Simple Business Plan Outline

2009 Plan
Business Owners’ Names
Business Name

This Simple Business Plan Outline is an outgrowth of an earlier article posted Wednesday, January 7 at 9:43 a.m. - "Write Your Business Plan."

How to begin:
Define your objectives for 2009.
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Why these objectives are realistic?
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How will you reach your objectives?
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From your answers to these questions you can produce a basic plan. Begin your plan work with a few thoughts or sentences for each of the categories below. Complete all the categories so it can be saved on your computer and printed on a single sheet of paper.

A Business Plan Outline
1. Executive Summary – brief description of your business, what you do and how you do it.
2. Customers – who are they, their needs and how you fill those needs.
3. Competition – know everything about them, strengths, weaknesses, pricing and costs.
4. Suppliers – strengths and weaknesses.
5. Marketing – sales channel, how you reach customers, what is your value proposition message, how you communicate to them and do you have the funds to do that.
6. Staff – Key staff strengths and weaknesses, what functions do you outsource?
7. Processes – methods, policies and procedures, employee job descriptions and duties.
8. Financial – forecast for 3 to 5 years. Profit and loss and balance sheets.

Actions to take to achieve personal objectives:

Milestones to reaching these objectives: