EPISODE B3.005 One Platform

Introduction
Good day and hope you are looking forward to a productive week.
This week we are announcing our new community - The Community of Commerce for all insiders. Everyone who has JOINED US and become an inside we are moving off of the weebly web platform to a community site on Tribe. 

This will provide an opportunity to share information, ask questions, and gain support for starting, growing, or exiting your business.

It is our version of the Chamber of Commerce - what it could have been instead of what it has become. This community has one goal - your success as a business owner to build generational wealth for your family. That growth will create more and better jobs in your local community.

It is a stand alone (outside the control of the arbitrary large providers) platform that provides entrepreneurs and business owners a space for the free and open exchange of ideas.

As a member of IBGR's Community of Commerce you can:

1. Follow other users including the OnAir Talent and Executive Team at the station.
2. Ask and answer questions about starting, growing, and exiting the business from our OnAir team and each other.
3. Follow any member of the Community to stay abreast of their latest business insights as well as building your own following.
4. Start discussions to stimulate input from other members of the Community.
5. Create and vote in Community polls.
6. Post and comment on posts and blogs.
7. Access and share content entrepreneurs and business owners can use.

We built this beyond the reach of the 'masters of the universe' so you can speak your mind.

On a closing note, if you want to know what drives everything we do - checkout this article: from Australia (click here).

And that is just restaurants - what about everybody else?
Have a great business week.
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Show Objectives - The Why
First thing is you are revisiting the decision made during Stage I, if you were on your game there is a low probability to making a significant change.

Still this is the time to do a review of your current ERP Platform to make sure. Once you start the rapid growth Stage IV - there will be no time to fix the plane while in the air. And of course if you didn't do this in Stage I and have been ambling along since, do this or fail.

Key Issues - Owners Perspective:

1. Will it provide the information at every level necessary to manage the business.
2. Is it complete and/or does it talk to the other packages.
3. Is it scalable - can grow within the platform.
4. Is it affordable - can I afford enough now.

What You Need to Know - The What
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Packages

• NetSuite
• ZOHO
• Scoro
• Odoo
• gSUITE

​What You Need to Do​​ - The How

1. List of features you need and want today (Process Maps, SOP's, PD's)
2. List of features you need and want during Stages IV, V, and VI
   1. IV - the ability to measure and receive immediate feedback on decisions and activities - can you control fast growth?
   2. V - the ability to find all of the areas that negatively affect profits - can you optimize?
   3. VI - the ability to determine which products/services need an upgrade or replacement, which processes need an upgrade or replacement?
3. Additional packages required (if not a complete platform) - theirs or other vendors.
4. Scalability - can you add features over time as needed or is it a one time purchase.
5. Affordability - what is the minimum you afford now - is it enough.

Shows

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