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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 1462425" data-attributes="member: 168">I guess that means I get an F in economics, but my bedside manner is A+. I have "A" plan, but I don't know if it is a business plan. I always wondered what people exactly meant when they said that? Just like you probably wonder what all of the numbers that nurses and dr's look at to determine your state of health.Business Plan = make money selling books. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I can identify strategies employed by various publishers. It is harder to identify successful strategies since few know any concrete numbers. I also have strategies and methods to the madness of what I am doing. Will they work? That is the real question.In the Nursing, Fire Fighting, and Paramedics field, they teach variations of a triage approach. We were taught to:1. assess the situation.2. formulate a strategy for successfully navigating the situation (plan of care).3. implement plan of care.4. note results.5. reassess the situation to see if your plan of care is achieving the desired results.6. adjust the strategy to incorporate new data.7. implement adjusted plan of care then start at #4 again.The last parts of this triage method is to recognize what you can save and what is beyond your skill in the situation you are currently in. Back in the fire fighter days – those were the red tags. When someone was so wasted or just plain dead, you placed a red clip on their chest. This told everyone to move on down the road, nothing to see here. Go do something constructive, this person is not worth the effort it will take to save them.  In the Emergency Rooms that I have worked at I referred to this as DRT – Dead Right There [pleasant thought for those of you who are squeamish].I have done numbers 1-2 and I am implementing number 3. Never one to be gun shy, I will stick around through the whole process and let people know what I did right and wrong. Why does all of this matter and how is it relevant? My guess is that a business plan is something similar. Know the field you are getting into.Develop a strategy for achieving your goals within that field.Implement that same strategy.Take note of the results that are achieved through your plan.Develop a new strategy based on the data that has been “objectively observed.”Implement your new plan of action and then go back to step 4.Most importantly – identify what you can save and what is worth saving. Concentration of least effort to most positive outcomes is the most desirable expression of energy. If something is DRT don’t spend an hour trying to do CPR, cancel the line and spend your efforts on a line that has some life in it. Thanks for the input. If that is a business plan, then I have one! If it is not then I am truly doomed! Sharing a business plan, now that would be a little on the brave little soldier line. It is like telling the person who comes in after a heart attack that the reason we put those funny little machines on their chest is that in the first 48 hours after an MI the heart is electrically erratic and likely to enter into terminal arrhythmias. Those little wires allow us to watch as that happens. That may be the truth but it is not going to make the patient feel any better, in fact, it will likely make them feel worse. They were better off assuming that you are looking after them, which is exactly what you are doing. Knowing the details is sometimes …. unpleasant. Like looking at an advertisement for a gaming magazine and seeing something close to pornographic material in the form of a scantily clad babe with a chainmail thong. I like skin, but sometimes this can jump into the realm of “do they really think I am that stupid?”I guess that means that I think I have a business plan.  I will try to get to all of the other comments today but forgive me if I let them go for a few days.</blockquote>

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