Business Plan Writing

Every great business idea requires a strategic business plan to take the entrepreneur’s product or service from their mind into the real world.

The business plan acts as a roadmap for the business owner and team members to follow. It explains the vision for the business along with management biographies, and it presents the steps on how the business will succeed. It highlights the market opportunity and shows how the product or service adds value to the target customer’s life.

Business plans are almost always required to raise money as financiers such as banks, angel investors and grant funders want to be sure that their risk of assigning funds to a new business will be relatively low, and that they are making a good decision based on a strong business case, market opportunity and experience of the team involved. The business plan is a powerful document that answers all the questions a potential funder may have before they even have to ask.

Modules:

The gateway to success, Dive into a concise overview of your business's potential: Learn how to create a compelling executive summary that provides a snapshot of your business in 1-2 pages.

Unveil the essence of your business with a captivating narrative: Get results through your company description. Convey to the stakeholders why your company exists and what the business purpose is.

Unveiling Opportunities. Explore insights into your industry, market trends, and competitors' strategies: Apply effective market analysis to support your desired position in the market, find critical success factors and overcome key issues.

Discover the unique features and irresistible benefits of your offerings: Gain the advantage in your business by communicating features and benefits in the words your client's mind processes and recognizes their needs.

Strategize the distribution and sales channels that will propel the product into the market.: Find the most effective channel mix to distribute your product in the marketplace to maximize profits.

Building Blocks of Efficiency: Find the best organizational structure for your company. Solve how your business will operate and who’s responsible.

Forecast your revenue and expenses with precision, guiding your journey toward financial stability: Financial projections are the path to economic success, learn to forecast revenue and costs through a simple balance sheet

Lay out the capital needed to turn your vision into reality: Elaborate the right funding request to get the funds required to launch the business successfully.

Adding supplementary resources and vital documents to bolster your business plan: Create a solid Appendix that provides optional information such as resumes and permits

The workshop will be a hands-on session so be prepared to share your thoughts and experiences, participate in individual and group exercises, learn how to develop your business to achieve your goals and have a fun-filled experience with valuable takeaways in the process.

Each participant will leave the workshop with knowledge of what content goes into a business plan and how to fill out the template that will be used in the course. Additional writing outside of class may be required by the participant depending on their business requirements.

Investment: $3,200 per community/organization which includes 8-9 hours of class time over 1 or 2 days, coaching, prep and post-work.

Workshop timelines are customized to what will work best for your organization. Materials, prizes and travel are billed separately. Ongoing coaching can also be added for people who can benefit from hands-on assistance and guidance after the course.

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Individual entrepreneurs interested in business training, please email us at edu@activ8inc.com with details on what you'd like to learn.