I think these are a really useful set of threads Kappa84, and would strongly encourage everyone to write a plan - and very importantly then USE it to guide their business. It is so easy to get carried away running the business and forget what you were trying to do (and find that business suddenly slows because you lost focus).
I am glad you focused well on understanding your customer and on the competition, these are often not given enough attention. We have some notes over on BizFace about how to do some of these techniques such as SWOT analysis, would anyone find them helpful here? I was thinking of posting up some advice like this there because most of our members seem to be small start-ups.
Thanks for sharing
kind regards
Stephanie
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