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Planning for Your Business
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6 Sections
38 Lessons
10 Weeks
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Chapter 1: Writing a Business Plan
6
1.1
Selling Yourself on the Importance of Business Planning
10 mins
1.2
Breaking Down the Pieces of a Business Plan
10 mins
1.3
Setting Out Your Planning Objectives
10 mins
1.4
Identifying Your Business Plan Audiences and Key Messages
10 mins
1.5
Establishing Your Plan’s Time Frame
10 mins
1.6
Preparing for the Real World
10 mins
Chapter 2: Finding the Funding
7
2.1
Starting with a Plan
10 mins
2.2
Tapping Friends and Family
10 mins
2.3
Finding an Angel
10 mins
2.4
Daring to Use Venture Capital
10 mins
2.5
Selling Stock to the Public: An IPO
10 mins
2.6
Finding Other Ways to Finance Growth
10 mins
2.7
Guarding Your Interests
10 mins
Chapter 3: Setting Your Franchise’s Wheels in Motion
9
3.1
Surveying Your Options for Locale
10 mins
3.2
Locating Your Franchise’s Habitat
10 mins
3.3
Looking at Protected Areas, Exclusive Areas, and Encroachment Policies
10 mins
3.4
Signing the Lease
10 mins
3.5
Meeting Your Franchise’s Requirements
10 mins
3.6
Getting the Goods: Merchandise and Supplies
10 mins
3.7
Receiving Merchandise
10 mins
3.8
Maintaining Inventory
10 mins
3.9
Getting Good Training for Yourself and Your Management
10 mins
Chapter 4: Starting a Home-Based Business
5
4.1
Looking at the Basics of Home-Based Business
10 mins
4.2
Examining the Good News and the Bad
10 mins
4.3
Taking the Home-Based Business Quiz
10 mins
4.4
Starting Something from Scratch
10 mins
4.5
Transitioning into Your Home-Based Business
10 mins
Chapter 5: Creating an Online Presence for Your Business
5
5.1
Feng Shui-ing Your Website
10 mins
5.2
Creating Content That Attracts Customers
10 mins
5.3
Nip and Tuck: Establishing a Visual Identity
10 mins
5.4
Inviting Comments from Customers
10 mins
5.5
Moving from Website to Web Presence
10 mins
Chapter 6: Starting with the Right Legal Structure
6
6.1
Introducing the Legal Business Classifications
10 mins
6.2
Going It Alone: The Sole Proprietorship
10 mins
6.3
Choosing a Partner: The Partnership
10 mins
6.4
Going for the Gold: The Corporation
10 mins
6.5
Offering Flexibility: The S Corporation, the LLC, and the Nonprofit Corporation
10 mins
6.6
Discovering Your Best Choice
10 mins
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