10: No Plan? No problem. How To Create a One-Page Business Plan (Part 2)

We finish up our Business Plan today in Part 2 and press print. You’ll have a complete plan of where you are taking your business and a roadmap to get you there on the most direct route. With your Business Plan in hand, you can get your team aligned with the confidence they need to take the responsibility to get the results you want to take your business to the next level.

With the 8 steps revealed in this episode, you’ll be on the road to providing a great lifestyle for you and your family while building a valuable asset that you can sell to support you in a comfortable retirement.

Today, Dave finishes up from last week, with the second part of How To Build A Professional Business Plan. If you missed Episode 9 last week, you can go back and listen, to get yourself up to speed. You can also download the one-page Business Plan from his website, to get an outline of where you want to take your company and a roadmap to get you there. Today, Dave talks about the process of planning to get out of working in your business, to start working on your business. Listen in as Dave covers the next six steps of how to create a professional business plan.

Go to theroofershow.com/podcast to download the 1Page Business Plan

Today, Dave covers:

A quick recap of last week’s lesson.
Reverse engineering a roadmap, to get you where you want to go, with the most direct route.
Step 3: The Focus – Or The One Minute Elevator Pitch, an improvement on the Mission Statement. It’s accurately describing in about sixty seconds what your company does and what you’re about. 1) What is the pain or fear in your market, that your company addresses? 2) How are you uniquely qualified to solve this problem? 3) What is the main benefit that you give? 4) What action do you want them to take?
Some tips for Step 3: Be direct, clear and concise, and don’t use industry jargon, be motivating and be prepared.
Step 4: The Swot – Looking at your business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Step 5: The Operation – Keeping things strong and sturdy in each area of your business and keeping everything in balance.
Step 6: The Process – Creating systems and processes that are necessary to build your company and run it efficiently, not just relying on one or two people- or only you! This is working on your business- not just working in it.
Step 7: The Action – Concentrating on the one thing that’s going to make a real difference in your business. What’s the one thing you need to focus on right now?
Step 8: The View – What does it look like when you get there? Do you like what you see? Taking a step back and looking at where you’ve landed. Being prepared, so that you can enjoy it when you finally get there.

Last week, Dave went to a really great seminar, Making The Numbers Work In Construction. He sends a shout-out to Michael Stone of Mark Up And Profit.Com, because he really picked up a ton of information from his class, that he wishes he’d had when starting out in his business. For more information and some great books, go to his website www.markupandprofit.com.