Minggu, 31 Januari 2010

a business plan

Sound impressive? It can be, if put together properly. A good business plan follows generally accepted guidelines for both form and content. There are three primary parts to a business plan:

* The first is the business concept, where you discuss the industry, your business structure, your particular product or service, and how you plan to make your business a success.
* The second is the marketplace section, in which you describe and analyze potential customers: who and where they are, what makes them buy and so on. Here, you also describe the competition and how you'll position yourself to beat it.
* Finally, the financial section contains your income and cash flow statement, balance sheet and other financial ratios, such as break-even analyses. This part may require help from your accountant and a good spreadsheet software program.

Breaking these three major sections down even further, a business plan consists of seven key components:

1. Executive summary
2. Business description
3. Market strategies
4. Competitive analysis
5. Design and development plan
6. Operations and management plan
7. Financial factors

In addition to these sections, a business plan should also have a cover, title page and table of contents.

How Long Should Your Business Plan Be?
Depending on what you're using it for, a useful business plan can be any length, from a scrawl on the back of an envelope to, in the case of an especially detailed plan describing a complex enterprise, more than 100 pages. A typical business plan runs 15 to 20 pages, but there's room for wide variation from that norm.

Much will depend on the nature of your business. If you have a simple concept, you may be able to express it in very few words. On the other hand, if you're proposing a new kind of business or even a new industry, it may require quite a bit of explanation to get the message across.

The purpose of your plan also determines its length. If you want to use your plan to seek millions of dollars in seed capital to start a risky venture, you may have to do a lot of explaining and convincing. If you're just going to use your plan for internal purposes to manage an ongoing business, a much more abbreviated version should be fine.

Jumat, 22 Januari 2010

BANGKIT

Manusia terdiam dengan langkahnya yang salah. Terbayang untuk melakukan sesuatu yang baik untuk dirinya dan orang yang dia sayangi. Kadang akal menjadi sesuatu yang terjerumus ke lembah hitam. Suatu keadaan yang membuat orang sadar akan kesalahannya. Manusia yang lemah dalam menentukan keputusan dalam hidupnya.
Aku adalah orang yang sangat menyayanginya. Memberikan semua kebahagiaan untuk mengisi hari harinya. Kadang aku sendiri tidak menyadari betapa aku telah melukai hatinya, mencengkeramnya seolah dia hanyalah milikku. Kadang pula aku memotong waktu yang berguna hanya untuk menyenangkan diriku. Waktu yang terbuang tersebut kembali dan terus menerus menghampiri perjalanku dan dirinya. Sekarang aku mencoba berfikir untuk bangkit dari waktu yang terbuang. Kumulai dengan satu hal kecil dalam menjalani kebahagiaan. Mencoba menata kembali waktu – waktu yang akan aku mulai. Kadang kenyataan tidak sebaik apa yang kita bayangkan. Namun tetap saja itu suatu jalan yang harus ditapaki. Terima kasih bijaksana dan rasa bersalah yang telah menyadarkanku akan semua hal yang memang harus aku jalani.

 
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