By Rao at September 10 2019 22:51:09
Here is the way I would encourage you to set up a growth business plan: • Do some dreaming about what you would like your lifestyle to be • By dreaming decide on an average income you would like to have over the next few years • Decide how many years out you would like your plan to cover • Decide how much profit you would like for your business to generate above the income you want for yourself. • Set up a profit and loss statement of your existing business or your proposed business • With the right business knowledge and a profit and loss statement you can actually use that data to see what your business would need to do for you to give you that income and profit • Even better you can determine what size market you would need and even determine whether your market would support your business presently and in the future.
I mentioned the financial aspect of a plan earlier, so let me add this. Another fact about financials to consider: not all business activities are about making money. Point being, in most enterprises financial considerations are centric to the document. But there are some other considerations. For example, a few years ago I wrote a plan for a new subsidiary that was focused on developing an inventory of patents. The potential financial returns were years into the future. Those patents may or may not ever have commercial value. Another example is a non_profit enterprise that has need for a complete roadmap for growing their profile in a market, of which a marketing plan would be the centerpiece.