Your Questions About Internet Business Plan

Jere answers:

The US government has the most extensive internet presence on earth.

You can start at usa.gov and reach EVERY federal, state, local, and tribal government site, representing thousands of services.

Have you heard of the Small Business Administration?

Http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/how-write-business-plan

Jere answers:

Contact the Princes Trust, they are really helpful and may offer you start up grants and loans for your business. Also you would get a mentor who would help you with business plans and any advice you may need. I was helped 5 years ago and now run a successful growing business. Good Luck xxx

Jere answers:

According to the book “The ABC’s of Writing Winning Business Plans: How to Prepare a Business Plan That Others Will Want to Read — and Invest In” http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446694150/powerhomebizguid by Garrett Sutton, below are some tips to make a winning business plan that can get funding:

– Money follows management. Investors look first at the people involved in the company. If you are just starting out and don’t have relevant experience, investors expect to see that you have an experienced team of advisors and employees helping you in the business.

– Make sure you “sell” the one reason your business will become profitable.

– State clearly the strategies you will employ to get the word out about your business. Your business plan must show how you will leverage the Internet, public relations, viral marketing, and other strategies to attract customers.

– Present realistic estimates of the time, energy and costs of building a successful business. Do not underestimate or overestimate revenues. While investors know your numbers are simply guesses, they want to see that your numbers are within the “range of reality.” Be careful of your financial statements: this is one area where you can easily lose credibility if presented poorly.

– Benchmark similar companies to show that you’ve done your homework and researched the market.

– Your Executive Summary is your calling card. If it is not a winner, investors may not even read your entire plan. Emphasize your own as well as your team’s track record in the Executive Summary.

– Before sending your business plan to lenders and investors, send it out first to a few in order to get feedback. You’d want to correct your plan if someone tells you that you’re way off mark, rather than have a potential investor tell it to you and lose the chance to get the funding you need.

Here are some resources that can help you write your business plan:

– SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
– PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm
– Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html

You may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:

– Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm
– MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners
http://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html
– VFinance – View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. Http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&ToolPage=bps_main.asp
– Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. Http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_m.asp
– PlanWare Planning software and information. Http://www.planware.org/
– Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. Http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html
-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
– Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/businessPlan.pdf
– Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. Http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_FE/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid
– Business Plans Index – A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Jere answers:

Creating a marketing business plan can be rather tricky as most people assume that a business plan and a marketing plan are interchangeable.

I assume you mean an actual marketing plan for a business – probably a small business?

There are several webpages on the internet that deal with marketing business plans and even if they seem free, they probably want to get your money somehow.

Here is a resource online with several examples as well as video tutorials.

Good luck!

Jere answers:

DNS server is the thing that tells your computer how to get to answers.yahoo.com The router is supposed to supply that information to your computers. Try this address

98.136.145.152

in your browser. If that gets you to answers.yahoo.com, then you have internet access but no phone book. If this is the case, run the wizards on your router again.

The address is answers.yahoo.com. It is one of a bunch that get you here. Links won’t work because you need the DNS server to work for that.

I did something called NSLOOKUP to get that address

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: any-ycpi-uno.aycpi.b.yahoodns.net
Addresses: 98.136.145.152
98.136.145.153
98.136.145.154
98.136.145.155
206.190.57.60
206.190.57.61
216.115.101.178
216.115.101.179
Aliases: answers.yahoo.com
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