Strategic Planning – The Three Key Elements

For businesses strategic planning is a concept, a mind set and a process. It is looking down the road at what’s around the bend. When everyone around your place is focusing on what’s coming you will all recognize it in time to take advantage of it.As...

Who Do You Think You ARE Anyway?

In order to write a vision for your business, the first step is identifying who you really are and what is important to you.Not what you DO or have been doing, but who you ARE.You may be doing things that are really not in alignment with what is important to you in...

The 10 New Rules of Branding

By Derrick Daye on Walmart 1) Brands that influence culture sell more; culture is the new catalyst for growth.Look at Google. They are changing the way we behave online. Nike is a brand that has become a part of all culture. If you get into that split screen, you...

Survey: Small companies cut hiring plans

The share of small businesses planning to hire in the near future fell in February, the survey by the National Federation of Independent Business says, underlining weakness in overall job growth during the month. NFIB says 13% of the 725 small companies surveyed last...