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	<title>Does Business Planning Really Work</title>
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		<title>Does Business Planning Really Work?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Business Planning Really Work?
In the next several minutes you are about to learn the truth about business planning. I recently delivered the 9th workshop for one of my clients involving 45 sales professionals and managers. I have been working with this Corporate client for more than two years.
When you compare the business results of [...]]]></description>
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<p>In the next several minutes you are about to learn the truth about business planning. I recently delivered the 9<sup>th</sup> workshop for one of my clients involving 45 sales professionals and managers. I have been working with this Corporate client for more than two years.</p>
<p>When you compare the business results of the other professionals that have experienced my workshop and the business planning process you will see the following:</p>
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<li>People with 10 years      experience or more earning $500,000++ are experiencing a 12% revenue      improvement.</li>
<li>People with 2-9 years      experience and earnings of $100,000 -$499,000 are seeing a 54% increase</li>
<li>People who are starting out      and have less than 2 years experience are seeing a 39% increase.</li>
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<p>Most important about these increases are the fact that we are comparing their results to their peer group. Said differently everyone is selling the same products, is on the same commission plan, has the same marketing materials etc. The only differences are we have organized these professionals into sales teams and in 1 &amp; 2/3 days we put them through a business building workshop. During the workshop we discuss the most effective business building strategies, the systems and processes to use and we show them the process to use to build a Strategic Business Plan. The key component of this process is our proprietary planning methodology.</p>
<p>When I ask these professionals after a year working with this planning system how they would describe their success I get these responses:</p>
<ul>
<li>“We are much more highly      focused on a few key objectives”</li>
<li>“We are all having our best      year so far”</li>
<li>“ We now have a system for      accountability”</li>
<li>“ We know what to track and      why it is necessary to track these metrics”</li>
<li>“ We have seen many planning      systems and this system is about ten times more effective than most      others.”</li>
<li>“The planning process allows      us to identify the key problems that are on our critical path to      success-by eliminating these problems we have been able to make      significant breakthroughs”</li>
<li>“The plan is the glue which      ties all of the pieces together and makes sense out of a complex set of      strategies.”</li>
<li>“This process gives you your      own GPS system. When you follow the discipline it always allows for mid      course corrections. No one can write a perfect plan. Most plans are about      50% right when you start. The problem is you don’t which parts represent      the right 50%. The self correcting mechanism insures that you get it right      in the end which is all that counts”</li>
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<p>For more information about how you can get your own in depth version of this powerful planning process just go to <a href="http://www.vision-in-action.com/">www.Vision-In-Action.com</a>. You literally can have this system in the next few minutes.</p>
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