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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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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Business plans, we talk about them a lot. Which, got us thinking. We really should offer something for our clients to use themselves. So, after a lot of searching, seeing what is good and bad. Then taking out anything we thought would make life difficult we came up with a business plan template. It is
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We are always keen to promote the benefits of good business planning, however getting the small business to see the benefit can be a challenging thing to achieve. In its very simplest form a business plan should set out some goals, it should highlight some areas of concern, and it should allow you to address
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Campari? Remind you of Leonard Rossiter spilling a drink over Joan Collins in a 1980’s TV advert? Maybe it does, but Campari is actually a little more influential than that. What, Campari? Explain… If you are running your own business and ever looking to borrow money then we encourage you to drink a Campari, hypothetically
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Business Plan, I remember having one of those when I first started… I cannot remember how many times we hear a quote like that. The real conundrum here is the question of what is a business plan? Not what it tangibly is, but what the point and benefit of it are to the business. Airfix
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