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December 8, 2010 | 
Author Marketing, as we know it today, had its origins in the early 1970′s wherein businesses gradually started to shift from the predominant ‘production orientation’ approach to a much more ‘sales oriented’ approach. Previously, businesses were concerned with production, manufacturing, and efficiency issues and subsequently, with the conquest of the sales orientation approach, business’s prime concern was to sell its produce. By the early 1980′s another shift – the ‘marketing orientation’ stage – took place as businesses came to realize that it was consumer needs and wants that drove the whole process. Businesses realized that it was futile putting a lot of production and sales effort into products and services that people did not want. And finally now, in the 2000′s we’ve successfully entered the revolutionary fourth stage – digital marketing.
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Going green is no longer following the trend rather it has now become a requirement for the businesses to invest in renewable energy. Usage of green energy has many benefits for the businesses and the future generation will depend largely on the use of alternative energy. Hence investing renewable energy makes a good business decision for the industries. If you are an entrepreneur and contemplating whether or not going green is your way, here are the benefits of renewable energy which may help you decide for investing renewable energy.
Cost efficiency: Use of renewable energy is cost efficient. It helps the businesses reduce expenses on conventional energy costs. Further, unlike the sources of conventional energy, the sources of renewable energy are available in abundance in nature. One can further use the local resources to produce renewable energy and hence investing renewable energy reduces the dependency of the economy on the imported crude.
Countries which are highly dependent on imported fuel can benefit immensely from the use of renewable energy.
Improves local economy: Since you will be using the local resource; investing renewable energy will help in improving the local economy. The set up required to produce renewable energy would boost the infrastructural development of the vicinity. This can also help in escalating the employment opportunities of the locals. Hence, in turn you are helping in improving the economy as a whole.
Continuous energy supply: Investing renewable energy would ensure continuous supply of energy for your machines. The sources of local energy are – wind, water, solar, geothermal and such; for which there is no dearth of supply in the nature. This will allow you to reduce dependency on imported mineral oil.
Writing a good business plan requires a lot of time. Business plan is a roadmap of success for any startup, as well as an already established business. It tells where you are, and where you want to go.
Below are some important steps to writing a business plan:
- Research: Research what is needed by your audience; what can lead your business to success.
- Concept: Develop the concept of your business in your mind; it contains information about your business and your product or service; in short, overview of your business.
- Establish your vision/mission: After establishing the concept, establish vision/mission of your business. Establishing mission/vision helps you to focus on one point.
- Goals and Objectives: Set goals and objectives of your business.
- Create outline: It contains information about the company & industry, products & services, market, management, financial plan and funds required.
- Products/Services: Description of products or services and there features and benefits are included in this section. Be careful in writing about features and benefits of your product/service, it should be based on true.
- Define target market: It contains proper research about market; you should have knowledge about your target market.
- Know your target customers: It is one of the most important steps of writing a business plan, as well as for stating a business. You must know about your customers, their needs and desires.
- Demand for your product: Before spending large amount of capital, research demand for your product. For successful business, it is necessary that the demand for your products/service exceeds supply.