...HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN Planning for Success You've no doubt heard the expression, "Failing to plan is planning to fail." Many entrepreneurs write a business plan only when they need to secure start-up financing. However, your plan is far more than a document for banks and investors to read; it's an invaluable roadmap for launching and growing your business. In order to put your business concept on paper, you need to think through and research the many factors that are needed to make sure your business is a success. With a plan, not only can you spot potential weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, your plan can help you make informed decisions about your venture before you commit yourself legally or financially. Here, we've summarized the key sections that you'll find in a business plan. The Seven Key Sections of a Business Plan 1. Executive summary Your executive summary should be 1–2 pages long, and provide an overview of your business concept, key objectives of your business and your plan, ownership structure, management team, your product or service offering, target market(s), competitive advantages, marketing strategy, and a summary of your financial projections. Your executive summary should be written last, after you've written the rest of the plan; each paragraph should be a summary of the more detailed, related section of the plan. 2. Business Overview In your overview, include details regarding your business’s history, vision and/or mission, objectives...
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...universities whether intentional or not. Please download this assignment and insert your answers beneath each question, then save and submit your work as Plag._Ex_Your Name. Below, you will complete an assignment where you will be required to review an excerpt from a journal article written by Martha Snyder. After reading the excerpt and reviewing all of the materials in the Reading & Study folder, please complete the questions related. Do not neglect to include citations as needed. In order to provide some clarification, please see the definitions below: * Paraphrase: When you paraphrase something, it means that you are restating the facts in your own words, clarifying facts, or rewording. * Summary: A summary requires that you take a passage or excerpt and break it down into the most basic points. To use a common metaphor, you are trimming the fat. The reader should be left with only the major points. * Quotation: A quotation requires that you take a portion of the text and replicate it exactly. This can be anywhere from 3 words to an entire sentence. Part One: 30 Points For the assignment, write as though each answer is a portion of your Adult Learning Theory Paper. Everything should be in current APA format (where necessary). Please read the excerpt below and answer the questions. In an effort to better understand how adults learn, adult learning theories are derived to help theorists and practitioners by providing workable and testable explanations...
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...Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for all it’s Worth, 4th ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014. 304 pp. USD $18.99 Submitted to Dr. Roy Lucas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of NSBT 610-D03 Hermeneutics by David P. Velez March 12, 2015 Contents Introduction....……………………………………………………………………………………..1 Brief Summary…..………………………………………………………………………………...1 Critical Evaluation...………………………………………………………………………………2 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………...5 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………6 Introduction In the rise of the early Orthodox Church, the early church fathers were among the few privileged ones exposed to the Scriptures, thus, the Scriptures, not available for the common person to read, created a problem in understanding God’s written Word. But times have changed. Now that the believer has access to the Bible, the problem is not the lack of understanding, but the inability to obey the Word of God. According to Fee and Stuart: “In fact we are convinced that the single most serious problem people have with the Bible is not a lack of understanding but with the fact that they understand many things too well!... the problem is not understanding it, but obeying it.” Today there a more Bible translations than we can keep up with. While revising the third edition of How to Read the Bible for all it’s Worth, Fee and Stuart realized the need for an updated...
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...The Necklace Summary How It All Goes Down At the beginning of the story, we meet Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class girl who desperately wishes she were wealthy. She's got looks and charm, but had the bad luck to be born into a family of clerks, who marry her to another clerk (M. Loisel) in the Department of Education. Mathilde is so convinced she's meant to be rich that she detests her real life and spends all day dreaming and despairing about the fabulous life she's not having. She envisions footmen, feasts, fancy furniture, and strings of rich young men to seduce. One day M. Loisel comes home with an invitation to a fancy ball thrown by his boss, the Minister of Education. M. Loisel has gone to a lot of trouble to get the invitation, but Mathilde's first reaction is to throw a fit. She doesn't have anything nice to wear, and can't possibly go! How dare her husband be so insensitive? M. Loisel doesn't know what to do, and offers to buy his wife a dress, so long as it's not too expensive. Mathilde asks for 400 francs, and he agrees. It's not too long before Mathilde throws another fit, though, this time because she has no jewels. So M. Loisel suggests she go see her friend Mme. Forestier, a rich woman who can probably lend her something. Mathilde goes to see Mme. Forestier, and she is in luck. Mathilde is able to borrow a gorgeous diamond necklace. With the necklace, she's sure to be a stunner. The night of the ball arrives, and Mathilde has the time of her life. Everyone...
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...The E-Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber Book Summary Summary Introduction This document summarizes The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. The intent is to distill the major concepts from the book in note form for efficient perusal. Because only the main points of the book have been summarized here, reading the book in its entirety is highly recommended to get the full impact of the message Gerber conveys, as well as the dialogue in the book with one of his clients, Sarah, which provides additional insight on the concepts presented in the book. The ideas and text presented here are copyrighted works by Michael E. Gerber. Some of the text has been summarized for clarity and brevity. The E-Myth Revisited People who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. Businesses fail when their owners spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. A business doesn’t miss the mark by failing to achieve greatness in some lofty, principled way, but in the stuff that goes on in the multitude of seemingly insignificant, unimportant, and boring things that make up every business (and life as well). The greatest business people have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world. The book is about four profound ideas that can mean the difference between the success and failure of a small business: 1. There is a myth...
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...Stylistic Analysis of ‘Everyone Worth Knowing’ NAME: April King STU ID: 1200015542 PHONE: 13******* EMAIL: 18********@QQ.COM Contents 1. Plot summary 3 2. book review 3 3. stylistic analysis 5 3.1 narrative technique 5 3.2 lexical level analysis 5 3.2.1 Extreme words and exaggerating words 3.2.2 Standard, common and concrete words 3.2.3 mind words 3.3 Semantic (or rhetorical) Analysis 5 3.3.1 Parallelism 3.3.2 contrast 3.3.3 repetition 3.3.4 paradox 3.3.5 irony 3.3.6 simile 3.3.7 synaesthesia 3.3.8 climax 3.3.8 imagery 3.4 syntactical 7 3.5 textual level analysis 7 3.5.1 writing techniques 3.5.1.1 fdt (Stream of conciousness) 3.5.1.2 fds and ds 3.5.1.3 Direct Characterization and Indirect Characterization 3.5.1.4 internal conflict 3.5.1.5 change of literary form 3.5.2 paragraph level analysis 4. referrence 9 Like The Devil Wears Prada, Everyone Worth Knowing is essentially a morality play in which an unglamorous young single woman is suddenly thrust into a glamorous New...
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...Annoying co-workers, troubled relations with the hot HR girl, slackers and a missed promotion are only peanuts when you throw in the presence of vampires. Bloodsucking Bastards (known as Bloodsucking Bosses at Wal-Mart) shows you how crappy cubicle life can be and then throws in blood hungry vampires to spice things up. If you're in the mood for fangs and paperwork, Bloodsucking Bastards is going to be your ticket to success... PRODUCT INFORMATION PLOT SUMMARY MOVIE Evan (Fran Kranz) has a crappy job and after saying the wrong thing possible to his hot girlfriend (The Collection's Emma Fitzpatrick), who also happens to be the HR lady at work, his life starts to take a downward spiral. However, if he can get the new Sales Manager position, things might start looking up. Unbeknownst to him, his boss has another idea in mind and brings in Game of Thrones actor Pedro Pascal, who plays Max, the suave sales managers with a dark secret (I think you can guess what it is) to revigorate the sales force and put a little bite back in the workplace. Evan soon finds out that all isn't right and vampires may be taking over the office, so he teams up with Cabin Fever actor Joey Kern to take them head on in a bloody battle to the death....
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...Accounting Memo Summary BCOM/230 Accounting Memo Summary The time of an Executive is extremely valuable, thus the information you’re going to present must be equally as valuable. The information must be presented to them in a manner that is easy to understand and comprehend. This will be what they use to base they their decision on, or at least explore the possible benefits further. This summary should be started off with the same change that has greatly benefited a competitor recently. (i.e. the news about $9M in tax refunds for Macy’s) This would be enough to spark this person’s interest for sure. Then, data and figures should be provided regarding how this change would directly affect our company, not just “because someone else did it.” Be sure to list the advantages and disadvantages, to show that this has been looked at in an objective manner. Is the overall and ongoing benefit worth the cost of changing the way we account for inventory on our P&L’s? (i.e. IT work, reporting changes, legal fees for case vs. U.S., etc.) Making a change like this will have an impact on more than one department. Information like this would be most easily communicated with the use of Powerpoint slides and graphs for quick and easy analysis. This isn’t just an interoffice memo and shouldn’t have that look. It should be presented in a more formal manner. The information should be concise. If it’s too wordy, the actual point of the intended message may not get across, especially...
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...Index: 1. Seniority: A blessing or a curse? 2.1 Summary 2.2 Moral value 2.3 Reference 2.4 Date of publish 2. Driving to work is tough 3.5 Summary 3.6 Moral value 3.7 Reference 3.8 Date of Publish 3. A living nightmare: customer who show up early & late 4.9 Summary 4.10 Moral value 4.11 Reference 4.12 Date of publish 4. Work routines that drains you 5.13 Summary 5.14 Moral value 5.15 Reference 5.16 Date of publish 5. Dealing with under qualified co-worker 6.17 Summary 6.18 Moral value 6.19 Reference 6.20 Date of publish 6. Employee Theft 7.21 Summary 7.22 Moral value 7.23 Reference 7.24 Date of publish 7. No one appreciates your hard work 8.25 Summary 8.26 Moral value 8.27 Reference 8.28 Date of publish 8. Is someone stealing your idea at work? 9.29 Summary 9.30 Moral value 9.31 Reference 9.32 Date of publish 9. What’s the deal with after hour meeting? 10.33 Summary 10.34 Moral value 10.35 Reference 10.36 Date of publish 10. Why are your co-worker so annoying? 11.37 Summary 11.38 Moral value 11.39 Reference 11.40 Date of publish 1. Seniority: A Blessing or a Curse? Seniority is the magical title that everyone in every job wishes to have...
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...Fern Hill Summary "Fern Hill" is six stanzas of praising and then lamenting days the speaker spent at Fern Hill as a youth. And this speaker is stoked about running through the countryside. Throughout the poem, he talks about how happy he was as a youngster and how oblivious he was that youth was passing. But at the end of the poem, the tone shifts dramatically from joy to lamentation. It's almost like singing, "If you're happy and you know it, think again!" What was a carefree bliss for the speaker turns out to be a fleeting joy that he ever can't recapture. What a bummer. Stanza 1 Summary Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Lines 1-2 Now I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green * Welcome to Fern Hill, where the speaker was once young and carefree. Plus, apple trees. Sounds like a great place to Shmoop. * He also hung out in his "lilting house." What in the world is a lilting house, you ask? Well, lilting is an old school style of Gaelic singing, but it can refer to anything with a cheerful, happy tone. * So was the house singing? Well, maybe not literally, but with this personification, the speaker is setting the mood for the rest of the poem. Things are good. * He's young, happy, and the pastoral scenery is like a mirror of the speaker's joy. Lines 3-5 The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes...
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...Jacob Rodriguez David Simon Informal Speech Summary The speech begins with Mr.Simon talking about how America is split up in its society, economy, and it's politics. He then goes on with America explaining how America is split in two. One part of America shows how the country is in sync with it's economy & the possibilty of a great future for the people that live in it. Then the other America, which isn't too far away from the first America, looks like it lacks a future for the people in it. He then goes in greater detail on how America is seems to divide itself between the rich and the poor. He talks about how capitalism is the down fall of us, how capitalism measures things by profit. Mr.Simon understands the functioing and neccesary of unions. Unions were what brought people togther when they felt injustice was amoung them. Unions helped workers realize that they were worth more and that they had to stand up for themselves if they wanted to be treated equally. More or less, Mr.Simon talks aout how America is becoming "a horror show" because it's killing its self. He uses examples such as the hunting of the underclass and how basic services are being cut off like public education. Not only is America killing itself but its also punishing its people. The imprisonment rate in America is higher then any other county on earth. These facts are facts that many people are aware of but rarely are they put together in such a way that strikes us with grief and fear as the way that...
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...Content page 5 (plus 14 to get pdf page) Chapter 1: 23 - 32 Chapter 3 48 - 56 49 infancy, adolescence and maturity To spot infancy, owner and the business are one and same thing 52 bottom 53 it’s only a problem … day-to-day basis 54 bottom Chapter 4: Adolescence 60 mgmt by abdication rather than delegation 64 middle. You’re hopelessly and helplessly at a loss… can add to your business Chapter 5 65 technician, manager, entrepreneur’s boundary 66 Harry handle the Technician’s work and needed the manager which the owner’s need to provide by stepping out of his comfort zone 68 (getting small, you don’t own a business, you own a job) 76 bottom Chapter 6 83 the success of the business determined by the way it started? If it has entrepreneur perspective existed? 85 differences between entrepreneur and technician perspectives of the business 87 the entrepreneur success to see a model of a business that fulfill perceived needs of a specific segment of customers in an innovative way More to do with how it’s done in business and the way it’s delivered 88 has clear picture of the customer for whom the business is to be created Business created by the technician satisfy the technician his/herself rather than the customer (self-related) Customers are opportunities to entrepreneur filled with wants to be satisfied, are problem to technician Chapter 7 99 Ray Kroc went to work on his business, not in it 103 the success of each McDonald can achieve while...
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...------------------------------------------------- CHESKA MARIE M. ATIENZA Course and year SUBMITTED TO: MISS JOYLEN O. SAMSOM Experimental Psychology Instructor ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- DATE SUBMITTED ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- July 4, 2013 Title: Life’s Meaningful Challenges Summary: One of the greatest truths is that life is difficult. Most people moan more than facing and solving their problems. Life is a series of problems. It only requires discipline to overcome such pains and problems. We prefer to procrastinate and ignore them. It is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Therefore we must inculcate ourselves and in our children the means of achieving mental, spiritual health. When we teach ourselves discipline, we are teaching ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. Life example: I always experience hardships. Well one of them would be dealing with my major classes. I’m having problems with managing my time to meet my deadlines on my major subjects. Sometimes, I don’t even have time to sleep. I often ignore some of them just to get out of stress. Reflection: Life is never that...
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...Written Assignment 1 - Summary Summary of ”Love has become romance” It seems that in the last 250 years we human have become more romantic when speaking of the matter of love. We now a days’ marry because we are in love, where as in the 16th - 17th century we married for practical and economical reasons. It wasn’t until the end of the 17th century that people began connecting love and romance as two things going hand in hand. And it wasn’t until just 200 years ago that love was seen as a necessary matter for marrying, it was now all about finding the one and only that you wanted to spend the rest of your days with, instead of marrying for social and practical schemes and for continuation of the family. Until the beginning of the 18th century it was normal for the parents to marry away their children. The father of the bride would usually go to the farm, where the groom lived with his parents, and check out that everything went on as supposed. He would also check the health of the parents, for good genes, before he would let his daughter marry. Romance, therefore, didn’t play an important role at this time. The link between love and infatuation arose in “romantic love”. Later, artists, writers and intellectuals reflected the new relations of love in their work. They began expressing love in a new passionate way, in novels and paintings. And the earlier ”sensible” known love, was now presented very negatively. People now thought that one couldn’t live fully, unless they’d...
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...Addition / Similarity in the first place, not only ... but also, as a matter of fact, in like manner, in addition coupled with, in the same fashion / way, first, second, third, İn the light of, not to mention, to say nothing of, equally important, by the same token, again, to, and, also, then, equally, identically, uniquely, like, as, too, moreover, as well as, together with, of course, likewise, comparatively, correspondingly, similarly, furthermore, additionally Opposition / Limitation / Contradiction although this may be true, in contrast, different from, of course ..., but, on the other hand, on the contrary, at the same time, in spite of, even so / though be that as it may, then again, Above all, in reality, after all, but, (and) still, unlike, or, (and) yet, while, albeit, besides, as much as, even though, although, instead whereas, despite, conversely, otherwise, however, rather, nevertheless, nonetheless, regardless, notwithstanding Cause / Condition / Purpose in the event that, granted (that), as / so long as, on (the) condition (that), for the purpose of, with this intention, with this in mind, in the hope that, to the end that, for fear that, in order to, seeing / being that, in view of, If, ... then, unless, when, whenever, while, because of, as, since, while, lest, in case, provided that, given that, only / even if, so that, so as to, owing to, inasmuch...
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