By Mikal E. Belicove|For Entrepreneur.com|December 28, 2010

When I worked in the corporate world (think global corporation with 30,000 employees and a Board of Directors complete with an audit committee), this was the time of year when everyone in the enterprise received their final financial targets for the following fiscal quarter, as well as numbers for all of the next fiscal year. Bonus and incentive plans were outlined and committed to, and off we went on our merry way in an attempt to ‘hit our numbers.’ In a sense, corporate was handing out mandated New Year’s resolutions.

If I could mandate one resolution for your start-up or business, it would be to create a business-aligned communication strategy that guides all of your public-facing communications. That means having a specific strategy for how company-generated communications are going to help the organization reach or surpass its short- and long-term goals. It also means having a plan for implementing the strategy.

Why do I think this is more important than anything else? It is my observation that an overwhelming number of start-ups and established businesses act in a reactionary manner when it comes to company communications. For example:

Someone points out…

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