BUSINESS PLAN

A business plan is a map in running your business. This is a plan that will guide you about what you do, when and how do them.

A business plan will also help you see more clearly the type of business that path you will, who will become your customers, and what products or services that you offer.

If you plan to borrow funds to start your business, either from banks or investors, then you must make a formal business plan (the formal business plans). Business plan that will give the official summary of your business and market, and will discuss in details about your products, customers and market share (market), suppliers, the benefits estimation, analysis of business competition, and others. This formal business plan can reach 20 pages and take questions for months to complete.

On the other hand, small business owners do not need to create a business plan to start official business. Often, they create a business plan in the form of notes during a brainstorm, or in outline form. To start, this is enough.

The most important thing is to write a plan. Often small business owners start businesses without a plan at all, so the ideas they become blurred and they do not know what they should do next. By writing a plan, although the form of notes brainstorm, you will get a clearer picture of the type of business you want, and how business should be developed in line with the time.

Here are things you must consider when writing your business plan:

1. What business will you start? Store? Professional services? Website Online?

2. What is the purpose of your business? A business can be started because of sheer joy, but if you want to benefit, you must know why you started your business. Whether to meet the specific needs of customers? Or create something that had never been there before?

3. How your business will generate money? Do you want to sell products, and if so what? You will get the product from where? In what price you will buy the product and how you will sell it?

4. Who are the customers you will become? Understanding your customers is key in writing a business plan. If you know that your customers are with their limited income, you certainly can not sell products or services, with the price of millions of rupiah. Knowing who your customers, will also assist in running the advertising and marketing activities you.

5. How do you get these customers? For example, if you plan to call one by one, or you will recruit sales team great? You have to know how you get customers. If not, your business will not grow.

Of course, points only in the basic steps in creating a business plan, but points is the most important.