A Visual Business Plan v2.0 (Updated w/Video)
April 14th, 2009
My mind can’t process classic “business plans” (you know, the 20 page Word documents with marketing and sales plans, financing plans, planning the plan plans…) About a year ago, I sketched out a Visual/Circular Business Plan. Now, since I’m introducing the idea to my PebbleStorm “Come Play With Me” group, and now I’ve updated it…
One of the biggest differences in this plan, compared to a classic plan, is that there is no specific time line. You could add some rough time estimates in as rings (like tree rings). There is, more importantly, a logical progression of small projects and goals that lead to larger ones, like stepping stones.
Consider that you, today, are in the middle. The innermost ring is your first or next babystep. The outermost rings are your vision. It’s not meant to be perfect, accurate or a ‘project plan’ – it’s a simple way to have fun giving your vision a shape and substance that is easily explained both to yourself and others!
Oh – and if you do one, you have to share it with me 🙂 And most importantly: have fun with it!
And some video…
An Example By A Reader
From Todd Clark, of www.FireUnderEveryButt.com…
I recently stumbled onto your site and loved the creative business plan you developed.
I just sat down tonight to do the same because tomorrow, at my group mastermind session, we are to present our business plans for 2012. I’m gonna hav a good time with this one! I am sharing it with you ’cause you said to do so on your planning page.
Playing with video blogs…Cabo San Lucas & Sunday morning at home
April 12th, 2009
I’m playing with video snippets to share on the blog…here are the first couple:
April 9, 2009: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Cabo Trip Pictures on Facebook)
Easter Sunday, April 12 2009: at home in Santa Monica, CA