The document discusses Growthink, a business plan consulting firm. It provides an overview of Growthink's Business Plan Guide, which helps clients prepare business plans to raise capital. It also describes Growthink's two main offerings - their Ultimate Business Plan Template and Consulting services. The template allows clients to quickly create an expert business plan, while consulting provides a fully customized plan developed by Growthink's team of experienced consultants. Both options aim to help clients raise funds and grow successful businesses.
This document outlines 10 best practice principles for achieving market leadership. It discusses the benefits of being a market leader such as better profit margins and barriers to competition. However, many companies fail to focus and try to serve too many markets, diluting their effectiveness. The 10 principles are: 1) select and segment a target market; 2) narrow focus to your unique value; 3) align business activities to support your strategy; 4) claim the alpha position in your market; 5) integrate internal and external communications; 6) leverage the online environment; 7) lock in strategic partners; 8) grow your market segment; 9) exploit your leadership to drive market share; and 10) attack synergistic market segments. Committing to these
Presented at the NY & LA 2018 Accounting & Fiance Shows. Learn how to analyze the economics of your business to build a strong and stable startup business model
The last several years have been a rollercoaster ride
for creative agencies across the globe as economies
struggle to recover from the financial crisis and
technology transforms the industry.
Is all well and good in Creative Agency Land, or are
these dynamic organisations feeling the pressure?
ClickZ, together and sponsored by Deltek, decided
to find out.
They asked almost 250 creative agency professionals
from around the world to tell us about the challenges
they’re facing and how their organisations are
responding.
The document discusses various types of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial resources. It describes nine main types of entrepreneurship: small business, large company, scalable startup, social, innovative, hustler, imitator, researcher, and buyer. It also discusses tangible resources like money and equipment as well as intangible resources such as networks and experience that entrepreneurs can utilize. Sources of startup financing are also briefly mentioned.
Many small business owners dream of growing their business to satisfy the needs of their customers. However, a business with a steady inflow of new customers must consider its capacity and capability to deliver to these customers. Scaling a business means setting in place the processes and systems needed to support seamless growth.
The document discusses Growthink, a business plan consulting firm. It provides an overview of Growthink's Business Plan Guide, which helps clients prepare business plans to raise capital. It also describes Growthink's two main offerings - their Ultimate Business Plan Template and Consulting services. The template allows clients to quickly create an expert business plan, while consulting provides a fully customized plan developed by Growthink's team of experienced consultants. Both options aim to help clients raise funds and grow successful businesses.
This document outlines 10 best practice principles for achieving market leadership. It discusses the benefits of being a market leader such as better profit margins and barriers to competition. However, many companies fail to focus and try to serve too many markets, diluting their effectiveness. The 10 principles are: 1) select and segment a target market; 2) narrow focus to your unique value; 3) align business activities to support your strategy; 4) claim the alpha position in your market; 5) integrate internal and external communications; 6) leverage the online environment; 7) lock in strategic partners; 8) grow your market segment; 9) exploit your leadership to drive market share; and 10) attack synergistic market segments. Committing to these
Presented at the NY & LA 2018 Accounting & Fiance Shows. Learn how to analyze the economics of your business to build a strong and stable startup business model
The last several years have been a rollercoaster ride
for creative agencies across the globe as economies
struggle to recover from the financial crisis and
technology transforms the industry.
Is all well and good in Creative Agency Land, or are
these dynamic organisations feeling the pressure?
ClickZ, together and sponsored by Deltek, decided
to find out.
They asked almost 250 creative agency professionals
from around the world to tell us about the challenges
they’re facing and how their organisations are
responding.
The document discusses various types of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial resources. It describes nine main types of entrepreneurship: small business, large company, scalable startup, social, innovative, hustler, imitator, researcher, and buyer. It also discusses tangible resources like money and equipment as well as intangible resources such as networks and experience that entrepreneurs can utilize. Sources of startup financing are also briefly mentioned.
Many small business owners dream of growing their business to satisfy the needs of their customers. However, a business with a steady inflow of new customers must consider its capacity and capability to deliver to these customers. Scaling a business means setting in place the processes and systems needed to support seamless growth.
So you want to start a social enterprise?Pilotlight
As the funding climate for charities becomes increasingly challenging, many are seeing social enterprise as a way of diversifying their income streams to create a sustainable business model. However, with failure rates for new businesses in the private sector running at nearly 50% in the first five years, how can charities give their ideas the best chance of converting to ventures that deliver?
At Pilotlight we bring teams of business leaders, our Pilotlighters, together with charities and social businesses to give them the strategic support they need to become more efficient, effective and sustainable. We asked some of our Pilotlighters who have built their own businesses, to share the questions that they think every organisation should ask before starting a social enterprise. They’ve also provided the answers that we hope will help you think through and start to plan your new venture.
Q1: Why set up a new business?
Q2: Who are our customers and what are they looking for?
Q3: What do we want the business to look and feel like in a few years time?
Q4: Will we have the cash available to fund what we need, when we need it?
Q5: What might go wrong and how could we respond?
Q6: Do we have the capability to deliver the social enterprise effectively?
Q7: How do we build the right team to plan and launch it?
Q8: How will we build customer awareness and demand for our offering?
Q9: How do we make sure that our current employees and volunteers don't see the social enterprise as a threat to what they do or what the charity does?
Q10: How do we know if we’re making progress?
Q11: We have never attempted anything quite on this scale, how do we set ourselves up for success?
Q12: What kind of partnerships will help us succeed?
Other things to consider
Imc Corporate Brochure English V10 2010markbarrueta
The document is a brochure from Integral Management Consultancy International (IMC), an international business consulting firm. IMC prides itself on providing added value for clients through its expertise and collaborative approach. IMC offers a comprehensive range of consulting services tailored to individual client needs, including strategic planning, marketing, sales, and management support. IMC emphasizes flexibility, innovation, and optimizing companies for long-term success and growth.
This document summarizes the results of a survey of UK consultancies called the Business Vision Barometer. The survey found that most consultancies have a positive outlook for the next quarter and are experiencing growth. However, they face challenges such as recruiting talent, increasing new business leads, and decreasing client budgets. Financially, their biggest challenges are increasing profitability, managing cashflow, and late payments. While most consultancies have not lowered rates to win business, some have dropped rates by 10-20% which could undermine their perceived value. The document recommends focusing on revenue growth through robust systems and talent recruitment in the current positive economic climate.
The document discusses the role of a Business Development Manager. A BDM works to improve the organization's market position and achieve financial growth by identifying long term strategic goals, building relationships with key customers, finding new business opportunities, negotiating and closing deals, and maintaining extensive market knowledge. The BDM also works with internal teams and other departments to increase sales and revenue by identifying potential customers and converting them into clients to continue growing the business over time.
This document outlines an 8-step process for small business founders and CEOs to reinterpret their business mindsets. It discusses phases to reinterpret the CEO mindset, organization, client value, revenue, capital management, brand, succession, and exit. Each phase provides steps and considerations for evaluating these areas in a new light to achieve the next horizon for the business. The introduction experience invites the reader to schedule a 30-minute intro call with the author to discuss the full presentation and materials.
During this session we define what a business plan is and it's uses and benefits. We provide a framework to follow when developing your plan that helps you go through all the key elements to ensure that you have a concise and solid plan for investors and for your partners, employees and other stakeholders.
Business Skills You Need To Master | Cory MachadoCory Machado
Running a small business requires that you become a jack-of-all-trades. It is important to know early on which skills that you have and those that you will have to learn or delegate to others.
The document discusses various techniques for measuring business performance, including the balanced scorecard, activity-based management, risk analysis, and talent management. It emphasizes that measuring performance allows businesses to know if strategies are working, identify areas for improvement, and set goals. Regular measurement and comparing results to peers can help businesses anticipate changes, develop solutions to grow, and continually improve their performance.
The document is a prospectus from Tourism Marketing Solutions (TMS) that outlines various marketing and sales programs they offer for businesses in the conference, events, and tourism industries. The programs include proactive sales representation and lead generation, training workshops for staff, short-term accelerated lead generation programs, market analysis, and temporary consulting support. TMS has worked with many suppliers over the past years to help generate business and leads in the conference and incentive sectors.
This document outlines the top 10 reasons why businesses are not growing fast enough and provides tips to overcome each issue. The top mistakes include having no defined target market, spending too much time with the wrong clients, not asking for introductions, poor client engagement, poor time management, spending too much time on tasks that could be delegated, poor hiring and training habits, not building strategic alliances, expecting to receive referrals without giving them, and spending time in the business but not on developing the business. The tips provided for each issue focus on defining the target market, spending more time with top clients, asking for introductions, developing a client engagement plan, improving time management through planning, delegating more tasks, improving hiring and
This document discusses developing an effective business strategy through a strategic planning process. It outlines four key questions to answer: 1) How do customers see us? 2) How do we see ourselves? 3) How do we see the future? 4) What are we going to do? The strategic planning process involves gathering input from customers, employees, and competitors to develop a vision for the future of the business and a specific action plan for the upcoming year. Regular review and implementation is emphasized to ensure the strategic plan is put into action and the business can adapt as needed.
A business plan outlines the key elements needed to start and run a business successfully. It includes a mission statement describing the business's purpose, a SWOT analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and financial projections like sales forecasts and profit/loss statements. An effective marketing plan is also essential to explain how the business will attract customers and differentiate itself from competitors. Regularly reviewing and updating the business plan helps ensure all business activities align with goals and makes needed adjustments.
New Business Health Check for Agencies™Julia Vargiu
New business: is your agency still playing by the “old rules”?
When was the last time you reviewed your go-to-market strategy for new business to determine what works, what doesn’t, and how to fix it? Seriously, if you were a CMO, would you pick your agency?
Do you know your OUCH! Factor™, the true revenue you need to earn to ensure your pitching is profitable?
21442 Matrix Newsletter HR Perspective May 2015Patrique Habboo
Caroline Taplin discusses with Tim Blackstone the benefits of interim management for businesses facing changing needs and environments. Interim managers can quickly acquire skills, get started on projects, and help determine long-term recruitment needs. Their experience and new perspectives can accelerate change and momentum. Cultural fit is important for interim success, requiring trust in the interim provider.
The document provides guidance on building a strong founding team and scaling a business. It discusses the importance of having the right people in key roles like CEO, CFO, and CTO. It also covers creating an employer brand to attract talent, maintaining company culture as the business grows, and managing teams across locations. The panelists emphasize that the founding team is essential to a company's success and securing investment. They advise having complementary skills, a clear vision, and the right experience at different stages.
Strategic Business Plan - Starting A Small BusinessGirlie Villadarez
A strategic business plan focuses on future growth rather than short-term goals. It outlines strategies such as outsourcing non-essential tasks, networking to promote the business, and wisely budgeting expenses by initially working from home to save on costs. The plan also recommends finding an affordable publicist and virtual assistant, developing strong negotiation skills to get the best advertising deals, and asking vendors about payment plans to purchase necessary items. A strong strategic business plan is essential for long-term business success.
The document provides information on running a business successfully, including:
- Key topics that will be covered are the meaning and definition of business, factors for business success, how to run a business, and tips for a successful business.
- Some of the most important factors that can impact business success are market demand, building the right team, leadership preparation, networking, competitive analysis, pricing strategy, and long-term goals.
- To run a business well requires skills like great marketing, drafting a clear business plan, innovating, developing a strong company culture, focusing on financial goals, refining processes, using the right tools, and having a support system. Maintaining organization, records, creativity, focus,
Doublingyourrevenueeveryyear 140915013106-phpapp02Nicola Van Hoff
The document outlines nine practices for doubling revenue every year, as advocated by the CEO of MergerTech Advisors. The practices include considering oneself the head of sales, making doubling revenue a strategic goal, focusing on growing existing accounts as much as new ones, seeing all employees as salespeople, and considering inorganic growth through acquisitions. Following these practices can help companies experience virtuous cycles of improved operations and satisfaction of stakeholders, leading to increased company value.
We have written a guide that covers all the lessons we have learnt from starting our own agency and supporting other agencies on pricing and packaging their services, get it here.
Business Plan is a document required at the time of funding your business or ...ymandhanya
The document outlines the purpose and steps involved in creating a business plan. It discusses that a business plan is a blueprint that identifies business opportunities and converts ideas into successful ventures. It involves tasks like identifying strengths/weaknesses, assessing feasibility, and allocating resources. The business plan gives direction to entrepreneurs, helps evaluate prospects, seeks loans, and helps with decision making. The steps involved include preliminary investigation of the idea and environment, generating business ideas, and scanning the internal and external environment.
The document discusses a coaching program called "Building Business Value" aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses develop skills in business strategy, planning, sales and marketing to drive growth. It is designed for business owners by an experienced business coach. The program focuses on six guiding principles to move a business forward: focus and alignment, planning, developing value propositions, processes and systems, optimizing technology, and measurement. A case study describes how the program helped a packaging company define its value proposition and create a strategic growth plan through interactive coaching sessions.
Growing with Purpose: How to Improve Your Software Company's EvaluationVolaris Group
An effective growth strategy for a software company includes building an effective board of directors with talented members, improving cash flow and EBITDA, developing a compelling growth story, investing in a strong management team, diversifying the customer base, creating recurring revenue streams, refining the company's pitch, increasing interest in the company, doing due diligence before an acquisition, simplifying the ownership structure, understanding the competition, and continuing to grow with the goal of acquisition.
So you want to start a social enterprise?Pilotlight
As the funding climate for charities becomes increasingly challenging, many are seeing social enterprise as a way of diversifying their income streams to create a sustainable business model. However, with failure rates for new businesses in the private sector running at nearly 50% in the first five years, how can charities give their ideas the best chance of converting to ventures that deliver?
At Pilotlight we bring teams of business leaders, our Pilotlighters, together with charities and social businesses to give them the strategic support they need to become more efficient, effective and sustainable. We asked some of our Pilotlighters who have built their own businesses, to share the questions that they think every organisation should ask before starting a social enterprise. They’ve also provided the answers that we hope will help you think through and start to plan your new venture.
Q1: Why set up a new business?
Q2: Who are our customers and what are they looking for?
Q3: What do we want the business to look and feel like in a few years time?
Q4: Will we have the cash available to fund what we need, when we need it?
Q5: What might go wrong and how could we respond?
Q6: Do we have the capability to deliver the social enterprise effectively?
Q7: How do we build the right team to plan and launch it?
Q8: How will we build customer awareness and demand for our offering?
Q9: How do we make sure that our current employees and volunteers don't see the social enterprise as a threat to what they do or what the charity does?
Q10: How do we know if we’re making progress?
Q11: We have never attempted anything quite on this scale, how do we set ourselves up for success?
Q12: What kind of partnerships will help us succeed?
Other things to consider
Imc Corporate Brochure English V10 2010markbarrueta
The document is a brochure from Integral Management Consultancy International (IMC), an international business consulting firm. IMC prides itself on providing added value for clients through its expertise and collaborative approach. IMC offers a comprehensive range of consulting services tailored to individual client needs, including strategic planning, marketing, sales, and management support. IMC emphasizes flexibility, innovation, and optimizing companies for long-term success and growth.
This document summarizes the results of a survey of UK consultancies called the Business Vision Barometer. The survey found that most consultancies have a positive outlook for the next quarter and are experiencing growth. However, they face challenges such as recruiting talent, increasing new business leads, and decreasing client budgets. Financially, their biggest challenges are increasing profitability, managing cashflow, and late payments. While most consultancies have not lowered rates to win business, some have dropped rates by 10-20% which could undermine their perceived value. The document recommends focusing on revenue growth through robust systems and talent recruitment in the current positive economic climate.
The document discusses the role of a Business Development Manager. A BDM works to improve the organization's market position and achieve financial growth by identifying long term strategic goals, building relationships with key customers, finding new business opportunities, negotiating and closing deals, and maintaining extensive market knowledge. The BDM also works with internal teams and other departments to increase sales and revenue by identifying potential customers and converting them into clients to continue growing the business over time.
This document outlines an 8-step process for small business founders and CEOs to reinterpret their business mindsets. It discusses phases to reinterpret the CEO mindset, organization, client value, revenue, capital management, brand, succession, and exit. Each phase provides steps and considerations for evaluating these areas in a new light to achieve the next horizon for the business. The introduction experience invites the reader to schedule a 30-minute intro call with the author to discuss the full presentation and materials.
During this session we define what a business plan is and it's uses and benefits. We provide a framework to follow when developing your plan that helps you go through all the key elements to ensure that you have a concise and solid plan for investors and for your partners, employees and other stakeholders.
Business Skills You Need To Master | Cory MachadoCory Machado
Running a small business requires that you become a jack-of-all-trades. It is important to know early on which skills that you have and those that you will have to learn or delegate to others.
The document discusses various techniques for measuring business performance, including the balanced scorecard, activity-based management, risk analysis, and talent management. It emphasizes that measuring performance allows businesses to know if strategies are working, identify areas for improvement, and set goals. Regular measurement and comparing results to peers can help businesses anticipate changes, develop solutions to grow, and continually improve their performance.
The document is a prospectus from Tourism Marketing Solutions (TMS) that outlines various marketing and sales programs they offer for businesses in the conference, events, and tourism industries. The programs include proactive sales representation and lead generation, training workshops for staff, short-term accelerated lead generation programs, market analysis, and temporary consulting support. TMS has worked with many suppliers over the past years to help generate business and leads in the conference and incentive sectors.
This document outlines the top 10 reasons why businesses are not growing fast enough and provides tips to overcome each issue. The top mistakes include having no defined target market, spending too much time with the wrong clients, not asking for introductions, poor client engagement, poor time management, spending too much time on tasks that could be delegated, poor hiring and training habits, not building strategic alliances, expecting to receive referrals without giving them, and spending time in the business but not on developing the business. The tips provided for each issue focus on defining the target market, spending more time with top clients, asking for introductions, developing a client engagement plan, improving time management through planning, delegating more tasks, improving hiring and
This document discusses developing an effective business strategy through a strategic planning process. It outlines four key questions to answer: 1) How do customers see us? 2) How do we see ourselves? 3) How do we see the future? 4) What are we going to do? The strategic planning process involves gathering input from customers, employees, and competitors to develop a vision for the future of the business and a specific action plan for the upcoming year. Regular review and implementation is emphasized to ensure the strategic plan is put into action and the business can adapt as needed.
A business plan outlines the key elements needed to start and run a business successfully. It includes a mission statement describing the business's purpose, a SWOT analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and financial projections like sales forecasts and profit/loss statements. An effective marketing plan is also essential to explain how the business will attract customers and differentiate itself from competitors. Regularly reviewing and updating the business plan helps ensure all business activities align with goals and makes needed adjustments.
New Business Health Check for Agencies™Julia Vargiu
New business: is your agency still playing by the “old rules”?
When was the last time you reviewed your go-to-market strategy for new business to determine what works, what doesn’t, and how to fix it? Seriously, if you were a CMO, would you pick your agency?
Do you know your OUCH! Factor™, the true revenue you need to earn to ensure your pitching is profitable?
21442 Matrix Newsletter HR Perspective May 2015Patrique Habboo
Caroline Taplin discusses with Tim Blackstone the benefits of interim management for businesses facing changing needs and environments. Interim managers can quickly acquire skills, get started on projects, and help determine long-term recruitment needs. Their experience and new perspectives can accelerate change and momentum. Cultural fit is important for interim success, requiring trust in the interim provider.
The document provides guidance on building a strong founding team and scaling a business. It discusses the importance of having the right people in key roles like CEO, CFO, and CTO. It also covers creating an employer brand to attract talent, maintaining company culture as the business grows, and managing teams across locations. The panelists emphasize that the founding team is essential to a company's success and securing investment. They advise having complementary skills, a clear vision, and the right experience at different stages.
Strategic Business Plan - Starting A Small BusinessGirlie Villadarez
A strategic business plan focuses on future growth rather than short-term goals. It outlines strategies such as outsourcing non-essential tasks, networking to promote the business, and wisely budgeting expenses by initially working from home to save on costs. The plan also recommends finding an affordable publicist and virtual assistant, developing strong negotiation skills to get the best advertising deals, and asking vendors about payment plans to purchase necessary items. A strong strategic business plan is essential for long-term business success.
The document provides information on running a business successfully, including:
- Key topics that will be covered are the meaning and definition of business, factors for business success, how to run a business, and tips for a successful business.
- Some of the most important factors that can impact business success are market demand, building the right team, leadership preparation, networking, competitive analysis, pricing strategy, and long-term goals.
- To run a business well requires skills like great marketing, drafting a clear business plan, innovating, developing a strong company culture, focusing on financial goals, refining processes, using the right tools, and having a support system. Maintaining organization, records, creativity, focus,
Doublingyourrevenueeveryyear 140915013106-phpapp02Nicola Van Hoff
The document outlines nine practices for doubling revenue every year, as advocated by the CEO of MergerTech Advisors. The practices include considering oneself the head of sales, making doubling revenue a strategic goal, focusing on growing existing accounts as much as new ones, seeing all employees as salespeople, and considering inorganic growth through acquisitions. Following these practices can help companies experience virtuous cycles of improved operations and satisfaction of stakeholders, leading to increased company value.
We have written a guide that covers all the lessons we have learnt from starting our own agency and supporting other agencies on pricing and packaging their services, get it here.
Business Plan is a document required at the time of funding your business or ...ymandhanya
The document outlines the purpose and steps involved in creating a business plan. It discusses that a business plan is a blueprint that identifies business opportunities and converts ideas into successful ventures. It involves tasks like identifying strengths/weaknesses, assessing feasibility, and allocating resources. The business plan gives direction to entrepreneurs, helps evaluate prospects, seeks loans, and helps with decision making. The steps involved include preliminary investigation of the idea and environment, generating business ideas, and scanning the internal and external environment.
The document discusses a coaching program called "Building Business Value" aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses develop skills in business strategy, planning, sales and marketing to drive growth. It is designed for business owners by an experienced business coach. The program focuses on six guiding principles to move a business forward: focus and alignment, planning, developing value propositions, processes and systems, optimizing technology, and measurement. A case study describes how the program helped a packaging company define its value proposition and create a strategic growth plan through interactive coaching sessions.
Growing with Purpose: How to Improve Your Software Company's EvaluationVolaris Group
An effective growth strategy for a software company includes building an effective board of directors with talented members, improving cash flow and EBITDA, developing a compelling growth story, investing in a strong management team, diversifying the customer base, creating recurring revenue streams, refining the company's pitch, increasing interest in the company, doing due diligence before an acquisition, simplifying the ownership structure, understanding the competition, and continuing to grow with the goal of acquisition.
This presentation is meant to provide an insight on the importance of a business concept exercise before writing a business plan. It enables the promoter of the business , structure the business idea in such a way he or she can define the business model an
The document provides guidance on financial management and business planning for entrepreneurs. It discusses:
- Financial management is crucial for business success as it affects cash flow, performance tracking, and strategic planning.
- Developing a business plan helps identify opportunities, make informed decisions, and convince financiers by considering objectives, strategies, tactics, and financial forecasts.
- Strong planning requires understanding your market, competitors, resources, and pulling together visions, objectives, actions, and financial implications. External advisors can help provide financial and planning expertise.
The Lead Agency provides marketing services to help clients attract and nurture leads through their LEAD Principle process, which involves learning about clients' ideal customers, engineering marketing programs, taking action through agile tactics, and delivering more and better quality leads; they have helped companies like BlueScope Steel, Bendigo Bank, and PSC Insurance improve lead generation and sales through strategic marketing plans and campaigns. The Lead Agency can design comprehensive marketing programs using strategies like content marketing, social media, email marketing, and SEO to attract new prospects and convert them into customers.
Most startups experience a tension between product and service sales at some point in their lives. While Professional Services can generate revenue and customer insight, they can also distract a startup from its core mission: building a successful product.
This presentation looks at the opportunities and risks associated with setting up a Professional Services team within your company.
The document provides an introduction to SMART marketing, outlining a 12-step process for professional service providers to develop a marketing plan that includes defining ideal clients, understanding what clients want, assessing costs and competition, developing clear communication messages, and building client confidence in the business. The goal of SMART marketing is for businesses to reach their turnover and profitability targets through a simple and effective marketing strategy.
This document provides testimonials from financial advisors in Mexico and South Africa who completed a sales training course. The advisors found the practical skills taught in the 5-day intensive course immediately useful for improving their sales techniques and relationships with clients. One advisor saw an 18% increase in business after the training. The course focused on listening to clients, understanding their needs and goals, and providing proper advice rather than just selling products to meet quotas. It taught communication, prospecting, needs analysis, time management, value propositions and other sales skills. The trainer, Maurice Jonker, is an award-winning advisor and accredited facilitator who helps advisors evolve into trusted business partners for their clients.
This document provides an overview of key components of a business plan, including:
1. The executive summary which clearly states what is being asked for upfront.
2. The business description which outlines the industry, products/services, and plans for success.
3. The marketplace section which describes customers, competition, and market positioning.
4. The financial section containing income/cash flow statements, balance sheets, and break-even analyses.
Key components within these sections include business concept, market strategies, competitive analysis, operations/management plans, and financial factors. The length of a business plan can vary depending on the complexity of the business but typically ranges from 15-20 pages.
Finding the Right Place for Your Professional Futurehwheatley
For a financial advisor, the decision to change firms is a big one. J.P. Turner's white paper discusses the four key things you'll want to consider before making a move to a new broker-dealer.
This document provides guidance for new sales managers on effectively managing a sales team. It outlines 3 key steps: 1) Get to know the staff, their clients, and opportunities through individual meetings, territory tours, and testing product knowledge. 2) Conduct a territory analysis to understand trends, structure, and goals and expand the customer base. 3) Identify internal processes, resources, tools, and reporting needs and develop collaborative relationships within the company. The overall goal is for the manager to evaluate the current state and set a foundation for ongoing success through organized operational structures and development of the sales team.
It is time to conduct a “reset” exercise and put employee
engagement back in its proper place and perspective. This paper
identifies five areas that our research has shown to be
potentially troublesome for companies - especially in terms of
helping them frame their expectations in the most reasonable,
realistic and productive ways. We have discussed them here to
help you understand the true power of aligning employee drives
and needs with those of your company
This document summarizes the services of 3P Business Solutions, a consultancy that focuses on assessing clients' businesses and providing recommendations. They offer hands-on practical advice and training to clients. With over 40 years of experience in retail management, they can evaluate all aspects of operations including people, processes, products, and strategy. Their goal is to improve efficiency, productivity and profits by understanding employees and identifying development needs through interactive training and coaching sessions.
Thewiseentrepreneur.co.ug is passionate about entrepreneurship, developing capacity in people and organizations, and transforming people through paradigm shifts, win-win mindset, and knowledge sharing.
Lead Generation Simplified: Essential Steps for Successdheerajpansare88
Simplify your lead generation process with our essential steps infographic. This guide covers four key areas to help you generate and nurture quality leads:
Market Research: Conduct thorough research to understand your target market. Identify their needs, pain points, and preferences to create tailored marketing campaigns.
Content Creation: Develop engaging and informative content that addresses your audience’s challenges and interests. Use a mix of content formats such as blog posts, videos, infographics, and whitepapers.
Channel Promotion: Promote your content through a variety of channels to increase visibility and reach. Utilize social media, email marketing, SEO, and paid advertising to distribute your content.
Lead Tracking: Monitor your leads using advanced CRM and analytics tools. Track their engagement with your content and tailor your follow-up strategies to their behaviors and needs.
By following these steps, you can enhance your lead generation efforts and drive business success. For more tips and professional services, check out Arkentech Solutions.
Cutting-Edge Digital Marketing: Latest Strategies and Channels for SuccessMuhammad Talha Rafiq
Explore the cutting-edge strategies and channels in digital marketing with this detailed presentation by Muhammad Talha Rafiq. Designed for marketers, entrepreneurs, and business owners, this SlideShare delves into the various facets of digital marketing, offering practical insights and actionable tips to enhance your online presence and connect with your target audience effectively.
Key Sections Covered:
Introduction to Digital Marketing: Understand the fundamentals and importance of digital marketing in today’s business landscape.
Digital Marketing Channels: Detailed exploration of key channels including SEO, SEM, email marketing, social media optimization (SMO), social media marketing (SMM), content marketing, affiliate marketing, and influencer marketing.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Learn the techniques to improve your website’s ranking and drive organic traffic.
SEM (Search Engine Marketing): Discover how to leverage paid advertising for instant visibility and traffic.
Email Marketing: Strategies for crafting effective email campaigns that yield high ROI.
Social Media Optimization (SMO) and Marketing (SMM): Best practices for optimizing and advertising on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Content Marketing: Creating and distributing valuable content to attract and retain your target audience.
Affiliate Marketing: Understand the process of earning commissions by promoting other companies' products.
Influencer Marketing: Leveraging influencers to boost your brand’s reach and credibility.
Additional Insights:
Copywriting vs. Content Writing: Differences and purposes of copywriting and content writing in digital marketing.
Email Marketing Journey: Workflow for achieving maximum results from email campaigns.
Real-World Examples: Case studies and examples to illustrate successful digital marketing strategies.
Stay ahead of the curve by mastering these digital marketing techniques and elevating your brand’s online presence. This presentation is a valuable resource for anyone looking to thrive in the digital marketing arena.
The Evolution of Engagement Metrics in Social Media MarketingSofia Tsempera
Beyond Likes and Shares: The Evolution of Engagement Metrics in Social Media Marketing delves into the changing landscape of social media metrics, moving beyond traditional measures like likes and shares. It explores alternative metrics such as comments, time spent on content, and sentiment analysis, emphasizing the importance of meaningful engagement. The presentation also highlights the role of active engagement indicators like participation in polls and surveys, as well as metrics related to community health and brand advocacy. Attendees gain insights into connecting social media engagement to conversion metrics, leveraging social listening tools for sentiment analysis, and adapting to platform changes. With real-world examples and practical strategies, the presentation equips marketers to optimize their efforts and drive better results in today’s dynamic social media environment.
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4. The New Business Mastery for Agencies is the
culmination of over two decades experience in
devising, training, implementing and assessing
new business programs across a wide range of
agency types and sizes. A new business program
is not a pitch process; it’s a sustained, consistent
relationship-building program that helps you get
close to the companies on your list of ideal clients,
and ultimately secure paid, profitable projects
from them, without having to pitch.
5. What’s in these pages:
New business: oxygen for agencies
The New Business Mastery program
is risk management for agencies
The OUCH! Factor
New Business Mastery in 5 stages
What next?
About the Founder
6. Foreword
Over the last two decades, I have been privileged to work with the leaders of
almost every type of agency. These leaders are highly skilled, driven, intelligent
people who are also generous, genuine and kind. They are interested and
interesting, dedicated and hard working. Yet there is a common trait they all
possess – a blockage when it comes to ongoing new business success.
I have spent my career assisting CEOs and Managing Directors to remove the
blockage and replace it with a strategic, systematic and consistent program I
call New Business Mastery – Closing on your terms and it’s individually tailored
to match an agency’s specific circumstances.
Containing five key stages, the New Business Mastery program will competitively
reposition your agency’s approach to the pitching process while fostering a
culture of proactive prospecting, using a range of strategies, tools and tactics
designed to grow a suite of ideal, profitable and strategically aligned clients.
I invite you to discover how you can join the growing list of elite agencies
winning new business from a commanding position and learn what closing on
your terms truly means.
Wishing you many good things,
Julia Vargiu
Founder & Principal, New Business Methodology
7. Most agencies hope to be invited
to pitch for a prospect’s business.
‘Hope’ is not a legitimate or
sustainable business strategy.
8. The business of new business has never been harder
New business is the oxygen every agency needs to breathe to stay
alive, to thrive. New business allows your agency to grow, to attract
and retain the brightest talent, and to keep your services and client
relationships fresh and vibrant.
If your agency is not winning new business, it’s dying. Maybe not now,
but soon, and probably sooner than you think.
“More meetings” with prospects is not the key to winning new business.
Gaining a place on more pitch lists is also not the answer. Lunch with
pitch doctors – only to come up against procurement departments – is
not a new business strategy. Ambulance-chasing or targeting a weak
agency’s client list is not a sustainable approach.
New business:
oxygen for agencies
9. The New Business Mastery
is a simple step-by-step
program to succeed in new
business prospecting.
10. “If nearly every conversation I’ve had with senior
executives in agency land for the past three months
is even half right, the industry is as close to being
on its knees as it has in the 20 years I’ve been
writing about it.
One minute the argument is around blue-chip
brands and their short-sighted procurement teams
relentlessly driving down agency margins. The next,
it’s agencies so desperate for new business that
they’re offering stupid deals and promises –
unsolicited by clients – in order to win an account.
Pitch consultants confirm this.
Whatever the case, agencies clearly are in a race to
the bottom and it could well signal consolidation
and rationalisation is coming faster than we think.
The industry needs to work something out.”
Paul McIntyre
AdNews Editor-in-Chief, November 2013
11. Remove yourself from the ‘race to the bottom’
Stop relying on invitations to pitches and spending hundreds of
thousands of dollars on what is, essentially, a gamble. Wipe out
the long nights of overtime and stress on staff, and the toll it
takes on your current clients.
No matter what type of agency you run – from boutique to
multinational, from advertising to media, from digital to design,
from packaging to promotion – we have deep insight into your
pain points and New Business Mastery can offer you a solution.
The New Business Mastery
program is risk management
for agencies
12. “In my experience most agencies approach new
business development like a game of chance
– ‘maybe they’ll get lucky on the next roll of the
dice’. It’s rarely proactive, or planned. It’s also
usually random and spasmodic in its dedication.
Everyone and no-one drives it. So the end result
is: you hope like hell you’re being noticed in the
market, and wait for the phone to ring. Hardly a
get-rich-quick model. Problem is, most of us are
‘too busy flying the plane, to fix it’.
So just as you buy expertise to do the work, why
wouldn’t you buy expertise to ensure the pipeline
of work is always full? Julia Vargiu’s New Business
Mastery Program is the pipeline – or lifeline – that
can make the connections and has the results to
prove it. So if you want more ‘hit’ than ‘miss’, I
suggest you give them a call.”
Christine Gardner
Managing Partner, M&C Saatchi
13. How many times have you dropped everything – sometimes even work
for your clients – when you’ve been invited to pitch for a large account?
But being part of the pack in a competitive scenario carries huge risks.
Your entire agency puts in long hours, drawing on internal resources and
additional expenses, to be one of five agencies to be considered. While
you might only have 20% chance of success, just the thought of winning
that major account means you can’t say no.
The New Business Mastery program looks at the true cost of this type
of pitching. We have devised an equation to help you calculate your
own financial reality.
We call it, the OUCH! Factor.
Our exclusive formula takes into account the internal costs such as
head hours, your win rate and profit margins – among other things –
to reveal the total amount of new business you need to earn to cover
your cost of pitching.
The OUCH! Factor can be very confronting, and has spurred even the
most satisfied agency director into reassessing their new business
strategy with fervour.
The New Business Mastery program will coach your agency through
your OUCH! Factor and provide you with the steps you need to turn
your new business strategy around – from working against you to
working for you.
The OUCH! Factor
14. New Business Mastery
in five stages
The secret to winning new business is a strategic,
systematic and consistent program that keeps your
pipeline full.
The New Business Mastery program provides a proven
system and a step-by-step process that allows you to
meet and build authentic relationships with your
future clients. It’s customised to your agency, bridging
the gap between the unique business needs of each
prospective client and the capabilities of your agency.
Our system will help you sleep at night, knowing
where your next profitable client is coming from,
and that you are providing a stimulating and
rewarding environment for your staff.
15. Health Check
Reveal your
current position
Thought
provoking
questions
Candid and
revealing answers
A true state
of your new
business health
The OUCH! Factor
The Action Plan
Imagine
Define your
vision and goals
What does it
look like? Feel like?
Sound like?
What is the evidence
for your success?
What is your
financial ambition?
Is your head
in the game?
Build
Create the foundation
to get there
Select your
Top 100 prospects
Align your
agency assets
Create the HOOK!
Choose your team
and hone your
sales skills
Establish an
interesting profile
Activate
Set your agency
in motion
The 3 Meeting
Strategy
KIT – keep in
touch program
To pitch or
not to pitch
Organic growth
Close on your terms
Maintain
Keep your agency
in front
Fine tune what
works and what wins
Stay inspired
Add to your assets
with case studies
1 2 3 4 5
16. Stage One: Health Check
Audit and Action Plan
Reveal Your Current Position
The New Business Mastery program begins with a
comprehensive audit of your new business acquisition
process. We investigate your company’s new business
generating ability across six key areas:
Corporate and Executive
Sales
Marketing
Finance
HR
IT
The audit is broad and deep. It is conducted via a series of
in-depth interviews across your company’s key stakeholders.
We gather enough intelligence to provide a big picture
view with specific insights that highlight areas of alignment
and sticking points to achieving growth. Each interview
typically takes less than an hour per stakeholder, collecting
qualitative and quantitative data, with the whole process
being conducted over the course of a few days.
A detailed Health Check Report, with observations revealing
the health of your agency’s new business acquisition process,
is then generated and includes specific recommendations for
next steps in an achievable Action Plan.
17. Take a candid look at your
new business process and
how it’s been working so far.
18. “New Business Mastery introduced me and my business
to the science of new business. They showed me how
to take a business and to shape and polish it into
something that businesses can buy. The depth of the
deep dive into the business was crucial. Interestingly,
the answers were already there. We just didn’t know it.
They helped us uncover the brilliant gems just sitting
there for all to enjoy. We started telling our tale and,
as business showed interest, we ourselves grew as
business people. We learned how to target business.
We learned how to talk to business and we learned
how to ask for the business. The business has grown
exponentially [in the last 18 months]. We have seen
gross profit increase by an impressive 246% off a
relatively strong base.”
Mark Alexander
CEO & Founder Bamboo Marketing
19. The Health Check Report identifies the financial impact of common
business practices within your agency, highlighting any processes
that waste time and money.
The impartial report shows the financial impact of a weak pipeline,
a long sales cycle, a low win-rate, the cost of pitching, staff morale
and turnover, and recruitment fees.
It helps the company take an honest look at the combined financial
impact of these and other competitive weaknesses that may have
been identified through the audit.
The report also outlines where the agency’s sales and business development
processes are inefficient or even counter-productive, lack systems or
resources, have inadequate staff skills or management commitment.
With new clarity, you can prioritise the time of your team to make
more money. For the first time you will know what’s working, what’s
not, and what it’s costing you.
The true state of your
new business health
20. Stage Two: Imagine
Setting the Vision
There are many benefits to running a new business program
besides money; it keeps your agency fresh and vibrant, for
existing clients and new ones. It can help you introduce new
services to grow your business, and in turn attract and keep
the best and brightest talent.
Armed with the findings in the Health Check Report, we work
with you to set the vision of your perfect agency, define your
new business objectives and identify the leadership characteristics
required to achieve them. We then assist you to select the right
team members to join you on your new business program, and
train them with the skills and tools they need for success.
We will help you to identify the gap between what you are
selling and what your customers are buying. Most importantly,
we will help you to overcome the biggest hurdles to establishing
a first-rate new business program.
21. If there is one thing that can
transform your business, it’s this:
change your thinking from ‘what
can I get?’ to ‘what can I give?’
22. “The New Business Mastery program shifted
our whole psychological dynamic of ‘selling’. It
inspired a confidence in us, leading us to shift in
the way we saw and implemented our marketing
strategy – it was a truly inspiring process.”
Christo Everingham
Christo Interior Styling
23. What does your ideal
agency look like? Feel like?
Sound like? What is the
evidence of your success?
24. Stage Three: Build
Creating the Foundation
Before embarking on calls and meetings to establish new
relationships, it’s essential to build the foundations for new
business success.
During this stage, the New Business Mastery program helps
with the structure of the agency’s new business system and
processes. This includes your hard and soft assets, such as:
- The strength of skillsets and techniques
- The calibre of marketing assets and your public profile
- A credentials presentation that breaks all the rules
- A Top 100 Prospects list
- The Hook that will get you in the room.
25. The foundations for new business
are like building a house. If you
rush it or cut corners the house
will never endure.
26. Building the Top 100 List
We will guide you through the rigour and discipline to create a long
list of prospects – around 100 companies that are ideally suited to
your goals and ambitions, and who will become your profitable new
business clients over the long term.
By ranking and researching these companies you will begin the journey
to making new contacts. We will train your database manager to
maintain and update the information efficiently.
The outcome is a living database of warm prospects that will continue to
grow and evolve as you activate new business campaigns for your agency.
It’s A Numbers Game
With 100 prospective companies on your list, you have the opportunity
to inspire, inform and be on first-name terms with up to 300 individual
executives across several divisions and departments.
We know that approximately 15% of the companies on your prospect
list will make a selection or assignment in the coming year. By keeping
yourself top of mind you’ll have 15 very hot prospects from your Top
100 List who will know your company when they start looking.
27. NBM used an irresistible hook to swap
brand managers for C-suite executives
for an agency struggling to survive on
the crumbs of marketing budgets.
They secured 12 new blue-chip clients
in two years.
28. Training your team
Once you have selected the best and brightest team with the most
potential for new business success, we start with the basic skills and
techniques they need to master before the prospecting begins in
earnest – list management, company research, developing the right
collateral, securing and preparing for meetings, presentations skills,
meeting etiquette and how to ‘close’.
We offer training modules for how to make calls and set meetings,
at the same time removing the inhibitors and supporting these new
skills with the ‘inner game’ that maintains the right attitude, realistic
expectations, empathy, ‘active patience’ and gratitude needed to
quickly build strong relationships and trust with prospects.
Bespoke training sessions and workshops will invigorate your new
business team.
The hard and soft skills
for a confident team
29. Bait your Hook with intrigue and curiosity
The Hook is what will get you in the room to meet with a prospective
client. They don’t know you and, most likely, are not looking for the
services you offer – so it has to pique their interest.
Credentials presentations are useless here – as they’re all about you.
The Hook must focus solely on what’s in it for them, suggest you know
something they don’t and heighten their curiosity to find out what
they’re missing. The Hook neatly combines your agency’s experience
and expertise with the problems your prospects are facing.
The New Business Mastery program expertly identifies the right bait
for your Hook that will make every prospect bite. We begin by
reviewing the individual tasks you have completed for your clients
in the past 12 to 18 months, we then take a bird’s eye view and ask,
“What is the common business issue each of these clients faced? How
did that issue create the need for your agency in the first place and
how did you satisfy their unmet needs?”
You’ll be surprised at the patterns that emerge from your solutions.
We will help you refine your Hook and develop an enticing title, an
engaging proposition, and a simple 20-minute conversation (not a
presentation) that will mean prospects are eager to meet you.
How to offer your top
prospects an irresistible
invitation to meet
30. Stage Four: Activate
Closing On Your Terms
At the heart of the New Business Mastery program is the
3-Meeting Strategy that helps our agency clients secure
paid projects from ‘cold’ prospects in just three meetings.
The 3-Meeting Strategy is about holding the reins of
your agency firmly in your hands. New Business Mastery
dramatically increases your odds of winning by creating a
one-horse race. You are pitching alone, and using your own
smarts and persuasion techniques to open a crack that wins
a new project with a first-time client. You control who you
meet, when you meet them and how you persuade them
to give you their business.
Refreshing, isn’t it?
32. “In a nutshell, the New Business Mastery program
gets you the meeting you want. Not only that, it
gets you the right meeting. With the right people.
And it makes sure that when you get to the right
meeting in front of the right people, you are prepared.
Prepared to talk informatively and insightfully about
their business. Not just waffling on about yours.
It makes sure you ‘close’. And that’s the meeting
you really want.”
Jeff Sanders
Managing Director, RAPP
CEO, Global Red
33. NBM helped a creative agency change their
stodgy credentials presentation into what
we call an ‘insight-sell with a project offer’.
It resonated so strongly they secured a major
alcohol brand after just one meeting.
34. Stage Five: Maintain
Keeping The Momentum Alive
Protect your new business program from the inevitable
changes that occur in your business, the industry and your
clients. Your new business program should outlast those who
built it, and have a life of its own.
Our maintenance program will ensure your new business
efforts are always running at peak efficiency. We will keep
you on track and closing on your own terms, steadily increasing
your win rate. With minimal cost, the program helps maintain
your New Business Mastery with monthly clinics.
35. Safeguard your new business
program so it doesn’t get put on
the backburner where a gentle
simmer can quickly turn cold.
36. Our successful agency clients are quickly
energised by the clarity of our methods.
New Business Mastery will remove the
two pain points of your daily life – the
anxiety of wondering where your next
profitable client will come from and the
stress of letting staff go.
37. Our New Business Mastery program has refreshed the way CEOs
understand their whole business. We helped a 16-year-old creative
agency grow their gross profits by 258% in 18 months and, along
the way, they became more sophisticated, transforming their
understanding of their own business, their clients’ business, their
work and their worth.
So how much does it cost to enjoy the benefits that the New Business
Mastery program can bring to your agency? As each company has a
different personality, varying degrees of experience and requirements,
the cost can only be established in consultation with you.
After signing a very detailed and very specific Confidentiality
Agreement in accordance with your policies, we welcome the
opportunity to get to know your circumstances better and offer
a tailored solution to fulfil your specific needs.
Elements of the New Business Mastery program can be purchased in
separate packages or as a complete program, with a pricing structure
that rewards the total number of phases to which you commit.
What Next?
38. About the Founder
Julia Vargiu
Founder & Principal, New Business Methodology
New business is a science for Julia Vargiu. With more than
20 years’ experience in devising, building and implementing
successful new business programs, Julia’s methodology has
consistently turned hundreds of agencies in the US, Australia
and Asia into successful new business winners.
Julia founded New Business Methodology in 1998, three years
after relocating to Sydney with a background in marketing
communications and advertising in New York, where she had
spent eight years specialising in new business development.
Working for the USA’s first and largest agency new business
consultancy (Lemont Consulting Group), New York’s premier
public relations services company (Bacon’s Information) and
the national leader in executive search for the marketing
communications industries (Howard Sloan Koller), she was
also a guest speaker at the Graduate Schools of Journalism
in Columbia and New York Universities.
In Australia, she was the first Marketing Manager for four of
Sydney’s top agencies (TMP Worldwide, Ammirati Puris Lintas,
Foote Cone & Belding and OMD) creating these roles after
having identified the unmet need in the market. This depth
of knowledge, coupled with over twenty years of data, enables
her to identify, score and improve an agency’s systems and
effectiveness for generating profitable new clients.
As a sought-after speaker on new business best practice
and how to keep your pipeline full, Julia has recently spoken
at The Source New Business Series, and the PRIA RCG
National Conference.
Julia is a native of San Francisco, alumni of Aiglon Collége,
Switzerland, danced regularly with RuPaul in Atlanta and,
prior to moving to New York, ran away with the gypsies to
become an actress. She toured nationally for three years,
specialising in improvisational street theatre for themed
renaissance festivals around North America.
She’s been married for 20 years to a handsome Australian
chef, has been told she has a rather endearing son with
whom she travels the world, and has developed a taste for
fois gras, excellent coffee and high heels.
40. Imagine investing in a company that did
not have a sales department, did not advertise,
promote, or use PR consistently, did not have a
consumer positioning, and did not have a long
term marketing plan. You might be investing
10 to 12 hours a day in one right now –
your company.