Business Planning - Business Planning for Start-up Nonprofits, Ministries, & Social Enterprises

Need a Business Plan?

Infant organizations have a critical set of business challenges. Some of them are:

Sales that are constantly generated by activities not related to core business
Management by crisis; no clear plan
Negative cash flow
Arbitrary decision-making; few policies, procedures, and systems

Business Write Now! helps startup businesses, ministries, and social enterprises fill in the business "gaps" and become more effective in accomplishing their goals.

Small businesses make up a sizable majority of U.S. markets. Yet, according to the Small Business Administration, 51 percent of new employer establishments survive five or more years. Lack of planning and cash flow management are two primary reasons that the other 49 percent fail. Business Write Now! prefers to establish relationships with young operations who have been in existence for five years or less and continue to nurture those relationships for the long term.

Through a collaborative process, we want to help you write your roadmap to success.

Business Planning: A Key to Sustainability

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Business Planning enables you to re-focus on the big picture. You can identify where you are going and the necessary steps to get you there.
Business planning helps you become proactive rather than reactive.
Business planning can identify costs that need to be cut or redirected
Business planning can help you determine if you have the right people in the right positions for optimal execution.
Business planning can help you identify marketing strategies for optimal plan execution
Business planning produces a viable, executable plan for internal decision making and external funding.

We Offer Three Tiers of Service

Tier One Service: One Page Business Roadmap

We prefer all of our clients to start with The One Page Business Roadmap because it gives you a reality check of where you are now and projects where you are going. We also use The One Page Business Roadmap as a diagnostic profile of your organization and if you decide that you need a comprehensive plan, we use it as the foundation from which to build the plan. The One Page Business Roadmap covers the following: Photo of a closeup section of a map with red push pin marking a spot

Vision of Success
Mission Statement
Objectives
Strategies
Action Plans

We work with you for less than two hours in a collaborative session. We can customize the format and write it from your perspectjve. The cost of the training starts at $99. Contact Us for more details.

Tier Two Service: Accounting Services

Tier Three Service:Comprehensive Business Plan

You may decide you need an extensive business plan for internal decision-making or for the creation of a social venture. You may decide to pursue an outside loan or investment for your new business venture. Whatever the case, we build from your tier one and/or tier two efforts. We write a 25 – 40 page plan for you. This plan includes the following (if applicable):

Executive Summary
Need and Opportunity
Enterprise Summary
The Operating Model
Growth Strategy
Team and Governance
Technology
Marketing
Financial Plan
Appendices (Cash Flow Forecast, Income Statement, Sales Forecast, Break-even Analysis etc.)

The cost of the Comprehensive Business Plan starts at $500.