Your car dealership business plan should follow a standard business plan outline, offering few surprises in this regard. A few areas stand out as specific needs for a car dealer to persuade readers to invest in or lend to the company. ExperienceThe auto dealership business is a tough one, featuring thin gross profit margins, high initial startup costs, and heavy negotiation from customers. Ideally, the entrepreneur launching the business should...more
When opening your hair salon, you probably already have ideas about the services your customers will want from what other salons are doing. However, simply basing your services on competitors can make you into an imitation and ignore opportunities to look deeper. Here are some ways to back up your intuition with research that readers of your business plan will pay attention to. Creating a Survey Creating and administering a survey used to be...more
When launching a salon business, plan carefully for the purchases and investments you'll have to make before you launch. These start-up costs, along with your pre-launch marketing and the working capital you need to cover cash flow shortfalls until you break-even, let you know how much money you'll need to raise. The key capital costs for a salon generally fall into these three categories:Build-Out of Salon SpaceThe space you lease for your salon will probably come as a raw space in need of renovation, finishing, and conversion into your intended business. To do so, you will probably need to hire an architect, designer, plumber, electrician, HVAC specialist, and general contractors. All of the work you put into the space are called leasehold improvements - work which increases the value of the space to the leaseholder. Some of these improvements, such as affixed tables, counters, and mirrors, can be removed at some cost if you close the business or change spaces, but the value of much of this work is lost if the business closes.Furniture and EquipmentMovable furniture and equipment must be purchased to prepare the salon for occupancy. This can include chairs for customers...more
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Your menu of services is a keystone of your IT consulting business plan. To decide on this menu, you have to consider how deep your services will go into the companies you work with.The Big QuestionThe big, initial question which determines what kind of services you will offer is whether you consider your business an IT consulting firm or really an...more
Creating a business plan for your beauty salon presents the perfect opportunity for you to create a functioning cash flow statement (sometimes called the statement of cash flows). This will allow you to make key decisions about cash flow going forward. Creating the Cash Flow StatementIt is highly recommended to start with an Excel template or financial model example of some kind for your salons cash flow statement. It need not be an model specifically tailored towards a beauty salon, but should be for a similar business (i.e., one that makes revenues through services and product sales, pays rent for a location, etc) so that minimal customization is required. Starting with a template can save a great deal of time in the creation of the cash flow statement. Three Sections of a Cash Flow StatementThe cash flow statement will describe cash inflows and outflows in three areas: operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities. Operating activities include cash brought in from customers in the form of sales and cash paid out for operating expenses. This will generally represent the highest inflows and outflows on the cash flow statement and should result in a positive...more
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