Plan... Perform... Profit!

Wouldn't it feel great to have a more profitable business that puts more and more cash in your pocket each month and runs like a well-oiled machine?

It's About Transformation

If you're like most successful entrepreneurs, you've found that the "busy-ness of business" dominates your time and holds you hostage to doing things you hate such as administrative work, putting out fires, applying band-aids, and working 80 hours a week. You constantly push your big plans to the side even though you know making them a reality would fulfill your vision of a well-oiled business that makes more money with you working many less hours.

Is this you?

• The business plan you created is covered with dust or it doesn't represent your business any longer.
• You have never written a plan that you use daily -- and know you need one.
• You want to be more succesful in 2010 and want to set better priorities.
• You want to make the tough business decisions accurately without second guessing yourself
• You want pain-free marketing strategies and to continually attracting your ideal clients.
• You need to start delegating and aren't sure where to start.
• You want something to motivate you and know that an action plan is what's needed.
• You want your business and team perform like a well-oiled machine.
• You value business collaborations and can't wait to hear the feedback from your peers (and Maria).

And most importantly.... you want an easy approach to planning that you can do on your own.

How'd you do? If you answered NO to any of these questions, you're in the right place. We agree with the experts who say that every business needs a business plan and a pain-free marketing plan.

Economic Recovery Starts with a One Page Business Plan®

Let's face it -- you have a lot of demands on your time and your focus may be slipping (or it needs to change!). A sustainable one-page business plan is sure to help you AND is the corner-stone of your business; this year and for years to come.

Instead of creating a bloated master plan that never takes off, create a dynamic one-page plan used every day to guide your efforts. Learn how to ask the right questions, and then translate into an actionable plan.

It's time to get more of the right things done. That means focus, focus, focus on income-generating strategies. We'll help you define your vision, set challenging objectives, and design strategies that keep you on the path. Then create an action plan to execute in the next 12 months. And we'll be "by your side" helping you or doing it, every step of the way!

FOCUS on Income Generation Tasks: It Takes a 12-Month Action Plan

The planning process starts out with you looking at the big picture and ends when you take tactical actions to execute quarterly, monthly and even daily goals. To complete your plan, you'll focus on three areas: target market, vision/mission, execution.

Focus on your target market: You cannot afford to talk to everyone. You cannot afford to market to everyone. But what you do want to do is talk and marketing to the people who will help your business grow the most. Using our 6-step Ideal Client Process, you'll identify the right target market for your business. And you can use the same process to identify your ideal partners, ideal employees, etc. etc.

Focus on your vision and mission: The clearer you are with your companies visions for 1 year, 10 years as well as your exit vision, the better off you will be and the clearer your message will be to those you market to, your team, your partners, your clients and your staff. We'll get you clear and provide you with templates to create concise vision and mission statements.

Focus on your goals: You'll create one-year goals to help you get crystal clear and identify specific, realistic, and measurable goals. Your goals will help move you forward, help you measure your success and show you when changes are necessary.

Focus on execution: You'll create strategies and then brake them down into four quadrants that represent each quarter for easier execution. Our clients usually identify strategies to carry out in: business operations, finances, systems development, branding, networking program, pubic speaking and/or writing, referral programs, customer loyalty programs, sales program, product or service creation, training, and online marketing (from website to social media).

The One Page Business Plan® and its laser-like focus makes it an extremely useful living document that you'll use daily to get results. The One Page Business Plan® empowers business women and their teams to re-think business and achieve their goals -- faster! It's a results-based system that links strategy, execution, and accountability. Businesswomen who create and then execute their business and marketing plan based on their ideal clients report these results:

• Increased sales from 25% to 400% and everywhere in between
• Focused on the priorities even when business challenges arise
• Taken back control of their business (and personal life)
• Boosted their confidence to make better, quicker decisions
• Created an accountability tool to keep your and your team going no matter what life brings

Let Me "Do It For You"

We'll work with you as you turn a process you've considered daunting, into something much simpler that get's done. How? We work with you (and/or your staff) privately in a variety of ways to help complete your plan. This may include completing your plan as you sit back and answer our questions, or you may join a group in Seattle or virtually, or ask us to create a group for your company. We'll do your plan virtually using SKYPE or teleseminar process, or in person at your office, retreat or conference.

Personalized, Insightful Advice from a Former Wall Street Executive

Maria Marsala, CEO of Elevating Your Business, has been in your high heels. An irrepressible entrepreneur, she started her first business selling AVON at age 14 and became a Wall Street trader by age 21. She spent the next 20 years streamlining corporate operations and generating more profits for her employers. For the last 10 years, she has been sharing her expertise and success secrets from Wall Street with entrepreneurs just like you. Her solid track record of success can work for you as well.

Next Step: Step Up

The actions you take over the next 12 months will define your business for many years to come. It's amazing how fast the pieces fall into place when you have a business plan, marketing plan and ideal client profile to follow and help YOU every day!

Your first action must be to learn more about our planning process by clicking one of the purple boxes that best describes your situation!

Not quite convinced how this process can help you? Don't believe Maria Marsala. Believe her clients.

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Legal Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to accurately represent our products and services and their potential. Any claims made of actual earnings or examples of actual results may not apply to the average purchaser and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results. Results will depend on the unique skills and business of the individual and as with any business endeavor, there is an inherent risk of loss of capital and there is no guarantee that you will earn any money. Any or all guarantees that Maria provides clients is submitted first in an email, and then in writing.