Your First Business Plan: A Simple Question and Answer Workbook Designed to Help You Write a Plan That Will Avoid Common Pitfalls, Secure Financ

by Brian Hazelgren and Joseph A. Covello

The first business plan is often the most difficult to write. A company may have little or no history, and often may not know lender requirements, what to stress and what to avoid. Your First Business Plan simplifies the process by outlining the different parts of a business plan and, in an uncomplicated question-and-answer style, helps the business owner create a winning plan for their business.

The easy-to-follow chapters show entrepreneurs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402204124
• ISBN13: 9781402204128
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A section-by-section analysis of how to create a business plan

Here's a section-by-section analysis of how to create a business plan, from developing a management team and making financial projections and setting goals to promoting a product or service, understanding economic cycles and industry influences, and assessing competition. Add over a hundred 'success questions' and three sample business plans to the discussion and you have a template for success.

It gives you all you need to build an excelent Business Plan

I had 3 weeks build a business plan and I had never built one before. I had no idea where to start. - So I bought this book hoping it would help. Not only did it help, It mad possible to finish an excelent business plan in only two weeks, a business plan so professional no one believed it was my first one. - This book will take you step by step from the beginning of your BP to the end of it.

Excellent Reference Material for Business Managers

We took this book and gave copies to department managers around our company and many have implemented the business planning techniques contained in this book with great success. Hazelgren's writing style is clear and concise.

The most comprehensive and well written business plan book.

Hazelgren and Covello took the mystery out of writing a winning business plan. They made it easy for me to identify the necessary components and create a business plan to show to investors and potential partners. This book was easy to read and very well written. I recommend this book to every entrepreneur and anyone who is thinking about starting their own business. I also recommend it to anyone who is managing a department, division or area of a large organization. The ideas and information in this book will help better plan and manage any organizational unit.

Very well thought out and easy to understand

This is a great book! I love the way it is easy to understand and how it flows from one section in the business plan to the next. Writing my business plan was a whole lot easier with this book.