Ok. We all know how planning is helpful to the growth of businesses. So let’s put all the excuses on the table. Let me know if I missed any excuse you’ve told yourself! Plans are ONLY for companies that need financing. My plan is going to change My business is too small. I don’t want to create a monster business. I don’t have time to create a 50-page plan. I make up my business as I go along! I don’t want to make much money anyway. I’ll never use it again anyway. I don’t think ahead. I don’t want to be a big company. Write it? It’s all in my head where it belongs. You can’t

Businesses can do well without planning, many do. However, to become a high performing organization, to grow rapidly, a company really needs a planning and monitoring process. Got yours? I sure do have mine!Back in 2000 a major shift in my business occurred when I came across the One Page Business Plan® process. Now, don’t let the simplicity of the name fool you. While the process helps you create a business and marketing plan – its much more.  Help you diagnosis how every area of your business is doing.  Clarify your thinking and focus on the elements that are the most critical to your success.  Test your ideas without having to put large amounts of cash

Melodie Leidrich, the Marketing Manager of  The One Page Business Plan Company  recently shared some great news with me. We are very excited to share the news with you.., The Assistant Editor of O, The Oprah Magazine, called very excited to have just learned about OPBP from one of the creators clients who has been on the Oprah show twice., provides a website link to sample business plans. And they were in a panic to replace these business plans… which were way too complicated and outdated. They were publishing a new book, O’s Big Book of Happiness, which is a compilation of articles from the magazine. One of the articles in the book, titled Your Great Idea,

- easier than you think, critical to prolonged success-and on one page! Failing to plan is planning to fail. This simple and straightforward adage really says it all. Why don’t business owners plan? Smart people, ambitious people, people who are excited and passionate about creating their own mini-empires – don’t create plans! Why not? Well, beyond the basic “don’t know how” and “why do I need it?” reasons, here are other common scenarios: 1. Avoiding pain? For some people, the idea of writing a business plan makes them long for something less painful-such as a root canal! Most small business owners keep their plans in their own heads instead. But working through a planning process, such

This is a story, about a business owner whose business profits sucked. She had no business plan, no marketing plan written down, but had heard, quite a bit, how creating one would help. So she moved 3000 miles from “home” and three months later, came across an all day One Page Business Plan(r) seminar that had a profound effect on her life and business. Three years later, she taught the class in same exact place. This is a very true “story”. So never start with a blank page. Create your One Page Plan soon to help your business. And once you’ve created it, it’s simple to update! 1. You’ll choose new opportunities more wisely and waste