Business Strategy Articles

Planning you business strategy is important. You need to know what you want to achieve, the paths you want to travel, how step along these paths, and how to keep and motivate the people who will help you down each path.

A business strategy encompasses a broad amount of information. It’s all the things you need to do behind the scenes to support your marketing strategy and keep operations running smooth. It’s all the things for planning and to keep your customer centered business running friction free.

Below are articles and tools (from most recent to oldest) to help you with your strategic business plans.

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3 Marketing Numbers You Need To Know

1-2-3 Customer Lifetime Value

Marketing and selling come down to two fundamentals: psychology and math. The psychology piece is the sexy stuff. We love learning how our minds work and how it’s easily tricked. And, of course, how to use these to influence people. What may be more important is the math. The math tells you when the sexy

Your Real Business Is Selling

No Sale

If I ask you what you do for a living, how would you answer? Are you a dentist? Marketer? Financial advisor? Lawyer? Plumber? Consultant? Hotel manager? Business owner? (fill in the blank)? What happens if you can’t sell your products and services? Nothing. You’re are, in reality, a salesperson. Everyone’s a salesperson. In Dan Pink’s

4 Simple Questions To Amplify The “Why” Behind Your Goals

I will win

You can say you want many things. But unless you really think it through to the end, you’re just spinning your wheels.

Here are 4 questions to amplify the “why I want to achieve goal X” for next year. Take out a pen and paper, or open up a text document beside this and start answering these questions.

3 Simple Questions To Create An Incredible Year

10 minutes for success?

It’s time to start planning ways you can make 2013 your best year ever. Unless you’re on the Mayan, “end of the world” kick.

If not, we’re riding down a greased slide into 2013 and it’s time to start planning. These 3 questions will help you determine what you want, make sure it’s realistic, and how to overcome the obstacles

Beware Of Tiny Elephants!

tiny elephants - time management

Elephants at a distance are tiny. You can look across the plain, over the green field of grass, and admire the peaceful, tiny elephants. You’re safe. They can’t hurt you. Right? The distance makes it safe. Then you notice the elephants are moving towards you. As they march closer, they become larger and larger. You

“All Of Us At Some Point Wonder If What We’re Doing Matters.”

You Are A Writer by Jeff Goins

For many people, I think it will be a punch in the gut when they read the line, "All of us at some point wonder if what we’re doing matters."

Almost everyone I’ve met on this rock called Earth has something inside them crying for that feeling. There’s a desire beat down and holding them back from doing something that matters.