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WHAT IS IT LIKE TO START A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS?
Did you know that starting or growing a business is a lot like
training for and running a marathon?
Consider these facts, derived from reliable sources like Dun and
Bradstreet and the Small Business Administration:
- Only one in five entrepreneurs will finish the task of
successfully starting a new business! That means that 80% drop
out and never finish the "business marathon"
- Up to 65% of the entrepreneurs that actually start a new
business drop out of the "race" inside of five years; mostly in
the first year or two
- Just like a real marathon, only a few businesses become the
big winners, especially in their early years
Did you know that the Small Business Administration (SBA) and
leading universities and colleges as well as state economic
development agencies have thousands of business experts available and
ready to help you start your business, survive and become profitable
at no or very little cost to your business?
We are talking about are called Small Business Development
Centers (SBDC) offices available to your business.
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Thousands of SBDC
offices Provide Free
Counseling and Low
Cost Training to over
Millions of Small
Businesses Each Year! |
Unlike real doctors the SBDC counselors offers FREE COUNSELING
and very low priced training for entrepreneurs and small businesses,
to get you into the race and to the finish.
What do most doctors need to diagnose your current health
condition? The answer of course is that they need "tests" like X-rays
and other diagnostic assessments that reveal your readiness to enter,
stay in and win your "business marathon."
This leads us to explaining how we at the Alliance for
Continuous Improvement (AfCI) become part of the picture.
AfCI provides diagnostic tools that measure how fit you are to
enter, run and finish your business marathon.
The test results we produce are useful to SBDC or SCORE
"business doctors", so they can quickly determine how best to get you
healthy and ready for a brighter business future.
We also provide a wide range of business remedies to help you
pinpoint and remove risks and weaknesses that can cripple your ability
to stay in your marathon all the way.
By the way, AfCI has a long track record of helping a
wide range of organizations.
See the AfCI customer list:
At the bottom of this page is a screen shot of the ACI-
Survivor Business Readiness Dashboard. It is like an x-ray of your
overall readiness to start and grow a successful business.
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AfCI is like a "business test
laboratory" that provides tools
that you use to assess and
improve your business
readiness and chances of
survival. |
ACI-Survivor© is a great program for pre-venture start-up
entrepreneurs and very small firms with zero to four employees.
Here is how easy the ACI-Survivor is to use:
Read Questions - Examine Tasks to Be Done - Set Dates for Tasks -
Input Percent of Task Completion - View Color Coded Dashboard - Finish
Customer Readiness Tasks first; then work on Operations Readiness
Tasks - then Human Resources and last of all the Leadership Tasks for
Strategic, Business & Financial Plans
The ACI-Survivor© program produces business assessment results
that "business doctors" can use to help diagnose your business
readiness and organizational health.
What is your Return on Investment (ROI)?
If you delay opening the doors of your business until you are
"business ready" then your chances of losing your credit rating,
assets, investments, and your regular job will be significantly
reduced. "What is that worth to you?"
To your Success in Winning Your Business Marathon,
Very Respectfully,
Chuck and Barbara Mitchell, Owners
Alliance for Continuous Improvement
Sarasota, Florida 34233
Email: info@afci-hpo.com
Screen Shot of ACI-Survivor Dashboard (c) at work. Notice that Step 1 (Product
Concept) and Step 2 (Service Concept) have progress indicators (green, yellow,
red) that accumulate your business readiness score as you move forward
step-by-step. It works like this in all the Survivor Dashboard blocks.
Your small investment of only $65 can give you the training and this great
dashboard program to guide your new company toward success.
Any questions? To purchase and register for our next ACI-Survivor online
workshop email us at: info@afci-hpo.com
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