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!
If Business Risk Makes It Comfortable, You’re Denying What’s Possible
Anyone needs to read the The Path of Least Resistance as a way to drive them toward creative growth, authored by Robert Fritz and the master of one of the...
The Holy Trinity of Brand Development: Features, Benefits, and Advantages
Say what you want about trademarks and logos. They have their place. But if you're really looking for brand development, making sure it's successful in the...
Going Against the Grain: Why Listening to the Business Outlier Might Be the Push You Need
These days business just isn't about playing it safe or going with the status quo. Chances need to be taken. Such is the case for what is commonly called...
How to Balance Intuition and Analytics
The increased use of analytics versus intuition in decision-making has been significant in improving the understanding and results of decision-making. The...
Innovation Is Not Easy
Everyone talks about creating an environment that encourages innovation, change, openness, new ideas, etc. In many cases this enthusiasm for innovation,...
Excellence in your Business Planning
What is “Excellence?” I recently asked several professionals to answer the question: What is Excellence? Respondents included teachers of developmentally...
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
