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May be you awoke one morning with a fantastic idea for starting an online business and you hadn’t a doubt in your mind that you could turn it into a huge success. Despite all ideas floating around in your head at the moment you don’t feel yourself nearly prepared for the start.

You have no reason to be afraid of. Internet may be revolutionizing the way the world does business, but it shouldn’t change the approach to writing a business plan. Whether you’re starting an online venture or a traditional small business, the basic administration elements are the same:

<> a description of the business,
<> a marketing plan,
<> a management plan, and
<> a financial plan.

The most effective strategy at this stage of the game would be to start writing things down. The only difference is that you should consider each element in the context of a web based activity and to develop a business plan that can’t lose.

1. The description of the business.
This is the first section you must write because it drives the remainder of your plan. First of all, this section describes why you want to be in business and it is a good opportunity for you to evaluate your skills and motivation. Make sure you are ready mentally, emotionally and financially to begin this business. Then you should state what is your venture’s mission and what you’re going to do.

2. The marketing plan.
A marketing and promotion strategy should be made part of your starting planning phase in spite of the fact it will changed and many times over the life of your business. To find the ways you’ll follow make the ideal client profile and then develop a customer service policy. Take into your consideration the similar products existing on the market to have a general picture. If you are a newbie in online marketing, think that purchasing a good Internet marketing course will pay big dividends in the future

3. The management plan.
It’s important to set goals, both long term and short term, but set reasonable goals. Think very carefully about how much time you are able to invest in developing and maintaining your business. Then assign a term for every goal.

4. The financial plan.
You need a budget. For good advises or professional tools you must pay. What is free is time consuming and often efficientless. You are investing in your future. If this is not your first goal in your business plan, then reconsider your reasons for running an online venture.

A final piece of advice.
It’s amazing how quickly you can forget something that you thought would stay with you forever, so keep notes on all your ideas

Valerian Dinca is a freelance writer specialized in items like home business planning

I’ll tell you a little secret. Back in the mid 90’s I actually used to go for weeks at a time without checking my email. When I finally did, there would be a whopping 20 email messages. A little note from a pal. The occasional work related message. The joke of the day. 20 whole messages, in a week, can you believe it?

Now I get 20 messages in like 5 minutes. Do you ever miss the “good ole’ days” of email? When you could actually sit down, read and handle everything in a small amount of time? For many, what used to be a great convenience has become just another task to tackle.

No, you can’t give up email cold turkey. It’s here to stay. But it doesn’t have to be so hard or overwhelming. Here are 8 easy ways to cut down on the constant shuffle and overwhelming amount of email you handle every day. And I’m not just talking about spam filters.

Step One: Create an Email Process

Don’t get stuck in the email cycle where you end up reading the same email several times and still don’t act on it. Pick a specific time to check your mail. Maybe once or twice an hour. Read it once, complete what you need from it and then move on.

Step Two: Use Instant Messenger
Instant messenger is not just for kids chatting about the happenings of the 8th grade. Rather than shooting off an email and waiting for a response or having a conversation by sending emails back and forth, try using instant messenger. It’s great for quick check-ins and getting answers fast. Sign up for a free messenger service like MSN, give your contact info to those you communicate with on a regular basis (like your assistant) and talk in real time rather than filling up your in-box.

Step Three: Try a Wiki
No, this is not a Hawaiian tropical drink. Are you stuck in the trap where you are constantly getting the latest version of a contract or the latest redesign of a design? If you’re in a place where several people are sending different versions of documents back and forth, it might make sense for you to try a Wiki. A Wiki is a software program that allows users to create and update web pages easily and rapidly. This creates a central location where several people can log in, see and work on the same document. No more emails back and fourth. Inc. magazine recommends jotspot.com. See if it’s for you.

Step Four: Schedule a meeting
Got stuff to talk about? Don’t send an email. Rather than spreading out your requests over what could be a couple dozen emails, schedule a quick 10 minute meeting. Quickly review what needs to be covered, answer all questions at one time and move on.

Step Five: Put an FAQ page on your website
Do you find yourself getting the same questions from your customers over and over again? Try adding the answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) on your website. Or even be more proactive and send the FAQ to new clients when they buy your product or sign up for your service.

Step Six: Remember the phone
Hey remember that old fangled invention called the telephone? Sometimes it seems easier to just shoot off an email, but the phone can dramatically cut down on the number of emails ending up in your inbox. For example, a client of mine recently told me she made a coffee date with a colleague. What could have been 3 minutes on the phone comparing schedules turned into 8 back and forth email’s trying to pick the perfect date to talk over chai lattes. Don’t fill up your box if you don’t need to.

Step Seven: Automatically sort your email
Most email programs allow you to sort and highlight automatically. Learn to use features like Outlook rules so you can quickly identify those messages that are most important to you. For instance, I have a client who set up a rule that sends all website leads to a special folder. This doesn’t cut down on the number of emails coming in, but it sure makes it’s a whole lot easier for his assistant (and NOT him) to process those leads.

Step Eight: Use multiple email addresses
Get lots of newsletters and announcements? Set up a special box just for those kinds of mailers so that you can read them when you want to. Again, doesn’t cut down on the number of email’s coming through, but makes it easier for you to get to the items you want to see first.

Make email fun again. It doesn’t have to be so overwhelming.

© 2005 Beth Schneider. Want to reprint this article, feel free as long as you include the following: Beth Schneider, Chief Infopreneur of Process Prodigy, is a business process consultant who helps solo-entrepreneurs, small business owners and network marketers who want to systemize their business to increase profits, increase productivity and grow their business without having to give up the family oriented, flexible, balanced lifestyle they desire. Beth works one-on-one with her clients, offers home study courses, and teleclass boot camps. For more information visit http://www.processprodigy.com and sign up for your FR*EE 5- Step Process Starter Kit and FR*EE Process Tips.

Beth Schneider, Chief Infopreneur, uses her natural ability to create systems and motivate people, providing streamlined, effective and consistent processes and procedures.

Most companies that are worthy of raising venture capital have proprietary Intellectual Property (IP). In fact, the quality of the IP and the management team are often the two most important aspects of a venture capitalist’s investment decision. The challenge that many ventures face, however, is that most investors will not sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), and NDAs are critical to maintaining the proprietary nature of the IP. This article details the appropriate strategy for addressing proprietary IP in your business plan in order to attract investor attention while retaining the confidentiality of your inventions.

Focus on the Benefits of and Applications of the IP: The business plan should not discuss the confidential aspects of the IP. Rather, the plan should discuss the benefits of the IP. Remember that even the most amazing of technologies will not excite investors unless it has tangible benefits to customers.

The business plan first needs to discuss the products and services into which the IP will be integrated. It then must detail the benefits that these products and services have to customers and differentiate them from competitive products. When applicable, it is helpful to include non-confidential drawings and backup materials of the products and services in the Appendix.

Focus on Customer Needs and the Relevant Market Size: The business plan must also discuss how the benefits of the IP fulfill a large customer need. To accomplish this, the plan needs to detail customer wants and needs and prove that the company’s offerings specifically meet these needs.

Secondly, the plan needs to discuss the marketplace in which the IP is offered and the size of this marketplace. Critical to this analysis is determining the relevant market size. The relevant market size equals a company’s sales if it were to capture 100% of its specific niche of the market. For example, a medical device’s market size would not be the trillion dollar healthcare market, but rather the sales of all competing medical devices.

Focus on Competition and Competitive Differentiation: Your business plan must also prove that your IP is better than competitive inventions. In identifying competitors, note that listing no or few competitors has a negative connotation. It implies that there may not be a large enough customer need to support the company’s products and/or services. On the other hand, should there be too many competitors, then the market may be too saturated to support the profitability of a new entrant. The answer — any company that also serves the customer needs that you serve should be considered a competitor.

The business plan should detail both the positive and negative aspects of competitors’ IP and products/services and validate that your offerings are either superior in general, or are superior in serving a specific customer niche.

Prove that you can Execute on the Opportunity: As importantly as proving the quality of the IP and that a vast market exists for its applications, the business plan most prove that the company can successfully execute on the opportunity.

The plan should detail the company’s past accomplishments, including descriptions and dates when prior funding rounds were received, products and services were launched, revenue milestones were reached, key partnerships were executed, etc.

When a company is a complete start-up, and no milestones have been accomplished, the plan should focus on past accomplishments of the management team as an indicator of the company’s ability to execute successfully.

Results: Getting Investors to Sign the NDA: If you are able to convince the prospective investor that the IP is integrated into a product/service which yields real customer benefits in a large market, then the investor will take the quality of the invention for granted when reviewing the plan. Later, during the due diligence process, the investor will review the actual technology. At this point, a discussion regarding signing an NDA would be appropriate.

Since its inception, Growthink Business Plans has developed over 200 business plans. Growthink clients have collectively raised over $750 million in financing, launched numerous new product and service lines and gained competitive advantage and market share. Growthink has become the firm of choice for venture capital firms, angel investors, corporations and entrepreneurs in the know. For more information please visit http://www.growthink.com

Conflicts pop up wherever we go. Conflicts happen at work with coworkers and bosses. Conflicts happen at home with our spouses, girlfriends/boyfriends, sons/daughters, neighbors, etc. Conflicts happen when we are out on the streets doing our daily errands, such as when encountering a rude person at the grocery line, or a pushy guy at the bar. To avoid conflict is impossible because we would literally have to lock ourselves in a box away from others to do so. No, instead we must learn the valuable skill of negotiating conflicts in a peaceful and productive way. This can be done in six steps and it’s a process which I call Street Negotiation, or the ability to negotiate a conflict wherever and whenever you encounter it. Street Negotiation is based on six-steps which has the acronym P.E.R.P.O.S. In this article, we’ll touch on these six-steps.

Step 1: Plan B

Whenever you engage in any type of conflict or negotiation, you always want to have a back up plan, or what I call a “plan B.” Your plan B is the best possible outcome you can get for yourself without having to deal with the person at all. So if I were to ask my boss for a raise because I need more money to support my growing family, my plan Bshould my boss refuse to negotiate with me, is to have another job offer already in hand. Having a plan B boosts your “acquired” negotiating power and equalizes the power field, especially when your opponent has more “positional” power than you do, such as in the case of your boss in this example. A police crisis negotiator may not always be able to “talk down” a hostage-taker, but their ability to confidently negotiate with that hostage-taker is grounded in their plan B of having the SWAT team on standby, ready to go full-breach and restore the situation by force. Your plan B is your main source of power.

Step 2: Emotional Control

Emotions, especially anger, cause reactions rather than logical responses to occur. Reactions are detrimental to any type of conflict resolution process because reactions are impulsive rather than rational in nature. Reactions are what our emotional mind thinks is the right choice to distance ourselves from emotional pain to our ego, but these reactions cause conflict escalation and more confrontation to result. A good example of a reaction is yelling or arguing with someone who doesn’t see something our way. In this example, we are allowing our emotional need to be heard and acknowledged to get in the way of our objective. Just remember the golden rule of conflict resolution: If they make you react, then they win and you lose.

Step 3: Reduce Their Tension

Now that you have your own emotions under control, now is the time to address the other side’s feelings and emotions. Remember that feelings need to be stabilized before the problem can even be addressed. Also remember that what you are feeling may not be what the other person is feeling. You may think that the situation is a simple misunderstanding, but the other person might think you are attacking them personally. Stabilize those feelings by actively listening to them without judging or taking offense at what they have to say, acknowledging their points, and empathizing with them.

Step 4: Persuade

After stabilizing the feelings and emotions involved, you now can direct your attention at meeting their needs and your own needs. The true essence of persuasion is reframing their wants into what they actually need. Positions are the demands, wants, and unreasonable requests that the other side makes. There is only one way to satisfy their position that they initially take, but there are many creative ways to satisfy their actual needs and interests. Their needs lie underneath their demands and it’s your job to start digging to uncover these needs. The ability to persuade is the ability to uncover their needs with question-asking and finding compatible interests that you both share.

For example, John might reject my idea on a company project and insist on his own way by shooting down my idea. While his position is “his way” versus “my way,” our interests are the samecompleting the project in the best way possible. Therefore my ability to persuade John is by not focusing on who’s method is the right one, but instead, focusing on our shared interest in getting the project done right. Objective criteria can be used as a fair standard to determine a fair direction to follow. Objective criteria involves a set benchmark or past decision to align your decision-making upon.

Step 5: Options

It’s a fundamental human need for autonomy in lifeto exercise the freedom of independence and choice. Therefore, by “expanding the pie” by creating mutually-satisfying options that work for both of you, you can create a win-win atmosphere. Instead of forcing your views on the other person, create as many workable options as possible for the other side to consider.

Step 6: Solutions

After giving your partner as many options that work for both of you as possible, allow them the freedom to choose which one they want the most. By guiding rather than forcing, you can lead them in your direction. But lets say, they are still uncooperative and things are not looking fruitful for you. Then your solution is to slowly introduce that plan B that you have in your pocket as an alternative to the negotiation. Often times, having this plan B will be enough to bring your partner back to the negotiating table. Whenever you feel that what you can get from the other side is LESS than what your plan B is, then your solution is to terminate negotiations and implement that plan B.

Key Points

P = Plan BHave one ready before engaging the conflict
E = Emotional ControlIf you react, then you lose the game
R = Reduce TensionStabilize the feelings involved first
P = PersuadeReframe their positions into compatible interests
O = OptionsCreate many options that satisfy both your needs
S = SolutionsLet them choose an option or use your plan B

Tristan Loo is the founder of the Synergy Institute, LLC. A personal & professional development company based out of San Diego County, Calfornia. Tristan is a former police officer, author, professional mediator, and conflict negotiator. He is the author of Street Negotiation–How to Resolve Any Conflict Anytime. Please visit our website at http://www.acrsonline.com/quickcard_details.php?c_id=9 or email us directly at info@acrsonline.com

Data mining is the art of extracting nuggets of gold from a set of seeminngly meaningless and random data. For the web, this data can be in the form of your server hit log, a database of visitors to your website or customers that have actually purchased from your web site at one time or another.

Today, we will look at how examining customer purchases can give you big clues to revising/improving your product selection, offering style and packaging of products for much greater profits from both your existing customers and an increased visitor to customer ratio.

To get a feel for this, lets take a look at John, a seller of vitamins and nutritional products on the internet. He has been online for two years and has made a fairly good living at selling vitamins and such online but knows he can do better but isn’t sure how.

John was smart enough to keep all customer sales data in a database which was a good idea because it is now available for analysis. The first step is for John to run several reports from his database.

In this instance, these reports include: repeat customers, repeat customer frequency, most popular items, least popular items, item groups, item popularity by season, item popularity by geographic region and repeat orders for the same products. Lets take a brief look at each report and how it could guide John to greater profits.

• Repeat Customers - If I know who my repeat customers are, I can make special offers to them via email or offer them incentive coupons (if automated) surprise discounts at the checkout stand for being such a good customer.

• Repeat Customer Frequency - By knowing how often your customer buys from you, you can start tailoring automatic ship programs for that customer where every so many weeks, you will automatically ship the products the customer needs without the hassle of reordering. It shows the customer that you really value his time and appreciate his business.

• Repeat Orders - By knowing what a customer repeatedly buys and by knowing about your other products, you can make suggestions for additional complimentaty products for the customer to add to the order. You could even throw in free samples for the customer to try. And of course, you should try to get the customer on an auto-ship program.

• Most Popular Items - By knowing what items are purchased the most, you will know what items to highlight in your web site and what items would best be used as a loss-leader in a sale or packaged with other less popular items. If a popular product costs $20 and it is bundled with another $20 product and sold for $35, people will buy the bundle for the savings provided they perceive a need of some sort for the other product.

• Least Popular Items - This fact is useful for inventory control and for bundling (described above.) It is also useful for possible special sales to liquidate unpopular merchandise.

• Item Groups - Understanding item groups is very important in a retail environment. By understanding how customer’s typically buy groups of products, you can redesign your display and packaging of items for sale to take advantage of this trend. For instance, if lots of people buy both Vitamin A and Vitamin C, it might make sense to bundle the two together at a small discount to move more product or at least put a hint on their respective web pages that they go great together.

• Item Popularity by season - Some items sell better in certain seasons than others. For instance, Vitamin C may sell better in winter than summer. By knowing the seasonability of the products, you will gain insight into what should be featured on your website and when.

• Item Popularity by Geographic Region - If you can find regional buying patterns in your customer base, you have a great opportunity for personalized, targeted mailings of specific products and product groups to each geographic region. Any time you can be more specific in your offering, your close percentage increases.

As you can see, each of these elements gives very valuable information that can help shape the future of this business and how it conducts itself on the web. It will dictate what new tools are needed, how data should be presented, whether or not a personal experience is justified (i.e. one that remembers you and presents itself based on your past interactions), how and when special sales should be run, what are good loss leaders, etc.

Although it can be quite a bit of work, data mining is a truly powerful way to dramatically increase your profit without incurring the cost of capturing new customers. The cost of being more responsive to an existing customer, making that customer feel welcome and selling that customer more product more often is far less costly than the cost of constantly getting new customers in a haphazard fashion.

Even applying the basic principles shared in this article, you will see a dramatic increase in your profits this coming year. And if you don’t have good records, perhaps this is the time to start a system to track all this information. After all, you really don’t want to be throwing all that extra money away, do you?

About The Author

Steven Chabotte is president of Big-Web Development Corp, specializing in the development of email productivity and marketing tools for the web. Steven can be reached at webmaster@maxsponder.com or you can visit our websites at http://www.maxsponder.com or http://www.maxsvc.com

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”

- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)

Ask yourself, “What is the audience feeling?” and “How would I like him/her to feel?” You need to be aware of:

How frequently you use positive emotional words.

How you moderate the use of negative emotional words.

Here are some ways that you can help your audience interact with each other.

• Room set-up. Be sure people face each other so they can talk to each other. Use round tables, rather than theatre or classroom style.

• Don’t permit cliques. Get your participants to sit with new people. Be innovative in your approach to seat people differently. Some examples: Use a colorful post it, group by hair color, or place cards.

• Use icebreakers. You can ask your audience to say a word that describes their week. Give them something else to talk about other than business when the meeting breaks.

• Setup small groups or dyads to discuss issues. This technique will get your participants to brainstorm with their partner or group.

Coaching point: Forced interaction engages people. What can be more fun?

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Time is money. Everybody knows this. Also in business. When you initiate a new project you are not yet certain about the money involved or about the scope of the functionality. One element however is set from the start: The end date.

“This project will be delivered on the first of April.” “The new product will be on the market the fifth of December.” “We want this as soon as possible (ASAP).” “Just in Time (JIT).”

But an even more important question is: “where are we going to?”

It is obvious that this question is more important, but nearly never posed at first, but most of the time when the fuel tank has been filled, ready to start the vehicle.

Imagine you are in the desert. There is no one to talk to. You are not able to communicate for hours or days. What should you do?
If you are lucky you have a compass. You may be uncertain whether you will make it for two more days, but at least you know what direction to choose.

This compass is what you need to manage your business. You do not want to ask everyday the same about whether this or that is in line with what we have previously discussed. You want a basic direction, something you can use to delegate.

An Organizational (Style) Compass can help you managing day-to-day and also strategic decisions. Rather than only making a planning that takes time to build and time to implement, you are better off with an instrument that you can use on a daily basis.
This compass shows you HOW you should organize. What the most preferable style of the organization is. You should be able to align (management) teams using such a compass.

And if you encounter new challenges, new information you gathered somewhere during a new project expedition, you are able to adjust the direction. And you are able to communicate the change in a very simple way.

© 2006 Hans Bool

Hans Bool is the founder of Astor White a traditional management consulting company that offers online management advice (by using the organizational Style Compass). Astor Online solves issues in hours what normally would take days.
You can apply for a free trial.

Work more efficiently and be more productive using these time-management tips:

1. Use a timer.
   Pick one item on your to-do list,
   set your timer for 15 minutes and get to work. Don’t worry about finishing, just get
   started. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and get nothing done at all. Tackling tasks in
   small chunks helps you stay focused.
2. Delegate.
   Don’t be afraid to enlist the help of others
   to complete projects that are time consuming or monotonous. Whether you have to
   hire a professional or your 10-year old son, do it.
3. Set goals.
   It’s much easier to get something done if
   you know exactly what it is you’re working toward. Set long-term goals first and
   then determine the short-term goals that will serve as stepping stones toward the
   larger goal.
4. Sort mail immediately.
   Mail can quickly become
   beastly, taking over every nook and cranny. When you get your mail each day, open
   it directly over the garbage can. Most likely, the bulk of it can be dropped right in.
   For the rest, determine what action needs to be taken and deal with it
   appropriately.
5. Make an appointment with yourself.
   Schedule at
   least one hour each day for “catch up” tasks such as work overflow, returning phone
   calls, answering emails etc. If you pencil time into your calendar, you’re less likely
   to let the mundane (but necessary) tasks pile up.
6. Become friends with your voice mail.
   Don’t be a slave
   to the phone. It really is OK to let voice mail get it once in a while.
7. Have an assembly line mentality.
   Complete like tasks
   together such as returning phone calls, answering email, sending out invoices etc.
   You’ll be much more productive.
8. Work when you’re most alert.
   Figure out your most
   productive time of day and set your work schedule accordingly.
9. Use checklists.
   For tasks that must be completed on
   a regular basis, make and keep simple checklists to ensure you don’t overlook
   important steps in the process.
10. Give everything a place.
    Don’t waste your time trying
    to find things that seemed to have disappeared. Organize your workspace so that
    every item has a home. It’ll make locating and storing items a snap.
11. Be prepared.
    Reserve 5 minutes at the end of each
    day to review your schedule for the next. That way, you’ll have no surprises.

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A lot is written about leadership and continues to be written about leadership. Most will agree that leadership is a primary factor in the success of organizations and individuals from small businesses to entrepreneurs. Developing effective leaders is an ongoing goal for many education and training departments both in the public and private sectors.

Unfortunately, within much of these published works as well as seminars and training programs, the myth continues that leaders are born not made. This is undoubtedly absolute HOGWASH and insults all that have achieved success when others with far more “born advantages” have failed.

Leaders are made and not born! This is a fact. Our country continues to be one of the best environments for providing opportunities for leaders to be made. The following is exemplifies how leaders are truly made.

He failed in business.

He was defeated in the legislature.

He failed in business again.

He was elected to state legislature.

He was defeated as speaker for the legislature.

He was defeated for elector.

He lost a race for U.S. Congressional seat.

He gained a seat in Congress.

He lost that seat in Congress.

He lost a race for U.S. Senator.

He ran for Vice-President and lost.

He ran again for U.S. Senator and lost.

He was elected 16th President of the United States of America.

Over 100 years ago, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, believed that leaders are made, not born when he penned this words: “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

To change this leadership myth begins with embracing the belief that everyone has the potential to be a leader. Then each individual needs to reaffirm that belief through a positive self-affirmation statement or what I now call a “belief affirmation” beginning with this one. “I am a leader, first of myself, and then of others.”

Why does this myth continue that leaders are born not made and more importantly why do people pay to hear this myth? Possibly,this is because those who perpetuate this myth don’t want the average individual to see herself or himself as a leader who can ultimately achieve success in spite of failure upon failure.

Copyright 2005(c) Leanne Hoagland-Smith, http://www.processspecialist.com

This article may be freely published. Permission to publish this article, electronically or in print, as long as the bylines are included, with a live link, and the article is not changed in any way (grammatical corrections accepted).

Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. CEO of ADVANCED SYSTEMS located outside of Chicago, IL, is the Learning & Process Specialist. With over 25 years of business & education experience, she helps her clients to double their performance. By uniting systems, strategies and people to create loyal internal customers, Leanne delivers ROI solutions in 4 key areas: financials, leadership, relationships and growth & innovation within a variety of industries including education, healthcare, manufacturing and professional services. As co-author of M.A.G.I.C.A.L. Potential: 7 Capacities for Living an Amazing Life Beyond Purpose to Achievement due for 2005 release, Leanne speaks nationally to a variety of audiences. Please contact Leanne at 219.759.5601 or visit http://www.processspecialist.com if you are seeking to connect your passion to your purpose to double your performance for unheard of results.