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Business Plans Kit For Dummies, UK Edition

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For those looking to create a comprehensive business plan, Business Plans Kit For Dummies, UK Edition guides you through the process with practical tips tailored for the UK market. It provides step-by-step advice on researching your market, financial forecasting, and presenting your plan to potential investors, ensuring you cover all essential elements. With templates and examples, this book simplifies complex concepts, making it an ideal resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
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This book may appeal to you if you're aiming to craft a comprehensive and effective business plan tailored for the UK market. It provides practical guidance, templates, and advice from seasoned experts, making it ideal for entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to secure funding or streamline their business ideas into actionable plans.

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Ideal for business beginners and established businesses reviewing their long term plans in a changing business environment, this complete business plan kit provides readers with all they need to kick start the planning process.

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Whether youโ€™re a business beginner with big ideas or an established company looking to review your plans in a changing business environment, this practical, user-friendly guide gives you everything you need to get started.

Complete with an interactive CD packed with planning templates including planning documents, forms, financial worksheets, checklists, operation surveys, and customer profiles in both Word and PDF formats, youโ€™ll be armed with all you need to kickstart the planning process and create a winning business plan that suits you and your long-term business vision.

Business Plans Kit For Dummies includes UK specific information on:

  • UK business practice
  • Currency
  • UK business and financial institutions and advisory services
  • UK taxation and VAT
  • Partnerships and Limited company information
  • UK legal practice, contractual considerations, and insurance matters
  • UK specific forms
  • UK specific case studies
  • New content covering online business opportunities and resources, alternative ways into business including franchising, network marketing, and buyouts, research methods and choosing suppliers and outsourcing will all be added to the UK edition.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Laying the Foundation for Your Plan

  • Chapter 1: Starting Your Planning Engine
  • Chapter 2: Generating a Great Business Idea
  • Chapter 3: Defining Your Business Purpose

Part II: Developing Your Planโ€™s Components

  • Chapter 4: Understanding Your Business Environment
  • Chapter 5: Charting Your Strategic Direction
  • Chapter 6: Describing Your Business and Its Capabilities
  • Chapter 7: Crafting Your Marketing Plan
  • Chapter 8: Deciphering and Presenting

Part III: Tailoring a Business Plan to Fit Your Needs

  • Chapter 9: Planning for a One-Person Business
  • Chapter 10: Planning for a Small Business
  • Chapter 11: Planning for an Established Business
  • Chapter 12: Planning for a Not for Profit Organisation
  • Chapter 13: Planning for an E-Business

Part IV: Making the Most of Your Plan

  • Chapter 14: Putting Your Plan Together
  • Chapter 15: Putting Your Plan to Work

Part V: The Part of Tens

  • Chapter 16: Ten Signs That Your Plan Might Need an Overhaul
  • Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Evaluate a New Business Idea
  • Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Fund Your Business Plan
  • Chapter 19: Ten Sources of Vital Information to Underpin Your Business Plan
  • Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Use Your Business Plan

Note: CD files are available to download when buying the eBook version.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470743812

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Multiple-component retail product, part(s) enclosed

Date Published: 17 July 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 703g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Steven Peterson is CEO of Strategic Play, a top management training company. Peter Jaret is an award-winning author and journalist. Barbara Findlay Schenck is a business and marketing consultant. Colin Barrow is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and the best-selling author of Starting a Business For Dummies.

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