Business Plans Made Easy, 3rd Edition

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Whether you're just starting out or already running a business, this essential guide to create a high-impact business plan can mean the difference between success and failure. Packed with insider tips and expert advice, it walks you step by step through creating a powerful, personalized plan to showcase your business idea, impress potential investors and get you the funding and support you need.

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You'll learn:

• What makes a successful business plan--and how to create one
• What to include in your plan (and what to leave out!)
• How to tailor your plan to the various needs of bankers, investors, partners, suppliers and customers
• How to update your plan so it grows with your business

Plus, this edition includes new financial sources, information on investment planning and technology and more real-life business plans.

• Triangle Business Journal
  

• October 7, 2005

• This is the third edition of this book, part of the Entrepreneur Made Easy Series. The book promises to show entreprenuers what to put in -- and what to leave out of -- good business plans, and how to tailor those plans to satisfy bankers, investors, partners, vendors and customers. New features in this edition include an expert advice section at the end of each chapter and new information on personal investment planning and information technology. Revised information includes financial sources, human resources and sample forms.

David H. "Andy" Bangs, Jr. began working with small-business owners when he completed college and graduate school, and became a commercial loan officer for the Bank of America. "This gave me invaluable experience," he says. "I've been on both sides of the lending desk."

Before founding Upstart Publishing Company, Inc. in 1977, he managed the Exeter Business Information Center, a pilot program sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He also taught courses in logic and philosophy of science at the University of New Hampshire.

"I began Upstart to provide clear, accessible management tools to small business owners and the people who work with small business owners," Bangs explains. As developer of Upstart's product lines, he wrote the Business Planning Guide (more than 700,000 copies sold, now in its ninth edition), the Market Planning Guide (in its sixth edition), the Startup Guide (in its fourth edition), the Cash Flow Control Guide, the Restaurant Planning Guide (with Peter Rainsford) and six other small business management books. He also wrote more than 40 issues of Common Sense, an eight-page monthly newsletter focusing on small-business management that was distributed by banks nationwide, ranging from Chase Manhattan to First NH Banks, and by organizations such as the National Association of Women Business Owners and the American Insurance Group.

In 1991 Bangs sold Upstart to Dearborn Financial Publishing in Chicago so he could concentrate on writing and working with non-profit directors and small business owners. His clients include The NH Charitable Foundation , The Foundation for Seacoast Health, and VSA New Hampshire.

Bangs lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with his wife Lacey. He has served on the boards of several organizations including The Women's Business Center and the Portsmouth Economic Development Loan Program.