The Business Planning Guide For Kiwis: From Idea to Reality In No Time

By Maria Atutahi

This book is for a do-it-yourself entrepreneur. You have that burning business idea inside you, that you just need to get out. But you do not know where to start. This is it, this is where you start.

Do you need a professional business plan for funding purposes? Do you have hundreds or even thousands of dollars to pay for one to be completed for you? If no, then this is for you.

"What are the goals for your business? Be specific. When would you like to achieve them? Be both realistic (so you do not set yourself up for failure) but also have a goal, so you are pushing yourself and actually need to work on it to achieve it."

 

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Maria Atutahi
• Release date: Aug 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215807880

Maria Atutahi

Maria Atutahi is from New Zealand and is passionate about helping small business owners.  Maria continues to learn and grow her knowledge and experience. She has experienced in self-employment, banking, administration, bookkeeping and management. Maria lives in Te Kuiti, with her 4 children and partner on a lifestyle block with many pets.  She was raised on a dairy farm and spent her childhood in Cambridge and Otorohanga.

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Disclaimer:  This eBook was created for clients of Maria’s Consulting Services Limited. For educational purposes by Maria Atutahi, this is a resource only. All information was gathered through experience, education and research.  If you need assistance implementing this plan, please contact Maria’s Consulting Services. We take no liability if you do not get the results you require. However, I am here to support you through your business journey. If you have received these resources years after its creation (2022) some information may be outdated and recommend completing research to confirm you are following the most up-to date laws and policies.

To the Reader:  I have written this book for you, to help you in your business journey.  I am passionate about small business and wish to see all small business owners enjoying their business and being profitable.  I understand that sometimes your business can be over-whelming and not making the money you planned it would.  I am here to help you.  If you would like assistance writing or implementing this plan, please contact me.

In this plan, I have added details, strategies and resources that I think would be best or easiest for a wide audience and many different industries.  For some of the tasks, there is normally more than one way to complete each task. I encourage you if you want to do the task but a different way to do further research on the subject and find the best way forward for you and your business.

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CHAPTER 1

Business Planning

In this book, you will learn how to complete a professional business plan. Visit my website www.mariasconsulting.co.nz to receive you templates and I will walk you through the process of completing it. It is a standard template that can be used for any small business.

First and most important is your audience! Who will read your business plan? Are you creating it for yourself? To help get your ideas focused and down on paper. To try to create your business or implement new ideas into an existing small business.  Or are you creating it for someone else to read or an organisation to get funding such as a bank or an investor?

Depending on who your audience is, this will dictate how you will create your business plan. If it is for you, it can be more informal and the editing does not have to be perfect, your business plan can be a story written in your voice, you can make it fun by adding colour or pictures, adding a bit of personality.

If you are creating this plan with the sole purpose of receiving funding, then you must keep this in mind. With a professional plan, correct editing, visually looks professional with a good layout and it must answer all the funder’s questions plus more. That they are left with a feeling of confidence in your plan/business and in you the owner. If they finish reading it with more questions than answers or they can pick your plan to shreds you have not won them over and will be unlikely to receive their funding.

While creating this business plan, remember this is your unique business plan that you are creating for a business that you most likely have created from scratch, and you will operate.  Especially, if this plan is for you only inject your personality into the plan. Add colour, photos, charts, boxes, graphs etc. Even though this is a template I like to see creative plans not just the writing and content. In this plan if you come across a subject/title that has