Creating Your Business Plan

In this E-Book, you will find out:

Your business plan outlines what your business does and what you are trying to achieve. It explains what the market opportunity is, what makes your business special and how you will make it a success. Your business plan is a chance to solidify these ideas into an actionable strategy.

Starting a Business

Managing Your Business

Growing Your Business

Exiting Your Business

GET IT NOW
Creating your business plan myva360 icon

Your business plan outlines what your business will do and what you’re trying to achieve. It explains what the market opportunity is, what makes your business special, and how you will be a success. Your business plan is a chance to solidify your ideas into an actionable strategy.

Why You Need a Business Plan

You could just figure things out as you go. However, this puts you at a much higher risk of mistakes. For instance, you may discover that some of the decisions you made are not leading you any closer to meeting your goals — or you may even be unsure what your goals are.

You’ll be able to change your business plan whenever you want, but it’s far better to have an outline you can adapt than to run your business with no clear direction. With this in mind, there are a few main reasons why you need a business plan.

Show Your Commitment to Seeing Success

Your business plan shows that you have a serious venture. It’s important to demonstrate this to your partners, employees, outsourced workers, investors, and, most of all, yourself.

Test Your Idea on Paper

Writing your business idea down (including the actions you’ll take, the challenges you may face, and the resources you’ll need) will allow you to evaluate how likely you are to succeed. This also enables you to work through problems before you start.

Know Your Customers

A business plan enables you to analyze who your customers are, what they want, and why current offerings on the market are falling short. You can use this knowledge to design products and services with your customers in mind and market your business to a specific audience.

Identify Your Competition

It’s crucial to know where else your customers may go for similar products and services. Once you’ve identified your direct and indirect competitors, you can figure out what you’ll do differently to attract customers. If you lack any competitive advantage, people will have no reason to choose you over existing solutions.

Outline Your Finances

Your business needs to bring in enough revenue to make your venture sustainable. A business plan should address how exactly you’ll make money along with what kinds of returns you can expect to see. In addition, you’ll need to specify the funds you’ll need to start the business — and where you’ll gain these funds.

Is It Difficult to Make a Business Plan?

Creating a business plan is much easier than you may expect. After all, a business plan simply outlines where you expect your business to be over a timeframe of three to five years and specifies the steps necessary to get there. When you think about it as a step-by-step guide — rather than a huge, imposing document — you’ll see that creating a business plan is quite manageable. All you need to do is make sure you’ve included everything.

Our ebook provides you with a checklist to ensure nothing is missing from your business plan. Download it now!

Download now

Download the ebook FOR FREE by filling out the form

Ready to dig deeper?

Check out different types of resources we’ve prepared for you: infographics, ebooks, newsletters and much more.

MORE ASSETS

Check Out What Our Clients Say

The truest reflection of a service can be seen in the happiness and satisfaction of its clients and team.

Betty Vrcek

Enhanced Strategies

When I was looking for a VA, a friend of mine referred me to MYVA360 as she worked with them for over a year. I’ve been with them for 8 months and I’ve been extremely happy with them. Not only do I have a fantastic VA, but I have the backing if something happens and I need an extra VA, that can easily happen with MVVA360 seamlessly. They handle all my needs without me having to spend any extra time. It’s like I have my own HR department to handle all my needs!

Halley Fuller

Ross 365

From our first conversation, I felt Jelena understood exactly what I was looking for and partnered me with someone who has helped my business succeed. They both genuinely care about the success of my business and our successes and Jelena offers input to my ideas and thoughts which I find extremely valuable as a new business owner. Her team of assistants is very professional and experts in their areas of work. I’m very pleased with MYVA360 and everything Jelena and her team continue to do for me.

Raj Anderson

Coachability

MYVA360 has been one of the best decisions I made to get hassle-free assistance and support in my growing business. Nothing is too much trouble, systems are always seamless, every interaction is with knowledgeable and committed individuals, and most importantly Jelena genuinely cares about all of her customers and ensuring their experience is first class.

Ryan Golembiewski

Cloud 113

We’ve been working with MYVA360 for over a year now. They have been helping us grow our business by supporting our sales and lead generation efforts. Their team is extremely easy to work with and Jelena is highly responsive to our changing needs. The MYVA360 team has been great to work with and I would highly recommend their services to anyone looking to outsource tasks in the Sales & Marketing business functions.

Benjamin Kay

Ben K and Associates Consulting

I started working with MYVA360 from the beginning and I can say that the hole team is amazing. Team of real professionals, always on time and always correct. Pleasant and easy to work with. My main focus is growing my business while they manage administrative work, and handle my social media accounts on daily basis. They have been such a great asset to my firm, I recommend their services 100%.

Sonya Saleh

Uplifting Nonprofits

Working with MYVA360 is such a pleasure. The services provided are both professional and efficient. They are helpful and friendly, plus they respond to any question immediately. It’s the best decision I’ve made to help me move my business forward. I’m so glad a colleague recommended them. Now I have been recommending them to clients, colleagues, and friends.

Eleni Latsios

The Daly Group

My virtual assistant just gets done what I ask, in a very prompt time, without extra thought process or nagging. I like being able to have a phone call and say what I need to get done, and it just gets done.

Dan Kalley

Kelley Technology Group

The whole MYVA360 experience has been great. It is so convenient to have your assistant available anytime you need help. Responsiveness and quality of work is what I appreciate the most, and I look forward to our continued collaboration.

Danette O’Connell, MBA

Triumph international

I have been working with MYVA360 for 3 months and have recommended them to my friends as I get great service. I would recommend them to anyone.

Andreas Makris

The Big Mouth Survey

MYVA360 is such a pleasure to work with! My assistant has been in constant communication with me and…who is on top of all my tasks throughout the day. This lets me focus on growing
my business.

Selena Hughes

Sitting Pretty

Working with MYVA360 was the best experience I could’ve wished for. This was my first time hiring anyone to help me with my small business and it went smoothly and ALL of my task were completed and on time.

Johnathan Lightfoot

Symbiont

Few people have the opportunity to work with a company as ‘Ridiculously efficient’ as MYVA360. They have been a pleasure to work with.

Brush stroke 4