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How to develop a successful business plan for 2022?
This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Depositphotos.com 2021 is over and, as every year, it is time to make a closing in our companies to understand what worked, what did not and so we can begin the strategic planning of 2022. The challenge is to design a powerful but clear and simple strategic plan that helps us to chart the route of what we must achieve in the short, medium and long term. To design a great plan we must understand what strategy is: strategy is not about “how are…
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Govt. school students get chance to scale up their business ideas
From starting off with seed money of ₹2,000 to being grilled by investors on the feasibility of a business plan, students of Delhi Government schools under the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC) have been given an opportunity to enhance their ideas. They can change a school project to something that creates employment within the community and gain practical experience to run a business. Under the Business Blasters programme of the Delhi Government that is broadcast on television and on other platforms every weekend, a select number of students are being given the opportunity to scale up their business ideas by not only seeking investment and mentorship from investors like Nitin Saluja,…
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Consultant Brings Business Home To W.Va.
As part of our “Returning Home” radio series, Eric Douglas spoke with Crystal Mersh about her return to Calhoun County. Mersh is the CEO of Quality Executive Partners, a consulting firm that provides expert support in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, advanced therapy and medical device fields. In October, Mersh and others from the community announced the 1982 Foundation to restore the old Calhoun County High School in Grantsville as a community center and business incubator. To make that happen, Mersh has moved back to West Virginia from Atlanta. Douglas spoke with Mersh from a local pharmacy in Calhoun County because it was where she had to go to find a reliable…
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Business round-up: Home Telecom names new COO | Business
Home Telecom announces new COO Anthony Douglas has been named the new chief operating officer of Moncks Corner-based Home Telecom. In a statement, Home Telecom said Douglas comes to the company from Comcast in Atlanta where he has been vice president of the Big South (Central) Region for the past five years. He has also been senior director of Technical Operations for Comcast in Charleston, Augusta and Savannah, Ga. for seven years. Douglas has a business management degree from the University of Phoenix. “Not only is Anthony proficient in integrating streamlined day-to-day Telecom business operations, but he is a leadership and team development expert, with a steep background in organizational…
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NYC Small Business Seek Adams’ Help to Rise From the Pandemic Recession
Square Wines and Spirits in Long Island City established its first website in 2017 and was working on an upgrade in early 2020 when the pandemic shut down the economy. Liquor stores were declared essential businesses and allowed to remain open, but Square shut its doors, concerned about the health of its staff. “We had to completely change our business model, relying completely on our website and e-commerce,” recalled Joi Swepsin, general manager of the Queens shop. And it worked: Square was helped by a spike in liquor sales in the initial months of the coronavirus crisis and made it through the pandemic recession virtually unscathed. The same can’t be…
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Experts: Job churn is tough for business and an opportunity for workers
West Virginia has about 10 job openings for every seven job seekers right now, the manager of the state’s job programs told lawmakers today. “So there’s more jobs than job seekers,” Scott Adkins, interim director of Workforce West Virginia, told lawmakers at a Monday interim committee meeting. “Businesses, as many of you know and understand quite well, have been trying to make themselves more attractive to job seekers. They’ve offered sign-on bonuses, higher wages, upscaling, free college tuition, flexible work schedules.” Lawmakers were trying to learn more about the challenges that businesses are having in hiring workers. The answer they received from experts looking at employment numbers is the the…
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