Showing posts with label The 1 Hour Plan for Growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The 1 Hour Plan for Growth. Show all posts

Monday, November 22, 2010

Joe Calhoon's "The 1 Hour Plan For Growth" Becomes an Amazon Bestseller! Reiterates the Importance of Social Media, Business Planning and Networking

Joe Calhoon and his team received some good news last Tuesday—Calhoon’s new book, The 1 Hour Plan for Growth – How a Single Sheet of Paper Can Take Your Business to the Next Level, became a bestseller on Amazon.com as many entrepreneurs in Kansas City and even more across the nation purchased the effective business planning book and put its contents to good use.

Just one day before The 1 Hour Plan for Growth became an Amazon Bestseller, Joe Calhoon hosted a kickoff luncheon at bizperc, where Kansas City movers and shakers were invited to congratulate Calhoon and his team, network with others, and listen to beneficial advice from seasoned entrepreneurs.  As a byproduct of this successful luncheon, and with the incorporation of effective marketing skills, social networking strategies, and the development of a well-written book, The 1 Hour Plan for Growth became a national success. 

Joe Calhoon honors the many contributors of his new book during
Monday's luncheon at bizperc.
Become one of the many entrepreneurs who have purchased The 1 Hour Plan for Growth and have learned just what it takes to grow and plan a new successful business!  Entrepreneurs and small business owners everywhere have noted that the book is extremely beneficial for those who need aid in effective business planning.  To purchase The 1 Hour Plan for Growth or to learn more about the book, check out http://www.the1hourplanforgrowth.com/ and start growing your new business today! 

Written by Allison Way.  Allison is a writer and videographer for Think Big Partners and bizperc, two of Kansas City’s newest entrepreneurial resources.  To read more of Allison’s work, please visit the Kansas City Entrepreneurship Examiner.  

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Buy Joe Calhoon's "The 1 Hour Plan for Growth" on November 16th to Learn How Kansas City Small Business Can Revitalize the Economy

Joe Calhoon, a noted business strategist, author, and keynote speaker, is a firm believer that in order to restart and revitalize the economy, it is necessary for small businesses to grow, flourish, and succeed.  This is why Calhoon has written his third book, The 1 Hour Plan for Growth – How a Single Sheet of Paper Can Take Your Business to the Next Level; to emphasize the importance of a simplified planning process and to provide a proven system for any business—whether in Kansas City or San Francisco—to create a compelling one-page business plan in one hour.

What is The 1 Hour Plan for Growth about?
The 1 Hour Plan for Growth is a book dedicated to the business growth planning process.  With the book’s three-step approach to growing small businesses, Calhoon proves that entrepreneurs can improve their own companies while striving towards the American Dream.

The 1 Hour Plan for Growth covers the six essential elements of the dynamic business growth plan including vision, mission, values, objectives, strategies and priorities.  In addition, Calhoon incorporates his own experiences such as working with dozens of successful small business owners, innovators, and entrepreneurs to develop effective business plans that will help to jumpstart their businesses and today’s deteriorating economy.

How can The 1 Hour Plan for Growth help revitalize the economy?
The 1 Hour Plan for Growth capitalizes on the notion that small business—not the government—will save American jobs through the individual bootstrapping techniques of hard work and ingenuity.  In other words, it is the Big Thinking of entrepreneurs and small businesses owners that can save today’s deteriorating economy.  When entrepreneurs focus on their business’s plan for growth, not only are they helping to save their companies, but they are also helping to restore the economy.

How can The 1 Hour Plan for Growth help Kansas City entrepreneurs?
With the book’s three-step approach to growing small businesses, Calhoon proves that entrepreneurs can reinvent, revitalize and restart the economy by improving their own companies and striving for the American Dream.  Since Joe Calhoon is a Kansas City business leader himself, he is able to explain the ins-and-outs of Kansas City entrepreneurship in The 1 Hour Plan for Growth as he covers the process to engage employees, develop leadership capacity, improve performance, and accelerate growth.

Who is Joe Calhoon?
Joe Calhoon is a Kansas City entrepreneur—just like many of you!  And because Calhoon has “been there, done that”, he knows the ins-and-outs of Kansas City entrepreneurship. Because of his wide success, Joe Calhoon has become a noted business strategist, author, and keynote speaker.  In the past 25 years, he has worked with more than 500 organizations such as 3M, Best Buy, Northwestern Mutual Life, and Ritz-Carlton Hotels to develop leaders, improve organizational performance, and achieve business growth.

How and when should I buy the book?
Kansas City entrepreneurs—and entrepreneurs around the globe—are encouraged to purchase The 1 Hour Plan for Growth on November 16, 2010 from Amazon.com.  When small business owners, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators purchase the book on this date, they will help to boost the book’s bestselling status on.  Joe Calhoon and his team need anywhere from 3,000-5,000 books sold by November 16th in order to snag the top position.  Help Joe Calhoon reach his own American Dream and increase your business’s chances of development and growth as well as the revitalization of the economy—buy The 1 Hour Plan for Growth!

Think Big Partners would personally like to thank Joe Calhoon and his team for providing such an informational and inspiring book.  It is people such as Calhoon who can help teach the world to develop small business, better the economy, and of course, Think Big! 

To learn more about Joe Calhoon and The 1 Hour Plan for Growth, please visit www.The1HourPlanForGrowth.com (official site to launch soon).


Written by Allison Way.  Allison Way is a writer and videographer for Think Big Partners and bizperc, two of Kansas City's newest entrepreneurial resources.  To read more of Allison's work, check out the Kansas City Entrepreneurship Examiner.  

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Joe Calhoon Celebrates "1 Hour Plan For Growth" Book Launch with Kansas City Entrepreneurs and Jack Stack Barbecue Partner, Case Dorman


On Monday, business strategist and author Joe Calhoon brought together numerous successful Kansas City entrepreneurs to celebrate the launch of his new business book, "The 1 Hour Plan for Growth".  The luncheon, catered by a Kansas City barbecue favorite, Jack Stack Barbecue, took place at the recently-launched KC event space, bizperc6 in the Crossroads District.

Joe Calhoon discusses "The 1 Hour Plan for Growth" with
fellow Kansas City entrepreneurs.
During the luncheon, various entrepreneurs from the Kansas City area were invited to lunch, network, and congratulate Joe Calhoon and his team.  During the event, Calhoon recognized and honored a majority of his team as well as an abundance of successful entrepreneurs that came to give their support and congratulations.  The lunch also featured a question-and-answer session with the Managing General Partner of Jack Stack Barbecue, Case Dorman--a leader in some of the best barbecue in Kansas City.  During the question-and-answer session, the crowd was given advice about how to stay in business through products, passion, and people, and were informed about the Jack Stack startup process and its future.



"The 1 Hour Plan for Growth" luncheon took place at bizperc6,
Think Big Partner's new event space in the Crossroads District.
Kansas City entrepreneurs (and entrepreneurs around the globe) are encouraged to purchase The 1 Hour Plan for Growth from Amazon.com.  When small business owners, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators purchase the book, they will help to boost the book’s bestselling status.  Joe Calhoon and his team need anywhere from 3,000-5,000 books sold in order to snag the top position on Amazon.com.  Help Joe Calhoon reach his own American Dream and increase your business’s chances of development and growth as well as the revitalization of the economy—buy The 1 Hour Plan for Growth!

Joe Calhoon and Drew Hiss, producer of Crossing Rivers,
enjoy the Jack Stack Barbecue buffet at the luncheon.

Think Big Partners would personally like to thank Joe Calhoon and his team for providing such an informational and inspiring book.  It is people such as Calhoon who can help teach the world to develop small business, better the economy, and of course, Think Big! 


Written by Allison Way, writer and videographer for Think Big Partners and bizperc, two of Kansas City's newest entrepreneurial resources.  To read more of Allison's work, visit the Kansas City Entrepreneurship Examiner.  

Thursday, November 4, 2010

10 Books to Inspire Entrepreneurs (In Honor of Book Lover's Day!)

Now that Kansas City has truly begun to experience fall weather—with temperatures below 60 degrees, the need to rake leaves from the yard, and the necessity of turning on heated seats in the car—it is also time to start enjoying downtime indoors.  Kansas City entrepreneurs, this does not mean frantically checking your emails, clicking through the TV for the latest news, or spending hours on Facebook.

Why not spend this fall catching up on the latest business books?  In honor of Book Lover’s Day, which falls on the first Saturday of every November, I have narrowed down some of the bestselling business books that will not only help to inspire entrepreneurs, but also give expert advice from the mouths of seasoned entrepreneurs who truly have “been there, done that.” 

My List of 10 Books to Inspire Entrepreneurs:

1.  Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

2.  The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

3.  The 1 Hour Plan for Growth by Joe Calhoon

4.  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey

5.  The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

6.  What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

7.  Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath

8.  Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinmeier Hansson

9.  Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink

10. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

What are your favorite business books and how have they inspired you and your small business?  Please comment to fill in other entrepreneurs about your favorite business books.  And remember to keep Thinking Big! 

Written by Allison Way.  Allison Way is a writer and videographer for Think Big Partners and bizperc, two of Kansas City's newest entrepreneurial resources.  To read more of Allison's work, visit the Kansas City Entrepreneurship Examiner.