DAY 113

Update: Wednesday, 29-Jun-2005 9:47 PM

One item that I have left completely out of the picture is a good business plan.

The way I have approached the situation is by saying "when it comes time to make one, I'll do it".

I think that time has come now.

One of the dangers that I run into IF I don't make one now is that I will keep jumping from one idea to the next without succeeding at any. This is a very dangerous and all too real problem that I know many people face. I get email from a hand full of network marketing 'folks' that seem to send me the next latest and greatest opportunity that they have come accross their desks lately.

Some are funny to see, so I keep taking a moment to read them. Of then the latest and greatest business opportunity is nothing more than a cleverly crafted web site that will take a registration from anyone prior to "pre-launch" --other than that there is no more substance.

On the other hand, I hope you have had an opportunity to view what has been done at maxsimo.com. This is hardly a registration type of site. It has many functions, although, the one I feel is that is the best tool is yet to get deployed, I still think the effort and logic behind the solutions can help make all users some serious money.

You can decide for yourself at http://www.maxsimo.com

Now back to the idea of a Business Plan --some thoughts.

First of all keep it simple. I am not involved in making microchips or the latest OS software that is going to outsell Windows. What I am doing is simply expanding what I think is a good idea and one that is getting ever increasing exposure with a plan to capitalize from it.

That's all.

So, what are some of the key elements of that plan?

1. The Success Building Center -a mall that I hope will attract a lot of customers.

2. A weekly mailing list with information on how to build personal, business and financial success.

By-the-way, I found out that my mailing list subscriber system was not working. I had simply deleted an element that was part of the code that made the list work. That did it. It did not work. Then the worst part of it is that since the list subscriber area is on a template and that template was deployed over 250 times, the end result was that the subscription area did not work anywhere! Now that is resolved at least on some of the pages. Now I have to deploy it ON ALL THE PAGES by updating the template and then uploading the pages. Again!

3. Is the addition of products, services and applications at the Success Building Center.

4. Developing a plan to use the PPC (pay-per-click) advertising systems of search engines to attract visitors to the mall and site.

5. Keep making the site and ideas better. Keep writing. Keep innovating when it comes to advertising and marketing.

6. Keep doubling the pennies. Cannot forget what got me here and what has kept me going for 113 days of blogging!

Ok, now let me come up with a paragraph that will express my mission for the P31.COM Success Building Business Plan:

BUSINESS PLAN MISSION STATEMENT:

Provide an informative web site full of resources, examples and ideas to build personal, business and financial success. Live the ideas by researching, implementing and testing the ideas until they are proven true or false. Then build on the success one step at a time until the goals are reached.

BUSINESS PLAN SUMMARY STATEMENT:

Provide an information web site that can benefit users who are here to build their own success plan, be it, personal, business or financial or ALL. The web site is to provide the information regarding tools, services, products, applications, etc. that help anyone, anywhere build and enjoy personal, business and financial success.

MY PLAN for P31.COM SUCCESS:

STEP ONE: Build the Success Building Center.

STEP TWO: Build the mailing list.

STEP THREE: Build the ideas and test them to keep improving the information on the site that will help other build their success.

STEP FOUR: Keep improving what is presented and the quality of the information and resources to help others benefit from their visit to P31.COM.

SUMMARY: Keep the web site interesting and innovative. Make sure that everyone who visits for a purpose will learn something and befit from it. Deliver the best product you can and all other aspects will take care and fall into place.

That is in a "nut shell" my plan to keep building P31.COm and the revenue.

One of the interesting aspects of what I am doing is that I can use the very resources, techniques and ideas to create or find products to sell at the Success Building Center. IF/when they work for me, the product should be able to help anyone.

I have already found several such products and services and plan to keep looking for products and services that can help:

a. Build traffic
b. Help sales and marketing
c. streamline advertising
d. Grow a business

At this time I feel that the above items are very important. However, my focus also extends to the list of 31 TOPICS that I have mentioned on the right hand margin.

These are topics of interest and fascination. The rest of the items are pure challenges that I would like to conquer.

I think researching these topic and updating the 31-STEP SUCCESS BUILDING CENTER will be fun, time consuming and rewarding on an intellectual basis. I enjoy reading about products and using them to better the operations. I enjoy putting my credit cards into the shopping carts online. I know a lot of people do not want to do that, but I think shopping online is a fact of life --a must do in this day and age and I have now been doing just that for 10 years and had no problems.

So, the plan is set. The BUSINESS PLAN is in writing and will continue to get "revised" and "improved" for some time before I "set it in stone" and start operating it.

Once again, the reason that I wanted to have a plan was to make sure that I stuck to the operation with what I felt was the best approach for success. And by making the plan I will stick to that approach, until it works.

All too often once a business get running --especially an online operation --I think an Entrepreneur is bombarded from the peripheral left and right daily with other opportunities and loses focus. My goal by sticking to the business plan and writing it down it to STICK to the PLAN that is in writing. So far I have done that with the execution of the p31 plan and rules that I started with and I plan I doing the same with daily operations of the revenue generating parts of the site.

Ok, plan is set. Now it's late and I've got to go. More details and operational stuff tomorrow. Sam out.

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