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- Are You a Design Driven Landscape Company? Introducing the Upward Spiral
To charge or not to charge for landscape design work? I absolutely LOVE this topic, unlike most landscape contractors who would rather discuss the latest model of skid steer rather than discuss charging design fees. As design/build professionals we MUST charge for our design work. I'll explain why in a moment. - Is Your Business Investment Ready
Being 'investment' ready is about being able to present this value to potential investors in a way that is common business practice. The better-presented your business assets, value and operations are, the more prepared you will be to discuss opportunities with potential investors or acquirers. When we talk about 'investment' we're typically talking about venture capital, or equity investors. - Challenge Or Opportunity - How to Communicate For Optimum Outcomes
To be in business means to be in relationships with lots of people: your employees, suppliers, vendors, and clients. It's no surprise that when things are not going the way you would like them to, your preconceived conclusion may hit a detour. - 14 Pillars to Business - Building Breakthroughs
When you set out to build your business, did you know your business was going to break the million dollar mark in revenues in a year? Two years? Five years? - Reaching Revenue Goals - An Index Card Plan
Do you like Halloween enough to have a replay of it when you visit your annual revenue figure on December 31? If you want a treat, instead of a trick, when you cast your eyes on the very bottom line at the end of the year, you may need to do a few things now. - Some Basic Ways to Improve Your Business Liquidity
The liquidity of an asset can be determined by taking into account the convenience, when converting it into cash at any given time. For example, an asset is highly liquid if it can be switched into cash quickly and easily, whereas an asset is less liquid if it takes lots of time and efforts to convert it into cash. Liquidity is an important factor, which is considered by investors whenever they are looking to invest. - Ready For the Boom? Planning For Extraordinary Business
Have you ever walked into a department store, gotten your items and headed toward the line, where there were 15 or so people waiting to check out? How do you feel when you notice that there are 10 lanes that are unoccupied, and no one there to operate them? If you are like me, you are probably thinking to yourself that someone needs to open up another line or two and get these people out the door. - Service Business Plan - Differences From a Product Business Plan
When creating a service business plan, either start with a business plan template created specifically for a service business to save time and worry, or take great care to adjust the plan to be appropriate for a service rather than a product. These are a few elements of the plan that will require changes. - Car Dealership Business Planning - Three Must-Haves
Your car dealership business plan should follow a standard business plan outline, offering few surprises in this regard. A few areas stand out as specific needs for a car dealer to persuade readers to invest in or lend to the company. - Service Business Plan - How to Demonstrate Service Quality
Questions associated with the quality of the service you provide must be answered to create a successful business plan. These questions include: How will service quality be measured? What controls will be in place to insure that quality is maintained? - Essentials of Risk Management
Risk management is a systematic process that involves identifying risks, quantifying and evaluating risks. Risk treatment involves steps to reduce the incidence or mitigate the impact of risks by exercising appropriate control mechanisms and also increase level of acceptability of risks. - Business Plan For a Beauty Salon - Cash Flow Decisions
Creating a business plan for your beauty salon presents the perfect opportunity for you to create a functioning cash flow statement (sometimes called the statement of cash flows). This will allow you to make key decisions about cash flow going forward. - Common Sense Series - The Power of Project Collaboration
The day will come when project collaboration between ownership groups will become commonplace. This is not only true for public/public and private/private partnerships but will become true eventually for public/private partnerships. - The Art of Building Your Strategic Plan
You've made the leap. You've decided that your current business course is not delivering the results you desire. You need to map out that perfect new strategy that will turn your business into the next great success story. - Optimal Exit Strategy - Boom-er Bust Era
The collapse of the credit markets in the 4th quarter of 2008 resulted in a global recession from which only some economies have emerged 1 year later. Even with a full recovery, however, there will still be an estimated 10 million - 12 million privately owned businesses presented for sale in the next 10 - 15 years. It is estimated that fewer than half of these businesses will sell, with smaller businesses faring the worst.The most effective way for a business owner to ensure a successful exit, is to develop and execute a Business Exit Plan. - 27 Pages to Prosperity!
Picture it! You're sitting by yourself in your office, or maybe you are out at a restaurant waiting on friends. You suddenly have a 'eureka' moment, or to kill time waiting you begin to draft some business ideas and plans out on a napkin or a scratch piece of paper. You get done scribbling out your ideas and plans, or your friends show up, and you stick that napkin or paper in your pocket or desk drawer. Unfortunately for most, they are never to be seen again. - Operations Manuals - Who Needs One?
Who needs an Operations Manual? Every business, whether extremely successful or just starting out. An Operations Manuals give your company structure, create employee accountability, and create consistency throughout the organization. At the very least, it is a first step to a day off... - 6 Steps to Help Develop Your Business Vision
Without a clear vision of what you want to do, where you want to go, or what you, success will be much more difficult - even impossible - to achieve. How can you know what to do - what actions to take - if you don't know where you're going? - 25 Days of Christmas = 25 Days of Planning!
With most businesses ending their fiscal year at the end of December it is now time for them to close out 2009 with a bang and prepare to cheer in 2010. To do this most effectively there are a few critical things you should focus on doing over the next 25 or so days of December. - Strategy is Far More Simple Than Most Experts Wish to Admit
Every day another dozens of articles on strategic planning emerge discussing everything how strategy is your unique value to valuation to the overall planning process. What these experts fail to realize is that strategy is simple because of the origins of this word. - You Can't Afford Not to Plan
Everyone has heard of at least one time management tool to help focus on priorities, schedule tasks and events or delegate assignments. These all focus on to