How to Write a Business Plan - Online

A business plan can be the most important tool a small business owner has. Learn how to turn your ideas into a solid plan for financing and long-term success. This seminar teaches you the important components of a business plan and helps you lay the foundation for a winning plan. Find out how marketing, operations, and finance are interrelated. Discover how a business plan is used by potential lenders, the dos and don’ts of writing a plan, and steps for making the process easy. This seminar is designed for new and established business owners. This seminar introduces basic concepts and individual components necessary to write a business plan. Topics include the executive summary, business forms and structures, insurance and risk assessment, the marketing plan, managerial operations, and pro-formal financial statements. Additional topics will include attributes necessary for entrepreneurs to be successful as well as business opportunity evaluation. Upon completion, current and future small business owners should be able to differentiate between a business idea and an opportunity and transform the business opportunity into a written business plan.

Speaker(s): Sam Spencer - Instructor, Business Administration - Stanly Community College

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Fee: No Cost