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Marketing Templates
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Operations Templates
Inventory and merchandising plans to understand the requirements and potential of the components of your business.
Understand the Market & Push Growth
Here you can find some essential “How-To’s” and planning templates for small business owners and entrepreneurs. The goals are to provide critical information, tips, and recommendations to understand the market, marketing programs, and the internet to profitably grow your business. A critical component of these materials is show the integration of factors like price, product, and service on success.
These templates provide assistance in defining information needs and developing a process to help understand the marketing potential of your business. Each template contains an introduction and a template that you can use to analyze your data. Don’t worry if you can’t answer or understand everything since this process has a somewhat steep learning curve. That’s why I’m here — to help you get it right!
Parameters: The Difference Between Success and Failure
We can get so obsessed with strategy, our great idea, and finance, etc. that we ignore parameters which can be critical to our success. One of the biggest...
Capitalizing on Potential
If I had to sum up potential in a single photo, it’d be this photo of my beautiful granddaughter at her college graduation. Watching her walk across the stage...
5 Ways to Increase Focus
We surround ourselves with too much and superfluous information that complicates decision making and frequently makes it less effective. As a result, we are...
Embracing Challenge: How Learning from Failure Trumps Easy Wins
The challenge of learning through trial and error, not just getting a pat on the back, often leads to better outcomes. When I was a kid, all the neighborhood...
Rationality Can Be an Opportunity
I dedicate this article in memoriam of Daniel Kahneman, a champion of rationality, who recently passed away at the age of 92. This piece reflects on his...
How to Capitalize on Outlier Opportunities
In a world that often feels like it's on repeat, the allure of outliers—the unexpected, the overlooked, the underappreciated—beckons with the promise of...
Videos
Passion & Reality
The Chicken and The Egg
Do You Have a Marketing Plan?
Guides
How to Write a Successful Business Plan
How to Write a Winning Sales Pitch
Hints to Make Sense of Current Business Trends
Elements of a Successful Merchandising Plan
Templates
Operating Profit Model Template
Service Income Analysis Form
Marketing Plan Template
Product Analysis Template
Sales Analysis Template
Financial Roadmap Template
