By Cruz at July 09 2019 01:06:47
Contextualise Your Budget _ Of course your budget will be extremely important. But sometimes people sort of pluck figures out of thin air, not giving it the context it needs in the business plan to make real concrete sense of how that budget is going to work. So it is crucial that every time you mention financials in your business plan, to really give them the correct context. When I have worked with clients in developing business plans, there has been a budget or amount set aside for example to be spent on marketing, which has been decided a bit arbitrarily. I mean with no real research, no understanding of what that amount needs to be spent on, and what that budget will truly achieve. It seems to have been put there to fill the need to attribute a certain sum to marketing.
Sometimes no matter how much you research, plan, or test, things don't go as expected in a business. This isn't necessarily a herald of failure or a sign that you're not cut out for entrepreneurship. Life and the marketplace are both unpredictable, and plans need to be fluid and responsive. The "One Pressing Issue Plan" is simply a reflection of a normal evaluation process.