STRATEGIC AND BUSINESS PLANNING SERVICES

If you're looking for business plan advice, someone to review your finished business plan, an expert to help you write your business plan, or a consulting firm that specializes in business plan preparation, you can find it here.

Our services include preparing comprehensive and hands-on business plans, creating financial projections, developing presentation materials, designing and helping with marketing materials. We are a true one-stop, complete solution for established and/or emerging enterprises, ensuring that a consistent message is projected across all of our clients' communications.

The above is very important because too many business owners make the mistake of operating without a vision; a situation which hampers their business' ability to grow and prosper. A business owner without a vision will have difficulty describing his or her business and will provide a long, rambling description, a few stock phrases, or a collection of incomprehensible jargon when asked for one. A concise, easy-to-understand description of your company will not only help your business plan, but will benefit you in any number of other day-to-day situations - from networking to making cold calls to approaching a newspaper for an interview.

In this light, the executive summary is what most readers will go to first. If it is not good, it may be the last thing they read about your company. Equity fund providers and lenders in particular read executive summaries before looking at the rest of a plan to determine whether or not they want to learn more about a business. Other readers will also go first to your executive summary to get a snapshot of your business and to gauge your professionalism and the viability of your business.

While your executive summary is the first part of your plan, we write it last. Your executive summary should be between one and five pages and should include your business concept, financial features, financial requirements, current state of your business, when it was formed, principal owners and key personnel, and major achievements. Believe it or not, often people forget about talking about the return that their investors or lenders will get. Financials are used to document, justify, and convince. This is the section in which you make your case in words and back up what you say with financial statements and forms that document the viability of your business and its soundness as an investment. It's also where you indicate that you have evaluated the risks associated with your venture and we work with you to ensure some return is highlighted to investors/lenders.

We focus on five key areas:

• Risks;
• Cash Flow Statement;
• Balance Sheet;
• Income Statement; and
• Funding Request and Return.