Startups: Business Plans for Small Businesses

by Colin Barrow

Startups.co.uk brings you the latest expert guide in their popular series for new and small businesses; Business Plans for Small Businesses. Taking you step-by-step through every aspect of planning, preparing and perfecting a successful business plan, from carrying out essential market research and business financing to profit projections and the executive summary. Whether you have just started up or you are thinking about starting your own business, Business Plans for Small Businesses is packed with all the essential advice, insight and up-to-date information for writing and confidently pitching a successful business plan.

Written in a jargon-free style and set out in an easy to master step-by-step approach, meaning you can tackle every stage of planning, perfecting and pitching both quickly and easily. With real-life tips and advice from entrepreneurs who have written successful business plans, you can learn from the experts and apply their valuable knowledge today. Plus, all the latest information and advice on planning methods and strategies, how to carry out market research, business finance as well as business plan examples to help you get started.

Business Plans for Small Businesses is your complete toolkit for business plan success, including...

Preparing your plan and setting your business goals
Researching the market and positioning your business
Working out budgets - identifying change, trends and opportunities
Writing your plan, presentation and style
Pitching your plan - perfect and pitch your plan to potential investors
Startups.co.uk is the most popular independent website for anyone starting a business in the UK. Launched in 2000 by a successful entrepreneur, it offers unrivalled advice and inspiration from leading entrepreneurs to over 150,000 people every month.

271 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2011

About the author

Colin Barrow is the author of more than 25 books in the fields of entrepreneurship, business management and international property development. His books have been published by the BBC, The Economist, The Sunday Times, Kogan Page, he has authored or co-authored ten books in the Dummies series and been translated into a score of languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Georgian, Romanian, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia.
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and the Far East. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners.
As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and 'Anglicising' books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics. You can hear Colin's podcast on team building at http://www.morethanbusiness.com/Knowl...