Fall is right around the corner and many of us set our vision on next year.
At least for our business.
We’re not giving up on this year. We’re simply planning ahead.
- You are planning ahead?
- Right?
- Would you like a little help?
Over the next three posts, I’ll provide you free copies of business communication templates.
My Vision Template for You
The templates are from my work-in-progress book, Developing Your Business Marketing Plan: A 10-Part Plan for Success.
The title is also a work-in-progress.
What I found is the templates work for developing a marketing plan, a communication plan, a content marketing plan or whatever other trendy-term-of-the-day there is.
The book offers a step-by-step guide on developing your plan. It originated from my 10-Part post series on business communication and offers the following.
- Part 1: The Vision to Make Success Happen
- Part 2: I.D. the Killer Client
- Part 3: Beating Blind Hog Objectives
- Part 4: Bang for Your Buck Budget
- Part 5: Steering the Communication Vehicle
- Part 6: A Control Freak Guide to Roles & Responsibilities
- Part 7: Top to Bottom Message
- Part 8: A Champion Timeline
- Part 9: Spinning Better Benchmarks
- Part 10: Planning for the Unexpected
The book offers development tools, examples, templates for each part, and sample completed forms.
You get a sneak peek here at some of the templates.We start off with a Vision for my Business template form.
In the next two posts, I’ll share the templates for:
- Budgeting
- Communication vehicles
Click to download your copy of the Vision for my Business template form.
Let me know in Comments what you think or if you have any questions.
P.S. Happy Labor Day to my U.S. readers!
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oooh, the vision template looks great and your book sounds wonderful… will you let us preorder it?
Thanks, Anne. You are too kind. 🙂 When I get closer to publishing, you sure can. Thank you!
Cathy, this looks great. Really comprehensive, and asks some hard questions — for me, at least. If I don’t have a vision for my business, how will I know how to get there? Or when I have arrived? This may also prevent me from comparing myself to others who appear more successful. Thanks!
(If this comment look familiar it’s because I posted it by mistake on John Soares’ blog. Just goes to show you the value of commenting!)
Well this is strange, Cheryl. I replied to this and it’s not showing up. On my own blog-how rude. 😉
Anyway, I said I totally agree and vision changes (at least it has for me) so I think it’s a good idea to revisit our vision.
I also said John and I share regularly. 😉
P.S. I found my 1st reply in spam. Now that’s what I call an aggressive spam filter. LOL! 😀 I suspect this boomer brain here accidentally put it in spam.
This looks terrific, Cathy! I was just putting some thoughts together for a speech at a writers conference later this month, and one of the points I was going to make is that there is no need to wait till January to take action. Always better to find a compelling reason to do it now.
Thanks, Jake. I agree. We tend to get locked into fixed timelines. I like to say the great thing about plans is you can always change them. Of course, it could also be my stubborn resistance to all things conventional. 😉
Thanks for stopping by, Jake.
I loved the template, Cathy. It is a good time to start planning for 2015 and setting plans in action in Q4 2014. Besides, I wonder how many of us return to look at our business plans once we get into business and update for what experience has taught us?
Hi Vatsala. Nice to see you here. Thank you for the kind words. I agree we can all use a reminder – especially me. 😉 Thank you for dropping by.