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Love your business plan! It’s so vibrant and inspiring. We are definitely kindred spirits as my business plan is visual, too. Great work!!!
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Jennifer, thanks! I’d love to see your business plan. I’m always on the lookout for right-brained ways to do tradionally left-brained stuff. The creative side of me does better when I can use a visual approach.
I love the concept! I saw an episode of “Angel” (again) recently in which one of the characters (Fred) got her thoughts out by writing them on the walls of her room as they occurred to her. I couldn’t help thinking how liberating that must be — but didn’t think “practical application” until I saw this post.
Thanks for the inspiration! Good luck with your plan!
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April, very cool idea! You just reminded me of http://www.ideapaint. It turns your wall into a giant whiteboard.
I’ve been trying to figure out which wall I want to do this to so I can have a permanent place to scribble on the walls in my house. And no one will yell at me for doing it!
Julie, I checked out that ideapaint.com web site. Thanks for the tip! I think chalkboard paint might be more in my price range right now…. Actually, this close to the holiday season (and son’s b-day), I don’t think I’ll have either the time or the money to carry out this particular fantasy.
I’m rooting for you! Good luck choosing a wall!
Guess I’ll have to live vicariously through you.
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This is so cool. Love the idea of a visual 3-month business plan. And even though mine wasn’t actually positioned as a 3-month business plan, that’s definitely what it’s become. The word “business plan” TRULY does not do it justice. So cool to see that you’re eating your own, um, kangaroos!
Thanks Kelly. Yes, even though we started out with *just* tackling some ideas and not with the intention of developing a business plan, we ended up with an inspiring roadmap that gives you a strong direction of where you want to go.
And yep, I need a good description for what this is–business plan doesn’t get the job done!
Love this! Perfect timing for our business as we are looking to embark on a Entrepreneurial & Strategic Planning program with Gaining Results. Thanks for the tip on making the process fun & enjoyable.
Great Lucy, I’m thrilled I could inspire your process. Good luck with it!
Julie, this is wonderful. Who says a biz plan has to be black and white with nothing but numbers and mind-numbing text? Your creativity makes the planning in itself exciting. When you look at it, you look forward to doing all that needs to be done. Yeah, even the dull stuff.
Hey Juile,
Great work!
Thanks for the post on our blog it went right to the core of both the One Page concept and really aligns with our overall approach to strategic plan implementation.
http://www.rapidinfluence.com/blog-0/bid/10621/Let-s-One-Page-Everything
In the end this is all about simplicity. In order to succeed things have to be manageable and understandable and I think your approach really makes a lot of sense.
It would be interesting to translate one of your visual business plans into our simplified strategic plan implementation solution, I think they would go quite well together.
Ed Loessi
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Hi Ed,
I’d love to explore that with you. I’m fascinated by your one page strategy because, really, how much more do you need to know in order to move forward? Let’s talk….
I’ve been working with one page business plans and maps that you keep fresh. This approach takes one page to a whole new level that I had not considered. We’ve done something like this on some software development projects I’ve worked on.The big pictures work well for some, but I think left-brained people do struggle sometimes. There are people who prefer the 1000 words to the picture. What’s your experience with this?
Thanks
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Ed, I think that’s true. Visuals don’t work for everyone but I find that they do work for more than not.
This is totally inspired thinking. Most business owners allow the idea of business planning to overwhelm them. By creating them in an illustration it somehow feels so much less threatening and final – to your point, create a 3 month plan (which implies change at the end of the period).
You’ve really helped me envision a way to overcome the perceived challenge of planning!
Dena, wonderful! And you’re right about how it feels less threatening. I’ve had this mural up on my office wall for about a month now and I LOVE looking at it. Even though I still have a lot to do, I’ve been able to enjoy the process of revisiting it and seeing how I’m doing.
It continues to insprire me. The business plan that keeps on giving. Definitely not one to be put on the shelf. Hope yours turns out the same way! Stop back by sometime and let me know how it went for you.
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