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How to Write a Business Plan

Name: How to Write a Business Plan
Author: Mike McKeever
ISBN: 9781413317497

by Mike McKeever

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Overview

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.

With this bestselling all-in-one guide you'll learn how to:
. figure out if your business idea will make money
. estimate operating expenses
. prepare cash flow
. create profit and loss forecasts
. determine assets, liabilities, and net worth
. find potential sources of financing
. think first before borrowing from friends and relatives, and
. professionally present your plan to lenders and investors

How to Write a Business Plan provides spreadsheets that help you determine and forecast cash flow, financial statements, sales revenue, and profit and loss. It also provides three sample business plans you can modify for your own use.This edition is completely updated, providing all-new online resources and updated examples of successful business plans.

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"A thorough self-help book that will help you present a convincing financial opportunity to banks and investors in a format they can understand."--Home Office Computing.

About the Author, Mike McKeever

Mike McKeever has a B.A. in Economics from Whittier College, a Master’s in Economics from the London (England) School of Economics and has done post-graduate work in financial analysis at the USC Business School. Mike has taught classes at numerous community colleges in entrepreneurship and small business management. He has published articles on entrepreneurship for Dow Jones publications, the Sloan Publications Business Journal and numerous newspapers and periodicals. Mike runs a company, Business Plan Workshop, in which his business plan book features prominently.

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BusinessLife

Shows how to write a sound business plan, including strategies for: evaluating the profitability of a business idea; estimating operating expenses... finding potential sources of financing; and presenting a plan to lenders.

Home Office Computing

a thorough self-help book that will lead you through the process. Examples and worksheets will help you present a convincing financial opportunity to banks and investors in a format they understand.

San Francisco Examiner

Anyone who starts or operates a small business without a business plan takes a needless risk of either failure or no growth. Here’s an easy-to-follow book that takes the reader step-by-step … to get the budding entrepreneur off to a successful business start-up.

Home Office Computing

... a thorough self-help book that will lead you through the process. Examples and worksheets will help you present a convincing financial opportunity to banks and investors in a format they understand.

San Francisco Examiner

Anyone who starts or operates a small business without a business plan takes a needless risk of either failure or no growth. Here’s an easy-to-follow book that takes the reader step-by-step ... to get the budding entrepreneur off to a successful business start-up.

San Francisco Examiner

Anyone who starts or operates a small business without a business plan takes a needless risk of either failure or no growth. Here’s an easy-to-follow book that takes the reader step-by-step ... to get the budding entrepreneur off to a successful business start-up.

Home Office Computing

San Francisco Examiner

An easy-to-follow book that takes the reader step-by-step … to get the budding entrepreneur off to a successful business start-up.

Dallas Morning News

"An essential book to help entrepreneurs..."

San Francisco Examiner

"Anyone who starts or operates a small business without a business plan takes a neddless risk...Here's an easy-to-follow book...to get the budding entrepreneur off to a successful business start-up."

BusinessLIFE

Shows how to write a sound business plan, including strategies for: Evaluating the profitability of a business idea; estimating operating expenses ... finding potential sources of financing; and presenting a plan to lenders.

Dallas Morning News

An essential book to help entrepreneurs...

Home Office Computing

A thorough self-help book that will lead you through the process. Examples and worksheets will help you present a convincing financial opportunity to banks and investors in a format they understand.

San Francisco Examiner

Anyone who starts or operates a small business without a business plan takes a needless risk of either failure or no growth. Here's an easy-to-follow book that takes the reader step-by-step ... to get the budding entrepreneur off to a successful business start-up.

Upscale

When starting your own business, it's important to know that in legal terms, anything you don't know can hurt you.... If you can't afford a lawyer, consider reading... How to Write a Business Plan.