“Every organization is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it’s getting.” —  Stephen Covey Dear Reader, Imagine building a house . . . without a blueprint! Imagine driving across the country . . . without a map! Imagine growing your business . . . without a business plan! Just this past weekend, a client and I created a plan for his financial services business. This week he’s using it! Do you need a plan, but have procrastinated, thought you couldn’t afford hiring a pro to help you, or dreaded a long process?  Your plan can be completed, affordably with help from an expert AND ready to use by Monday morning!  View my End of Summer Business

The world I grew up in, Wall Street, compensated me for my 16 hour days with a salary plus incentives. At the end of the firms fiscal year, I was called into the office and asked what I thought I should get for the year's profit.   My boss had other ideas and I would find out what those ideas were at bonus time.  My overall salary for the year was based on my performance for the year plus a few other things -- all based on results. I LOVED that pay system. Today, I'm offering a total of 10 new clients a year of EduCoaching(TM) where you'll compensate me largely for the results you see in your

#6. 4 Steps to Delegate Effectively What do you successfully delegate? Book keeping, marketing, proofreading. I have also, in the past hired a web designer, graphic designer and a personal assistant. What suggestions, tips or advice you have for other small business owners and entrepreneurs who are struggling to start delegating effectively themselves? You have to let go to grow whether that’s grow personally or professionally. My clients, who don’t delegate, take a big first risk by hiring me. However, it’s common that in a few months, my fee is being paid by the additional income they’re making. Business development type consultants — coaches, branding specialists, marketing professionals, and web designers are like that! My clients

Here are two Business Vision Statements I recently created with planners.  I used One Page Business Plan(R) materials and lots of questions to create each vision. By 04/1/12 grow ABC, FA into a relationship-driven Pittsburgh Financial Advisory & Planning Practice managing 100M in assets with $510K gross revenues.  We provide short and long term wealth management services that start with a complimentary comprehensive financial plan.  Services include managing a portfolio of investments such as stocks, bonds, CDs, mutual funds, lines of credit, and insurance products for hands-on, detailed oriented, left brained business owners, executives and retirees, primarily in the fields of engineers, accounting, and college professors.   By 4/15/2012 grow XYZi Financial into a thriving independent Boston

So we’re well into 2011, and I’m sure you’re on fire, planning your work and working your plan in this glistening new year.  What’s that?  You didn’t write a 2011 strategic business plan?  I can’t say I’m surprised.  In my 25 years of helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses, only four of my clients had a plan when I met them; most of those plans lived in digital suspension, sucking the megabytes from their computers. You need a plan; but don’t just take my word for it.  In her article, “Why Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller than Men-Owned Ones?” (Wall Street Journal 17 May 2010), http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704688604575125543191609632.html   Dr. Sharon Hadary indicates the only factors that statistically predict successful business