Online business management meeting series

What's your Business Model?

A good business model considers the values and goals of a business
or independent practice and integrates them with the business plan.
It connects the ways in which you work with the ways your clients or
customers value that work. What's important to them? What's
important to you? How do you demonstrate the significance of each
aspect?

Defining Your Business Model offers independent professionals and
small business owners an opportunity to better understand their
working life through an exploration of the business model(s) they
use. Participants will learn new ways to think about their business,
both broad (where's the value?) and specific (how does the way you
understand your business affect relationships with clients?).

The meetings are:

I.  Business Models 101
10 April, 2012
12 noon, US Eastern Time

    In this meeting, we'll discuss basic components of a business
    model and the way these components work together to support your
    business. You'll learn about assumptions underlying the way you
    structure or model your practice.

II.Examples of Business Models
17 April, 2012
12 noon, US Eastern Time

    The second meeting will look at examples of businesses or
    business types familiar to all. You'll learn to analyze models
    "in action" both good and bad and begin to investigate
    alternatives to the models you now use.

III. Creating a Model for *Your* Business
24 April, 2012
12 noon, US Eastern Time

    In the final session we'll apply the lessons of the earlier
    meetings to *your* practice. What are the components of your
    business model now? How does it define or explain what you do?
    How can you improve it?

You'll find more information at

    <URL:http://scr.bi/v8CFCw>

Register at the Research and Writing website

    <URL:http://bit.ly/YBM-2-2012>

(Ask about group and add-on discount programs)

Participants who have owned or managed a professional practice or
small business for at least two years will benefit the most from the
meeting series.

The meeting leader is Sarah Lowengard, Big Boss of Research and
Writing. Sarah has created and taught courses, workshops, and
tutorials in business management and academic research for more than
twenty-five years. You'll find more information at

    <URL:http://bit.ly/p7hbnE>

Sarah Lowengard
Research and Writing


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