Starting Up
Business Plan Template
Startup Connection offers a better solution to cookie-cutter versions of business development – real customized plans that “fit” your business and don’t get shelved. Our Business Roadmap is designed as part of a challenging process to define the business and ensure its success.
Write a Winning Sales Pitch
We believe the skill of communicating the passion for your business to others — in the form of a refined “elevator speech” — is a pure necessity to your success.
Getting You Started
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 improve your business and help you focus on urgent components.
The templates provide assistance in defining information needs and developing a process to help plan your business. 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!
Are You Prioritizing Innovation Over Skill?
Skills are the groundwork for excellence. And the mastery of any skill requires time and commitment. While innovation is necessary for progress, skills are...
We Need More Transformative Change
What does it take to change? As in, truly change? It is said that it takes 3 weeks or more to turn an action into a habit. And, the older we get, the more set...
Simple Ways to Improve Your Business
Currently, everyone seems overwhelmed with stress, change, complexity, uncertainty, and disruption. The pandemic, inflation, politics, crime, and a general...
How Things Change is Just as Important as What Things Change
A year or so ago, I wrote about how fast change is occurring and how we needed to adapt faster. At that time the pandemic, unemployment, economic growth, and...
Make Goal Setting and Measurement Work for You
What’s an easy decision? Do they exist? Perhaps, deciding whether you want chocolate or vanilla ice cream… You have two choices, which do you prefer? Seems...
Recognize and Avoid Denial in Business Decisions
If you think are you aren’t susceptible to denial, you’re in denial. It’s a difficult thing to manage, compared to simple lying, because much of denial can be...
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
