Business Plan Writing Tips
These tutorials explain how to write the perfect business plan: Write from the investor’s perspective. Research your market. Understand your competitors. Identify opportunities. Test the numbers. Write a persuasive Executive Summary.
Need to write an executive summary but aren’t sure where to start? Watch the videos and read the tutorials. To help you write, format, design, and promote your executive summaries, we’ve written tutorials, created templates, and made videos.
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Business Plan Templates
Each template includes a 40 page template and 10 free spreadsheets. Sections include Marketing Plan, Market Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Sales Forecast, Development Plan, Operational Plan, Financial Plan, 12-Month Profit & Loss, Projected Cash Flow, Balance Sheet, Break-Even Analysis, Personal Financial Statement, and Exit Strategy.
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Business Plan templates – MS Word and Excel |
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Business Plan templates – Apple iWork and Numbers |
Business Plan Writing
Business Plans: How to write the Conclusion section
This tutorial explains how to write the conclusion for a business document, for example, a report, thesis, project, or any document that needs a section to gather together the main points.
How to Write a ‘Simple’ Business Plan
‘Why are business plans so hard to write?’ Before I answered the email I thought about it for a moment. I used to hate writing business plans but now find them much easier to write. As business plans are still the same, maybe it’s me. So, what changed?
Why You Should Never Give Advice
No one will thank you for it. Unless you’re asked… and even if you are asked for advice, pause for a moment and consider why you’ve been asked.
What do you feel when people say, “and tell me about yourself?” Most of us dread giving the elevator pitch – the story of your life in 60 seconds. Scary, isn’t it? It doesn’t have to be.
How to Give Your Boss Feedback
I never give unsolicited advice. If you don’t ask for my opinion, I don’t give it. It’s not because I don’t want to help you. I do. It’s because people value what they pay for.
9 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting a Web Business
In 1996, I downloaded Netscape Navigator 2.0 and got on the web. It was incredible. If you weren’t there, it’s hard to explain the sheer excitement of getting your first AOL account, dialing up to go online, waiting for your first page to slowly download, and then going WOW!
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How Google’s ‘Micro Moments’ will affect your business
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s senior vice president of ads, predicts that ‘micro moments’ will change advertising, in particular advertising on mobile devices.
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Video Tutorials
Video – Executive Summary Tutorial
VIDEO – Writing an Executive Summary for Business Plan
Executive Summary Tutorials
What should be in an Executive Summary?
In a business plan or technical report, where does the executive summary go? Should the Executive Summary go before the Table of Contents?
How to Write the Executive Summary of a Business Plan
In a business plan or technical report, where does the executive summary go? Should the Executive Summary go before the Table of Contents?
Two Types of Executive Summaries
What’s the difference? Can you get away with a one-page executive summary?
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Business Plan Template
Each template includes a 40 page template and 10 free spreadsheets.
