The Business Planning Process Seminar 
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Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Business planning is usually conducted when starting a new organization or a new major venture, for example, new product, service or program. Essentially, a business plan is a combination of a marketing plan, strategic plan, operational/management plan and a financial plan. Far more important than the plan document, is the planning process itself. This seminar provides an overview of the thought process that goes into the development of a business plan and a discussion of the reasons why.

Location: DC SBDC at DC Chamber of Commerce Business Resource Center, Washington, DC

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Tactical marketing is how most small business owners market their services.  They tend to be on the look out for the ONE KILLER MARKETING TACTIC or trick, which will make them rich.  Because they are always looking for that non-existent silver bullet, they usually have either no overall marketing strategy or just a fuzzy idea of what they should be doing.  They make seemingly random marketing decisions, which do not build upon anything.

Most small business owners market in isolation.  For example, they will (just decide) to do some email marketing and because there’s no overall plan, if they don’t get a great result after the first or second email, they stop.  They wouldn’t even think of developing a 6 month email marketing plan, with each email message building on the previous one, until the final email gives a massively leveraged call to action, which earns them a ton of money! No, they will send a few poorly written emails out and then claim email marketing doesn’t work!  If the magic bullet fails more than a few times, it’s dropped and replaced with the next isolated marketing attempt.

Don’t do that. It’s frustrating and you will go broke!

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Bobbi and I met @ the University of Oklahoma, she was my Spanish buddy!