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The chapter on the explanation of your
business
plans for the future growth of your business is just that--an explanation of how you
plan to keep your business growing--a detailed guide of what you're going to do, and how you're going to increase your
profits. These plans should show your goals for the coming year, two years, and three years. By breaking your objectives down into
annual milestones, your plan will be accepted as more realistic and be more understandable as a part of your ultimate success.
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Following this explanation, you'll need to itemize the projected cost and income figures of your three year plan. I'll
take a lot of research, an undoubtedly a good deal of erasing, but it's very important that you list these figures based upon
thorough investigation. You may have to adjust some of your plans downward, but once you've got these two chapters on paper, your
whole business plan will fall into line and begin to make sense. You'll have a precise "map" of where you're headed, how much it's
going to cost, when you can expect to start making money, and how much.
Now that you know where you're going, how much it's going to cost and how long it's going to be before you begin to recoup
your investment, you're ready to talk about how and where you're going to get the money to finance your journey. Unless you're
independently wealthy, you'll want to use this chapter to list
the possibilities and alternatives.
Make a list of friends you can approach, and perhaps induce to put up some money as silent partners. Make a list of those people
you might be able to sell as stockholders in your company--in many cases you can sell up to $300,000 worth of stock on a
"private issue" basis without filing papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Check with a corporate or tax attorney
in your area for more details. Make a list of relatives and friends that might help you with an outright loan to furnish
money for the development of your business.
Then search out and make a list of venture capital organizations. Visit the Small Business Administration office in
your area--pick up the loan application papers they have--read them, study them, and even fill them out on a preliminary
basis--and finally, check the costs, determine which business publications would be best to advertise in, if you were to
advertise for a partner or investor, and write an ad you'd want to use if you did decide to advertise for monetary help.
With listing of all the options available to your needs, all that's left is the arranging of these options in the order you
would want to use them when the time come to ask for money. When you're researching these money sources, you'll save time by
noting the "con act" deal with when you want money, and whenever
possible, by developing a working relationship with these people.
If your documentation section, you should have a credit report on yourself. Use the Yellow Pages or check at the credit
department in your bank for the nearest credit reporting office. When you get your credit report, look it over and take whatever
steps are necessary to eliminate any negative comments. Once these have been taken care of, ask for a revised copy of your
report and include a copy of that in your business plan.
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Business plan
- That Guarantees Big Profits Continue V. overall summary of your business- when the business was started, the purpose of the
business, what makes your business different, how you're going to gain a profitable share of the market, and your expected success
during the coming 5 years.
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