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Planning a Profitable Exit Strategy

Too many businesses during the recession had no real exit strategy other than bankruptcy court. Cash flow was so erratic that when any business loan option dried up it put them on the brink of disaster, until eventually they failed. They had no idea how to keep their inventories stocked or how to pare down their expenses when needed, other than laying off numerous employees, causing havoc on employee morale. Even if they had survived, they would not have been able to do it at the same level of proficiency as they would have to re-hire (a costly endeavor) and re-tool to get back up to speed afterwards. They literally strangled their own potential future prospects because they didn’t have a plan.

Know Your Strengths

Every business should have a good idea of where the value lies in it. It may be a specific product that you alone manufacture. It may be a client list so long, that when the economy recovers sufficiently, it will be instant pay dirt for someone. It can be trademarks. Assets aren’t just about real estate and stock prices. It has to do with how you created the business and how you can dismantle it later, without losing everything.

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Choosing the Right Form of Your New Business

As we know that the global economic condition recently has made many companies cut the number of the employees and this makes many people become unemployed. To be able to have income, they need to work and make their own business is the right answer.

Deciding the type of the business is the first thing that you should do before you make further business planning. As we know there is several business types like sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company. Sole proprietorship is when the business sis made by only one person. All the capital also comes from that person. This person is responsible for all the profit and the loss of the business.

Partnership is when the company is made by two up to four people. In this type of company the capital is come from those four people and they have the same portion of capital or different. The distribution of profit and loss is based on the proportion of the capital. While limited liability company is a bigger company that the ownership is represented by shares. It can be open or close company. open means the shares are traded open in the stock market while closed means that the shares is traded only between one group of people. 

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Choose the Best Business Location

When you want to establish a new business, you should make a business plan. In business plan there are many things included in it like the proposed location and estimation of establishment cost. If you want to make a successful business, a business planning is a must thing to do although not all items in the planning can be done according to the plan, but still business planning Is important.

Location for a business is one of the most important thing because correct business location will make your business success and incorrect location will not bring much benefit to your business. In choosing the location there are many things that should be considered. Here are some tips of how choosing the right business location.

The first thing is the size of the building, or land that will be used with its attributes like the shape, parking area and place to put the stocks. The next thing is the type of the premises whether its home, commercial or industrial. The last thing is general condition of the area which you can study about the convenience like the availability of labor and raw material, the economic condition like the competition. The economic growth and the wealth and.

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Feasibility Analysis Elements

In order to establish a business an entrepreneur needs to make a business plan to increase the chance of the business to run smoothly and not as a guarantee that the business will success because there might some things that run not according to the plan. There are many things included in the business plan include the forecasted income and expenses. But before you make business planning you need to conduct the feasibility analysis to gather the information needed in business planning.

Feasibility analysis is not the same as business planning because its serves as a filter of the ideas related to the business and also as the tool to investigate the business idea. There are three elements in feasibility analysis, they are industry and market feasibility, product or service feasibility and also financial feasibility.

The first element focuses on determining the attractiveness of an industry of a new business and identifying a possible niche in the industry that a small company can occupy. The second element is about determining what value of the proposed product or service that will attract the customers. The last element is focus on the required capital, estimated earnings and the ROI or return on investment.

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What is Business Planning?

When we want to establish a business, there are many things that should be done until finally you start to serve the customer. Start with the feasibility analysis that will filter all the ideas related to the proposed business and business planning. Business planning is one of the important factors that will increase the possibility of the business runs smoothly in the future, so it’s not a guarantee for a business to success.

Business planning is done after the feasibility analysis because the information gathered in feasibility analysis is used in business planning. Business planning is basically a summary from the business owner of the detail of the proposed business, the marketing strategy used in the business and also the financial planning.

Business planning has three important functions. First is to guide the company because business planning contains the future planning or future course of the company and the strategy of how to achieve it. second is to attract the investor and creditor who will give additional capital to the company and the third is to show that the entrepreneur understand about the business, the state of the business on the future and how to achieve it and also what key factors that will make the business success.

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