Do you have great plans for your business in 2010?

If I were to ask to see your business plan and marketing strategy, would you be able to hand me a tangible document?

If I were to read it, would I have a clear idea of where your business is headed?

Did you answer “no” to any of these questions?  Then here is a scary fact:

“Seventy Percent of businesses who start the year without a written business plan…FAIL within 6 months!”

Before I started my own business, I wrote marketing plans for my employer.  I spent just about the entire month of September helping to prepare the marketing plan for the following year.  They funny thing is, I didn’t really realize the importance of it until I became solely responsible for the success of a company.

Now, I live and breathe my marketing plan.  It is a working document that helps to set the clear direction of my business.  I would be lost without it.

We all know what we want to do with our businesses, and as entrepreneurs, many of us have a clear map…in our heads.

So here we are, a few months away from 2010.

My Advice…WRITE YOUR PLAN NOW!  There are tons of great resources out there to direct you through the process.

Here’s to a great end to 2009, and an even more success year to come for you and your business!

~Jerri

P.S.  You can check out my easy “90 Minute Marketing Plan” here.