Description
Business Plan Writing Certification
Course duration: 4 hours
No business can be successful without a reliable and well-structured business plan. Writing out a business plan forces you to review your entire business, investigate every important aspect and think about how to link different facets of your business together. In fact, a business plan is the blueprint for your business and will lend itself to change and evolution as your business grows and thrives. It’s an equally useful resource when things go wrong and you need to analyse your business.
Writing a business plan correctly is crucial to the foundation of your business and it’s important to be comprehensive, clear and effective. It’s equally important to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls that most entrepreneurs make.
What’s Covered in the Course?
This course on creating a business plan explains many important elements that comprise a good business plan. You will learn about:
- Why you need a business plan and when you should have one ready
- The important information that a business plan should include
- How to identify and reach out to your niche market
- How to choose the best streams of revenue for your business
- How to develop a strong founding team for your business
- Understanding SWOT analysis and competition in your business
- How to include financials in the business plan like revenue, projects, profits, losses etc
- How to understand the economics surrounding your business and product and determining the correct pricing
- How to use pricing to calculate your profit margins, breakeven point and so on
- Determining equity, liability, assets of your business and including a balance sheet
The course also includes several well-designed exercises to help you practise creating a solid business plan for your product or service.
This video course offers the following benefits
The benefits of doing the video course on creating a business plan include:
- Understanding the different components that go into building a successful business
- Learning the intricacies and nuances of writing the perfect business plan
- Understanding the importance of targeting the right niche market for your product
- Understanding the financials that are crucial to creating a good business plan
Course Modules:
Module 02: Exercises
Module 03: Three Sentence Business Plan
Module 04: 3 Tier Business Plan Example
Module 05: Your 3 Tier Business Plan
Module 06: 1 Page Business Plan
Module 07: 1 Page Business Plan Example
Module 08: What is a Business Plan?
Module 09: When You Need a Business Plan
Module 10: What is a Business Model
Module 11: How Long Should a Business Plan Be?
Module 12: Executive Summary
Module 13: Executive Summary Example
Module 14: Product or Service Section
Module 15: What Stage is Your Company In?
Module 16: Company Stage Example
Module 17: Market Size
Module 18: Opportunity Size
Module 19: How to Identify Your Target Market
Module 20: Target Market Example
Module 21: Marketing Plan
Module 22: Marketing Plan Example
Module 23: Marketing Plan – Continued
Module 24: Revenue Streams
Module 25: Revenue Streams Section of the Business Plan
Module 26: Founding Team & Management
Module 27: Team Section of the Business Plan
Module 28: Competition
Module 29: Competition Section of Your Business Plan
Module 30: SWOT Analysis
Module 31: SWOT Example
Module 32: Appendix Session
Module 33: Cash Flow Projection
Module 34: Forecasting For Existing Businesses
Module 35: Profit Forecasting for a New Business
Module 36: Income Statement
Module 37: Pricing & LTV
Module 38: Unit Economics
Module 39: Unit Economics Example
Module 40: Previous Funding
Module 41: How to Calculate Gross & Net Profit
Module 42: Entering Profit Calculations on Your Business Plan
Module 43: Profit Margin
Module 44: Profit Margin Example
Module 45: Proforma Earnings
Module 46: Proforma Example
Module 47: Elements of a Balance Sheet
Module 48: Company Assets
Module 49: Liabilities
Module 50: How to Calculate Equity