With legions of halfwit, template loving business plan wannabe writers polluting the web it’s no mystery that companies are having a tough time getting funding. It use to be that when a company was ready to get down to business for serious expansion they would call a consultant that would help them bring all the pieces together in a strategic fashion and then this consultant would take their extended industry knowledge in combination with the unique concepts of the client’s business and he would author a business plan.
This business plan would include everything that the venture capital firms, angel investors, private investors and institutional lenders would need in order to make a quick, no nonsense decision about whether to fund the company and how much equity they would get in return.
Today with the cancerous cloud of predatory consultants seeking out startup business prey to suck dry that businesses are too broke and exhausted to move forward with a solid consultant after they have been through the costly obstacle course and fun house of mirrors set up by wannabe consultants who reel in their prey with a few big words and industry terms and at the end of the day, they are going to put your business plan together with some cracked template software that spits out overly generalized business plans that receive laughs and snickers before being tossed in the trash by investors and venture capital firms.
If you want a real business plan, call a consultant that is completely submerged in the venture capital industry and has experience with plugging businesses into the capital machine. An consultant will first give you a consultation so he can assist in any corporate structuring or turnaround issues that need attention before the business plan is together. After the company’s structure is complete with executives, solid management, strategic partners, advisory board and board of directors, there is still one more thing to do before the business plan. You must decide what mechanism you’re going to use to raise capital. Are you seeking debt or equity investment or both, how much equity you will give away for the amount of cash you’re seeking. How many shares does your corporation currently have and so on. You’ll most likely need to put together a private placement or consider taking your company public on the otcbb. After all this is done then it’s time to write the business plan.
Don’t shoot yourself in the foot, don’t write the business plan yourself, when you’ve found a consultant, here are the topics that should be covered in the business plan (this knowledge will help you audit their work before you even hire them). The table of contents should read, at a minimum, like this: executive summary with objectives, keys to success and strategic advantages; Market, Market: Growth and Development Analysis with Industry Analysis and Location Based Services; Current company position with Company overview and vision, key successes to date, technical achievements and commercial position, include info about your technology platform. Talk about your management team, product and services offering, competition, market entry/ Five Forces Analysis, barriers to market entry, comparable business model, target market needs, target market characteristics, market demand drivers, PEST analysis, SWOT analysis, marketing implementation and strategy overview and tactical components, process development map, financial model and projections.
There you have it, the process to follow before the business plan is written and the concepts to be covered in the business plan so that you get the attention you need from investors and the money you deserve for your business.
Tags: business plan service, how to write a business plan, how to write a business plan for, investor finder, professional business plan, professional business plan author, professional business plan service, professional business plan writer, take company public, take company public otcbb
Tags: business plan service, how to write a business plan, how to write a business plan for, investor finder, professional business plan, professional business plan author, professional business plan service, professional business plan writer, take company public, take company public otcbb
January 9th, 2010 at 7:35 am
I admire the valuable information you offer in your articles.Just thought you’d be interested to know that I have added you to my bookmarks You make right points in a concise and pertinent fashion, I will read more of your stuff, thank you for your time.
January 9th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Great! Thanks for reading!
January 28th, 2010 at 9:42 am
My brother would fall in love this website. We were not too long ago discussing about this. lol
January 30th, 2010 at 6:25 am
I really liked reading your post!. Quallity content. With such a valuable blog i believe you deserve to be ranking even higher in the search engines
.
February 10th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
good post Thank for sharing
February 25th, 2010 at 2:07 am
With mass visible on the internet, turn troublesome to get what you desire. I am glad I came.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
i’m generally bouncing across the web virtually all of the time so I have a tendency to read a whole lot, which isnt normally a good thing as nearly all of the web pages I see are made up of pointless trash copied from different sites a trillion times, but I gotta give you props this blog is genuinely readable and even has a lot of authentic information, so thanks for smashing the pattern of just simply replicating other individual’s websites, if you ever wanna have fun with a few hands of zynga poker together with me just send me a message – you have my e-mail
February 28th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
This was refreshing. I wished I could read every post, but i have to go back to work now… But I’ll return.
March 17th, 2010 at 3:43 am
What are copywriting classes like? I am thinking about minoring in copywriting at my school (I’m a fiction major) and I’d to know what sort of things are taught, what kinds of homework/practice/exercises there are, etc. Anybody here with experience?
March 17th, 2010 at 3:47 am
It would be more interesting if the author left the Yahoo Messenger We could discuss this theme more deeply
March 17th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Thanks for good article. Hope to see more soon.
March 18th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Hello, I have browsed most of your posts. This page iswhere I got the most useful information for my information gathering. Thanks for posting, maybe we can see more on this. Are you aware of any other websites on this subject
March 20th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Goodday
awesome post – i’m creating video about it and i will post it to youtube !
if you wana to help or just need a link send me email !
April 4th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
hm. hope to see same more info. Can we speake about it?
April 27th, 2010 at 11:02 am
gr8 resrch bro…
May 3rd, 2010 at 6:11 am
Here are some methods I want to share:http://www.businessfrog.com/1579/business-plan-basics/
May 8th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Great post!
May 9th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
I was talking to a guy named Andrew Braverman he said that your company writes the private placement memorandums and business plans for their company. The name of his company is Sharp Capital, they say they are in New York but Andrew is actually in Texas. have you ever heard of them?
May 10th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Dude, that was a good post. Lovin your blog like crazy.”
May 14th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
lol, nope never heard of him or Sharp Capital, i think he’s pulling your leg. sometimes we come in as a secondary consultant to firms that want some guidance but i never heard of these guys. sorry i couldn’t help.
May 14th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Hoyt, thanks for the great comment, if you keep reading we’ll keep posting
May 15th, 2010 at 2:56 am
Whats up, A very good post, I have to admit this is really well thought out, this forum definitely needs bloggers like you. Filling the place with some good tips and information, I did follow A couple of your posts, they been relevant and nice points were elaborated. I must say we should invariably be willing to post in our best knowledge to support people. Really appreciate your posting.
May 15th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Thanks for your encouragement. We love informing the public. it’s important that people know that they have options, even in this economy
May 16th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I’m interested in breaking into the Advertising\Copywriting scene and I’m starting out from nothing.
May 16th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
good luck with that, it will take a lot of hard work and working twenty four seven for at least the first two years but if you’re dedicated you’ll make it.
May 17th, 2010 at 6:38 am
There are certainly a lot of details like that to take into consideration. That?s a great point to bring up. I offer the thoughts above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like the one you bring up where the most important thing will be
May 20th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
my God! I love the freaking blog!
May 26th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
but I thought you could tell me how to do that!!
June 4th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Very good post. Will you please write much more about this subject.
June 8th, 2010 at 7:37 am
Excellent blog about Take Your Company Public with PCS » Blog Archive » The Anatomy of A Business Plan. I read it twice.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
I am glad I found your blog, I will return.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
I was looking for this the other day. i dont usually post in forums but i wanted to say thank you!
June 16th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Hey – nice blog, just looking around some websites, seems a pretty nice platform you are using. I’m currently using WordPress for a few of my blogs but looking to change one of them over to a platform similar to yours as a trial run. Anything in particular you would recommend about it?
June 18th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
I am here. After read a couple of your post, I must say that it’s really great.
June 26th, 2010 at 2:27 am
Hi do you use seo plugins on your blog? im looking for some advice.
June 27th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Thank you so much for putting this out here.
July 1st, 2010 at 9:42 am
Very usefull post , i will bookmark your blog right now
July 7th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
What you do is great – but more frequent updates, please?
July 19th, 2010 at 1:22 am
I just book marked your blog on Digg and StumbleUpon.I enjoy reading your commentaries.
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Great to see this blog!
July 26th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Valuable information and excellent design you got here! I would like to thank you for sharing your thoughts and time into the stuff you post!! Thumbs up
July 31st, 2010 at 7:10 am
Cool site!!
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:01 pm
I agree with you. This type of projects should be encouraged and I think that these type of projects are the projects for the future. . . . .
August 4th, 2010 at 1:19 am
Bookmarked website. We appreciate you sharing. Absolutely value time clear of my studies.
August 6th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
It’s good to see this information in your post, i was looking the same but there was not any proper resource, thanx now i have the link which i was looking for my research. . . . . .
August 20th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I will visit your blog regularly for some latest post.
August 23rd, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Nice review.
Also, loving your site design. I used to have a similar blog to yours until I sold it only a month ago.
Look forward to some new blog posts from you in future.
August 24th, 2010 at 6:12 am
Thank You For This Post, was added to my bookmarks.
August 24th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
It is best to embed a tintchat room on your weblog so we could all chat and talk via voice/video.
August 24th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
that would be interesting, thanks for the input, we’ll look into that
August 27th, 2010 at 6:09 am
Very Interesting Blog! Thank You For Thi Information!
August 27th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
You certainly deserve a round of applause for your post and more specifically, your blog in general. Very high quality material
August 29th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I just book marked your blog on Digg and StumbleUpon.I enjoy reading your commentaries.
August 30th, 2010 at 7:15 am
I enjoyed reading this, do you have a RSS feed ?
August 30th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
wheres your rss feed? probably hidden in plain sight knowing me lol
August 31st, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Another excellent article! Thank you!
September 1st, 2010 at 10:14 pm
I don’t seem to say anything on most blogs because they aren’t worth the time of day to me. Please keep updating.
September 1st, 2010 at 11:17 pm
We suffer over at ours from loads of traffic but very few commenters apart from our own group. Maybe this will help them? Love the blog.
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:56 pm
We just couldnt leave your website before letting you know that I really enjoyed the useful information you offer to your visitors… Will be back often to check up on new stuff you post!
September 5th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Hi, good day. Wonderful post. You have gained a new subscriber. Pleasee continue this great work and I look forward to more of your great blog posts.
September 8th, 2010 at 5:15 am
This has truly sparked up an notion in my thoughts. This really is a superb website submit.