Posts Tagged ‘planning’

Operational Metrics and the Financial Plan

Part Four of a Five-Part Series by ActSeed’s Dan Jacobson In my previous article I provided an approach for creating integrated functional strategies and goals. This article describes how to use these functional strategies and goals as the input to define operational metrics and create a financial...

March 12th, 2010 | Planning & Preparation | Read More

Organizing the Process and Assessing Your Environment

Part Two of a Five-Part Series by ActSeed’s Dan Jacobson In my previous article I highlighted the importance of understanding the needs and interests of your audience targets. The next step is putting a process in place to develop and iterate your plan, including assessment of your business...

December 7th, 2009 | Planning & Preparation | Read More

Business Planning: What’s New? A 5-Part Series

“Results-Driven” Business Planning – New Perspectives for Success As more Americans seek to create new businesses later in their career they might benefit from a refresher on the all important business plan. I’m writing this series of articles to guide people who have prepared some form of...

November 17th, 2009 | Planning & Preparation | Read More

Are You Prepared?

Entrepreneurs need a framework that addresses critical factors for preparing their business for market while being involved in a dynamic community full of people who want to contribute. They don’t need another unstructured “advice blog”; they need to communicate preparedness to those who matter. In...

October 1st, 2009 | Planning & Preparation | Read More

Is Your New Business Sitting On a Solid Foundation?

The boring planning and preparation stuff is critical. It shouldn’t consume all of your time and money, but you can’t ignore it either. Construction metaphors abound here. How many of us entrepreneurs are constructing our businesses only from the outside, in? To stay with my metaphor,...

September 25th, 2009 | Planning & Preparation | Read More