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Actual for You - Spray and Pray: The Substitute for Strategic Planning
Irrespective of their size and nature most businesses face financial crunch sometime or the other in its lifecycle. These crisis situations become all the more important for small businesses because the banks and financial organizations are often ready to lend money to big business houses but not to the smaller ones. Besid
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During the last almost 10 years, as a business coach and executive coach, I can now predict with almost 100% accuracy that 90% of the business owners at any event drive their businesses through 2 actions. First, they SPRAY all their activity from marketing and sales to customer service and employee training around them and then they PRAY that these actions will stick.
Just this week when speaking to another salesperson of another very new business who was having some difficulty in reaching potential buyers, I heard some confusion. I asked: "Is there a strategic plan including a market plan, sales plan and a strategic action plan?" The salesperson quickly replied "No." Given that this business had just invested in over $100,000
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During the last almost 10 years, as a business coach and executive coach, I can now predict with almost 100% accuracy that 90% of the business owners at any event drive their businesses through 2 actions. First, they SPRAY all their activity from marketing and sales to customer service and employee training around them and then they PRAY that these actions will stick.
Just this week when speaking to another salesperson of another very new business who was having some difficulty in reaching potential buyers, I heard some confusion. I asked: "Is there a strategic plan including a market plan, sales plan and a strategic action plan?" The salesperson quickly replied "No." Given that this business had just invested in over $100,00
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Just this week when speaking to another salesperson of another very new business who was having some difficulty in reaching potential buyers, I heard some confusion. I asked: "Is there a strategic plan including a market plan, sales plan and a strategic action plan?" The salesperson quickly replied "No." Given that this business had just invested in over $100,00
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Just this week when speaking to another salesperson of another very new business who was having some difficulty in reaching potential buyers, I heard some confusion. I asked: "Is there a strategic plan including a market plan, sales plan and a strategic action plan?" The salesperson quickly replied "No." Given that this business had just invested in over $100,00
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How much easier would it have been had the plan been created to clearly identify the target market through the creation of an executable strategic plan instead of using the spray and pray tactic? Strategic planning is the basic key to working smarter not harder.
For many small business owners, strategic planning is not on their radar screen. The belief is that planning takes far too much time and these very busy, time obsessed, business owners do not have time to invest on strategic planning for future change. And heavens forbid for them to consider any providers for business plans services and advice such as consultants or business coaches because they are fine doing what they always have been doing. The only
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