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Business Plan Help - 3 Tips For A Better Business Plan

If you're looking for investors you need business plan help. Keep these three tips in mind.

The Business Plan Is One Management Task That Cannot Be Delegated
Investors do not like to hear "I have consultant writing the business plan," or the ever-popular "My accountant is doing the projections for me." These specialists can be invaluable in assisting you with the project, not in taking it over and making the project their own. Far be it from us to not recommend hiring a consultant to help you. You don't not want to get into a situation where you cannot explain part of the business plan to an investor because you were not involved in writing it.

Business Plans Written By Committee Seldom Look Pretty
It is always a good idea to obtain business plan help from the other key members of your management team--your marketing expert, your finance guru, the guy who brings the bagels in the morning--but it is not a good idea for each of these people to go off and work on their own independent drafts of the business plan, to somehow be assembled into one document later. What you will end up with is, well, a mess. A better method is to work off one draft, upon which each person is allowed to suggest comments or make edits. Some word processing software even lets you track each person's changes in different colors, so you can tell which person commented that your brilliant marketing strategies were "lame".

"Made Fresh While You Wait" Works Better in Dining than In Business Planning
A trend today is to send an Executive Summary of a business plan to potential investors before sending out the full document. Besides saving printing and postage costs, this allows the entrepreneur to determine if the investor is at all interested before revealing too much about the company. And you can sometimes get more timely responses from investors if you ask them to read 3 pages rather than 50. Entrepreneurs anxious to get financing, though, are just writing the business plan summary, and then finishing the business plan only when the investors express interest. How do you write a summary of something that doesn't yet exist? The Executive Summary is supposed to highlight the key aspects of your plan. It reads better if you actually have some aspects that can be summarized.

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About The Authors Brian Hill and Dee Power have written several nonfiction books including Business Plan Basics, "58 Ways to Find Money for Your Business, Inside Secrets to Venture Capital" and Attracting Capital From Angels, Reach them through The Capital Connection

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