What business are you in? What business should you be in? Although simple in their inquisitive nature, it is amazing just how complex these two questions can be. What business you are in should answer, from a historical perspective, where you have been most successful, where you have produced ...

Do you Relationship Choke or Panic?

dnour@nourgroup.com — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 8:50:04 am

Watching 26-year-old Dustin Johnson recently blow his three-round lead at the 110th U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, California reminded me of others we’ve seen squander away amazing opportunities. Specific to relationships, when facing pressure to execute do you choke or panic? You see there are ...

Careers: Did You Wind up in a Default Career? Prevention and Remedy

dorothy@nextchapternewlife.com — Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

As a career coach and former High Tech manager, I’ve noticed that most people wind up in careers that are completely out of line with their college degrees or interests. When you ask people how they “chose” their careers, many of them answer with something very much like a track through the ...

Are You Charging What You Are Worth?

jenniferrs03@gmail.com — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

What do your prices say about your brand? Are you "competitive?" Less expensive? Do you change what you think you can get? Or, do you fully understand what you bring to the table and charge accordingly? After working with "tons of tons" of entrepreneurs, it wasn't surprising to learn that ...

Effectiveness of the business plan presentation

energysmartin@gmail.com — Mon, 31 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Client communication is of an utmost requirement for any business organization. This communication is achieved by conferences, meetings, multimedia presentations',’ etc. Fine communication includes company introduction, its product showcase and services provided by it. All this should be ...

Be Google-able!

jenniferrs03@gmail.com — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:00:00 am

I know it's a tongue twister. Forget trying to say it three times. I want to know what happens when you do it one time. What comes up? What's the 411 on you? If someone were to type your name in the world's most famous search engine, would they be blown away by the results? Ten years ago ...

Succession Planning: How to Meet Future Talent Needs

kubica.mgmt@gmail.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Many leaders believe succession planning is just a replacement strategy. They think of it as another exercise, a means to an end or a human resources task. They couldn't be more wrong! Succession planning is a talent and organizational improvement initiative that enables your business or ...

Strategic Plan Template - A Roadmap for your success

energysmartin@gmail.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Roadmap leads you to the end of the road, in the same way Strategic plan Template leads you to the accomplishment of company goals. Planning is the most essential criteria either life or undertaking a business, if you are going as per the planning then there is constant likelihood of success, if ...

Internet Marketing and PR Strategies – The Invisible Business

don@freepublicitygroup.com — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Way back in the day, I had a client who owned a transmission shop in a city of 100,000 people. His transmission shop was named 'AAA Transmission'. He chose this name because this would be the first listing in the yellow pages when someone searched for 'transmission' (yellow page optimization was ...

Management Control and Controls in Organizations

jorriangelink@gmail.com — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:00:00 am

The rapid advances of technology in data and information systems have benefited organizations tremendously. Every behavior turns into a result, and controls are designed to capture results that can be converted into useable data. However, the difference between “control” – the direction and ...

The Importance Of Setting Goals In Your MLM Business

lrhomebiz@gmail.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:53:18 am

The secret to MLM success doesn't have to evade you. The top money earners have discovered goal setting in their MLM business is a major success secret. Don't skip this most influential step to getting started right. So get started today! Let's face it, we all know that building your MLM ...

If When - Two Often Crippling Words

gficke@msn.com — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:00:00 am

by: Geoff Ficke Words matter. How we express ourselves is the most important indicator of the type of person we are and the type of life we lead. In my work as a marketing consultant I have the opportunity to meet hundreds of people each year. They are usually attempting to bring a product, ...

3 Thought Leader Article Templates That Will Help You Attract More Clients Like Magnets

prleadsarticles@yahoo.com — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Some business owners attract clients and customers like magnets. Their marketing seems effortless. They don't advertise. They haven't made a cold call in years. They charge more. They're regularly asked to speak at conferences and are featured in newspapers and magazines. Their articles are ...

Heart Centered Humanity

alignshineprosper@rogers.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 3:16:50 pm

Authors Dr. Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman refer to ‘Imaginal Cells’ in their book entitled, ‘Spontaneous Evolution’: Our Positive Future And A Way to Get There From Here. You can listen to what cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton, recipient of the 2009 GOI peace award has to say, about ...

Global Buy Leads - Initiating Increased Awareness Towards Global Trade

emilyralph87@gmail.com — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Global business refers to the economic phenomenon through which, different national economies integrate into international economies via trade, investment and spread of technology. Global business works on the internationally accepted principle of expanding multinational corporations to expedite ...

Laddering Investments For An Even Gain

ads@clipegg.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:35:23 am

We all tend to jump the gun on some things in life for one reason or another whether its love, buying, and sometimes investing. While we won't be covering love and buying, we will be talking about how to properly plan out investments through patience, and a proper investment strategy. For ...

DISCOVER YOU - With Your Personal Mission and Vision Statements

dmidgett@aol.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:35:49 am

Many of us begin the process of writing personal mission and vision statements only to find the “doing” more baffling than we had thought. Some of us opt for words that when pressed to define are just words that “sound good” or found on one of those sites that list common statements made up for ...

Master the Most Basic Basics of Every Business

dan@thecoughlincompany.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:51:10 am

Every day I thank my lucky stars that I had no business background because if I had I may never have learned as much. When I started my management consulting business in 1998 I had no business experience and no business network. My background was in academic settings. I worked at colleges and ...

Three Mistakes to Avoid in Relation to Strategic Planning

smtucson@msn.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:51:11 am

There are three mistakes that an organization should avoid in relation to the strategic planning process. This article describes what these three mistakes are and what you should do in order to ensure you will avoid them. The first mistake to avoid in relation to strategic planning is not ...

Key Business Strategy to Grow Your Business in Any Economy

beverlyboston@gmail.com — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

The key business strategy is simple and it changes everything. You need to make time every single day to plan and implement ideas and strategies for developing your thinking to grow your businesses. More specifically, you need to make time every single day to take an honest look at where you ...

***Entrepreneurs Must Generate a Constant Flow of New Leads to Succeed

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 2:36:50 pm

There are many ways that entrepreneurs and small business owners can generate new leads for their business. But it is vital, that it be a consistent and constant activity. You need that type of flow of new leads coming to you. If you decide that you have enough business and stop your lead ...

***Cold Calling: Do I Have To?

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 2:36:24 pm

You are ready to start your cold calls, your anxiety goes up, you can feel it throughout your body, and yet you have decided YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT! Let’s define what exactly a cold call is. A cold call is you, personally, calling or visiting a person that you do not know at all or you know ...

Components of Strategic Planning

smtucson@msn.com — Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

There are certain components of the strategic planning process that should be in place to develop, implement, and effectively monitor a strategic plan. This article provides a brief overview of the steps involved in strategic planning. The first component is preparing for the strategic ...

Strategic Planning - What It Is & Why It Is Important

smtucson@msn.com — Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Strategic planning is critical to a nonprofit organization's future direction and survival. As such, it is important to understand what strategic planning is and why it is so important. This article provides a definition of strategic planning and why it is important to nonprofit ...

Ignite Growth in your Business

james@streethockeymillionaire.com — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 4:35:59 pm

IGNITE GROWTH (http://www.streethockeymillionaire.com/IgniteGrowth.pdf) How Businesses Can Grow Profitably JAMES ALLAN President, SHM Consulting TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 3 1.1 Objectives 3 1.2 Action Plan 3 2.0 Growth Strategy 5 3.0 Growth Tactics 7 3.1 Product ...

Avoid duplicate content: find how it is possible

rizzo.rosa@yahoo.it — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 1:12:11 pm

More and more webmasters create sites based on publicly available information, like data feeds, articles, news or blogs. The result is the proliferation of sites with duplicate content, which provide information already available on the web. In case that these sites are based only on news or ...

***Are you evaluating your lead generation strategies?

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 2:08:00 pm

Generating new leads is a focus of most business owners. But do you ever stop to evaluate where your leads are coming from and how your lead generation methods are working? It is important to have systems in place to track new leads and evaluate each lead strategy. There are a couple of ...

***Relationship Marketing

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 2:07:00 pm

Business is all about relationships. They are at the heart of marketing as well. Strategically using relationship marketing is about building strong, long term relationships with your current clients and companies. By having this type of focus you are increasing your business but not solely ...

***What will an Email List Do for Me?

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 2:06:00 pm

Your email box is inundated and yet you wonder if email marketing can work for you. Email marketing remains an effective means of staying in touch with your clients and prospects. And at the same time you have to be smart about it. Email marketing requires some tools. First you need to use ...

How to Close More Sales!

prleadsarticles@yahoo.com — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am

Most of my article marketing clients and newsletter subscribers love when I relate business lessons to real life experiences. In this article, I'm going to show you how to close more sales - and I mean higher priced sales using the same process I used to ask my girlfriend's family for their ...

How To Fail As An Entrepreneur

sue@confidentmarketer.com — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 9:30:00 am

One of the things that catches up the entrepreneurs I work with is perfectionism. I see this almost every day, an unwillingness to launch a product, produce a video, do a live event, publish a book, launch a website unless it is perfectly done. The fear of failure is often immense. I think ...

Recovering From Retirement Denial

billtaber@selfgrowth.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 1:56:00 pm

Hardly a week goes by without a personal finance magazine commenting in one way or another that Americans are ill-prepared for retirement. Yet, in spite of these alarming and repetitive warnings, we Americans and specifically we Iowans appear to be in denial that the post World War II ...

***Does My Business Need a Web Presence?

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:24:00 am

The Internet has become a vital component of any business marketing plan. Even if you are a locally based business and is solely word of mouth: a website and overall web presence is needed. People (your clients and prospects) use the Internet to vet their service and product providers. They ...

***Website vs. Blog Which to Choose

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:23:00 am

Having an internet presence is essential in this business environment. As a business owner, you must have a web presence. But when you are developing that web presence you have many decisions to make. Here are some of the things you need to consider: • What is the goal of my website: Is ...

***Building your Website

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:20:00 am

Having a web presence is an essential component of business. People expect to be able to check you out via your website. It becomes your online resume and credential builder. There are many options for websites available today. You can easily build your own or you can contract with a web ...

Are You Stuck on the Yellow Brick Road?

balancingenergy@energy-by-design.com — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:28:00 pm

Did you decide 2010 is your decade filled with the kind of change that brings you balance, prosperity and abundance? Lasting change, the kind that eliminates chaos in your life and provides you calm so you can take advantage of the law of attraction no matter what is happening in the world. ...

***Reading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur—Marketing

emilysinsight@gmail.com — Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am

This is the second article in a series designed to be a handbook on what is required to be the entrepreneurial psychic, the sole practitioner who owns his own successful psychic business. Service professionals can apply most of this information to their enterprises as well. Levels of skill in ...

***Reading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur's Daily Practices

emilysinsight@gmail.com — Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am

Levels of skill in reading Tarot, or skill in other types of psychic insight, seldom lead to successful business ownership. In the first sister article to this one, the steps in developing the skill of reading Tarot are described, and some reasons that skilled professionals don't go into ...

***It’s Not Just Keywords, But Keyword Phrases Are Effective Too.

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 1:49:00 pm

You know that Search Engine Optimization is one of the essential things you have to do if you want a website that works for you and your company. Part of the process for entrepreneurs is to use the right keywords to attract your target market to you website. It’s not only keywords but also ...

***Entrepreneurs Need to Build a List Too

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 1:49:00 pm

No matter what your business is you should be building a list of contacts and prospects. Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to be as diligent at this as Internet Marketers are. What Internet Marketers have demonstrated time and again is that a list of prospects and contacts CAN build ...

***Does My Business Need a Web Presence?

dprice@compassroseconsulting.com — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 1:48:00 pm

The Internet has become a vital component of any business marketing plan. Even if you are a local based business and feel that your business is solely on word of mouth, a website and overall web presence is needed. People (clients and prospects) use the Internet to vet their service and ...

Points to Ponder for Growing Your Business

info@nectarconsulting.com — Tue, 2 Mar 2010 2:57:00 pm

Tired of working for somebody else and ready to try your hand being a business owner? Or are you an accidental entrepreneur that has already leapt into business for yourself? Well, You’re not alone! Starting and running your own successful business is one of the most rewarding, exciting ...

3 Steps to Achieve New Goals

Cookie@CookieTuminello.com — Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:11:00 am

“Life rewards action – not intention, not insight, not wisdom, not understanding.” - Dr. Phil McGraw How many of you whine and moan about what’s not working in your businesses/life, but don’t take the necessary action to change your present circumstances? Given the responses I get from ...

The Simple Way to Practice What You Preach

alicia@clientabundance.com — Sun, 7 Mar 2010 1:29:51 am

As I'm wrapping up a slew of private retreats with clients this month, it's become clear that it's time for me to get focused on practicing what I've been preaching - or more specifically, to put myself through the same intense process and plan that I take my clients through. This thought ...

***Phone Psychic--Accurate Answers, Your Part in A Good Reading, as the Caller

emilysinsight@gmail.com — Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am

Caveats about Integrity: This article begins with your call. It assumes you have done your homework choosing whom to call. Briefly re that: Integrity on both sides is a good thing. There is a world of dishonest psychics, and a pool of dishonest 'clients.' May they eat each other. Something ...