Richmond Entrepreneurs Conference - Business Planning

Business Planning

Business Seminar Facilitator:Norman Jackson

JFP Strategic Planning & Sunningdale Corporate Finance Limited

Date: 25th February 2016

"Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"

Benjamin Franklin

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Business Planning Tip No.1 Get Your Plan in Writing  

• On Restaurant Napkin• Back of Envelope• Elevator Pitch• Two Page Business Plan• Full Business Plan

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Business Planning Tip No. 2 Get Yourself a Mentor/ Coach/ Business Advisor/ Critical Friend

Robert Burns Harry Beck

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Business Planning Tip No. 3Give 100% Commitment

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Bill Gates

Gates admits that Microsoft should have changed their plans to build their own search engine – by not doing so they lost out heavily to Google.

In the beginning Microsoft’s mission was to have “a computer on every desk and in every home..”

Business Planning Tip No. 4 Review your plan regularly

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Business Planning Tip No. 5Incorporate Into Your Plan The Five Core Values of Rugby Union

Respect

Sportsmanship 

EnjoymentDiscipline

Teamwork

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5 Tips for Business Planning  

1. Get your Plan in Writing

2. Get a Mentor / Critical Friend to Review Your Plan

3. Give 100% Commitment

4. Review your Plan Regularly & Amend Accordingly

5. Incorporate the Five Core Values of Rugby Union: -

Teamwork

Respect Enjoyment

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• Partner - JFP Strategic Planning (http://www.jfpstrategic-planning.co.uk/)• Director - Sunningdale Corporate Finance Limited (http://www.sunningdalecf.com/)• Keynote Speaker and Group Mentor for the Richmond Chamber of Commerce • Currently writing first book “100 Quotations to Run Your Business”• LinkedIn /norman jackson7• Email: [email protected]; Tel: 07710 348 197•  Twitter: @normanjackson7; www.slideshare.net/normanjackson7

Norman (Norrie) Jackson

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THANK YOU

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