Nick Ray - Business Coach

The One Page Business Plan

Do you have a useable business plan?

Do you use your plan to help keep you on track?

Do you modify your plan when the need arises?

Most people I work with have no usable business plan. Many question the value of a plan because they’ve never had any plan that worked. Many others don’t know how to complete a plan.

How Can You Benefit from a Business Plan?

Ask yourself this question: What successful venture ever sustained itself without an effective plan? Really successful brokers, agents and entrepreneurs succeed because they plan — and rigorously monitor their plans — on a regular basis. You may be asking yourself: How can I complete and implement a business plan? And you may also be asking ask yourself: What benefit is derived from having a plan?

The simple answer:

SUSTAINED PERSONAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS

Imagine that you wanted to build a house:

• Wouldn’t you need architectural plans, a financing plan, a personal budget, and a timetable?
• Wouldn’t it be peculiar if you just had all of the supplies dumped on the lot without a plan?

Or, imagine you were going to take a trip:

• Wouldn’t you want an agenda, hotel reservations, transportation arrangements, luggage, adequate clothing and a budget?

You’d plan to build a house or take a trip; shouldn’t you do the same for your business or practice? (After all, building a house or taking a trip is a limited endeavor; a business could last a lifetime.)

Five Key Elements of an Effective Business Plan:

1. What is your vision for your business in the next 12-24 months?
2. What is your mission—why does your business/practice exist?
3. What are your key objectives?
4. Which basic business strategies will you employ to help achieve your business objectives?
5. Which actions will you take to achieve your business objectives?

How can I help you develop your plan?

As a certified provider of the One Page Business Plan, I have been professionally trained by Jim Horan, the founder and owner of The One Page Business Plan. Jim is a CPA and former CFO, and has just celebrated his 15th anniversary of the founding of One Page Business Plan.

What a business plan can help you achieve:

CLARITY, FOCUS and a PLAN OF ACTION

It only takes about 90 minutes to create your first draft. Working together, we can create a finished plan within 21-28 days. This plan will provide incredible clarity about your:

• Vision
• Mission

And it will help you detail all the basics regarding your:

• Objectives
• Strategies
• Action Plans

How a business plan works for you:

For many of you, this will be the first time that you’ve ever been able to have a workable, usable, and understandable business plan. Amazingly enough, it is only: ONE PAGE.

You can consult your plan daily, weekly, or monthly. You can print it out or leave it on your computer or PDA. You can use it with a support group, coach, manager or mentor. It works for you under all situations.

As you can imagine, after 37 years as a financial service professional, I’ve had many attempts at developing a usable business plan. The One Page Business Plan is the only one that worked for me because it is simple, straightforward and easy to use.

The process works because:

• No B.S.
• No Double Talk
• No Unrealistic Goals
• No Pie in the Sky
• No Meaningless Rhetoric
• No 20 Page Documents

It works because it’s a plan based on what’s important to you and it’s only one page.

Please contact Nick to create your own One Page Business Plan at 510.898.3245 or nick@coachnickray.com

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