Here is a practical workbook that will achieve tangible results. The One Page Business Plan for the Professional Consultant captures the critical elements of a business plan on a single page using key words and short phrases. There is no room for fluff - every word counts. This book, with interactive CD, guides new entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners through a step-by-step process to create business plans that are incredibly focused and clear!

This book eliminates all the excuses for not having a business plan! If you are a proprietor of know-how... this book was written for you! Now you can write a draft plan on a single page in less than two hours. In fact, we've done most of the hard work for you... using The One Page Plan® methodology, you'll never again have to start with a blank page. You get proven downloadable templates and examples that reflect industry best practices. Also inside are easy assessments that let you quickly discover what's working in your practice and what's not!"The One Page Business Plan is the business owner's Cliff Notes®". --Fred DaMert, Toy, Game and Puzzle Design Consultant"This process removes the mystique from business plans! Jim Horan will lead you by the hand to crafting the best plan possible: Clear, focused, understandable and concise. The One Page Business Plan is a significant contribution to business literature!" --Jay Conrad Levinson, Author Guerrilla Marketing series of books"Jim Horan has hit the bull's-eye with The One Page Business Plan. It's straightforward and easy to use and it's one page. I advise all business owners I work with to get this book. And every consultant must have a One Page Plan!" --Dave Shunick, Global Supply Chain Consultant.About the Author: Jim Horan is an experienced Fortune 500 executive, small business expert, consultant, and speaker. Over the past 20 plus years, through workshops, seminars, coaching and mentoring programs, he has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, business owners and corporate executives achieve significant breakthroughs in their businesses.

Business planning has finally been simplified to One Page! Bankers require them. Business educators advocate them. Consultants make their living writing them. And venture capitalists won't give you the time of day without one...but most entrepreneurs or small business owners can't or won't write a business plan; it's just too difficult. The One Page Business Plan is designed to act as a catalyst for ideas. It's a powerful tool for building and managing a business. Entrepreneurs like to think and move fast and the concept of a traditional business plan may be out of the question. This is an innovative, fresh approach to business planning which is short, concise and delivers your plan quickly and effectively. Content on CD: Sample business plans Powerful Sales Calculators One Page Budget Worksheet Sales Budgeting System One Page Performance Scorecards Bonus Tools Some reviews: Tim Clauss, Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work: "The One Page Business Plan is an easy-to-use process that helps you capture your vision and translate it into concrete results. Jim has truly streamlined a tiresome, complicated chore. With a return to simple values, simple truths, planning can be fun and creative. A little chicken soup for busy minds and tired souls!" Paul and Sarah Edwards, The Self Employment Experts, Authors of Working from Home, Getting Business to Come to You and Secrets of Self Employment: "Writing a business plan is something every business guru advises but few actually do. Jim Horan's book helps the reluctant change good intentions into a plan."

The One Page Business PIan is the new way to business plan. This innovative process cuts the fluff and filler of traditional business plans and gets the essence of any business onto one page. Traditional business plans remain one of the most difficult documents for any business owner to write, until now. The innovative One Page Business Plan TM removes the mystique and terror of business planning so that any business owner can write a comprehensive business

Selling can be uncomfortable for professional business consultants and executive coaches. The two biggest problems are generating more qualified leads, and turning those leads into actual paying clients. Taking traditional beliefs about how best to "sell" and turning them completely upside down, author Jay Niblick rewrites the sales playbook for the consulting and coaching industry. His proven five-step sales process is specifically designed for independent business consultants and coaches, serving as a common set of rules to grow their practice, deliver more value and generate more revenue. The Profitable Consultant delivers a suite of ready-to-launch tools that will automate readers’ marketing efforts, so they can focus more time delivering revenue-generating services -- to even more clients.

As a doctoral candidate, professional business consultant, and business plan writer, I am often asked by aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs alike, "What is the first step for starting a business or expanding business operations?". When I first started out as a business consultant, I would explain to my client their place in the entrepreneurial process. I then support this analysis with proven academic and practicing business theory, along with recommending specific steps to take.After going through this process time and time again with entrepreneurs, it dawned on me that the first step I ALWAYS recommend is writing a business plan.Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs do not know how to write a professionally polished and structured business plan. Hell, most business owners don't know how to write any type of business plan at all. From this issue, I decided to write this book focused on a ten-step process to writing a well-structured business plan. The business plan writing steps include all aspects of the business plan writing process, beginning with developing the executive summary through constructing a professional and polished funding request. In each step, I introduce you to a different business plan section. I then explain in layman's terms what the section means, offer a business plan sample, and analyze the sample to help you understand the component. The objective of this detailed process is to ensure full understanding of each section and segment, with the goal of you being able to write a professional business plan for yourself, by yourself! IF you still need help writing your business plan, at the end of the book, I ALSO supply you with a professionally written sample business plan AND a business plan template for you to use.In the end, I am supremely confident that this book, with the numerous tools and tips for business plan writing, will help you develop your coveted business plan in a timely fashion.

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