What Do You Do? This is the most common question I ask after reading a business plan. Strange isn’t it? A business plan is all about the business, what it does, what it will do, how it will do it etc. Which makes it all the more surprising that so often a business plan can
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Getting a Bank Loan or Dating? Businesses get turned down for finance, fact. What it doesn’t mean is that your business proposal or the business itself is wrong. Sometimes it just happens. There is a quote from Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic; For me it’s a numbers game – you should almost notch up
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Small Business Priorities Running any small business is a juggling act of many tasks all requiring your attention at once. You need to be a master of all trades and retain a broad knowledge just about everything, after all who else can do it? The challenge comes when everything appears to be a priority, what
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5 Business Plan Essentials If you have ever searched Google looking for a business plan template or a guide to writing a business plan then you will have come across all number of things purporting to make something simple complicated. As a former employee of HSBC, we used to joke that HSBC stood for ‘How
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The UK Economy Has anyone noticed a change in tact recently, that the media are slowly starting to talk more positively about the UK economy? Is this a genuine sign that things are starting to improve in the UK economy, and more importantly can we all suddenly start to breath a sigh that the worst
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Business Finance Is a Foreign Language When you go to Spain it is fair to say we all know a few words, could order our cerveza, count to 10 and the rest. Not many of us are fluent. Take that then try mixing that with a bit of Mandolin, Flemish, Arabic, and Esperanto. Just how
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A Better Business Plan – Your Business Formula In part one we talked about perfecting your elevator pitch. Now it is time to bring out the calculator in a very gentle way. The theory is that every business has a numerical, or formula to it. Confused? Don’t be, as we will clarify how this works.
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Write A Better Business Plan We have all seen templates, software, programs etc. All claim to make writing a business plan easier and more fun. Fun? Come on, let’s not push things too far… But you can make writing a better business plan easier by getting in the right mindset and by getting the basics
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