July 2005
Rethinking Your Business Plan: 10 Tips on Making a Yearly Upgrade
Revisiting Your Marketing Plan: Five Tips to Make Sure You Are Doing Enough
Four Ways to Celebrate Your Business Success and Share with Employees
The Big Picture: Refocusing on Why You Work for Yourself
Celebrating Your Independence: A Toast to Small Business
Hurray for small business and solo practitioners everywhere! This month, your friends at Socrates want you to celebrate your independence and think about why you went into business in the first place. Whether you are an old hand in the business world or a newbie with just a dream, you will want to consider rethinking your business plan: 10 tips on making a yearly upgrade and revisiting your marketing plan: five tips to make sure you are doing enough.

Old and new business owners alike will also want to look at four ways to celebrate your business success and share with employees and rethink the big picture: refocusing on why you work for yourself. You and your fellow small business owners are living the American dream. So, celebrate your own July of independence!

Rethinking Your Business Plan: 10 Tips on Making a Yearly Upgrade
When was the last time you took a look at your business plan-last week, last month, last year? The daily activities of your business may seem to occupy too much of your time for you to sit down with your business plan. But, updating your business plan is actually a chance to escape from the grind and determine if what you sketched out in your plan is still appropriate for the present reality and examine how your plan can be enhanced to keep your business growing.
Revisiting Your Marketing Plan: Five Tips to Make Sure You Are Doing Enough
A marketing plan, like a business plan, is not a static document. Every year, you need to sit down, review the past year and revamp your marketing strategy for the new year.
Four Ways to Celebrate Your Business Success and Share with Employees
Do you celebrate the business successes of your company? Whether you are a solo practitioner or an employer of 20, you owe it to yourself and your employees (even if the only employee is you) to celebrate your business milestones.
The Big Picture: Refocusing on Why You Work for Yourself
Many people start their own business so they can spend more time with family and friends. Instead of rushing around at the end of the work day or on weekends just to do your shopping, chauffeur your children or spend time with friends, people who own their own businesses can fit these activities in around their work time during the day.

Running Your Small Business
Increase your chances of success by knowing how to research the market, learn how to market your business effectively and maintain your personnel files with these Socrates products:

Win with Market Research
Advertising Your Business
Personnel Forms
Employee Performance Evaluation


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