What should be in your business plan? Creating a business plan is a key part of starting any business venture. Even if you’ll never use it in this format for attracting investors and raising capital, ...

The primary value of your business plan is to create a written resource that evaluates most aspects of your new business including a description of your target customers and markets, profitability, ...

In a previous article, "How to Properly Align Marketing, Business Development and Sales," (Marketing the Law Firm, July 2022), we provided a high level explanation of the three business functions that ...

Although it’s only October, many lawyers in my firm are already beginning to look towards updating their business development plans so they can hit the ground running in 2017. It’s my favorite part of ...

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Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money ...

A legitimate plan requires only that you go through a logical exercise that begins with your goal and engineers backward... This is the time of year when many lawyers belatedly begin thinking about ...

Assisting socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses with gaining a foothold in the government contracting business is the key to success for the federal government's 8(a) Business ...

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity on Monday published a five-year plan outlining how it hopes to attract and retain businesses in the state. At the plan’s center is a ...