September 17, 2004
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Business Plan And Start Up Newsletter
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September 17, 2004
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Written by Shaunta Pleasant
President, TL Manage Inc.
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Gathering Information For Your Plan
Anguilla As Metaphor
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Thought Of The Day
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Gathering Information For Your Plan
By Palo Alto Software, Inc.
A common problem people encounter when writing their business plan is finding information about their business industry and competitive companies. Fortunately, in recent years the Internet has made information gathering simple and easy, but sometimes the best information is found much closer to home, with real people, in real time.
Always take a look at other businesses similar to your own, as a very good first step. If you're looking at starting a new business, you may well be starting one similar to one you already know. If you're doing a plan for an existing business, you are even more likely to know the business well. Even so, you can still learn a lot by looking at other similar businesses.
- Look at existing, similar businesses.
- If you are planning a retail shoe store, for example, spend some time looking at existing retail shoe store businesses. Park across the street and count the customers that go into the store. Note how long they stay inside, and how many come out with boxes that look like purchased shoes. You can probably even count how many pairs of shoes each customer buys. Browse the store and look at prices. Look at several stores, including the discount shoe stores and department store shoe departments.
- Find a similar business in another place.
- Find a similar business far enough away that you won't compete. For the shoe store example, you would identify shoe stores in similar towns in other states. Call the owner, explain your purpose truthfully, and ask about the business.
- Scan local newspapers for people selling a similar business.
- Contact the broker and ask for as much information as possible. If you are thinking of creating a shoe store and you find one for sale, you should consider yourself a prospective buyer. Maybe buying the existing store is the best thing. Even if you don't buy, the information you gain will be very valuable. Why is the owner selling? Is there something wrong with the business? You can probably get detailed financial information.
- Always shop the competition.
- If you're in the restaurant business, patronize your competition once a month, rotating through different restaurants. If you own a shoe store, shop your competition once a month, and visit different stores.
It takes a little hard work but by using the Internet and doing some research at local businesses, you should be able to gather all the information necessary for your business plan.
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Anguilla As Metaphor
By Ken Evoy
Now... let's get back to "Anguilla as metaphor" -- it's a
powerful metaphor, just begging YOU to use it to drive your
sales volumes up, up, up...
1) Every body of knowledge is "an island." Mark Liron is
an expert in the "island of XP." Elad Shippony masters the
"island of children's birthday parties." Others know a lot
about RC cars. And on it goes.
Whatever YOU know about, apply C-T-P (and then "M")...
If you do, pretty soon you end up like these success stories
who are all experts on their islands...
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2) My daughter, Nori, followed CTPM. Now, thanks to her
SBI! site, she's a mini-celebrity in Anguilla.
Yes, literally.
Restaurant owners refuse payment. Her favorite clothing
store gives her clothes! She was interviewed by the big
local TV talk show. Tourists point at her. One even asked
for her autograph! I was amazed... she was shy, but you
could also tell she was secretly pleased.
Yes, I'm bragging a touch...
But think about this. Isn't this what Marc Liron does with
his site? Or what Marney Makridakis does with her site,
ArtellaWordsAndArt.com? It's all about becoming a celebrity
on your own island... your island of knowledge.
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3) Do CTPM and you will have successfully built your...
"Brand of One."
Remember, *YOU* have no brand. Amazon has a brand. Google
has a brand. YOU must build one. And there is only one way
to build your "Brand of One."
CTPM
THAT is what builds the core for a long-term, ever-growing
business with sustainable profits and true equity.
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4) In your "REAL world physical island" that I'll call your
neighborhood, you have a baker, barber, tailer and grocer.
Each builds a relationship with you through a pleasant
"hello," by providing good value, and with a parting smile
and good wishes for you to "have a good day."
It's called building a relationship with your customer.
PREselling is the online version of relationship-building.
Nori, Marc, Jim and Fiona, and Dr. Burch all build
relationships by PREselling. Did you know that Dr. Burch's
new patients will travel 50 kilometers to see him? Before
his site, all his patients came from within a 10 km radius.
Jim and Fiona (rent-a-villa-in-tuscany.com) snail-mailed me,
just this week, with a wonderful article, a huge spread in
Scotland's Daily Record newspaper. Jim and Fiona were very
kind to mention SBI!, but frankly SBI! was just the needed
catalyst. *THEY* are the ones who used it to change their
lives. They no longer work in the old-world textile
industry dependent on others in cold, cloudy Scotland. No,
they now live the new-world Internet life, one that THEY NOW
own, in sunny Tuscany, Italy.
(Jim and Fiona, watch out for the Evoy family vacation!)
THAT is the power of PREselling.
People WANT to do business with you.
Go to it. The world is your oyster, just waiting for you
to capitalize upon "your Anguilla."
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And THAT, my partner-in-sales, is exactly what your audience
needs to hear and understand. THEY really can succeed.
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Thought Of The Day
Nothing in this world can
take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th U.S. president~
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P.S. See you next issue. :-)
All the best,
Shaunta
http://www.tlmanage.com
http://www.yourbusinesspal.com
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