We see a large need in this area for quality home and social care services. We believe that by employing skilled and educated staff, and providing them with an organized and responsive management system, we can be the top home and social service agency in Southeastern Kansas.
Solution
Wheatland Health Services offers unique home health care as well as community-based social service to Southeastern Kansas.
Market
The consumer base for Wheatland Health Services (Home Health Care Services) will be patients referred by physicians, health care facilities and other health care professionals. A majority of these patients are covered by Medicare. Kansas Medicaid or private insurance will cover a smaller percentage.
Competition
Consumers and referring professionals should trust the professionalism, reliability, and quality of the services offered by the home healthcare Agency.
Why Us?
Wheatland Health Services is committed to providing affordable and high quality home care services and social services in the community to residents and their families in Southeastern Kansas.
Expectations
Forecast
We are projecting growth and total annual sales very conservatively, with high projected expenses. Our cost of selling is very low because we are a service agency. Payroll is the main expense involved in providing these services. The costs of sales reflects the cost of mileage reimbursement to employees, because the services we provide are home- and community-based and require travel to and from service locations.
Financial Highlights Year-by-Year
Finance required
We will borrow $50,000 from Elizabeth Patzer for a five-year loan, and then receive $20,000 cash directly from Elizabeth Patzer.
Dribbling Indoor Soccer is the only indoor soccer facility in the Wingback County area. Wingback County’s population is 240,000. Dribbling Indoor Soccer boasts two professional-style lighted fields (73′ x140′) that feature Fieldturf(r) for fast-action and fun soccer. Soccer enthusiasts will find safe, clean, friendly soccer fun regardless of weather conditions.
Several divisions for youth, men, women, and coed provide all players–from beginners to highly skilled–the right environment for recreational yet competitive soccer. League play is ongoing all year. All league participants must become members of Dribbling indoor Soccer. The annual fee is $40. The cost of team registration for each session is $700. Each session has 10 games. Champion awards are given to the winning team.
In addition, skills clinics are available for beginning adults and those wishing to polish their skills. These fields can be rented out for practices, birthday parties and corporate events. A soccer shop is available on site to supply top soccer brands to players. The facility will also have a small cafe that will serve drinks, sandwiches, and pastry.
Dribbling Indoor Soccer projects that the center will have more than 1,000 members, 30 adult teams and 30 youth teams by the end of year one.
1.1 Objectives
The following are the objectives for Dribbling Indoor Soccer
Membership in a building facility can be increased to over 800.
Register 30 adult teams and 25 youth teams before the end of the first year.
You can rent the facility to host special events.
1.2 Mission
Dribbling Indoor Soccer’s mission it to provide Wingback County residents an indoor soccer facility that is state-of-the art and will allow everyone to enjoy the sport year round.
Whenever it occurs to my mind that a present is due to me to someone, I am confused what to give until the opportunity has gone.
This statement was made 160 years ago by Emerson. It is clear that some things have not changed. Even the most successful businessmen struggle to buy gifts for their wives and fiancees. Although certain things may not change, technology can make gift-giving much easier.
Red White & Bloom believes technology offers the opportunity for men to buy custom arrangements with delivery on specific days. The company intends to reach its goal by targeting wealthy executive businessmen in Midtown Atlanta for a highly upscale Frequent Flower Gifts Program. In the long term, it plans to unveil the city’s first ever floral art gallery in a neighbourhood that is quickly becoming an arts and cultural hub. Red White & Bloom is a new type of florist that will be able to cultivate personal relationships with customers through technology and marketing. They also offer a gift program that makes it easy to purchase flowers (and forgetting important dates). The company intends to open its gallery in March in Castleberry Hill which is located less than one-mile from Downtown Atlanta.
The company expects modest first-year total revenue. However, there is the potential to boost Year Two revenues dramatically due to Valentine’s Day (excluded in year one due to a March Opening). The Castleberry Hill area, which is a growing destination shopping district, should drive additional revenue growth. At the time of opening the Castleberry Hill area will have approximately 1,500 residents. Research shows that a population greater than 10,000 is needed to support a traditional floral shop. Red White & Bloom, however, will not be a typical retailer florist. Red White & Bloom will not rely upon retail traffic in years one to three of its development. Instead, it will utilize technology and savvy advertising programs to target ideal repeat customers (individuals and commercial clients) in the more that 1,500 targeted Midtown Atlanta offices buildings.
Red White & Bloom has steady growth potential in Castleberry Hill, thanks to the planned expansion of Castleberry Hill, Atlanta’s arts district. The company is forecasting conservative, yet healthy, revenue projections for Years Two and Three. If the company sticks to this plan revenues will increase by more than $170,000 every year.
Jamie Muir is majority owner of Red White & Bloom.
1.1 Mission
Red White & Bloom will utilize technology to find and serve the ideal target audience within a radius of five miles from Castleberry Hill. The company will employ sophisticated marketing techniques in order to secure a core clientele made up of executives and corporate accounts. ).
Red White & Bloom operates with a constant enthusiasm to learn, is open to implementing novel ideas and is willing to adapt for changing market conditions.
Success: 1.2 Keys
Technology is used to build loyal, often-buying male customers instead of traditional, walk in retail shoppers.
Designing and selling innovative, high quality fresh flower arrangements using a variety of design styles, flowers, and containers.
Creating is a storefront which resembles an arts gallery. It features avant-garde floral arrangements that are displayed as art and always for sale.
Additional products offered, including gourmet chocolates or original artwork by local artists.
Communicating directly with potential customers using direct mail, print advertisement and an easily-useable website.
Offering complimentary in-store events, such as book signings, cheese tastings, and art showings, that coincide with other neighborhood gallery openings.
1.3 Objectives
Achieve a healthy total income of $79,600 for Year 1.
Achieve a sales average of 40% or lower and a high margin.
You can build pricing programs on the assumption of 10% profit.
Sales increase approximately 72% in year two and 21% by year three *
*Note: Red White & Bloom will open after Valentine’s Day and Easter/Passover in Year One. The large percentage increase in Year Two reflects a full 12-months of revenue (versus 10 months in Year One), the benefit of one year of marketing, and the inclusion of Valentine’s Day and Easter/Passover. Valentine’’s Day typically accounts for a third of a florist’s yearly revenues.
It’s not all the lights. It’s the people. It’s the people!
It is the FUN! Successful nightclubs are based on an accurate understanding of the core customers.
Solution
The spot will provide a nightclub atmosphere that meets the needs and changing tastes of our core customers. college-age women. If the women come, the men will follow. We must continually improve our response time to customers’s entertainment needs in order to reach this goal.
Market
The Spot will focus on college-age women who are looking for a high energy, fun nightclub environment to socialize and dance. While we are also focusing on college age men, it has been our observation to the contrary that the club scene depends on where women choose spend their money. There are currently no bars in the area that cater to this customer segment. This is also true for the area surrounding the university which we believe will attract new customers.
Competiton
The current competition is not the point. We have changed the focus of competition so that we can attract women to our club. The way things work is going to work in our favour if we do.
We can carry out competitive analysis for due diligence. It doesn’t affect our plan.
Why Us
Spot’s mission is to provide a nightclub environment that meets the needs and desires of its core customers. college-age women. The men will come if the women are there. To achieve this goal we must continuously improve our responses to customers’ entertainment needs.
Expectations
Forecast
Our forecast is clearly too profitable, for now. We will be doing annual reviews and we expect to have to revise expense budgets upward over time.
Financial Highlights by Year
Finance is required
Each of the principals will invest $70K. This totals $210K in owner investment.
Robert Shaw – $70,000
Jill Morse : $70,000
Sheila Thompson : $70,000
We will also need a line of credit to get through early months of negative balances.
This needs some introduction. It’s not your average music business plan. You may find it a little unconventional and a little more flashy than others, but you know what? It is interesting, I am sure. It’s different, creative and a bit innovating. We struggled with conforming to formal business planning guidelines. So instead of just slightly breaking one rule, we either made our own or altered the existing rules. It works for us. We wonder if you will find it to work for your business.
Every now and again, I find myself wondering how connected we all really are as individuals living in a global community. How much do we truly consider one another? Is life just a separate journey for each of us? Do you think I can make your journey more enjoyable? Can you do that for me? Is it better to take care of yourself only? It is not safer to care for yourself alone. Although we may sometimes feel like we are alone in a chaotic world, we are not. We are vibrant, creative, expressive people constantly contributing to the various components of life’s …. And so we create our own world. We wanted our Business Plan to convey that, and we wanted you to know our intentions.
Every Little Now, and Then
…someone or something comes along that makes us sit up and pay attention. Something that touches us at a level much deeper than routine…something that whispers to the soul because it holds value, honesty and integrity. Pay attention. It could be something.
Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd. is an entertainment production, distribution, and performance company that specializes in the maximization of entertainment business opportunities through digital satellite music services, worldwide reach of Internet, and the middle market of the music industry.
Let’s not forget that the music business plan might not be in accordance with all professional etiquette. But, we’ve been around for awhile and have learned valuable lessons. A business plan is invaluable and provides unambiguous clarity. While ours is well-written, it’s not the stuffy8217 plan we expected. However, the proof is in how it describes, predicts, and communicates the company’s focus and objectives. We will see if it holds any significance, but time will tell.
Objectives
We ask that you allow us some creative freedom to tell our story using the words that are most comfortable for us.
What to Do with It?
The sounds of our existence; the cadence and rhythm of our lives; the melodies of their hearts; all of these things are represented, enveloped and embodied in a wide range of musical expressions. Music touches every part of our lives. It brings us joy in times of despair, hope in moments when we’re in despair, and victory in times of struggle or conflict. No, we have no plans to write, produce, or perform the next Broadway musical. Yes, we do plan to provide some of the finest music you’ll find just about anywhere. We don’t seek stardom, as most of our players have been there in some way or another. We intend to provide music you can live by, love, cry over, laugh at, and sing along. We are experts in real life. That is, one person reaching out to another person. There are some voices that speak to our souls, great songs, amazing musicians, charismatic entertainers, who make us pause and pay attention. One person will listen to a country song, while another will sing along to bluegrass music, while another will be singing along to pop songs, while another will be able to belt out Dixieland jazz tunes. This is the essence of what I mean.
The magic of music is beyond boundaries. It erases all barriers.
Our goal is simply to create the business entity which will manage our extraordinary group of talented individuals’ activities to produce, distribute, perform and market musical offerings through traditional channels of distribution, internet access, digital satellite networks, and traditional avenues. We also occasionally perform live. Project by project, this will be done in a specific way to achieve specific results.
1. In the first half of Fall Year 1, Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd. will have its own fully functional office with Internet access, digital satellite license/access, and all necessary equipment/personnel infrastructure.
2. Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd., in the early Fall Year, will have been fully insured, bonded, indemnified and able to take on the numerous responsibilities of the production, distribution, and performance music.
3. Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd., expects to have four separate projects ready for production by the start of the Fall Year1.
4. Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd., expects to have at least four projects under production by the end year 1.
5. Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd. will receive a return on at least six to nine projects that are ‘living’ in the music market by mid-Year 2.
6. Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd., expects to be receiving a return for a total of 12 projects, including all previously ‘#8216’ still ‘living’ in the music market by Year 3.
Keys for Success
1. The strategic organization of creative endeavors into project format, allowing each project to be individually financed, developed, maintained and tracked according to its unique requirements and objectives.
a. It provides the #8216umbrella security and licensing#8217; of Edgar Risk Ventures, but allows each project to have its own unique existence.
b. Each project can be a source of revenue for Edgar Risk Ventures. Its success is dependent upon the market’s worthiness.
c. Multiple-project formats allow for a wide variety of application and effort to maximize each market’s potential through individual projects.
d. Due to the funding for each project, this format reduces risk for Edgar Risk Ventures.
2. Multi-channel visibility development for Edgar Risk Ventures, via strategic contacts. Internet presence. Digital satellite access. Product development.
3. Strategic utilization of the untapped pool of performance and production talent that makes up Edgar Risk Ventures’ personnel.
4. Excellence and commitment are integrated into every product and performance, which creates the integrity Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd. shall have.
Mission
Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd., offers individuals the opportunity to record performance (CDs, Tapes), market distribution, satellite air play, traditional aerial play, Internet marketing, exposure, as well as market return.
Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd. offers digital satellite customers, the Internet E-Commerce market, and the live performance market, high-quality, professionally produced, expertly distributed music products in many genres, including country, bluegrass, jazz, pop, and religion.
Edgar Risk Ventures, Ltd., provides investors with a plan for a return-on investment opportunity. It offers production, distribution, and performance projects in individual format plans. These projects #8216live#8217 as independent entities, but they also benefit from the security, strategic connections, and proficient talent offered by Edgar Risk Ventures. These projects are ‘#8216’live if the project is viable, enduring.
Safe Keeping has been developed through much research to address public concern with protecting their property. John Walter has been in law enforcement over 20 years. His last five years were as a commander for a burglary unit at the Eugene Police Dept. Safe Keeping will go into businesses and private residences and make a video tape record of all the belongings in that business and residence.
As a consultant, we will help people to better protect their property. All videos will remain confidential. We will keep a copy at our business. There are $4,000 in start up costs, including the cost for a video camera. John Walter will finance the start-up expenses. Safe Keeping’s goal market strategy is to be an attractive choice for homeowners and businesses in the greater Eugene, Springfield region.
Small and large companies will be our market. This service will also reach private homeowners. We want to provide superior in customer service, security knowledge, and maintain the strictest confidentiality.
John Walter will manage a simple and comprehensive website. It was created by an outside consultant. It will provide information about our services as well as the costs. John Walter, the owner of the company, will oversee all aspects of it including bookkeeping and Joe Norten as his employee. John will advise homeowners and businesses on security issues.
Safe Keeping is seeking a 10% growth rate in sales in Year 1 to exceed $116,000 in total revenues. This is a new niche for the security industry that has not been tapped and Safe Keeping is excited to serve the citizens of the Eugene, Springfield area in the coming year and the future.
1.1 Objectives
In Year 2, you can achieve a 10% annual growth rate
Maintain a monthly gross margin of not less than 40%
The first year of sales, average $116,000
1.2 Keys for Success
The following factors are key to the success of a company:
Get great customer service and support to sell our services.
Keep in contact with law enforcement agencies.
Keep your customers happy to make repeat purchases.
Referrals by our existing customer base
1.3 Mission
Safe Keeping aims at providing a security service that makes homeowners and businesses feel more comfortable about the security of their properties. Insuring and protecting one’s property is a personal matter.
Safe Keeping aims to provide quality customer service, while respecting clients’ privacy. Our service helps people to protect the possessions they have worked hard to obtain and advises clients on preventative protection.
Both in scope and nature, the marketplace for janitorial services and products is changing. As cleaners are more widely available, consumers are becoming more aware of the impact on the environment.
ChemSafe offers a innovative line of biodegradable, environmentally safe, citrus cleaners to janitorial services, retail outlets and consumers.
This product line contains:
Automotive cleaners
Industrial cleaners;
Degreasers;
Use hand cleaners
Odor control;
Tar remover
Concrete cleaners;
Car wax and vehicle washing products
ChemSafe products are available for use by car washes as well as churches, food service outlets and hospitals. A number of ChemSafe products will be available from retail outlets and any product can be purchased from the company’s secure website.
Today, cleaning products’ safety is of greater concern than ever. Consumers want to know if the product they are using damages the environment. ChemSafe is committed in providing safe products to protect the environment.
1.1 Objectives
Establish ChemSafe products as the regional leader in selling biodegradable, environmentally safe, cleaners.
Over the next two year, increase the number and quality of ChemSafe products in retail outlets by 20 percent
Establish a strong working relationship with all the janitorial companies in the region.
1.2 Mission
ChemSafe’s mission is to introduce innovative cleanser products to its target customer base. Charles Marshall, owner of ChemSafe, will utilize his janitorial background, his experience in the cleanser products industry, and his contacts with the region’s wholesale distributors and janitorial companies to create products that target consumers want.
1.3 Keys to Success
ChemSafeՉ۪s success is dependent on the following:
Innovative janitorial solutions. This is crucial for maintaining niche market segments mentioned in our mission statement.
Reliable and timely delivery. ChemSafe must make good on its delivery promises.
A reliable administration that is available for customers to prepare accurate billing, follow up on orders, and keep a close check on expenses and collection of receivables.
Arrow Mail is an innovative and high-quality personal mail business for financial service companies that are focused on small businesses.
Arrow Mail is different from other target marketing agencies because of a number of traits:
Quality Arrow Mail delivers high-quality mail pieces. To ensure that the mailing file contains the most accurate address block, the company follows rigorous procedures. The company creates a highly personalized piece that does not scream “junk mail.” The personalization is done on high-resolution (600 dpi) laser printers to produce a mailing piece that looks like personal correspondence.
Service – Marketing staffs are often limited in time and resources. Arrow Mail serves as an extension for the customer’s team and provides exceptional customer service. The team-oriented environment ensures that the mail is delivered on time and correctly.
Creativity. Direct mail must grab the readers attention and get the message across. Arrow Mail has the ability to design a unique direct mail program that suits the customer’s preferences and budget. The company can also modify existing programs to best suit the customer’s needs. Because “one size doesn’t fit all”, all of the designs, copy and copy are custom-made to the satisfaction of the customer.
Knowledge Arrow Mail is not a lettershop or printer that recently added personalization. The company is an agency for direct marketing. With more than 20 years of experience, it has gained valuable information about prospect selection and database analysis.
The company office and production facility is a 5,000 sq. Monroe, Oregon, 22 miles northeast of Portland.
Arrow Mail’s owner, Todd Graham, has authored a number of articles on direct mail that have appeared in industry trade publications. He has over 20 years of experience in the field.
Todd joined Johnson Communication 20 year ago and was a key player in the company’s response. They introduced new products that could be used for quality targeted marketing. Todd has gained his experience as an account manager for Reilly Marketing, Triumph Direct Mail and other companies.
1.1 Mission
Arrow Mail is a direct mail company that specializes in creative, innovative marketing strategies for financial companies. This will appeal to small businesses.
1.2 Objectives
Arrow Mail has the following goals:
50 customers within the first year.
Sell more than $260,000
By the end of the second-year of operation, the customer base will have increased by 25%
Ensure that sales increase by 15% by the second year.
This business plan outlines the strategy for sales of enterprise software planning solutions to medium-sized companies and franchises. Corporate Software Sales (CSS), will be the sales arm for a software manufacturing company based in Oregon. We expect a high degree of profitability based on our plan to key in on businesses that have already expressed the need for such services and products to the software manufacturer. Our ability to deal with corporate decision makers, and our partnership’s reputation, will be the foundation of our success.
1.1 Objectives
In the first year, you can market a business planning package to corporate managers and earn $60K in commissions.
Customize the software to the individual needs of each client.
Provide training and follow-up service to each client.
1.2 Mission
CSS recognizes that information is vital to management. This is why they are able to present it in an efficient and understandable manner. However, not all managers need the same tools. What might work for a service-based business may not work for a manufacturer. We offer a third-party planning tool that has been proven to work, which we can customize to meet the individual needs of each client. We understand the relationship between quality products as well as profitability. However, our success is ultimately determined by the well-being and health of our employees.
1.3 Keys To Success
The success of our company is dependent on our ability to:
Take into account the clients’ needs.
These are the types of needs that adapt software solutions.
Identify industries/corporations that need planning tools.
Information Management Hawaii, Inc. (IMH), by focusing its strengths, its key clients, and the underlying principles they need, will increase sales steadily for the first three year. The gross margin on sales will be maintained while the focus is on cash management, and working capital.
This business plan is the key to success. It renews the vision and strategic focus of our company: adding value to target market segments and strengthening our ties to local businesses. It also provides the step-by-step plan for improving our sales, gross margin, and profitability.
This plan includes the following summary, chapters on company, products and service, market focus, action plan and forecasts, management, and the financial planning.
1.1 Objectives
1. Get healthy earnings (EBIT), within the first year.
2. Maintain a midrange gross margin throughout the entire operation.
3. Keep just-in-time inventory levels (JIT) or 11 rotations per year.
4. In the second and third year, sales will increase slowly but steadily.
1.2 Mission
To provide the Hawai’i business community with quality brand-name Information Technology business information solutions, reliable and professional Technical Support, and unparalleled Customer Service through the application of the principles of Kina`ole and heartfelt aloha, and to earn a fair profit for our employee-owners and stakeholders by embracing sound, ethical business practices.
1.3 Keys to Success
These are the keys to our success:
Establishing and maintaining strong strategic alliances with our manufacturing partners and other business partners in the industry;
Adopting a customer and market-focused marketing and sales paradigm.
Manager of the business, implementing and continuously measuring and adapting the fundamentals a Balanced Scocard.
