The 20 steps Business Development plan

This Business Development Toolkit is a guide with 20 simple steps to boost business performance ........ permanently!

But let's be clear, this is NOT -

'How to start a business' (although any business start-up should be looking at business development from Day One).

Neither is it about accountancy and bookkeeping (it is assumed you have those areas covered).

Nor is it about raising finance.

The techniques offered represent best practice and are a compilation of some of the latest thinking on issues that affect business performance.

Each step, after an explanation of the technique, offers a practical ...

... section that helps the business owner apply that technique to his/her business.

If you tackle the issues raised in this Toolkit, you will have created for yourself an immensely valuable resource of ideas that you can use to increase the value of your business.

Review the 'Contents' in the panel to the right to see what is included.

You can if you like look on it as a mini-MBA course for your business but without any difficult jargon to contend with as the emphasis is on keeping it simple.

In addition to the techniques themselves, you will read of examples of how other businesses have implemented particular techniques.

You will read about an amazingly simple idea that one business took and tripled their sales.

It involved no investment and no extra cost, just one concept adapted for that particular business and the benefit went straight to increased profits.

The technique could work for your business too.

In another case, you will read about a business that applied one of the techniques and discovered that they were able to increase the price of certain products by more than 200% with no additional cost and without a whimper from the customers - in fact it resulted in even more customers asking for the product. Again, the benefit went straight to increased profits.

It is all about knowing 'how to view a business' - any business.

Once you understand the concepts, you will look at any business in a completely new light - even the most mundane business will appear full of potential.

It is about changing the mindset.

Take a look at elements of the Business Development Toolkit

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TOOLKIT CONTENTS

1) How to prepare yourself

3 techniques that help you -

prioritise all the issues in your life correctly,
approach the running of your business in a whole new way that removes the pressure and gives you more time,
avoid procrastination which is stopping you from succeeding

2) How to prepare your business

4 techniques that help you -

build a pathway to your ultimate business goal (No...it's NOT a Business Plan),
clarify your reason for being in the business in a way that makes real sense and will guide every business decision you make thereafter,
understand the simple solution to make any business perform the way you think it should,
learn the simpler ways to review, control and predict the outcome of your business on a daily, weekly or monthly basis (that does NOT need to involve the Accountant)

3) How to grow your business

5 techniques that will help you-

understand the four key issues that drive business growth and how they can have a cumulative effect for the whole business,
learn the importance of, and how to go about, getting the right customers for your business,
appreciate the absolutely crucial process you must apply to existing customers,
recognise why, and how, every single transaction can be improved,
what needs to happen to really get the cumulative effect working for your business

4) How to develop your team

1 technique that will help you-

completely revolutionise the way your team works and becomes focussed on building the business

5) How to work with your customer

7 techniques to help you -

understand precisely why customers leave and what you can do about it,

recognise what you can do to make your business more attractive to customers,

learn how the perceptions of customers matter and allow you to increase profit margins,

grasp the fact that there is really only one aspect of your product or service that a customer wants to know about,

learn a simple move that turns a 'possible customer' into a 'definite customer',

appreciate that you are making life difficult for your customer and how to deal with it,

know what to do when you need to make things happen

BONUS

A form to help you find out exactly what your customer wants
A spreadsheet to let you see just how even small changes could improve your business
A simple technique that can lead to a 'customer for life'