I do find that questions that I see posed on social network sites or asked by clients are usually where I tend to get my inspiration to share lessons learned and today is no different.  Someone posed a question on LinkedIn on whether it would be more beneficial to spend time on a Marketing Plan or a Business Plan and I cringed when I started reading where some readers said they would definitely spend time first on a Marketing Plan.

I am not sure why so many small business owners choose not to ...

Many times within a life of a small business, the owner will wonder why they are not receiving the growth they expect or the business is just not running the way they expected.   The owner may want to look for additional financing, but they know in order to secure the funding, they are going to need to improve the bottom line.   It also could be that they know change needs to take place in the business to be more in line with the times, but are not sure where to start, or the owner could be l...