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Business Plan Template
This Business Plan template includes a 40 page template in MS Word, and 10 Excel spreadsheets. Sections include Marketing Plan, Market Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Sales Forecast, Development Plan,...
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How to calculate the real value of your web business
Once you’ve figured out how to make money from your website, you can start looking at how to sell it. Maybe you want to start another business venture and use the profits to get things started. So, how...
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Can She Lead?
The Harvard Business Review asks What the U.S. Can Learn From Europe About Gender Equality in the Workplace, and then Can She Lead? These articles raise the sensitive issue of a) whether women make...
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Fear of Success: What will happen if you succeed?
He said to me, ‘if you’re going to fail, fail fast.’ Have you heard this line before? I’m sure you have and if not probably some variation. Everyone is the room agreed with him. They’d made a mistake....
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Business Planning Guy Kawasaki Style
‘Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.’ Guy Kawasaki Does this sound familiar? You’ve started a business, built products, made some sales, and started to scale. But...
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A Simple Four-Step Strategy for Developing Business Proposals That Work
It’s hard working in the dark, isn’t it? I’ve been looking at Business Proposals for a client all week (I assess Business Plans and Proposals as part of my consultancy services) and have found it very...
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The Warren Buffett Nine Step Guide To Better Business English
Warren Buffet’s Annual Reports were the first annual reports I ever read. To this day, I go back and re-read them to remind myself what business writing is really about – making a connection with...
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Which Type of Business Plan Is Twice As Likely to Get Investment?
Let’s say you’re about to write your first Business Plan. Or maybe write another one for a new business. Or maybe re-write a Business Plan that didn’t work in the past. And you have a choice… You can...
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Writing a Business Plan can be intimidating at first. There is so much to cover and it’s difficult to know where to start. One suggestion is to prepare yourself to go forward. What do I mean? What I...
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12 Steps to Get Started as a Business Consultant
In the UK, Barclays Bank report that semi-retired workers are responsible for 50% more start-ups than 10 years ago. In the UK, 67% of small business owners are over 45, while a mere 8.7% are under 34....
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How to Write an Executive Summary for your Business Plan
I help clients assess Business Plans. Part of this is checking that the numbers add up but also to see if the project in question is worth investing in. How do we know that from a fifty page document?...
View ArticleAre Virtual Assistants 21st Century Slaves?
I blame Tim Ferris. Today I will exploit six single mothers in three different counties. And tomorrow I’ll do the same. I use Virtual Assistants. And in some people’s eyes, this has become a modern day...
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Business Planning: Shrink the Change and Get It Finished
One myth about writing Business Plans is that they’re hard. Not true. They’re very hard to do right. But before you hit the Back button, here is one way you can get it written it, with a lot less pain...
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Alec Baldwin’s 14 Ways To Improve Your Business Plan
‘Always be closing’, Alec Baldwin in GlenGarry Glen Ross. Don’t know about you but I didn’t like business writing when I started out. It took forever to write white papers, data sheets, and other sales...
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Ernest Hemingway’s 10 Step Guide to Persuasive Writing
One of tricks that Hemingway plays on the reader is that while the prose is ‘ordinary’, you can’t help but keep reading on and on and on… It looks simple until you try it. Look at how he does it. His...
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Warren Buffett and Better Business Plan Writing
‘The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.’ Warren Buffett How to Write an Executive Summary that generates interest Your...
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Why the Wrong Investor Will Kill Your Business Plan
Business Plan is finished. Business Case is rock solid. Marketing Plan ready to go. What next? You need cash, right otherwise you can’t move from business plans to business planning. So, where do you...
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5 Business Plan Mistakes to Avoid
The importance of business planning is widely documented; however, guidance as to what constitutes good business planning is less clearly defined. This article aims to redress that imbalance by...
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What the Franchise King® Can Teach You About Business
If you had a choice between starting your own business and buying into a franchise, which would you take? Joel Libava, The Franchise King®, recently made a very compelling argument to buy a franchise...
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The Mythical One Page Business Plan
A One Page Business Plan is more useful than you’d think. I was a bit skeptical about writing a one page business plan until my client twisted my arm to write it. I’d wanted to write a more in- depth...
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