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Book Excerpt – Hints on Formal Business Planning
Posted by Robert Bacal in Book Excerpts - Perfect Phrases For Small Business, Small Business Strategy and Decision-Making on August 29, 2009
Here’s more hints and tips on small business planning — specifically with respect to putting together a formal business plan.
When possible, use specifics rather than generalities.
Incorporate contingency analysis in your plan to anticipate unforeseen or negative cirucmstances and events (such as “sales 14% ower than expected”). Think about what you will do when things [...]
Your Formal Business Plan
Posted by Robert Bacal in Book Excerpts - Perfect Phrases For Small Business on August 29, 2009
From Chapter 3 – Guiding Principles (Perfect Phrases For Managing Your Small Business)
Your Formal Business Plan
Your business plan must be based on reality, not on wishful thinking, or it will lead you in the direction of failure. Unrealistic assumptions and numbers will lead others to conculde that you are not believable and therefore, a bad [...]
Our New Book – Perfect Phrases For Managing Your Small Business
Posted by Robert Bacal in Book Excerpts - Perfect Phrases For Small Business on August 29, 2009
Well, hurrah! The manuscript is finished, and while we don’t have a final publication date for our new book, published by McGraw-Hill, we can still publish excerpts from the manuscript. So, we have created a new category/section where we’ll be posting short snippets from the book.