| When preparing a simple business plan template | | | | 3. Target activities |
| you would definitely need an outline for all the | | | | Operational Process |
| ideas, data and information you have gathered | | | | 1. Production and Manufacturing |
| from yourself and your business partner. Your | | | | 2. Delivery |
| template is like the backbone of your business | | | | 3. Inventory |
| and therefore should be as organized as possible. | | | | Customer Concerns and Issues |
| Outlining your ideas will help get your thoughts | | | | 1. Managing customer concerns |
| properly organized and let you see the details as | | | | This is just a simple outline of how your template |
| they relate with one another. | | | | should look like. You can add more steps and |
| The outline of your simple business plan template | | | | more sub-categories on your own template. This |
| is as follows: | | | | is just to give you an idea of the components of |
| 1. Concept of the business | | | | your outline. |
| 2. Products | | | | As you can see in this outline, there are general |
| 3. Services | | | | ideas and sections like business concepts, goals, |
| 4. General idea about the business | | | | marketing and operational strategies. This will help |
| Business Goals and Objectives | | | | you divide roles and functions of your business. |
| 1. Financial Goals | | | | As you go into detail with each section, you are |
| 2. Market Goals | | | | able to define more clearly the strategies you |
| 3. Growth and Expansion Goals | | | | need to take in order to arrive at the big picture. |
| Market Trends and Research | | | | Having a business plan template such as this |
| 1. Market Projections | | | | enables you to track your progress also. Aside |
| 2. Revenue Projections | | | | from giving a more detailed description of your |
| 3. Business Trends | | | | business, you can also use this to monitor the |
| Marketing Strategies | | | | success of your business and to know if you are |
| 1. Procedures and Steps | | | | right on track. |
| 2. Target customers | | | | |