Strategic Business Tips from Kim Beasley

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What I want to know is…what are your top 10 goals for 2010 that you have planned for your business? Have you made any plans for your personal strategy in the coming year? Have you started your 2010 strategy plan? If not, then you still have time to start your planning.

As you look forward to where you want to take your business and be personally in 2010, don’t let it over stress you. Take some time this week to think about all that you want to accomplish in 2010 and start making your top “10″ list. Below are some suggestions of areas that you might want to concentrate on:

• Obtaining a mentor
• Updating your office equipment
• Setting up your business website
• Connecting with potential joint venture partners
• Create an Internet strategy plan to grow your business
• Take classes to enrich your knowledge
• Develop a social media presence

Wow, this is just a starter list and there is much, much more that you can include on your Top “10″ for 2010 list. Once you have created your list, please share with me by leaving a comment. I would love to hear what you are doing to be successful in 2010.

To help new startup business owners, I have created a new business starter kit called “Your Passionate Business” starter kit. The purpose of this starter kit is to help people who want to start a business that is centered on a skill that you are passionate about.

Coming up on September 1 at 11:00 am CST, I will be hosting a pre-launch party call. I will be sharing how “Your Passionate Business” starter kit can help you be a successful business owner. To register for the call, visit our Signup Page.

Have you been thinking about a business idea that you can’t quite get started?

Do you have a desire to start your own business but don’t know where to start?

Then you definitely need to purchase
“Your Passionate Business” starter kit.

You will receive the following in the starter kit:

• Your Passionate Business ebook (electronic download)
• Your Passionate Business workbook (electronic download)
• Freebies:
  • Twitter Book for business owners (electronic download)
  • How to Hire a Virtual Assistant ebook (electronic download)
  • How to Hire a Graphic Designer (electronic download)
  • Social Media Roadmap starter kit (electronic download)

Purchase YPB Starter Kit

Now that winter has passed us by and Spring just said goodbye, Summertime is upon us an I want to know what type of fun are you planning for you business. What I mean by this is how do you plan to liven up your business and draw in new consumers to purchase your services or products.

My business Summer fun will incorporate the following:

• Going Green with tools and equipment that I use
• Researching to find outsourcing contractors to help support the growth of my business
• Revamping business processes to streamline them

This is just a short list of regarding the things that I plan on doing. I’m so excited about having fun in the sun with my business. What are some of the things that you plan on doing to revamp your business? Please feel free to share.

I made a choice to look for tools that I could use to “go green” such as checklist or monitoring programs. It makes me feel good that I will be taking part in “going green” starting today April 22, 2009.

So the hunt started and I found many resources but I’m only going to share a few with you. The top ones are shown below. If you know of any that are not on my list, please feel free to leave a comment with a link to those resources. Here’s to success in going green.

• Helping Your Family Go Green
• Martha Stewart – Going Green Checklist: 101 Ways to Get Started (PDF)
• Keetsa – You solution for going green in your bedroom
• Helping Your Family Go Green Checklist
• Earth911.com for Businesses website & the checklist

This is just a short list but I’m continuing to look for resources. Please feel free to post a comment with links to going green resources that may not be listed.

Do you have a “Big Idea” business plan that you want to use to start a business? In 2009, have you decided that you want to start your own business? Then just take your idea and do it. Don’t wait any longer1

The way the economy is changing, you never know when a “Corporate America” job could end. So take you fear and get past it. Take your “Big Idea” and go with it. Below is a simple list of things to keep in mind when you are creating you “Big Idea” together.

1. Determine the need for a prototype
2. Own the process of developing the prototype
3. Show prototype
4. Build prototype
5. Sale prototype

Check out this video.