Business Planning Help & Business Articles
The following articles will help you produce a winning business plan regardless of whether you are a startup, student, or small business looking to grow. You'll find practical advice and killer tips to help you produce a winning business plan.
How to Write a Business Plan
Need to write a business plan?
Writing a business plan is a critical requirement for any entrepreneur or business looking to grow. Read an article from the list or view a sample business plan to help you produce a winning business plan.
- Easiest Way to Write a Business Plan
- 10 UK Resources to Help Write a Plan
- Funding - Dragon's Perspective
- 10 Business Plan Mistakes to Avoid
- Planning is not just for Start-ups
- Top Tips for Writing a Business Plan
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Starting a Business
- Who wants to be an Entrepreneur?
- Top 10 Internet Products for Start-Ups
- Reasons you Need a Business Plan
- Forecasting Your Sales
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Starting a new business?
Starting a new business can be both rewarding and challenging in equal measure. Kick-start your business with advice and articles on everything from business plans to strategy to finance.
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A Simpler Plan for Startups
Business advisors, experienced entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors generally agree that you should develop a business plan before you start a business. A plan can help you move forward, make decisions, and make your business successful. However, not all business plans are the same, not every business needs the same level of detail. You might develop [...]
The Simple Business Plan
In a world of increasing complexity and one with growing demands on our time, it can be challenging to create a business plan. In recent years, however, there has been a growing trend in the production of simple business plans.
What is a simple business plan?
A simple business plan is a business plan typically produced by [...]
Elevator Pitch Part 5: Delivery
In the real world, you know your so-called elevator speech and you use it when appropriate. Every time you do it, you and it get better. I’d recommend taking time out and working on it, but you probably won’t; you’re too busy. Think about it in the shower. Think about it when you’re stuck in [...]
Elevator Pitch Part 4: Finish Strong
(Note: this is taken with permission from Planning Startups Stories)
This fourth of five parts in this series depends on who you are, where you are, and what you want. If you’ve personalized in the first part, sold yourself and/or your organization in the second, and established the attractiveness or suitability of the business offering in [...]
Elevator Pitch Part 3: What You Offer
(Note: this is taken with permission from Planning Startups Stories)
Now explain what that person or organization you’re selling to gets. You’ve personalized the need or want, identified your unique qualities to solve the problem, and now you have to put the need or want in concrete terms that anybody can see. For example:
For a Trunk [...]
