Rather than presenting your business plan to funders only to hear difficult questions for the first time, why not think ahead of the questions funders will ask and incorporate those answers into the plan ahead of time? Here are some key questions and how you should go about answering them in your business plan. Why Are Your Chosen Managers Qualified? Funders are looking to see not just that the founders want to start the business in question, but...more
When developing the business plan for your child care center, there are a few key decisions to make at the beginning of the process. The one that may have the greatest impact on the speed and cost of the process is whether you and your partners will create the plan yourself, share the work with a business plan writer, or outsource it entirely to a business plan consulting firm.Writing the Plan YourselfThe advantage of creating the plan yourself...more
Small farms have a number of options to sell their product and do not need to choose just one. However, it may be in your best interest to make a strategic choice between these options for distribution and to organize your operations around taking full advantage of it. Selling To DistributorsIf you would like to find the path involving the least marketing for your farm, it is best to sell your crops to a regional distributor who buys from many farms, and sells products on to stores, other manufacturers, or restaurants. The benefits of this system will be selling to fewer customers, and therefore reducing your need for sales personnel and marketing once you find the distributors who will buy from you. The disadvantage is that when you have fewer customers you are more at their mercy to accept lower prices for your products. Selling To RetailersSelling to stores, especially independent stores focusing on farm-fresh foods, will be somewhat more marketing-intensive. You may need to find multiple stores to sell to in order to move the same amount of product as when you sell to customers. However, you should be able to command higher prices as you are, in effect, cutting out a middle man...more
Here it comes again: the season of giving. . . and receiving.You will be receiving some friends and family obligations you never "receive" except during the month ahead. Once you "choose" to receive, you must now choose how to handle your behavior and attitude. A solution-focused, light-hearted approach for handling this season's anxieties comes...more
Comparison shopping sites have been proliferating online ever since the Internet became a fixture in everyones house. Owing to the fact that there are so many of these websites, it is extremely vital for a customer to be able to differentiate between the ones that are useful and the ones which have just jumped on the bandwagon. Comparison shopping...more
We know that some of our readers live in the North of England/ Scotland and may think that we soppy southerners are moaning about nothing when it comes to the snow. Perhaps we should get a shovel and get on with it!However, it is suggested that 20 per cent of the workforce did not attend work last time we had heavy snowfall in early 2009 for a variety of reasons. School and childcare providers closed and in some cases it was simply unsafe or impossible to travel. Others may have been able to attend work but thought better of it as they fancied a day off!As an employer you will be considering if you pay your employees for the days they did not attend work. After all it was an absence...We have done some research into this topic and I wish there was a "one size fits all" answer but there isn't.Essentially, if you want to follow your employment contract then if the employer:"Shuts down" the work place and communicates to the employees that they were not needed for work then the employer must pay the individuals concerned who were due to work on that day.Remains open and some individuals come into work and some don't then you need to look on a case by case basis. So, for example if the...more
Analog TV transmission is out. That era is over and most broadcasters are switching over to the digital format. Compared to analog TV the HD TV is a huge improvement in picture, sound and total output. The bandwidth of the analog TV channel restricts...more
CAD design service is a clear revelation of the present age of progress in terms of innovation and technological progress. The basic idea behind any kind of CAD-Services is to use the computer for better and efficient design. Digital files on the...more
A few years ago, Randall was the general manager for a restaurant chain. One time, he and the other managers were having a meeting in one of the restaurants that had just been remodeled. There was a table with some papers and a bottle of ink on...more
Many businesses have felt the effects of economic changes that we have experienced this year and although things are set to improve, the January spending slump is just around the corner. So how do we ensure that our businesses have time to recover...more
At present, all the countries around the world are suffering financial crisis.In this situation,there is less hopes to get a full time job.However, the internet technology, which we are seeing now,has lot of opportunities even in this crisis also.You...more
Cement Soil Mixing and Grout Technologies Make Projects PossibleSoil mixing and stabilization techniques have been used for many years now at various construction sites. The purpose of this is to turn loose dirt into a pseudo-rock formation. The...more