Create A Business Plan For Success Online
Written by George Manty · March 11, 2008
When you start out online you need to make a solid business plan. A business plan is your roadmap for success.
My father told me to create a business plan a long time ago and at first I didn’t listen to him (I should have). My father has made a REALLY good living helping new companies develop successful business plans designed to get these companies government funding. He is an absolute expert at what he does. I wish I had listened to his advice about making a business plan early on because he really knows what he is talking about.
However, you don’t have to make the same mistake I made.
All you need to do is find a good business plan template and fill it out. You can get a good business plan template for FREE by going to SCORE’s template gallery and downloading their business plan for start-up businesses. You don’t have to answer all the questions posed in the business plan template to have a successful business, but the more questions you answer the better understanding you will have your business.
Some of the questions covered in the business plan will be things we discussed earlier in the Getting Started series. Some of the questions are new questions that will help you better understand ALL the planning that you can do to create a roadmap for your success.
Creating a business plan will help speed up your quest for online success.
Nice to read a good article on the importance of planning. I would go further and suggest that as well as planning we also need a way to focus our energy and time on the important aspects of doing business.
I am a great fan of Edward De Bono and his Thinking Tools so have come up with a simple but effective way of thinking about doing business online. I have given it a grand name as I am a “consultant” 🙂
You can see it here: http://www.webbusinessarchitecture.com/blueprint/
cheers
Tony
Starting a business needs a thorough planning. If you want to stay long and want to e successful, take your business seriously.
Its unfortunate but many people going into an online business never create business plans, primarily because they don’t look at it like a real business. However, this is why many of them fail pretty quickly. There are tons of different ways to make money, but each and every one of them needs a foundation to be built on. Thanks for the great advice, your father is a smart man.