Ten Tips To Jump Start Your Business Plan

Written by Dee Power and Brian Hill


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7) First Drafts Are Always A Laugh. ************************************* The first draft of your plan will undoubtedly resemble incoherent ramblings--jumbled stream-of-semi-consciousness ideas that look nothing like what you had hoped it would. Don't be disappointed or frustrated.

8) You Deserve A Break Today. ********************************* Putrepparttar draft away for a few days, come back to it fresh, and begin revising and rewriting. Magically, after several more revisions,repparttar 106510 ideas will all come together andrepparttar 106511 language ofrepparttar 106512 plan will flow.

9) The Plan Is Your Baby--It Needs To Look Like You. **************************************************** The business plan should reflectrepparttar 106513 personality of your management team, andrepparttar 106514 type of company you want to create. Asrepparttar 106515 reader goes through it, he/she should get to knowrepparttar 106516 people involved inrepparttar 106517 company, their vision, their objectives, and their enthusiasm forrepparttar 106518 company andrepparttar 106519 industry. Tellrepparttar 106520 story of your company in your own voice. A plan for a music production company would look much different than a plan for a medical device manufacturer.

10) Not Everyone Has A Flair For Fiction. ****************************************** Business plans are essentially works of fiction--documents that talk about what you imagine, plan and hope may occur inrepparttar 106521 future, not what has already occurred. This type of writing is difficult for everyone. You've heard of "writer's block". The problems you are having keepingrepparttar 106522 words flowing are preciselyrepparttar 106523 ones faced byrepparttar 106524 great writers, except many of them have to keep going becauserepparttar 106525 publisher has given them a unreachable deadline and they've already spent their advance, but you of course, having read tip #1 Rome Wasn't Planned, Funded, and Built in One Day have allowed plenty of time to finishrepparttar 106526 business plan--so there's no reason to feel pressured. Right?



Dee Power and Brian Hill are authors of "Attracing Capital From Angels: How Their Money and Their Experience Can Help You Build a Successful Company," http://www.AttractingCapitalFromAngels.com published by John Wiley & Sons 2002 and "Inside Secrets To Venture Capital" http://www.InsideSecretsToVentureCapital.com, published by John Wiley & Sons 2001


Information Constipation

Written by Myrtis Smith


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"preparation". The main symptom is several months (or years) spent checking out a business opportunity in lieu of actually pursuing it. People generally suffer from a feeling that they don't have enough information or they aren't very knowledgeable aboutrepparttar subject and hence they are unable to move forward. This is quite often torepparttar 106509 contrary because they have spent so much time gathering information that they are now more "book smart" about their potential business than many people who have a successful business up and running.

There is really only one known cure for Information Constipation and that is (inrepparttar 106510 famous words of Nike): Just Do it! You will never have all ofrepparttar 106511 information you need. You will never know everything there is to know . Not to mention, a little fear and apprehension is normal and healthy.

So if you or someone you know is suffering from Information Constipation get them torepparttar 106512 nearest coach, friend or motivator so that they can get a much needed push to make their idea a reality.

Myrtis Smith is a personal coach. She gets people to stop hating thier jobs. To see how she might be able to help you, sign up for her free newsletter (Change Now!) or visit her on the web at www.premeditatedlife.com .......because life doesn't just happen!


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