Creating a great business plan is the first and most vital step to business success. Business Plans For Dummies, 2nd Edition, offers quick, easy solutions for all your planning dilemmas. Packed with the latest tips and advice, this fun, friendly resource will help you launch your company with confidence.
Discover how to:
Assess your company's goals and objectives
Create a clear, precise mission statement
Identify customers and understand their needs
Differentiate your business from the competition
Understand budgeting and finances

Business Plans for Dummies 2nd Ed. CD

Peterson, Steven

Tiffany, Paul

Business & Money

HarperAudio

Build a winning business plan with expert tips and strategies Creating a great business plan is the first and most vital step to business success. Packed with Canadian resources and anecdotes, this friendly guide takes you through the planning process. From scoping out the competition to planning for growth, this book is your ultimate reference for determining and meeting your business goals. <ul>
<li> Business essentials — from creating your company's mission statement to setting goals and objectives </li> <li> Competitive analysis — from analyzing your industry to tracking your competitors' actions </li> <li> Market research — from identifying your market to meeting your customers' needs </li> <li> Financial information — from reading income statements to understanding balance sheets </li> <li> Forecasting and budgeting — from projecting your cash flow to creating a solid budget </li> <li> Your business plan in action — from creating an effective organizational structure to fostering a strong company culture </li> <li> Canadian examples — from inspirational success stories to cautionary tales </li> </ul>
Open the book and find: <ul>
<li> Where to track down the data you need to understand your business environment </li> <li> How to identify your customers and reach them effectively </li> <li> How to build upon your company's strengths and minimize its weaknesses </li> <li> The components of a successful and sustainable business model </li> <li> How to eliminate money woes through financial ratios </li> <li> The secrets to the successes of many major Canadian and international companies </li> <li> Strategies to help your company stand out in a crowd </li> </ul>

Business Plans For Canadians For Dummies

Peterson, Steven D.

Wagner, Nada

Management & Leadership

For Dummies

A full updated and extended second edition of an established UK bestseller Business Plans For Dummies 2nd Edition features new and updated information on formulating a solid business plan to build a secure business – even in an economic downturn. Complete with a brand new business plan template to get you started this expert guide offers fresh advice on reading the competitive marketplace and assessing your business in the current economic climate. It walks you step-by-step through every aspect of planning achievable business goals and diversification strategies, identifying trends, exploring new technologies and advertising routes, and predicting your business’ commercial future. Whether you’re looking to start up a small business or streamline an existing one this book is all you need to boost your business know how and prepare a watertight plan. 
Business Plans For Dummies 2nd Edition contains new and updated information on: Determining Where You Want to Go <ol>
<li>Starting Your Business Plan</li> <li>Charting the Proper Course</li> <li>Setting Off in the Right Direction</li> </ol>
Sizing Up Your Marketplace <ol>
<li>Checking Out the Business Environment</li> <li>Taking a Closer Look at Customers</li> <li>Dividing Customers into Groups</li> <li>Scoping Out Your Competition</li> </ol>
Weighing Your Company’s Prospects <ol>
<li>Establishing Your Starting Position</li> <li>Focusing On What You Do Best</li> <li>Figuring Out Financials</li> <li>Forecasting and Budgeting </li> </ol>
Looking to the Future <ol>
<li>Preparing for Change</li> <li>Thinking Strategically</li> <li>Managing More Than One Product</li> </ol>
A Planner’s Toolkit <ol>
<li>Making Your Business Plan Work</li> <li>Learning from Others: A Sample Business Plan</li> </ol>
The Part of Tens <ol>
<li>Ten Questions to Ask About Your Plan</li> <li>Top Ten Business-Planning Never-Evers</li> <li>Ten of the Best-Planned Organisations Around</li> </ol>

Business Plans For Dummies

Barrow, Colin

Business Plans For Dummies can guide your business in the right direction no matter who you are or how your job description reads, whether you're part of a large corporation or a one-person show. If you've struggled through the planning process before – or if you're brand new to plotting out goals and objectives – this down-to-earth guide steps you through every milestone in business planning.          

Business Plans for Dummies

Would you take off on a road trip to a new destination without a map or good directions? Probably not. Yet, sometimes business owners go full speed ahead without even having a destination in mind, much less a map on how to get there. That’s why so many businesses never make it. In today’s competitive marketplace, 3/4 of all new businesses fail within two to three years. Whether you’re launching a new business or working to strengthen or expand an established one, a business plan is your road map to success. 
Business Plans For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you keep your businesses on track and reach your goals. Written by Paul Tiffany, PhD, professor at UC Berkley Haas Business School and the Wharton School of Business and Steven Peterson, PhD, Professor at UC Berkeley Haas Business School and CEO of Strategic Play, it helps you <ul>
<li>Realistically determine where your business is and where you want to go</li> <li>Create a detailed business plan and put it into action instead of in a drawer</li> <li>Use the plan to secure financing</li> <li>Prepare for opportunities avoid common pitfalls</li> </ul>
In short, Business Plans for Dummies helps you determine where you want your business to go and create a map for getting there. You’ll discover how to: <ul>
<li>Identify and approach potential financial backers, including venture capital firms, angels, bankers, and others</li> <li>Clarify and crystallize your company’s mission, vision, and values</li> <li>Analyze your industry and your competition</li> <li>Identify your customers, including their needs, habits, purchase triggers, and decision-making processes</li> <li>Objectively analyze your company’s strengths and weaknesses</li> <li>Analyze your financial situation in order to do realistic forecasts and budgets</li> <li>Recognize trends and anticipate changes, both in the overall economy and in your industry</li> <li>Plan for growth, considering the product life cycle, new products, or new markets</li> <li>Structure your organization and nurture leadership</li> </ul>
Complete with diverse techniques and approaches plus a sample business plan, Business Plans For Dummies gives you detailed how-to for designing a dynamic, business plan that will keep you on course in spite of the inevitable curves and detours in today’s marketplace. It’s a plantastic resource for business owners and entrepreneurs.

Packed with everything you need to get your business moving in the right direction - whether you're part of a large corporation or a one-person show - 'Business for Canadians for Dummies' is the ultimate guide to building a better, more productive and more profitable business.

Business Plans For Canadians for Dummies

Plan to succeed as an entrepreneur--we show you how Business Plans For Dummies can guide you, as a new or aspiring business owner, through the process of creating a comprehensive, accurate, and useful business plan. In fact, it is just as appropriate for an already up-and running firm that realizes it's now time for a full-bore check-up, to ensure the business is in tip-top shape to meet the challenges of the globalized, digitized, and constantly changing 21st Century. This edition of is fully updated, featuring the most recent practices in the business world. Let us walk you through each step of the planning process. You'll find everything you need in this one book, so you can finally stop googling, close all those browser tabs, and get organized and get going. Updates to this new revision include knowing how to pivot when your situation changes, recognizing the need for diversity and inclusion in the workplace, where to tap the latest funding sources, and how to plan for a digital strategy, market disruption, and environmental sustainability. You'll also learn how today's globalized marketplace influences your business--and how you can use social media to influence your customers right back. <ul> <li>Learn the ins and out of creating a business plan that will actually work</li> <li>Set effective goals and objectives so your business can find success</li> <li>Wow investors with your knowledge of today's important business trends</li> <li>Map out your finances, marketing plan, and operational blueprint--then confidently get to work!</li> </ul> Challenge the traditional framework by building a business plan that's workable in today's reality. Dummies is here to help.

Your one-stop guide to creating a winning business plan from scratch Whether you're starting a new business or growing an established one, you'll need a solid business plan to get you where you want to go. Revised for today's rocky economic climate, this edition of the UK's bestselling business plan guide gives you what you need to map out your business strategy and stay on course - including a complete sample plan that you can easily adapt for your business! <ul> <li> Chart your course - assess the current state of your business and where you'd like to take it, and establish clear, achievable objectives </li> <li> Get to know your customers - learn the latest techniques for getting a better idea of who your customers are and what they want </li> <li> Scope out the competition - find out who your competitors are and what it'll take to get your share of the market pie (and theirs) </li> <li> Sort out your finances - construct a value chain, examine your cash flow and calculate a sensible budget </li> <li> Enter the Dragons' Den - convince bankers, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources your business is a good investment </li> <li> Read the tea leaves - learn to decipher changing cultural, political and technological trends and to alter your strategies as needed </li> </ul> Open the book and find: <ul> <li> Tips on developing a sure-fire business strategy </li> <li> How to set realistic objectives </li> <li> Forecasting and budgeting strategies </li> <li> Keys to writing a motivational mission statement </li> <li> How to decipher the latest consumer trends </li> <li> Advice on building your brand and brand loyalty </li> <li> Tips for seeing and seizing opportunities before the competition </li> <li> Ways to adapt your plan to economic change </li> </ul> Learn to: <ul> <li> Prepare a watertight business strategy </li> <li> Assess the marketplace </li> <li> Devise a sensible forecast and budget </li> </ul>

For some people, a business plan is a map to success that they're required to put together to raise money for a startup company. At best, it's a formality; at worst, it's a sizable pain in the neck. But a business plan doesn't exist just to garner financial support; it's also a powerful tool – one that's bound to make your company a better place to work and your business a more successful operation. 
Business Plans For Dummies can guide your business in the right direction no matter who you are or how your job description reads, whether you're part of a large corporation or a one-person show. If you've struggled through the planning process before – or if you're brand new to plotting out goals and objectives – this expert reference will show you how to <ul>
<li>Create a right-on mission statement</li> <li>Pinpoint the needs of your customers</li> <li>Scope out the competition</li> <li>Simplify all the financial stuff</li> <li>Stay on top of trends</li> <li>Foster a winning atmosphere for your staff</li> </ul>
Packing the greatest value into a business plan calls for a look back at where your company's been and how it's changed over the years, a look forward to where and how you'll compete in the marketplace, and a look around at what you want to show and tell the world about your enterprise. This down-to-earth guide steps you through every milestone in business planning, including <ul>
<li>Determining where you want to go with your business</li> <li>Checking out the business environment: customers and competition</li> <li>Assessing your capabilities and resources</li> <li>Getting into strategic thinking mode</li> <li>Facing the facts about product life cycles</li> <li>Motivating and appreciating the people who make it all happen in-house</li> </ul>
Riding marketplace tides isn't the sport of amateurs these days; only 25% of new businesses survive beyond their first three years of operation. This invaluable resource gives you a no-nonsense approach to staying afloat, rising above the risks, and enjoying the rewards as you take care of business.

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Business Plans for Dummies 2nd Ed. CD

Business Plans For Canadians For Dummies

Business Plans For Dummies

Business Plans for Dummies

Business Plans For Dummies

Business Plans For Canadians for Dummies

Business Plans For Dummies

Business Plans for Dummies

Business Plans For Dummies