Monday, September 10, 2012

Create a Business Plan - Tips to help create a great business plan


If you are an entrepreneur ready to create a business plan, these tips will get you started in the right direction in creating a business plan.

The business plan is your child - It needs to look like you.

The business plan must reflect the personality of your management team, and the type of company you want to create. As the reader goes through it, he should know the people involved in the company, their vision, their goals, and their enthusiasm for the company and industry. It tells the story of your company with your voice. A plan for a music production company would look very different than a plan for a medical device manufacturer.

Not everyone has a taste for Fiction

Business Plan are essentially works of fiction - the documents that speak of what we can imagine or expect to occur in the future, not what has already occurred. This type of writing is difficult for everyone. Have you heard of "writer's block". The problems you are having keeping the words flowing are the ones who face the greatest writers, if not many of them must go forward because the publisher has given them a deadline unreachable and have already spent their advance, but of course, have read Rome was not designed, financed and built in a day have allowed plenty of time to finish the business plan - so there is no reason to feel under pressure. Right?

If you feel stuck, do not worry. It's all part of the process. The key is to not quit. Put a few words down on paper, then a little 'more. Annotate concepts rather than trying to make complete sentences.

Management, Management, and a more

The fact of the matter in writing a business plan is to show the reader that the people involved in the business have the ability and experience to create a successful business.

Investors put money behind the people, not just behind the products fresh and interesting technologies. There are many wonderful, patented inventions that never see the fluorescent light of day at Wal-Mart because no one could figure out how to make profit and sell the product. You must inform the reader about what you have accomplished in your business career, not just tell the positions that they held or what powerful corporations that have worked for. What have you done to inspire confidence in your ability to execute corporate strategy in the plan? Write in active terms: I have increased revenues by 100% in two years. I cut the costs of division by 45%. I
supervised 100 people in 8 states.

One of the most surprising statements, and succinct that I have ever read in the management section was: "In our latest venture, I have earned investors a yield 2500%." Most of us would take a chance on this guy up.

I hope these tips will help you when you create the business plan .......

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