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“Our company has indeed, stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget you can only stumble if you are moving.” — Richard P. Carleton, Former CEO, 3M Corporation, 1950
As you all know by now I’ve been co-hosting a regular BlogTalkRadio Show each week with Business Coach and SmallBusinessDelivered.com author Steve Smith. Well last week our topic of conversation was Strategic Vision in Small Businesses. This was an especially interesting topic because most small business owners do not truly know what it is they want their business to become.
I mean think about it for a moment. Yes you have a business and it probably consumes most of your waking moments. And maybe just maybe you’ve taken the time to write a business plan for it. But in that business plan did you ever actually ask yourself the question “What Do You Want Your Business To Become”? Think about this for a minute. Don’t just worry about the day to day affairs of running your company. For those wondering what I am talking about I’ll give you an easy example. Say you own one conveniance store. Now ask yourself what you hope that conveinance store will become in ten years. Will you build up a chain of them where you live. Maybe go national, or create a franchise. Or maybe you’re just hoping to cash out one day. What is your strategic vision. What do you hope your business will become?
As I build up www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com I constantly ask myself this question all the time. And the answer does change sometimes at least a little. Some strategic visions are constantly being modified as you learn more about the business you are in and what you can potentially accomplish. Keep this thought in the back of your head and at some point take a moment to consider the question. You may be surprised by the answer you come up with.
To check out our show on Strategic visions just follow the link BlogTalkRadio Show.
I must say that there are a lot of people out there that want to build links for their websites. Of course I am doing the same thing but there are other methods to do this. Recently a new or maybe not so new tactic has come up where people will make a brief comment on a blog in an effort to get a link to their website posted. And while I do not mind allowing a link meaning one link to be published if there is an actually meaningful comment being posted I do not condone all of the attempted spamming being attempted on my blog.
Trying to get a spam message through by commenting on an old blog post will not work here. I moderate all blog posts first. I have let a couple through but only because there was an actual post and only one link.
So I encourage all of the people trying to spam on this blog to stop. If you actually want to read a post and make a useful comment I’ll allow a link to be published as well. Otherwise I will just keep deleting them.
Just because this blog is a Do follow blog does not mean something will be posted unless I allow it.
This week on www.blogtalkradio.com/small-biz-delivered myself and co-host Steve Smith of OneCoach Coaching will be talking about the affects that big businesses often have on small businesses. Specifically though we’ll be discussing this situation as it applies to GM and Chrysler and the recent dealership closings. We want to cover this issues because there is legislation pending that would force GM and Chrysler to allow those affected dealerships to reopen. But even if it passed isn’t it already too late? They’re closed already. How many of them would have the ability or inclination at this point to open there doors again if allowed to. Both of us feel it is an important topic because of the number of lives that have been affected by big corporations that are only thinking of themselves.
I just wanted to take the time to tell all of our readers that we’ve been in recruiting mode. If you didn’t already realize it all of our authors are also business coaches that specialize in different fields. Some like Dan Boudreau focus on Business Planning primarily while Kristina Evey is a Customer Service expert and Shirley Fine Lee specializes in both Time Management and Team Building. These are just some examples of the experts who contribute to www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com. Well our recruiting efforts have beared some more fruit. Last week we added Michael Davel Anderson who runs www.trainmetobeceo.com. And this week we’ll be bringing you Allie Casey who specializes in Workplace Communication. Our goal of coarse is to bring our readers the best possible content that we can and I believe we’ve been able to do that. So I hope everyone will take the time to check out her articles as we can certainly benefit from them. Her first article will be up during our next weekly publishing cycle. Again I hope everyone of our readers benefits from all of the great content on www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com.
This week myself and co-host Steve Smith will be talking about Seasonal Businesses. Specifically what constitutes a seasonal business, why people start them, the benefits of ownership, the drawbacks to ownership, and what it takes to run such a business. The show will be broadcast this Thursday night December 3rd, 2009 at 7pm pacific standard time. The listen in to the show live just follow this link http://www.blogtalkradio.com/small-biz-delivered/2009/12/04/pumpkins-fireworks-and-snow-skis-what-do-they-all-have-in-common. In addition you can listen to all of our previous shows at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/small-biz-delivered. I do hope you’ll join in. If you do you’ll have the chance to call in and ask us questions while we are live on the air. I hope you can tune in.
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