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Joseph is Director at Wise Business Plans, a firm helping clients with professionally written business plans, branding, licensing and more. To someone who’s never done it before, crafting a business ...

A business plan includes details about your company’s goals and methods for achieving them ...

A business plan can prove the viability of your enterprise and help you obtain funding. It is where you show projections of long-term profitability and growth. However, sometimes economic or other ...

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." "A goal without a plan is just a wish." "If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us." Everyone has heard some or all of these bons ...

Explore the intricacies of crafting a small business financial plan, from setting clear objectives and forecasting revenue to ...

Business plans are detailed written overviews that outline the ways in which a business will ideally be operated. Comprehensive plans include market research, competition analysis, strategic marketing ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is ...

My day job is writing books, and I have written a lot of them. (I didn't have a choice. When you have four kids to feed and put through college, neither sloth nor writer's block are options.) And if ...

No business can be successful without a solid business plan. In fact, a business plan could be the thing that makes or breaks your entrepreneurial enterprise, especially if you haven’t started a ...