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Deciding on Web page elements
You would think that the first thing you decide on, when planning your Web site, are the color palette, font style and layout—what it's going to look like---design components, right? Not so. The same approach that you would use in getting a custom home built also applies to constructing a well-built Web site.

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Strategic Thinking – A Wise Business Investment, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Strategic thinking is critical to the long-term success of businesses today. Yet, there are too many businesses that fail to invest time, money and human capital into planning for the future. So many businesses are concentrating only on the day-to-day activities in their business and are failing to create or remember a vision for the future. Some businesses work diligently to create strategic plans, business plans, integrated marketing communications plans, etc. only to leave these plans dormant on some shelf. They fail to remember that these plans are living documents, which warrant follow-through, review and updates. Businesses need to commit to spend more time spent on strategy on a regular basis. Here are ten (10) tips from your strategic thinking business coach to help make the best use of time for strategic thinking.

Wheelchair Ramps to Help you Succeed
American Ramp was founded in 1970 with a simple mission - to serve those who use wheelchairs and have trouble with stairs. Over the years they have developed metal architectural products to meet the needs of its customers.

Business Plans Don’t Last Forever
Business plans... you either love them or hate them. They are a beautiful thing when they create a unified focus and alignment across your company... And empower your team to go out and do what they must do to produce results. But fast-growing companies outgrow their business plans. Often, it is just a matter of time, because business plans don’t last forever! It’s highly likely you have outgrown your business plan when:
Why Unique Content is Important
Too much similarity between pages within a site confuses the search engines. If the customer is willing to click-through onto different pages, at least give them something new to read or skim through. A lot of people in general fall into the trap of placing an uneven emphasis on the architectural layout as opposed to an even balance between layout and the actual content, providing problems with overall usability.
Resolve to Follow the 5 Stages of Planning for a Prosperous 2010
With the challenges and uncertainties facing small business owners in 2010, a well-crafted plan is more important than ever. Many companies with 2009 plans that were “in my head” or “sketched on a napkin” aren’t making plans for 2010; they’re no longer in business. Unless your 2010 plans include becoming a statistic, you must resolve to commit the resources necessary to develop a high quality plan for 2010. Developing an actionable plan that increases your odds of success is as technically demanding as any of the products or services you offer to customers.
Business Plans: Uses and Abuses
“Some men see things as they are and say "Why?". I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Do you ever dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality. Many of you will have thought about writing business plans to make your dreams come true and been put off, thinking them either too hard to write, not necessary, or feeling that they are not really needed as the plans are already in your head. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals. In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process.

Discovering Your Enneagram Type
If you don't know who you are, how can you confidently be you and power yourself to success? As a business columnist for eighteen years, I have analyzed many of the popular personality systems, including the ones that cost thousands of dollars per person. Hands down, the Enneagram of Nine Personality Types is the best. I believe in it so strongly that I got the U.S. Patent & Trademark for my Enneagram Personality System Character Architectural Technology. The Three World Views appear in my book "Grow Yourself a Life You'll Love."

How can Hyper-Question based business planning improve planning quality?
Not all business plans are created equal. After creating hundreds of successful business plans, we have come to understand some of the key elements that determine planning success.

Change Management Can Lead to Rigidity and Resistance to Change
Beware of formal organization improvement or "change management" (an oxymoron) plans. Like strategic plans, organization improvement or change management plans can reduce an organization's effectiveness. They can lead to rigidity, bureaucracy, and resistance to change. This sounds like an argument against planning. It's not. We have found that constant and ongoing personal, team, and organization improvement planning is vital. But too many "change management" and improvement plans are built on the same faulty premise as strategic planning - that there is a right path, which can be determined in advance and then implemented. We often hear managers declare that they have the right strategic or improvement plan, but the reason things aren't going according to plan is because of "execution problems." This is a deadly assumption.
Now is the Time
I love the hopeful feeling of having a new calendar and fresh plans laid out in front of me. But of course the New Year doesn’t wait long before euphoria subsides and it begins testing your resolve, persistence and plans. Whether your goals for 2012 were written in indelible ink or simply mumbled to yourself during your commute, the universe somehow seems to know about them and begins delivering the challenges. At some primal level, we know that our plans will only take wing if we get both hands on the steering wheel and are not shy about turning it in a direction we want to go. So, if starting a business is on your list of resolutions, I have some thoughts to share with you.

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