When it comes to writing business plans, the No. 1 rule is simple: It’s not a one-person (or one-group) job! Make sure someone who isn’t involved in your plans takes a critical look at what you’re doing, and make sure that person is willing to give you the advice you need, even if it means being bluntly truthful. You don’t want to end up sitting at the loan officer’s desk being told in painful detail just why your plan won’t work!

Your friends may be able to help you here; ideally, though, you’ll turn to a business plan consultant—someone who has written a small business plan before and knows what works and doesn’t work. Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, covers business plans in his peer benchmarking groups and consulting assignments. He’s also available for speaking engagements. As a successful entrepreneur, he knows the ins and outs of business plans!

Successful entrepreneurs know their limits, not just in terms of resources but also in terms of knowledge. They also know that laying everything they have on the line when they don’t know what they’re doing can be fatal to their business. They know when it’s time to call for the cavalry—the kind of small business help that even the most experienced operators can use every now and then.

Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, is a very successful entrepreneur, and he’d be the first to tell you that business mentoring helped him get where he is today. That’s why he passes on what he knows through consulting assignments, peer benchmarking groups and in speaking engagements.

Creating the right strategy for your company often calls for the experience and judgment of someone from outside. That’s where strategy consulting comes in. A veteran consultant, especially one who is also a successful entrepreneur, knows things about business that aren’t taught in the classroom. He or she can analyze your operations and offer the kind of advice you need to succeed.

Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, an experienced business management consultant, knows all about building and running a successful business, and he shares his knowledge in his consulting assignments, his peer benchmarking groups and speaking engagements.

There’s no getting around it: Strategic thinking is hard work. It takes time and effort. To come up with an effective growth strategy or a business development strategy, you need more than a good idea of where you’d like to end up; you need to know how your business is doing now, how you can move toward success or sustain your current success, and how to maximize your resources.

A skilled business management consultant like Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, can make all that hard work a bit easier. More important, he can make that hard work pay off—as a highly successful entrepreneur, he’s learned through trial and error the best ways to grow a business!

Ron can help you focus your strategic thinking through a speaking engagement, a consulting assignment or though his peer benchmarking groups. There’s an option for just about every situation—so let Ron help you grow your business through solid strategic thinking!

A seasoned business management consultant can help you determine the best ways to put your resources to use in both the short term and the long term. A consultant can help you come up with a small business plan that includes a growth strategy, a business development strategy, and a marketing strategy, among others.

Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, a highly successful entrepreneur who specializes in small business consulting, can help you with your strategic planning through his peer benchmarking groups, in consulting assignments, and in speaking engagements.

When it comes to strategic thinking and strategic planning, it’s a good idea to get some small business help. Specifically, you want advice from someone who has been down the road before: A successful entrepreneur turned business management consultant, like Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible.

Ron has spent years helping small businesses and entrepreneurs with strategic marketing. It’s a key topic in his speaking engagements, peer benchmarking groups, and consulting assignments. If you’re looking for the best way to build a successful marketing strategy, look no further than Ron Sturgeon!

It’s not a good idea to learn how to write a business plan on the fly. Take your time and make sure you have all the details you need. And before it lands on the loan officer’s desk, make sure that someone from outside the organization has taken a good, long look at it. Better yet, involve an outside consultant in the process from the beginning—he or she will bring a different perspective, which is always useful when money is at stake.

Even better, a consultant who is also a successful entrepreneur will do more than simply spot the flaws in your business model; he or she will tell you how to fix them. The result will be a business plan you can present, and follow with confidence.

Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, has helped build a variety of businesses from the ground up. He shares his knowledge and expertise in speaking engagements and through his consulting assignments and peer benchmarking groups.

The best small business plan is the one designed to fit your business and your business goals. It takes into account where you are, where you’ve been, and where you want to go. It includes solid, creditable analysis of your market and your financials. It includes the business strategies that will help you build, and sustain, business success.

It’s axiomatic that no business plan should reach its intended destination without going through a thorough critique, preferably by someone who isn’t a part of the organization. That way you get the advice you need, even if it isn’t the advice you want. You also get the benefit of experience from outside the box. That experience can come in handy—especially if we’re talking about the savvy of a veteran entrepreneur who knows how bumpy the road can get.

Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, has helped lots of entrepreneurs build their business plans. Take advantage of his experience through a consulting assignment, as part of one of his peer benchmarking groups, or in a speaking engagement.

The keys to a successful marketing strategy are identifying the markets where your product has a competitive advantage and exploiting those advantages to the fullest. That requires sound planning, especially when your resources must be used judiciously. When it comes to strategic thinking and strategic planning, it’s a good idea to reach outside the organization and get help from a seasoned small business consultant who has learned the lessons they don’t teach in business school.

Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, discusses small business marketing strategies in his peer benchmarking groups, in consulting assignments, and in speaking engagements. He’s not just your everyday consultant; he’s also a very successful entrepreneur in his own right. If you’ve got questions, Ron can help you find the answers!

Your marketing plan should involve strategic marketing—taking a long-term approach to success that’s designed to help the company reach its goals. That involves identifying your market or proposed market, identifying the key advantage you hold in that market, and identifying the resources you’ll use to exploit that advantage. It’s a good idea to employ some form of marketing consulting; the best consultants are those who have already made their mark as entrepreneurs.

Ron Sturgeon, Mr. Mission Possible, has built his share of businesses from the ground up. Now he uses his business mentoring skills to help entrepreneurs with their marketing plans through consulting assignments, his peer benchmarking groups, and in speaking engagements. Let Ron’s experience as a successful entrepreneur work for you!