Operations & Growth

Marketing Templates

Startup Connection offers statements, marketing plans, service business forecasting, and merchandising plans.

Marketing Plan Template
Sales Analysis Template
Competitive Analysis
Internet Sensitivity
US Demographics Summary

Operations Templates

Inventory and merchandising plans to understand the requirements and potential of the components of your business.

Product Analysis Template
Merchandising Plan Template

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 mistakes I see startup owners make is failing to consider parameters as their North Star. “If you don’t know...

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 to accept her diploma, I was struck by the realization of all she (and her fellow graduates) have overcome:...

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 often incapable of determine what really matters and overwhelmed by the impossible task of focusing on it all....

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 children, regardless of age, would play sports together. The little ones, like me, hardly stood a chance...

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 profound influence on our understanding of rationality. Kahneman's work inspired a critical examination of the...

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