Burke Franklin

Burke Franklin is the president & CEO of JIAN (jee'-on) Software, a successful software company renowned for BizPlanBuilder, the most popular software package for producing a comprehensive business plan. www.jian.com

Conscious business management

Building a successful business and being a mindful and responsive entrepreneur is an emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bootcamp. Yet, few things are more rewarding and gratifying than succeeding with your own ideas and making a difference in the world. Your business is a reflection of your own ethos -- look within and fix that before you try to fix everything and everyone else! The people... customers, employees, investors, partners and vendors you'll attract will fit - for better or worse.

Success is hard for entrepreneurs and business owners today.

Besides the economy, they face a multitude of ongoing problems... planning, raising capital, compliance, managing HR policies, prioritizing marketing campaigns, PR - few can keep up, let alone know what to do, but the margins for error are razor thin and any mistake can take them down.

JIAN's Business Power Tools™ dashboard is ideal for startups, companies with 5-50 employees, and especially business advisors. Even baby-boomers considering investing their life-savings into a business...

"It's crucial that your innovations succeed in our world. This means that your business must be profitable and sustainable - without you losing control, your mind or your shirt!" says Franklin

"What if you had a set of tools (like "Cliff's Notes for business") integrated like Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook all in one cloud-based dashboard that enables collaboration with your team and advisors? Unlike working with a myriad of complex individual products, each requiring their own learning curve, all of JIAN's tools work alike and work together."

With JIAN's Business Power Tools,™ be prepared for investors, employees, and more customers.

Burke was elected to the White House Conference on Small Business and was also nominated for Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year."

Today, more than 153 schools worldwide teach business using BizPlanBuilder business plan software.

He regularly speaks and participates in seminars, conferences and panels, and has been interviewed on radio and television shows for entrepreneurs throughout the US.

Also, Burke is an instrument-rated pilot, and is a black-belt in Tae Kwon Do.

His popular book, Business Black Belt shares results from his application of 30 years in self-improvement workshops to building and running a business.

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