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Writing a Business Plan - Part 1 - Introduction |   |
About the Bytestart Business Plan Guide
The following multi-part guide on how to write a business plan serves as an outline for anyone who is thinking of starting their own business (or improving an existing business).
The aim of this guide is to focus your ideas and create an easy-to-follow plan which can be shown to potential investors, bank managers and business partners.
The guide was written with help from the EBP Business Plan Designer Team.
Introduction
This book is intended to be a quick guide to help you design a business plan for you company.
The sections in this guide are the essential aspects of any business plan and are also the main points that a potential investor or bank will look for when considering investing in your project.
It is best not to make the document more than 25 pages long, but anywhere between 20 and 50 pages is acceptable, so long as the content is relevant.
As well as the basic information we have also included a number of tips in each chapter that should help you to complete each section appropriately.
Finally, do not forget that the business plan is the most important document you will create for your company.
Contents
1. Objectives
2. Executive review
3. Market analysis
4. Demand analysis
5. Environmental analysis
6. Company analysis
7. Analysis of the competition
8. Marketing strategy
9. Success factors
10. Economic analysis
11. Finance
12. Conclusion
Posted March 20, 2005
[July 26, 2006] Helen Cracknell, from Business Link, the Government’s network providing practical guidance for small and medium-sized enterprises looks at how to write a business plan.
[June 26, 2006] Part two of our two-part guide to writing a business plan for business angels takes a look at the main chapters of the business plan.
[June 26, 2006] This business plan guide is aimed at helping you put your message across to one particularly critical audience - the business angel. Part one contains an introduction and overview.
[March 20, 2005] Small business guide to writing a successful business plan - this eight part guide explains how to write a concise and readable plan for your new small business venture
[February 19, 2005] This section explains why you are creating this business plan. You will give a review of the whole plan, you will define the market, the product or service, your competitive advantage over the competition, the investment required and the predicted results over a given period of time.
[February 18, 2005] This section contains information on compiling the market analysis and demand analysis sections of your small business plan
[February 17, 2005] This section contains information on how to compile the environmental and company analysis sections of your business plan, plus analysis of the competitors in your chosen industry sector.
[February 16, 2005] An essential part of the business plan - the marketing strategy, containing information on how to penetrate new markets, increase your share of the existing market, entrench yourself in the market and how to withdraw from the market place.
[February 15, 2005] This section of the business plan is very important as it provides a summary explaining why the plan will succeed. You need a unique selling point or points for your plan. What do you have that will make it succeed?
[February 14, 2005] This section highlights the financial information you will need to provide in your business plan (balance sheet, profit and loss, etc.) The Finance section outlines how much captial will be required to start the enterprise.
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