What stage of devleopment is your business currently at?
What is the legal structure of your business?
What is the name of your business?
Have you gotten your business license and taken care of all legal requirements?
Yes
What are you selling?
Do you have experience in this field?
Yes
Have you ever owned a business before?
Yes
Will you be manufacturing anything for your business?
Yes
Where is or will your business be located?
The three biggest challenges I face from my competition are:
The three things I can do better than my competition are:
Who is your primary competition? (Please don’t say you don’t have any. Every business has competition – if you don’t have any, you don’t know enough about your business).
Who are your secondary competitors?
What is your U.S.P.(Unique Selling Perspective) or your B.H.R. (Big, Hairy Reason) why people should choose doing business with you?
I need some help writing my business plan:
Less True – 1
Are there any reasons you might qualify for special funding? (Low-income, minority, disabled, special population, disaster funding, displaced homemaker, unemployed because of foreign trade, or any other reason)? If yes, please list or describe:
Do you understand what a marketing plan is and why you need one?
Yes
If you answered yes, briefly describe your marketing plan for the next 12 months:
What are your strongest entrepreneurial qualities?
What are your weakest entrepreneurial qualities?
Where do you see your business in 3 years?
Where do you see your business in 5 years?
What is your worst-case scenario for your business?
If your worst-case scenario happened, what would you do?
What do you need the most to make your business succeed? (Please be very specific)
Your Name:
2 comments
Mark Jacobs says:
November 19, 2010 at 3:34 am (UTC 0)
Wow! I just wanted to say thanks for this assessment. It’s a very useful planning tool and the scoring index helped me figure out what I need to do next.
Val says:
December 31, 2010 at 9:43 am (UTC 0)
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