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Planning and Starting Your Business

About this workbook

Planning and Starting Your Business is designed to guide you, step by step, through the sometimes overwhelming process of starting a business. The clearly-written text and integrated worksheets help you understand how market research and marketing activity, sales forecasting and financial planning all fit together to create a business plan you can understand and feel confident about putting into practice.

Topics covered include:

  • business idea
  • product idea
  • market research
  • marketing activity
  • sales forecasting
  • financial planning.

Features:

  • Plain English caters for all learner levels
  • The 34 worksheets build towards a business plan.
  • Numbered steps make sections easy to follow.
  • Boxouts contain tips and useful resources.

Format-new156 pages, full-colour, wirobound, includes 34 worksheets, business plan and action plan.

price-new£32.95 including free deliveryBuy here logo

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professionalWhen multiple copies are purchased for professional use, this workbook is accompanied by a full set of Microsoft Word® and Excel® worksheet templates.

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