You Have a Plan
You have a business plan if you have a business. What would you tell people about your business at a party?
Jim Horan thinks “business plans don’t have to be long to be good.”
A single page can contain all of the essential elements you need to tell your employees, board of directors, potential partners, or banker where you are taking your business and how you are going to get there. (p. 17)
The One Page Business Plan will help you:
- Clarify your thinking
- Get focused
- Prevent wasting your time and your resources
- Stop distractions
- Put it in writing
It doesn’t have to take six months of agonizing meetings, pounds of written documents, endless spreadsheets, and complicated flowcharts to produce a meaningful business plan. It also does not take an army of expensive consultants. A few well-constructed phrases and short sentences can say a lot. The examples in this book will demonstrate that for you. (p. 25)
My Experience with One Page Business Plan
I have used The One Page Business Plan to summarize and then flesh out my ideas for a series of major business building projects and marketing plans. It’s been a very simple and effective process and the results are readily understandable. (Don’t you have someone in your life who wants to understand what you are trying to do–but doesn’t?)
This planning process didn’t take up much time. It provided me with an easy to follow, step by step, quick way to get my ideas down on paper. I’ve got a reference point for communicating about my business–and it’s easy to change my plan as I change my thinking.
An important thought in the morning can be in your plan that afternoon. (p.25)
Home Business Internet Marketing: True or False?
There are hundreds, thousands and even millions of prospective customers or clients looking for you and what you and your business has to offer and you can connect with them on the Internet.
It’s true.
Most e-commerce ventures (online businesses) fail.
Also, true.
My advice after playing around with internet marketing for a couple of years (with not great results) is to find a step-by-step approach. A step-by-step approach to building an internet marketing structure and system.
Remember? Marketing is a process, not just a project. You are looking for tools and technical know-how. Even more important than that:
You are looking for a step by step approach to developing an internet marketing action plan. Your plan is a road map to putting together the pieces: all your internet marketing strategies which are the vehicles you will use to connect with your target audience and communicate information that is valuable to them.
You are also looking for help with combining your internet marketing strategies and implementing them so that you get results.
True or false?
You want to convert people searching the Internet to prospective customers to buyers to raving fans!
True, right?
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
There are lots of people out there on the Net who will offer to show you how to make millions of dollars doing Internet marketing. Many people who are beginners in this arena have spent hundreds and thousands of dollars and have become frustrated with their failed attempts. Don’t join them.
Here at Simply Home Business, we are enrolled at Renegade University. The outstanding benefits of the Renegade University are:
- The step-by-step approach that really does begin at The Beginning
- Mike Klingler’s excellent teaching skills
- The Renegade Marketing philosphy and Attraction Marketing approach.
Renegade University emphasizes providing value to your prospects and building a list to which you provide valuable information while marketing to them over the length of a long and mutually beneficial relationship.
True or False?
Renegade University is free.
True. The first level of training you receive is free. It is based on the work of Ann Sieg and her e-book, The Renegade Network Marketer as well as Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring. If you’d like a taste of their work (try before you buy), look here:
To learn how to apply Attraction Marketing, Renegade Marketing and Magnetic Sponsoring principles in a step-by-step guide, get started at Renegade University.
