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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!
Maneuvering through a Pandemic: Baby Steps or Big Change?
Functioning during a pandemic is the ultimate conundrum. While constant uncertainty, risk, and complexity complicates (and slows) every decision, the pressing...
The New Normal: What Will It Be and When will it Happen?
At some point, through everything COVID, we’ve all wondered: when will things return to normal? The short answer is: never. Things won’t (and can’t) return to...
Adapting to the Pandemic
The pandemic is rapidly teaching us that personal, organizational, and structural change is going to be tougher and faster than expected. Consequently, we...
Analytics : Pay Attention Then Disregard Everything
Seems a bit like an oxymoron, no? Well, that’s exactly what analytics have become these days: an oxymoron. A real conundrum. On one hand, data helps us...
Stereotypes Don’t Have To Be Ignorant, You Shmuck
Now, before anyone gets up on a soapbox with an opinion about whether or not stereotyping is “politically correct,” let’s just take a step back. Of course...
Keep It Simple, Stupid
Henry David Thoreau said it best: “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” Despite the universal acknowledgement that his words are both wise and sound, we...
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
