Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We had some nice sustained success with six consecutive quarters of record revenues and earnings. We were going to miss our forecast by 25%. We put a management-wide incentive plan together, based on meeting certain revenue and earnings, where they could all earn back the salary reductions if we hit our new objectives.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011. But, what constitutes success for the parties involved – investors, entrepreneurs, employees, and customers – can vary dramatically. Example two:  Explosive market share growth and revenue in an expanding market with acquisitive players available.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2016

So, if you’re interested in bringing new customers through the doors, or in getting existing customers to spend more (and attend more), this guide should give you insight into what you can do to run a highly profitable restaurant business. If you think it’s the drinks alone that draw customers in, think again.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

While it may make sense to offer very slight adjustments for favorable payment terms and one time revenue, net additions to MRR should dominate the sales rep’s thoughts. 1 of MRR generates $12 of annual revenue, so $1 commission equals 1/12=8.3% of Year One Revenue Sounds high, but is that considered a reasonable package?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%. In 2012, MarketingSherpa posed the question , “Did optimization or testing demonstrate ROI in 2011?” One of our (CRO only) agency partners plans, with all their customers, to refuse to optimize more than 90% of traffic.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Consider the following example from 34 years ago that included the exact same type of prediction error: “In 1980, McKinsey & Company was commissioned by AT&T (whose Bell Labs had invented cellular telephony) to forecast cell phone penetration in the U.S. These “opens” represent eager unfulfilled customers. Undiscovered Clues.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Startup accelerators were a big story in 2012. Big data startups were a big deal in 2012. ” As clean-tech startups were revealed to be unsuccessful in 2012, Kedrosky forecasted 2013 will be the year that exposes big data startups. Accelerators Will Slow Down. The Enterprise Will Strike Back. What a concept.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Now, as their revenue grows substantially, its time to make the shift toward a more quantitative management environment. As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. Build our internal capacity to grow?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Instead of encouraging entrepreneurs to focus on developing long and in-depth, static business plans, Tim advocated for a simpler approach: Define your business identity: What’s your value proposition to your customers? Determine your target market: You need to know and understand your customers.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. Increased revenue has gone hand-in-hand with public acclaim. On the retail side, Stuart watches per-customer spend and same-day sales comparisons.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

In other words, if you are forecasting 100 orders in the next quarter, at $10,000 each, I’d ask how many potential orders there are in the market, whether there is any existing competitive experience, and how you derived your timing. (Of In our first startup, my partners and I built a customer acquisition model and tested it.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. Total customers grew 20% year/year. FOMO was NOMO. As in no more.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Know your customers and your financials. Step 4: Building relationships with vendors and the local community.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. Instead of encouraging entrepreneurs to focus on developing long, in-depth, static business plans, Berry advocated for a simpler approach: Define your business identity: What’s your value proposition to your customers?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! ► 2012. (1). Tuesday, September 02, 2008.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Investment Bank Morgan Stanley raised its growth forecast for Israel to 4.8% for both 2011 and 2012 from its previous growth forecast of 4.3%, noting that the Israeli economy “remains one of the robust and well managed among both the developed and the emerging market economies.&#. For previous editions, click here.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

For a startup, this will probably mean more funding rounds, longer go to market time and potentially unhappy customers and investors. From automated QA tests to seamless checkout process to standardized customer support, it will save time, cost and effort and keep your customers happy. 5S System.

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