Business Planning - General
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If you run or want to start a business, business planning is absolutely essential. Business planning helps you map out the goals, how's, and what's of your business so you can manage your enterprise. Here you will find information about the process of business planning.
By Tim Berry
Businesses spend money before they ever open their doors. Start-up expenses are those expenses incurred before the business is running. Many people underestimate start-up costs and start their business in a haphazard, unplannned way. This can work......but is usually a harder way to do it. Customers are wary of brand new businesses with makeshift logistics.
(Added: 1-Apr-2005 Hits: 1123)
By Darrol J. Stanley, DBA and James R. Hull
The goal of this article is to radically change the behavior of most small business owners. This all-important behavioral change, which many call a shift to a “superior venture thinker,” can be accomplished by redirecting the entrepreneur toward the key focus of business finance: Maximizing Shareholder Wealth. This transformation, simply stated, requires changing the perspective of the capable and willing small business owner from perceiving the business as only a job to one that recognizes the company as a viable and profitable financial investment.
(Added: 21-Mar-2005 Hits: 384)
By Tim Berry
Business plans are also called strategic plans, investment plans, expansion plans, operational plans, annual plans, internal plans, growth plans, product plans, feasibility plans, and many other names. These are all business plans.
(Added: 1-Apr-2005 Hits: 948)
By David Coffman
Is there a difference between a business planning system, and a business plan? This author thinks so, and here's the explanation of the differences.
(Added: 4-Oct-2005 Hits: 773)
By Kelvyn Peters
Poor management and poor money sense are the number one reasons why businesses fail within the first twelve months of opening their doors. Learn how neglecting to write a business plan, and not recognizing a very real need for experience can lead to business failure. Read about the other six traps presented in this article.
(Added: 4-Oct-2005 Hits: 528)