The steps in a business strategy (for small business)

All of the large corporates in the world have fully developed sales and marketing strategies and when we examine small work from home businesses and look at the reasons behind why they fail so often; we see that they do not take time out for developing a business strategy as they do not see this as a key component of their business. It is the failure to develop and execute a coherent sales and marketing strategy that causes most of the small work from home businesses to fail and if you are opertaing one, you are advised to take time out to learn all you can about marketing plans and business strategies.