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New Series for 2009 – Writing the Killer Business Plan

For any small business, having a focus on what you sell and why customers should buy from you is critical. One primary way to frame your ideas and vision, especially when you are growing and people need a sort of “playbook” to work from, a business plan seems like a logical first start.

In my career I have written many business plans, some of which raised money for a business, but even if that is not required, having a plan is good thing by all accounts. So I looked at this new year as a time when people are thinking of the year ahead for their business or might even be thinking of starting one for the first time.

So I thought about updating what I had written many years ago on another blog for today’s economic climate and the things that are really important in a business plan for 2009. Hence, the Business Plan Series was born.

This series is for seasoned entrepreneurs that want to pick up some nuggets of wisdom along the way or new entrepreneurs who have a dream and real passion to make something happen.

I will be writing this series over on our sister site, MySolutionSpot.com, and cross-posting here. I will be writing once a month on this in a sort of “month in retrospective”. I will be writing one article/post a month on this so you can follow along and be the end of the year be able to write a killer business plan.

Update on feedback from our readers have motivated me to rethink the approach for the Business Plan series and our Marketing Plan Series:

I will be writing this series here and cross-posting over on our sister site, MySolutionSpot.com. I will be writing the core series in a rapid fire set of posts over the next few weeks and once a month there will be an evaluation of putting this kind of plan into practice and tuning it along the way. In this manner, I hope to engage all of our readers out there to contribute their lessons learned and advice on building a successful marketing plan.

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