Course Highlights
  • Write your business plan that contains winning business strategies
  • Create a strong business model for businesses like: Local services, freelancing, eCommerce, affiliate, self-branded businesses, and innovative start-ups
  • Step-by-step walkthroughs for writing each section of a business plan
  • Evaluate your target market: Is it big enough? Is it lucrative enough?
  • Identify the most effective monetization strategy for your business
  • Master business planning concepts like cash flow statement, lifetime customer value, and unit economics
  • Save money by not having to hire a business plan consultant or buying business plan templates
Curriculum

2 Topics
How to take the business plan course and warm welcome!
Students introductions and rewards - spread the word about your business

3 Topics
Introducing the 3 sentence business plan; examples; then your exercise
EXAMPLE: Turning a 3-sentence plan into a 1-page business plan for a mobile app
EXAMPLE: 1-page business plan for local business like a lawn care business

7 Topics
Section introduction - more examples of a three sentence business plan
EXAMPLE: Agency or service business 3-sentence plan to a 1-page plan
Example: Ecommerce 3 - sentence business plan to a 1 page plan
Mistake example and how to organize your plan: influencer & coaching business
EXAMPLE: B2B (Business to Business) 3-sentence & 1-page business plan
How long should a business plan be & what writing style you should use
Business plan fundamentals quiz

8 Topics
Introduction to the WaveIfYouLike business plan and our class project
Showing the class project and its three sentence business plan
Exercise: the business case - have I sold you on it? Or do you have doubts?
Artificial Intelligence solving the design problem
You can participate in the project; Facebook group; and the rules
Introduction to accounting with COGS (Cost Of Goods Sold)
Gross Profit and Net Profit
How much demand is there? Starting to calculate the market size

15 Topics
Business plan template to download
Executive summary and section introduction. Starting to write the full plan
Business or service section of the business plan
Business plan product mistake
For complex or technical products: Eric Ries Lean Startup Methodology
Company stage section of the business plan
Determining your market size - business plan section
Market size example from a real business plan
Marketing plan section of your business plan - theory
Revenue stream section example from a real business plan
Current team with tips on how to build a founding team - business plan section
Your business competition and how to deal with competitors
SWOT analysis part of the business plan
Example of real business plan SWOT analysis
Business plan appendix section

10 Topics
Cash flow statement and introduction to the financials section
Income statement
Forecasting for an existing business
How to make projections for a business which has not started
Unit economics
Unit economics example from a business plan for my mobile apps
How to calculate the gross profit; net profit and the bottom line
Example of profit calculations in a business plan
What is the profit margin; and how to calculate your profit margin?
Profit margin example for a mobile app business plan

2 Topics
Elements of a balance sheet in a business plan
Balance sheet example from a business plan for a mobile app

12 Topics
Introduction to building habits for entrepreneurs
How to get more discipline to begin building habits
Using our procedural memory and visualization techniques to build habits
Hack: when we are in action; we get more energy and Dopamine released during
Combining habits you like with new ones you want to form
How to test if you've formed a habit; and determining habit strength
Types of goal setting to help you form habits and find motivation
Thinking about the benefit helps to release Dopamine and give motivation
Sleep; Neuroplasticity; and habits
Research and myths about duration of building habits
Last thoughts on habits for entrepreneurs
Get in the habit of building habits

16 Topics
Section introduction - the (multi) million dollar business plan we'll examine
Executive summary and product overview
Calculating target market size without industry research reports
Competition and marketing plan
Case study: Another commerce company that chose to sell in brick & mortar store
Example: Choosing a semi-successful marketing strategy & bad results that follow
Team and S.W.O.T. analysis
Finances before the business has started
Business plan copy (prior to starting)
Challenges through execution that almost all entrepreneurs also face
Challenges and work ahead
Starting to look at the grout business plan after it 2 years in business
S.W.O.T analysis and LTV sections
Copy of the business plan of this company at two years
shown in the videos
People fight me about Amazon and other retailers

6 Topics
Section introduction - more practical examples of starting different businesses
Starting an agency business - examples of 4 business plans for the same business
Practical business plan to starting an online business
Local business - bookstore business plan
Few more thoughts on the previous video
If I personally had to start a business from scratch today

10 Topics
Marketing plan section introduction - a vital part of your business plan
Infographic to help you create a marketing plan
Basic marketing plan for an Ecommerce product
Local business marketing plan example
Agency or services (marketing; web development; design) company marketing plan
Marketing plan for a blog or YouTube or podcast or influencer or coach
Marketing plan for a platform or big website domination
Marketing plan for an innovative new product or website
B2B company marketing plan
Marketing plan company and strategies overview

7 Topics
Section introduction - business case study of time management decision
Getting started with G Suite (now Google Workspace)
Starting the time management prioritization in Google Sheets
Using formulas in Google Sheets
How to create charts and graphs from Google Sheets data
Merging cells
Last parts of the business decision and introduction to Pivot Tables

2 Topics
Business planning for a spa; salon; or barber type of business: students request
Business plan for a coaching business

3 Topics
Early entrepreneurship and years of failure - what I learned
Finding growth for my apps and my overall business
My case study - success phase and how I figured out the revenue situation

3 Topics
Section introduction on legal issues related to planning and starting a business
Company registration and formation decision (LLC vs. S Corp vs. C Corp)
Why you need a commercial bank account

12 Topics
Section introduction - pitching investors after you created a business plan
Pitch poetry vs. prose
One sentence business pitch/explanation template
Example of a bad and rambling pitch
Outline of a pitch deck
Problem and solution sections of the pitch deck
Differentiation and why this approach slides
Business model
Target market size
Team section of the pitch deck
Financials
Business pitch communication quiz

3 Topics
Course certificate: How to get your business plan course certificate
Congratulations! Thank you for being a great student in my business plan course
Your insight about this course - I hope you got value

  Write a Review

How To Write A Business Plan And A Winning Business Model

Go to Paid Course