Monday
Dec192011

Small Business Planning Needs at NY XPO for Business 2011

According to conversations with entrepreneurs held by Vokse at the New York XPO for Business 2011, current managers business planning needs include:

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Monday
Dec192011

What is a Business Plan? – Business Plans 101

The following points cover a few Business Plan basic points: Definition: A Business Plan usually represents an outline of a new or existing business. It may contain a blueprint for the whole business or just a part of it. Presentation: It is usually presented in a Word or PDF document containing text, graphs and tables. Length: The Business Plan length usually ranges between 25-30 pages excluding appendix. There is no minimum or maximum length for a Business Plan,

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Thursday
Nov032011

How to Create Business Cards

1) Business Card Blueprint: On a piece of paper or computer, do a draft of how you would like your business card to look. You can google the search term ‘sample business cards’ to get ideas (http://www.google.com/). If you are still developing your company’s identity (logo, colors, etc.), you may want to get advise from experts such as NYC Business Solutions...

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Thursday
Oct132011

How to Estimate Revenues for your Business Plan? Restaurant Example

Revenue forecasting could be one of the most challenging yet interesting tasks when developing a Business Plan. One way to approach this activity is to first break down revenues into variables (i.e. what do revenues for a particular business really mean?). For example, restaurant revenues may be composed of:

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Tuesday
Sep202011

How to Start your Business Plan?

Many of us have a brilliant idea but don’t know how to plan it and assess viability. If you have a piece of paper (napkin, scratch, etc.) and a pen, you are good to go. What I find the most useful when starting a business plan is to envision the concept piece by piece. Basically to provide structure to what a business could look like.

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