A business plan guide is a great place to start when you are getting ready to write your first business plan. Perhaps you have found a book about writing business plans, or are following a template, but chances are, these materials will only focus on the steps necessary to create your business plan and will fail to point out the critical mistakes that most new business owners make. So let’s ignore the step-by-step tutorial for Continue Reading
What is a Business Plan?
You can pretty much define a business plan as a resume for your business idea in mind. Some may say it’s like your company’s calling card. When you need money to start your business, or when you need an office space, your business plan is what will do most of the talking to convince your investors / lenders or property managers to believe in your business and give you what yo Continue Reading
Business planning is an extremely enjoyable, ongoing process for me — now. But I remember when it was a struggle, a “should”, something I felt I “had” to do as a business owner, but that didn’t give me much joy. I had spent years creating successful plans as a fund raising professional (quite easily, I might add), but for some reason, I felt a great deal of resistance within me when it came to creating a plan for my own busi Continue Reading
You might start writing a business plan because you’ve been told that’s what you should do. Or your motivation might be to please the bank, a potential investor or someone else. All valid reasons, but none of them is the right one. The real reason for preparing a business plan is to develop a thorough and detailed knowledge of your business and all itsContinue Reading
When you are involved with a business it is important that you have a clear direction and that your business has a plan of attack. The business plan is a document that will outline a number of key areas that your business will need to consider to achieve success.
The business plan will identify your businesses goals, and look at how you can successfully implement processes and procedures to obtain those goals. Continue Reading
