Before writing your plan

  

Before you pen down your business plan you need to take some key points into your consideration because the well-knitted a business plan will be the more chances you will have to make a rip-roaring success.

Keep things tangle-free and simple

Your ideas should be completely simple understandable. Whatever the words and formats are to be written shouldn’t be ambiguous and confusing.

How can you make it simple

• Keeping the business writing as easy as pie
• It can be understood at the very first place
• Avoid making it fancy by using weasel words

Format of writing

• No lexis, no jargon and acronyms
• Use the simplest form of words to make it understandable
• Write down your points in bullets
• Provide the brief but meaningful explanations wherever it is needed.

Length of business writing

• Maximum to 30 pages
• You can maximum proceed to 40 pages by getting along with management resumes etc.

What to be used

• You need to use summary tables
• For highlighting use simple business charts
• Make the appendices simple.

The use of bar charts

You need to use bar charts for showing the certain details:
• Gross margin
• Sales
• Net profits
• Cash flow
• Net worth yearly

Bars

• It is preferable to opt for two-dimensional bars as things gets easier to perceive
• Sales are usually divided into segments so stack bars are used to show the total because to visualization of totals are handy
• For showing market share and market segments you need to use pie charts

How to display and mention milestones and other tasks

• Use horizontal bars there would be labels on the left side
• Dates can be put either at bottom or at the top
• Mention the milestones and details of tasks very short and meaningful

The detailed numbers contain by appendices must be specified

It would be of no use to use a chart without referencing it in the text more ever source numbers have to be very clear.

Make your business writing presentable

 

Now you are done with the simple wording, table and charts. So it’s time to proceed as how to make it look very presentable.

Using fonts to your text

• For headings use this font style
1. Verdana
2. Arial

• For the body text use this font style
1. Times Roman
2. Century

Selecting font size

• Select the 11 or 12 font size

Use spell-checker and using white space

Make sure that you must keep your writing error-free as it doesn’t leave a good impression. Read it twice to check mistakes.Too much narrow writing is an annoying thing to be read so better to use space liberally.

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