What if I told you that I could help you put a strategic plan together in less than an hour that would make you more focused and productive? A strategic plan that can serve as a daily roadmap to help you make 2013 your best year ever? Would it be worth your time and effort (again, if it only took an hour)? Well, I promise to do just that, but first, let’s look at why you should bother with strategic planning in the first place.
A strategic plan will help you answer three important questions:
- Where am I?
- Where do I want to go (by the end of the year)?
- How do I get there?
In other words, it’s prevents the “fly by the seat of your pants” approach that limit most small business owners to a day-to-day existence of getting distracted, overwhelmed and too scattered to make big gains in their businesses (or their lives).
If you’ve tried the seat-of-your-pants approach in the past and want to advance to the next level, I’ve got good news. I’ve consulted with small business owners for the past 15 years and I’ve seen all the mistakes they’ve made related to creating and executing on their planning efforts. I’ve actually made more than my fair share of mistakes along the way for my own businesses. So I’ve got the war wounds and I’ve learned the lessons the hard way. No need in you having to make the same mistakes (if you haven’t already). So I’ve boiled down the process to the essentials in what I call the “Down & Dirty” Strategic Plan. It overcomes the two biggest obstacles that entrepreneurs deal with:
1. Not having enough time and resources to put together a comprehensive plan
2. Having a strategic plan that gets filed away collecting dust with little or no connection to day-to-day operations
So how do you do it? I’ll share everything you need to know on January 3 in our “Ask The Expert Series.” Simply sign-up for FREE here and listen in on this call! While we think of strategic planning for businesses, you don’t have to be a business owner to take advantage of the benefits of strategic planning. You can use it to clarify what you need to do if you want to start a business, as well as use it to create the personal life that you want!
