I watched a video a few days ago and in the background of the video was a Mind Map.  Now I'm pretty hip on the technology that is out there, however one of the challenges that I have is with top down hiarchial business planning.  Not everything fits neatly as bulleted lists.  Some ideas are more squishy and there is a need to just get info on a piece of paper and start to drag things around to see where they fit.  In fact my personl opinion is that more closely aligns with how our brain works anyway.

I tend to more involved with platforms that charge little or no money so of course I looked for something free and I found FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ .

After downloading it, I started to play with it and boy this makes brainstorming on the computer fun again.  The ability to put down a main topic, add lots of nodes, add nodes to nodes and even add more nodes to those nodes.  Hook related nodes together.  It's awesome.  Anyway check it out.  In my humble opinion if you don't have a good way of brainstorming out business plans, follow-up plans for your different lead types in your database or even doing up a large family tree, this might be a good place to start.

All the Best,

Glenn Sanford
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Founder / CEO
BuyerTours Realty LLC &
Working The Magic LLC
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