Why Business Planning Is The Secret To Success

Do you set aside time regularly to plan what you want to do in your business? If it’s not something you currently do, I strongly encourage you to embrace it for the remainder of this year as well as the one coming up. Setting aside time at the end of the year, to plan out what I want to do and more importantly what growth I want to achieve in the coming year has been crucial to my own success. Over the next several days, I want to share some of what I’ve learned - and hope you too will find it helpful in your business. Let’s start off by taking a look at why business planning is “the secret” to success. There are a few different factors that come into play here. The first is efficiency. When you go in with a clear plan, you can focus on what’s most important. Instead of spending time trying to figure out what you should be working on, what pieces of the puzzle are missing from your product funnel, or what you need to do to break through to the next income level, you know e…
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Four New Year’s Resolutions Every Entrepreneur Should Set

Expert writing coach offers tips on how to make 2019 the year to be in the spotlight

With the New Year right around the corner, it’s a great time to start thinking about your resolutions. Everyone should set goals at the beginning of the year, so they have some idea of what it is that they want to accomplish. In other words, by setting goals you will solidify your long-term vision for what it is that you want to achieve. There are some great resolutions for entrepreneurs who want to be in the spotlight this year, starting with publishing a book in their field of expertise.

“Every January we get a fresh start, we get a chance to make plans about what we want to complete in the new year,” explains Annalisa Parent, chief executive officer of Laurel Elite Books. “It’s so important that entrepreneurs make resolutions every January. By getti…

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How Businesses Utilize Social Media to Connect

Chances are if you have been in business more than a day, you are using social med. And in fact, if you are getting ready to launch a new business, you are likely using it.  But are you using it correctly? If you're doing it right, social media is a good way to keep up with public opinion about your business and post regular updates about what's going on. Businesses tend to run the gamut between awesome social media strategy, poor media strategy, and no strategy at all and sometimes it feels like there are more ways to get it wrong than to get it right. If you follow some basic tips, though, you can nail that social media strategy in a way that engages customers in a positive way. Don't ever ignore social media. Whenever someone has a gripe about you and your business, they might tell everyone except you. However, an attentive social marketing strategist can quickly find out what people are saying about the business and respond to it. Coca-Cola is one company that…
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Why You Have To Write Your Business Goals Down

The importance of writing your goals down. For one, not doing so makes it easier to forget just how important those goals are. But, there’s a lot more to it and there are some very important reasons why you have to write them down. In this blog post, I’d like to share my thoughts on goal planning and setting with the overall goal being to inspire you to write down your own goals going forward. By the way, this works for any type of goal, not just the business ones. The simple act of setting a goal, even if it’s just in your mind, doubles your chances of success. That’s a pretty big deal in itself, isn’t it? If you take it a step further, and actually write those goals down, you’re 10 times as likely to succeed. Read that last line again please. That’s right…you can increase your chances of making it by 1,000%. That’s mind-blowing. There are a few different mental and psychological processes going on here that start to give us a glimpse into why it is so important and …
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