Welcome to the
Business Plan Training Section
Building a business plan is monumental task, and the most
important part of all - The Presentation - is still ahead.
We've
spent the past few lessons examining the primary sections
of a business plan, and researching the information you
will need to plug into your final business presentation.
Here's a recap
of putting together the information you gathered Planning
Your Business
Define
your business - this you did in the previous lesson.
Collecting
Industrial information - will your industry continue
to be marketable?
Marketing
Plan - What is the market for your service and/or product,
what part is yours, who is your competition, what is your
target market, your niche?
Operating Plan - how will you provide your service and/or
product, where, and with what support.
Organizational
Plan - The business part of your business, what criteria
will you use to make your decisions, who will be the key
personnel.
Financial
Plan - write a budget find what you want for an income
- and estimate what it will take to get that.
Feasibility
- "crunching the numbers" Identifying your goal,
what it takes to reach that goal and if this business will
reach that goal.
Now is the time
to put it all together into a package you can present to
the loan institute, and refer to as your company grows and
develops.
I'll present this
section a little different - I'll be using an ISP business
as a sample and Creating each page of your business plan
with a description of what goes in it, and where to find
the information you've already compiled earlier.
If you are presenting
your business plan online, make each page a separate URL,
and link them together through the table of contents. If
you are creating a paper business plan, then print each
page, and staple it together. for your presentation.
The various sections
of a business plan are:
