Understanding how to do strategic planning is vital for the success of a business. With 4in10, we simplify the process, offering practical tutorials to help you craft clear goals, strategies, and tactics that help you propel your business forward. Dive in and discover the power of strategic planning with 4in10 today.
Start with the end in mind. What exactly does success look like to you, and what are the milestone goals along the way that must be reached. In this tutorial video you'll learn how to create goals worth setting. Once quality goals have been established, you'll be able to hone in on the specific action steps to be implemented.
Given the choice between focusing on your sales, marketing, operations, or company as a whole, where would you invest your resources? You may even choose to simultaneously tackle multiple goals. In this tutorial video you'll learn about the different types of goals and how to categorize them for yourself.
When someone is held accountable for achieving a specific goal, that goal is for more likely to be successfully achieved. In this tutorial you'll learn how to assign a goal to a user in your 4in10 account.
Once you know what your goals are, and who's responsible for making sure they're achieved, it's time to identify your strategies. Strategies are the high level objectives that must be achieved in order to successfully accomplish your goal. Learn more about creating strategies in 4in10 via this tutorial video.
Once you've created your strategies, the next step in creating a strategic plan is to identify the action items that need to be completed. These action items are called tactics. In this tutorial you'll learn how to create tactics in 4in10. You'll also see how to mark each items as complete, and manage the progress of each goal.
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The business that has a plan, yet fails to implement it, might as well not have a plan in the first place. But we get it... making sure everything is moving forward according to plan can be challenging. 4in10 was built to assist businesses in managing that which needs to be done. View the tutorials below to learn how to effectively manage your business with the assistance of 4in10.
Having a strategic plan is helpful for goal setting. But according to research, only 5% of small businesses achieve their goals. Why set goals if 95% of them are never reached? Businesses should be able to achieve their SMART goals, and accountability is part of the solution. In this tutorial we share how to use 4in10 to more effectively achieve goals through accountability.
Knowing what needs to be done is great. Knowing who all is involved with achieving a task, and who's in charge of making sure it's done well, is even better. In this tutorial video you'll learn how to use 4in10 to assign tactics to different team members.
Effective team member communication can make a significant impact on the profitability of a business. Because of this, each tactic within your strategic plan has it's own dedicated chat thread. This way everything relevant to any given tactic can easily be documented, found and discussed among all those who are involved.
Where are you with any given task? How have your tasks progressed over time? When were they started and when were they finished? And what if you could have an automatically generated log of all activities for each task? You can, and in this tutorial you'll learn how to accomplish this through 4in10.
Having a core group of individuals you collaborate with, and who keep each other accountable, is powerful. In fact, according to research, you're 95% more likely to achieve your goals when you schedule an accountability appointment with someone else. On this tutorial page, you'll learn how to use 4in10 to help you stay accountable with a small group of other individuals.
Businesses should have the ability to easily manage their contacts. This is important for marketing, sales, operations, and so much more. In this video tutorial you'll learn how to leverage our built-in CRM to manage your contacts, nurture relationships, and move your business forward.
A great business should be solving real problems that exist in the world, making life better for its buyers. But no matter how noble the cause of a business, if it doesn't attract buyers, its growth will be stunted. Marketing is crucial to the success of a business. 4in10 was built with marketing in mind. Use the tutorials below to strategically move your marketing forward.
Who or what influences the decisions of your ideal buyer? Which social media platforms are they on; who do they listen to; what are their motivations, goals and frustrations? When a business understands their ideal buyer they are far more effective with product development, marketing, sales and customer service. In this tutorial you'll learn how to use 4in10 to better understand your ideal buyers.
It shouldn't be difficult to build and manage a great website that's engineered for results. The quality of a website can massively impact the ability for a business owner to drive sales. In this tutorial you'll learn how to create and edit your pages via the 4in10 Website Builder.
If you want website visitors to connect with you, then having forms on your website is extremely valuable! But they should be easy to create, easy to review, and easy to modify. In this tutorial you'll learn how to create and manage forms in your 4in10 website, making communication between you and your ideal buyers as easy as possible.
Managing website settings should be as easy as possible, for those who aren't accustomed to building and managing their own website. In this tutorial you'll learn how to configure colors, fonts, Google Analytics, and much more... providing you clear direction on how to have a website that looks great and runs smoothly.
A great business plan provides clarity to the business on who they serve (their buyers), what they sell, what makes them different, and how to do what they need to do in order to achieve the desired results. In the tutorials below you'll see how 4in10 is used by our subscribers to create an insightful and valuable business plan.
What do you sell, who needs it and what makes you different from your competitors? Also, when someone purchases what you have to offer, how does it go from the point of purchase to the point of delivery? And how do craft a one-liner statement that helps you stand out from the competition? All these questions can, and should be answered. In this tutorial video you'll learn how to use 4in10 to address them.
Business owners sometimes feel that "if you want something done right you have to do it yourself." What they often really need is to create clearly defined instructions and make them available to competent team members. It's easier to ensure quality in every aspect of business with clear instructions are provided. We refer to these standard operating procedures (SOPs) as playbooks. In this tutorial you'll learn how to create them in 4in10.
A busy business professional shouldn't have to invest significant time creating lists of to-dos. This is especially true for lists of tactics that are often repeated, such as onboarding, recurring projects, etc. In this tutorial video you'll see how to make pre-created lists of tactics that can easily be added to any strategy.
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