An Introduction To Business Planning

Please note, this session is for Lanarkshire based, pre-start businesses only.

This Introduction To Business Planning webinar will help you understand what a Business Plan is, what it includes and how to fill in the different elements. If you’ve never filled one in, need a Business Plan to secure funding or simply need a refresher for a new business, our 1-hour workshop will give you a template and handy resources to help create a Business Plan from scratch.

We will cover:

• Executive Summary
• Purpose of the plan
• Business Details
• Products and Services
• The Market (including research, customers, competitors, pricing, distribution, branding and design, promotion and selling, SWOT)
• Operations (Staff and others involved, premises, legal, suppliers, intellectual property, quality, info technology, environmental)
• Finance (Capital expenditure, income, overheads, cashflow, financing, longer term business aims, financial forecasts and assumptions)
• Appendices and what to include

Get your ideas out of your head and down on paper. Includes a live Q&A session and a business plan template.