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Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies, 8th Edition
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America’s #1 business plan guide.
There’s a reason this is the best-selling business plan guide of all time: it works! Whether you’re raising money, looking for a loan, or just want to make sure your business succeeds, this clear, complete guide contains everything you need. With its step-by-step guidance, expert advice, and thorough worksheets, you’ll be able to create a “knock-their-socks-off” business plan and achieve your goals. Used by over 1,000 business schools and over two million entrepreneurs, Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies is widely considered the “business plan bible.” Updated in 2023 to respond to today’s trends and tech. If you need a business plan, you need this book!
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“User-friendly and exhaustive…highly recommended. Abrams’ book works because she tirelessly researched the subject. Most how-to books on entrepreneurship aren’t worth a dime; among the thousands of small business titles, Abrams’ [is an] exception.” — Forbes Magazine
Key features
- Emphasis on strategic business development
- Enables you to research and organize efficiently
- Speeds up the planning process
- Complete sample business plan
- Real-world advice from business luminaries
- 100+ worksheets take you through each planning stage
- Flow-through financials make projections easy
- Feasibility analysis, social responsibility, globalization, and more
Current and up-to-date
- Latest social media marketing
- Supply-chain management
- Sustainability and social responsibility
- Crowdfunding and other ways to raise money
- Sample PowerPoint slides
- Lean start-up
Compatible with Business Plan Financials Software
- Speed up your financial projections when launching your business
- Available for Windows and Mac
Kudos for Successful Business Plan, 8th edition
- Named by Inc. and Forbes magazines as one of the top 10 essential books for small business
- Best-selling business plan guide in the U.S.
- Used by over 1,000 universities including Stanford, UCLA, MIT, Cornell, and Northwestern
Paperback: 484 pages
MSRP: $99.99
© 2024 Rhonda Abrams
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Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies (Successful Business Plan Secrets and Strategies) Paperback – September 16, 2010
- Print length 425 pages
- Language English
- Publisher Planning Shop
- Publication date September 16, 2010
- Dimensions 8.2 x 1 x 10.6 inches
- ISBN-10 1933895144
- ISBN-13 978-1933895147
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About the author.
Entrepreneur, author, and nationally syndicated columnist Rhonda Abrams is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on entrepreneurship and small business. Rhonda’s column for USA Today , “Small Business Strategies,” the most widely distributed column on small business and entrepreneurship in the United States, reaches tens of millions of readers each week. She has written more than a dozen other books on entrepreneurship and her books have sold more than a million copies. Sign up for her monthly newsletter at planningshop.com.
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- Publisher : Planning Shop; 5th edition (September 16, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 425 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1933895144
- ISBN-13 : 978-1933895147
- Item Weight : 2.6 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.2 x 1 x 10.6 inches
- #687 in Strategic Business Planning
- #901 in Systems & Planning
- #2,563 in Entrepreneurship (Books)
About the author
Rhonda abrams.
Rhonda Abrams has helped millions of people launch and grow successful businesses. Her first book, Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies is the bestselling business plan guide of all time and is considered the definitive guide to business planning. It was acclaimed by Forbes magazine as one of the two best books for small business and by Inc. magazine as one of the six best books for startups.
She has authored 19 books, which have sold more than 2 million copies and been translated into 30 languages, including the popular Six-Week Startup, Business Plan in a Day, and Entrepreneurship: A Real-World Approach. She has a deep knowledge of the small business market and a passion for entrepreneurship. Her books, written with the express purpose of enabling people make their business vision a reality, are clear, concise, actionable, and practical.
Rhonda is also an entrepreneurship/small business columnist for USA Today but she not only writes about entrepreneurship—she lives it! She has started four businesses and is currently the founder/President of PlanningShop. She knows what it takes to meet payroll, pay vendors, reach and keep customers, find and impress investors, and get products out the door.
You can find out more about Rhonda at www.RhondaAbrams.com.
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business plan guide of all time! Rhonda Abrams is widely recognized as one of the fore-most experts on business planning, entrepreneurship, and small business. A successful serial entrepreneur and busi-ness owner, she writes the entrepreneurship column for USA Today and is the author of 19 books. Named one of the
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Used by over 1,000 business schools and over two million entrepreneurs, Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies is widely considered the “business plan bible.” Updated in 2023 to respond to today’s trends and tech. If you need a business plan, you need this book!
Gives you their personal tips and insights for successful business plan development. The sample business plan provides a guideline for you to follow in writing your own plan. Breaks the...
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This number-one selling business planning guide in the U.S. includes expert help, worksheets to jumpstart the process, a sample business plan, tips on impressing funders, winning tips for competitions, and more.