The Idea Guide: The Step-by-Step Guide for Planning and Starting your own Business (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781777406806)

Have you ever had a business idea and wondered if it would work? Author David Ceolin has spent over 30 years around business ideas as a banker, entrepreneur, and investor. His book, The Idea Guide, is a step-by-step business planning system that has received excellent reviews from over a dozen small business associations and periodicals. For example, Profit Magazine calls The Idea Guide "a useful detailed handbook for analyzing business ideas". An easy-to-understand guide ideal even for beginners, each step of the book covers a different business planning element like pricing, creating features and benefits, determining potential market size, writing a marketing plan, hiring employees, analyzing breakeven points, completing financial forecasts, planning operations and more. Each step of the book uses the same consistent format:1) Easy-to-understand background on the various business planning topics such as product, competition, finances, marketing, sales, personnel, and more.2) Easy-to-follow examples of other businesses.3) Planning questions that help you organize your thoughts and ideas to turn into a plan.4) Evaluator's Thoughts: the insider tips of potential partners, banks, investors as they analyze your idea. The appendix of The Idea Guide even shows you how to turn your answers into a customized business plan ready to show potential partners, suppliers, investors, and banks.

Author: David Ceolin
ISBN-10: 1777406803
ISBN-13: 9781777406806
Publisher: Blast Furnace Labs
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2020
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.33d