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If you experienced 2008 as business person, then you know that the world has changed, and that we all had better change too if we plan to survive… in business.  The bursting of the housing bubble, the collapse of the exotic financing market, the continued emergence of Web 2.0, and the evolution of mobile computing all contributed to significant changes in 2008.
  Technology and the internet continue to remain at the core of business change by enabling change to happen faster, and by supporting larger transactions that cause more extreme fluctuations when things don’t go quite right.
Technology and the internet also make it easier for the little guy to compete by making sophisticated tools available to the average business, and thereby leveling the playing field.   All of these changes support a shift in the power relationship among businesses, their competitors and their customers.  In this article we are going to Introduce you to the tools to re- start your business.

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The challenge for most companies is not to plan well but to plan at all.  If done properly, Strategic Planning can be the key to unlocking a flood of cash flow and a mountain of wealth.  Giving your customers what they want, doing it better than your competitors and getting the most from your company is the ultimate unbeatable advantage.  
If you want to conduct your own strategic planning session, then this valuable eManual is your number 1 business resource.  In 28 pages, the Strategic Planning eManual outlines a step-by-step strategic planning process so you can do it right everytime.  
It makes no difference if you are just starting a business, if you are growing a small business, or if you are planning a strategy for a large business.  The Strategic Planning eManual answers your strategic planning How-2’s.
Join the Strategic Growth Advisor community and get your very own Strategic Planning Advisor as one of the courses available to members. 
 

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Malcolm Gladwell’s the Tipping Point caused quite a stir back in 2000 when it was originally published. Largely  based on psychologist Stanely Milgram’s 1967 “Six Degrees of Separation” study, the Tipping Point sought to connect social networks and epidemics to modern business.  Gladwell proposed that social epidemics and stickiness could be engineered by leveraging the skills of certain types of communicators, and by managing environmental factors.  Far from being a prescriptive solution that would produce perfect results for every advertising or marketing campaign, it did remind of us of the power of social networks in disseminating a message about a product or service.
The Tipping Point has become particularly relevant during this time of economic unrest when most of the news we hear is bad. Good news (if you have it) can travel faster and farther than it once could when the networks were clogged with every company’s good story.  So, we would like to re-view the Tipping Point and offer you the opportunity to share some good news.
We have used Mindomo, a mind mapping tool to present our re-view of the Tipping Point here:

http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=0bd8efd0699f4b4292f75dbe6f541503

Comment back if you have an update for us on how your company and business are doing.
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Growth is Good!
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Leamon Crooms III, Guru of Growth

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