Business Writing: Business Plans

Written by an experienced academic and consultant, this book provides a concise guide for producing the optimal business plan. Writing a Business Plan is designed to teach you how to write your business plan without relying on someone else or internet templates. It will take you through each stage of business-plan writing, with chapters on generating ideas; describing business opportunities; drawing a business road map; and considering marketing, financial, operations, HR, legal and risk. The book includes a range of features to assist you, including worked-through examples.

Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. For those looking for examples of how to approach, structure and compose their own business plans, the Handbook presents 20 sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries. Typical business plans include type of business; statement of purpose; executive summary; business/industry description; market; product and production; management/personnel; and financial specifics. This volume also contains a business plan template and two fictional business plans, all of which can aid users in developing business plans of their own.

This book shows readers how to create a business plan that speaks directly to investors and lenders and makes it easy for them to say yes. The Standout Business Plan reveals what information backers consider essential and what is best omitted. It also shows how to address key factors such as market demand, competition, and strategy; spell out the essence of your business proposition; outline resources and financial forecasts; assess risk from the backer's perspective; and evaluate and improve the plan to ensure its success.

A sound and convincing business plan is an entrepreneur's important first step in starting up a profitable business. It's also a prerequisite for getting financing and attracting investors. A sound business plan describes the business operations and goals, analyzes and forecasts markets and sales, sets up operating and marketing plans and schedules, and estimates operating expenses. This book shows how to organize and write a logical, business-savvy, and professionally polished business plan that can be presented to potential investors and financial institutions.

For undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship. This book is for the future entrepreneur who wants to understand the critical issues and feasibility of developing a business venture, while developing an extensive business plan. Teaching and Learning Experience: This text will provide a better teaching and learning experience--for you and your students. Here's how: Focus on the "Front End" of the Entrepreneurial Process: The entrepreneurial process is discussed and defined as part of the comprehensive business plan process.

The Business Plan Workbook is the essential guide to all aspects of business planning for entrepreneurs, senior executives and students alike. Based on methodology developed at Cranfield School of Management and using successful real-life business plans, The Business Plan Workbook brings together the process and procedures required to produce that persuasive plan. The case examples have been fully updated and include a cross section of businesses at various stages in their development, making the book invaluable reading for anyone in business - whatever their background.

Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace! If you're thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one, you need a plan. Running a successful business requires a great deal of forethought, so write a business plan and secure your venture's future. How to Write a Business Plan will show you how to write the right plan for your business and design a loan package necessary to finance your business and make it work.