Category: Business Strategy

Planning your business strategy is important. You need to know what you want to achieve, the paths you want to travel, how step along these paths, and how to keep and motivate the people who will help you down each path.

A business strategy encompasses a broad amount of information. It’s all the things you need to do behind the scenes to support your marketing strategy and keep operations running smooth. It’s all the things for planning and to keep your customer centered business running friction free.

Below are articles and tools (from most recent to oldest) to help you with your strategic business plans.

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Read around. If you don’t find something about the business strategy you’re looking for, just contact me with your questions and I’ll do what I can to help.

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So Many Moving Parts

As a kid I was given my great grandfather’s “railroad watch.” It is an elegant and old pocket watch. When I open the back, you can see some of the gears and moving pieces. There are many, many moving parts. The beauty of this watch is how everything works together. Each gear is meticulously crafted […]

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The Struggle To Say "No"

I interviewed Jon Nastor for the Fail To Learn podcast. Three years ago Jon started VelocityPage, one of the first landing page builders for WordPress. And, it was a great product. Over the last few years his focus has changed. Jon started a couple of podcasts. He runs Hack The Entrepreneur which interviews entrepreneurs to […]

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Hooked By The Bait Called Shiny Objects

Like me, you probably get a lot of emails and promotions from other marketers. Most seem to be promoting some form of a “next big thing.” When I first started online there were dozens, if not hundreds, of people selling ideas on how to game Google search rankings. Over time it shifted to Twitter, Google+ […]

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I'm Too Aggressive

Last week I sent an email that caused a few people to unsubscribe. And it was a good thing. I told them it’s okay to unsubscribe and gave them a big blue link (in case they didn’t understand how to scroll to the bottom of the email and click the link there). A few people […]

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A Turnkey Business Failure

It's easy, they said. Buy the machines. Place them in the stores. While you're sleeping and doing other things your business will deliver cold hard cash. That's what they said. That's what they sold. And it became Ryan Healy's expensive business education. Ryan is a copywriter, and a damn fine direct response copywriter. And years […]

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Your Don't Do List

One of the hardest things for many people to do is say, "No." This is most often true with tiny elephants. The reasons vary from person to person. You want to be helpful. You don't want to let people down. You don't want to miss the opportunity. Whatever your reason, saying "Yes" to one thing […]

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