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How to Prepare your Mind/Body to Give Great Speeches - Sandra Schrift
Sure you have catecholamines – all speakers do. (including Sir Winston Churchill and Presidents Kennedy, Carter, and Reagan.) Those are the chemicals that make you sweat, make your heart beat fast and make your hands shake. Get rid of those...
Want to Be A Millionaire? Think Like One. Here's How - Susan Dunn M A
What makes a millioniare? A tireless work ethic? A high IQ? Dumb luck? Good financial karma? None of the above, says Annelena Lobb, in "You Think Lilke A Million Bucks." Kathleen Gurney, Ph.D., author of "Your Money Personality" and CEO of...
"Collaborate Your Way to Success" - Paul the soaring Siegel
The best way to market - or accomplish anything - on the Internet is to be helpful. Netizens appreciate it and try to be helpful in return. As I indicated before, the 3 ways of being helpful are by enabling people to learn, by cooperating with...
Having a Portfolio on the Internet Can Help you Infiltate the Workforce - Jesse S Somer
If you’re an up and coming graphic/web designer just out of university, you’ll know it’s quite hard to break into the workforce. You have to contact employers one by one, spend your time traveling and lugging your portfolio to their offices. Well,...
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Becoming Wise - Wild & Free - Writing A Successful Business Plan - Part 2 - Do It In Steps
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Written By:
Rod Francis
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So you've decided to write your own business plan because you know the value that the experience will give you. With the books and software that are out there today you can probably sit down and complete the plan in a day or so, right? Plug in the numbers, add the notes, write the whole narrative (story), print it and get it out to the banks or investors.
If you can complete a plan in a day or so you are either an expert, that has already done all of the research, or you are heading for big trouble, because you have not done enough research. If you are like most people you have a job, a family and commitments that take up a lot of time. It would be impossible to write a business plan that quickly, even if you know your stuff. You have probably heard the old adage, 'Rome wasn't built in a day' well, neither was a good business plan. To create a top quality business plan you need to research each and every aspect as diligently as possible. Take your time and think of everything, don't leave anything to chance.
That sounds like a lot of work and a long drawn out process. How will you remember or even think of everything? How can you keep track of what you have to research? If you have to set your plan aside for a while, how will you remember where you left off? You may get tired, bored and even careless in your efforts because like most people you probably have Attention Deficit Disorder when it comes to doing this type of work.
The answer is to do your plan in steps. A good guide book or business plan software will ask you to complete - continued below ...
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work as you go, one step at a time. You read a section, do some research on the items(s) in the section and enter the information that you discovered. This way you are focused on each item as you go and never become overwhelmed. You will also be able to remember where you were when you have to set the plan aside for a few days, without having to re-read a novel. The process may still seem long but if you concentrate on doing your plan in steps it will be done before you know it.
This series of articles has been written in steps because most people don't have the time to sit down and read a novel. You can even do your financial projections in steps, which is where I recommend that you start. Doing the projections will help you analyse the feasibility of your project before you spend a ton of time writing a complete plan that may or may not work for you.
Look for the next article on Writing A Successful Business Plan - Part 3 - 'The Feasibility' of the Becoming Wise - Wild & Free series.
Written by Rod Francis - President of Advantage Venture
Systems Inc. creators of the Venture Planning System(tm)
Pro business plan software @ www.VPSpro.com
Suite 207, #1-1081 Central Ave. N.,
Swift Current, SK Canada S9H 4Z1
Check for more articles on writing a business plan at:
http://www.vpspro.com/business_plan_articles.html
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How Creative Intelligence Alliances Can Help You Grow Your Business - Gisela McKay
Who do you report to when you are the boss? How do you deal with unmotivated days, or those times when you feel overwhelmed? Successful people have known how to deal with these pressures for a long time. In the early 1900s a man named Napoleon...
Think I’m a Bank? - Mark Walter
Why so much excitement over real estate notes? The risks must be reviewed carefully. This article analyzes real estate notes from the perspective of the uninitiated. Before jumping into the risks and possible rewards, we’ll examine how real estate...
Accomplish Difficult Tasks Easily - Cathy Wagner
Is there something you've been meaning to do? If you're like me, you probably have a long "to-do" list, but have you noticed that some tasks come and go very quickly on that list while other things linger. Look at your list now. Is there...
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