April 3rd, 2008
As a business coach I often hear about procrastination issues. I too have been procrastinating recently regarding this blog. Luckily I’m a trained professional and coached myself right out of it. Won’t be perfect (never is) but let’s get started and see what happens.
Many of my clients have ideas formulated, a business plan (or ten) and desire that next step. But not knowing where the “tenth” step is somehow prevents the “first” step.
Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) used a great analogy. You can drive from Maine to California at night with just your headlights on.
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April 3rd, 2008
Business development includes a number of techniques designed to grow an economic enterprise. Such techniques include, but are not limited to, assessments of marketing opportunities and target markets, intelligence gathering on customers and competitors, generating leads for possible sales, followup sales activity, formal proposal writing and business model design. Business development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as marketing, sales, information management and customer service. For a sound company able to withstand competitors, business development never stops but is an ongoing process.
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