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Sometimes All It Takes is a Second Set of Eyes
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When I speak before an audience of business owners I usually ask
“By a show of hands, how many of you
have a Business Plan?”
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Usually half of the hands go up.
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Then I ask
“For those with yourhands up, how many of you have it in writing?”
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About half of those hands go down.
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And I follow that up with
“And finally, for those with your hands still up, how many of you have updated it in
the past year?”
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About half of the hands left go down.
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So our strategy team started thinking.
“Instead of an all-or-nothing
approach, what if there was a
simple way to help Business
Owners by becoming a second
set of eyes?
What if we could review their
existing Business Plan and give
them feedback … to poke holes
in what they already have?”
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And an idea was born!
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