Master Plan

So it is written...

OK - I have completed my editing for the business plan! It is titled: "The Master Plan; Littles, Leo, Tech & Bird." I am extremely happy with how it looks now. I have added visuals and took out so much crap that did not need to be in it. I gave the plan a personality like the table of contents is now the Work Table of Contents - just to give the reader an insight to the company's culture.

I also did not realize how much I was repeating myself (as I may seem to do with this blog...). It is totally a different perspective when it was all printed out on paper than reading it on the monitor screen. I have to thank my mentor for giving me sort of a push - I needed a raw response. Now I am ready to wrap this up.

The next step is to reprint and look over again with my mentor and get those damned numbers in order. But I think the 12 month schedule helped a great deal. So I feel strongly that I can start shopping this plan during the summer while folks are in spending mode in the industry.

One thing is for certain that a business plan takes time and it is a road map for your company, but is is also rewarding when you have written it yourself. No one can lay out the plan better than you. It would have cost me $1500 to get someone else to do this (and that is a friendly ammount to pay - business plans for corporations cost much more from an MBA pro). I wrote about that last year when I was in search of an MBA to do this - I am still thinking about going the MBA route myself. I have already started to turn the wheels...

Someone asked me the other day if I like managing more or designing? I feel comfortable in both skins. I think that is why this is breezy for me. Nevertheless, this was painful to get off with no money to spare for a "professional" business plan writer.If I had the dough, this plan would have been sent out already to lenders.

So the moral of the story is still the same - if you want something done right - do it yourself! This brand will exist in the near future and my message is still; Don't Give Up! We were set back 4 months but still trudging on. AND I have found a great person to do the website for us that should be up in the new year as all should go well.  

Invites to the launch party for all!

tg