How Many Times Have You Promised Yourself That You're Going To Create A Business Plan or Marketing Plan And Never Did It?
Could Your Company Benefit From Implementing - This week - A Results-Based System That Links Business Planning, Marketing, Implementation & Accountability?
Whether you are a small business owner, or leading in a large, complex organization, The One Page Business Plan® and our Ideal Client Profile assist our clients to efficiently and effectively:
- Create your plan in a quick and in stress-free way.
- Show that you're serious about the growth of your company.
- Accelerate growth
- Increase revenues and profits
- Develop stronger communication between you and your team, division, staff, etc.
- More effectively implement your business plan
- Develop yourself and/or your staff as high performance leaders.
- Focus people and resources on achieving goals
The One Page Business Plan is a proven business tool that uniquely links planning, strategy, performance and accountability. And with our business plan services, you'll also add brainstorming, problem solving and execution. We'll provide you with The One Page Planning and Performance System, a breakthrough business application to create, monitor, and assist you as you execute your plan.
Plan Development 1: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Write a Business Plan!
Point, Click, Plan! Software
Point, Click, Plan! software is designed to help you write a clear, concise, and understandable business plan on a single page in the quickest and simplest way possible. Use this self-paced, interactive learning tool to create a One Page Business Plan... as you write! It's developed based on the million dollar best selling book, the One Page Business Plan.
The software contains everything you need to craft your draft in much less time, 90-120 minutes, than any other "conventional" planning process.
Maria offers a variety of services to help you create your plan. Some clients prefer to create their draft themselves and then work with Maria 1:1 or in a group to finalize the plan. Others prefer that Maria works with them - from start to finish -- to create their draft and final plans.
You'll create a better plan when you know exactly whom it is you're marketing to. So if before you create your plan, you'll benefit from working on creating or updating your a target market, developing a stronger (or new) niche, we provide you with all you need in our Ideal Client Profile CD, too.
Point, Click, Plan! Highlights
- Significantly reduce time you spend on planning
- Interactive prompts help you to easily develop plans
- Powerful visual tools streamline the planning process
- Learn planning techniques in minutes... not hours
- No complicated terms to learn
- Focus people and resources on what's important
- Make writing the draft of your plan almost effortless
- Eliminate the drudgery associated with writing a plan
- Improve your ability to communicate complex concepts quickly and effectively
- contains over 100 practical samples
- Fast pace insures less time away from the job
- Converts strategic plans to operational plans
We have also found this plan to be a helpful tool when talking with banks, VCs, and Angels. Although they will eventually want a longer plan, being able to talk with them in concise, understandable terms, has been a big benefit! So much so, that Maria has taught classes at banks, or sponsored by Angel Investors.
Plan Development 2: Web-Based Planning & Performance System Overview
Online Enterprise Solution
Once completed, we'll put your plan online where you can easily keep track the progress you're making on your objectives and action plans. If you or your staff travels or are located in different offices, or your company's store front is the Internet you'll find the web based system a highly beneficial because each plan is easily accessible to individuals who have been given "administrative viewing permission".
Our system is simple, it's easy and it works because the system:
- Uses easy to understand language
- Teaches systems and critical thinking
- Integrates performance and progress reports to plans
- Links Performance Reporting to each Objective
- Provides progress reporting to each Planned Action
- Gives you secured and controlled access to system
And if your company or organization has executives, staff, independent professionals, or consultants, the it works because the system:
- Will have everyone using the same language using the same templates
- Teaches systems and critical thinking
- Fosters organizational learning
- Clearly identifies excellent and poor performers within your company
- Fosters 360 degree accountability
- Integrates performance and progress reports to plans
- Creates a click-thru organization chart
- Has color-coded Plan Status Reports
Plan Development 3: Accountability
Services to Keep You In The Flow
Talk with Maria to learn more about her accountability programs. They include on-site and virtual services.
View The Plan Below
Who Has It?
Over the years, I've helped many independent service providers create their plans. Over 50,000 companies -- of all sizes -- are using the planning system including:
- over 30 major colleges and universities
- American Medical Association
- Oracle
- Ford
- Monsanto
- City of Oakland
- Disney
- Herman-Miller
- IKON Office Systems
- Kaiser Permanente
- Ken Blanchard Co.
- Morgan Stanley
- No. Cascades National Bank
- Phoenix Children Hospital
- Prudential Real Estate
- Tillamook Cheese
- All Maria's very successful clients.
View sample plan for small business owners here
A Flexible System
The methodology can be used by home business owners, corporations, departments, divisions, and cross-functional teams to create:
- Strategic Plans
- Operations Plans
- Training & Development Plans
- Sales Plans
- New Product or Service Plan
Track the results of every key objective
Each Objective has a Scorecard. The system uniquely links plans and performance reporting in a very simple, yet highly effective manner. Just click on any objective and create a One Page Scorecard. The scorecard shows actuals, budget, forecast and last year actual, both graphically and quantitatively.
Track The Status of a Critical Initiative or Project
Every Action Plan has a Progress Report that will never get lost in the mail! For each action plan, create and monitor its progress. As long as you're by a computer, you can review a plan or update it.
Total Accountability - Status of Every Plan at a Glance
Learn how each manager is executing their plan in a click of your mouse. Click on their name and display their plan, scorecard and progress report. This feature facilitates the quick assessment of monthly, quarterly and year-to-date results and progress.
-Tim Clauss, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
What's Next?
Take a video tour, listen to our audio, your choice. Click here
Next 1-day Planning Retreats
Limited to 20 spaces per event to ensure plenty of personal attention for each participant. You receive the software and CDs upon payment.
DATES:
Friday, Jan 22, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Friday, November 19 2010
Time: 9:15am-5:30pm
Create a draft of your plan in less than 2 hours
Finish your plan with some help. Learn more about our Silver Plan
We Create Business Plans For Success!
- Small-Mid Businesses
- Independent Professionals
- Women Business Owners
- Online Marketers
- Corporations
- Executives
- Teams
- Divisions
- Departments/Units
- Branch Offices
- Profit Centers
- Process Improvement
- Idea plan
- Exit/Succession
- Staff Positions
- Career Plans
- Board of Directors
- Consultants
- Libraries
- Financial Professionals
- Advisory Boards
- New Employee Descriptions
- New Product or Service
- Executive Directors
- Non-Profit
- and you!
Learn More
- Sample Plan
- Training Video
- Our Programs.
- Planning Software
- Coaching
- Online Performance Mgmt System Flyer
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