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5 Tips on Forecasting the Future
Courtesy of SCORE
http://www.score.org

  1. Develop meaningful sales forecasts in terms of basic business units. Predict weekly sales for the first few months and monthly sales for the first year. Consider possible scenarios, such as a 10 percent rise or fall in sales.

  2. Develop profiles for your products or services, customers and markets.

  3. Know how customers will buy from you.

  4. Plan how you will make your product or service available to them─wholesale, retail, direct or Internet.

  5. Develop a plan or strategy to follow if your sales forecasts completely miss your predictions.

How to Become Energy Efficient
Courtesy of SBA
http://www.business.gov

Virtually any small business can improve its energy efficiency easily and cost-effectively, using the numerous resources that are available both from ENERGY STAR and a wide variety of other organizations. These resources are available to help you through the process of completing an upgrade. This process can be broken into major activities that are involved in carrying out an energy improvement project.

Major Activities

 
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