Again, the difficulty is in identifying what information will be useful to you. Because business plans deal with every aspect of business, an excellent approach to identifying the types of business information and assistance you need is to look at a business plan outline. From this outline, you can create a checklist of business issues or concerns that you need to research, then get to work developing a Fact Book, a collection of relevant and timely information that you will have at your fingertips. All of the previously identified business information resouces will have business plan outlines available. You can reduce or eliminate costly mistakes by keeping up with relevant business information.
Informed decisions are essential to business prosperity and success.
Marilyn Lake, Instructor, contributed to this article.