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Out of The Cubicle and Into Business
114 Questions to Answer Before You Make the Move from a Corporate or University Job into Your Own Business!
 

Grow Your Business

Ready to tackle the growth challenge?

What Business Are You In?

Business growth requires the ability to:

  • reach your target customer
  • connect with the customer in a meaningful way - demonstrating you can:
    • solve a problem
    • satisfy a need
    • convey status
  • manage the resources (people, time, money)
  • set priorities
  • measure results

If your business isn't achieving the degree of success you would like, then determining what needs to change is the first step to improved results.

How do you decide what changes to make?

  • Analyze your past and current results
  • Evaluate existing processes
  • Determine who your best customers are
  • Understand where your best customers come from
  • Know what has worked and what hasn't based upon objective criteria

How do you improve results?

  • Establish objectives
  • Identify strategies (not just tactics)
  • Understand the needs, opportunities, and gaps in your existing operations

 

Business is about more than the product, the technology, or the service you are providing.  It is also about the business model, the business plan, and how you execute the day-to-day operations of the business.

Every day the complexities of going into business and staying in business are increasing. The business and its processes, its competitive edge, is as much about being innovative in the board room, the back office, and the marketing, as it is about "the product".

The Entrepreneur Resource Education Workshops include:

  • Business plans
  • Building Viability, Visibility, Capability and Credibility
    • New Businesses
    • Turnarounds/Troubled
    • Established
  • Budgets
  • Pricing for Profitability and Market Position
  • From Technology Guru to Entrepreneur
  • Overhead or Investment? Looking at Your Expenses with a Business Perspective
  • Maximizing Every Dollar - Return on Investment
  • Building a Business that Succeeds
  • Advisors, Consultants, Employees, and Contractors - Who, What, When, How, and Why (or Why Not) to Have Them
  • Performance - Getting Employees and Yourself to Hit the Targets
  • The Competitive Edge - A Business Model and a Plan