Ten Tips To Jump Start Your Business Plan

Written by Dee Power and Brian Hill


1) Rome Wasn't Planned, Funded, and Built in One Day ****************************************************** The process of putting together a coherent business plan will probably take longer that you estimate (an incoherent business plan onrepparttar other hand can take as little as 20 minutes). Alongrepparttar 106510 way you will probably stop and say, "you know, we haven't really thought our strategies out very well, have we?" or "we don't really know our competition as well as we thought we did," and you will takerepparttar 106511 time to hone your strategies and get up to speed onrepparttar 106512 competition before you finishrepparttar 106513 plan and present it.

2) Smaller Bites Are More Digestible *************************************** Startrepparttar 106514 plan with an outline. By breakingrepparttar 106515 large task down into smaller components,repparttar 106516 task will not seem as daunting. A business plan can be viewed simply asrepparttar 106517 answers to a series of questions.

3) Style Points Count, Too. *************************************** The visual aspects ofrepparttar 106518 document should not be overlooked. Color charts, tables of data to break uprepparttar 106519 text, paragraph headings, varyingrepparttar 106520 typestyles--all of these contribute to makingrepparttar 106521 plan easier to read, and to more clearly explainrepparttar 106522 business opportunity.

4) To Write A Plan, Read A Plan. ************************************** People who write novels are generally those who have read many, many, stories. They learn their craft by studyingrepparttar 106523 works of their favorite authors. You need to dorepparttar 106524 same thing. Look at examples of business plans to get in your mindrepparttar 106525 writing style,repparttar 106526 sequence in whichrepparttar 106527 ideas are presented, andrepparttar 106528 parts to a plan. Sample plans are available onrepparttar 106529 Internet at sites devoted to assisting entrepreneurs.

5) Pick A Section, Any Section ************************************* If you have never written a business plan before, you may have difficulty gettingrepparttar 106530 project started. It will seem as though you have an awful lot of blank pages staring back at you. To getrepparttar 106531 plan moving, start withrepparttar 106532 section that is easiest for you, or of most interest.

6) Spend Quality Time With Your Plan. ************************************* People often underestimaterepparttar 106533 effort and energy it takes to write a business plan. They try to write it at night or when everything else at work is finished, in other words, when they are mentally and sometimes physically exhausted. A better approach is to writerepparttar 106534 plan when you have energy available to put into it: go in early and think and write for an hour beforerepparttar 106535 phones start ringing.

Information Constipation

Written by Myrtis Smith


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Summary: People who have been putting off pursuing their dreams of starting a business may be suffering from Information Constipation.

============================================================= Information Constipation

If you've been inrepparttar 106509 process of starting a business (or thinking about starting a business) for more than 6 months, but you haven't made any progress, you may be suffering from Information Constipation.

Information Constipation is a dreadful disease that strikes over analytical people, procrastinators, andrepparttar 106510 fearful. People have so much information that they are paralyzed and unable to act. The condition is generally marked by an elongated period called "research". Some people refer to this period as "getting ready", "information gathering", or

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