Get a Benchmark Assessment to start off your
business plan!

Why a Benchmark Assessment?
  1. Don't be blind-sighted when the bank turns you down
    because they benchmarked you first.
  2. Be ready to explain your strengths and weaknesses.  If
    you don't know them, you can't write an effective plan
  3. Know how your competition stacks up to your business
    performance.  If you don't know your competitor, you
    won't be able to prepare a strategy to compete well.
A 25-30 page report that identifies:
  1. Business strengths
  2. Business weaknesses
  3. How your business compares with competitors in your
    industry
  4. Recommendations for improving business
    performance and profits
  5. A sit-down discussion of results for strategy and
    actions to improve business performance
Obtain a Winning Business Plan for Funding Your
Business Growth!
Three strategies exist for businesses in a challenging economy:
    1.  An exit strategy,
    2.  Satisfaction with the status quo, or
    3.  Growth and expansion.  

Being satisfied and waiting for the tough times to end is simply thriving on survival.  Survival is simply not enough for an
ongoing business in today's volatile marketplace in which small businesses face the exit more frequently.  A strategy gives
business owners a focus on tomorrow and is a proactive approach to business success.

Planning your business future is more than jotting down a few notes, choosing a legal structure, setting up an e-mail address
and website, and identifying what it is you will offer the market.  It takes deliberate and focused effort in setting forth a strategy
to win customers in the marketplace.

AFB Business Solutions has several productive tools available for helping you move your business forward.  The following
products includes the application plus coaching through the process.

YOU DON'T STOP WITH JUST THE BUSINESS PLAN!  YOU MUST PLAN TO PITCH IT TO
THE LENDER OR INVESTOR!  
Like writing and publishing a book, you need to pitch your business plan to the
lender or funding party.  We take you through five steps you need to persuade the lender or funder that you mean business
and that they need to join you in your venture.
PROCESS
DESCRIPTION
Developing a Mission Statement

Why have a mission statement?  The mission
statement is the window through which your customers
see themselves in your products or services.  Your
destination is the customer's destiny.  The mission
statement is all about your customer.  The mission
statement captures your customer so they don't go
elsewhere.  

Recognize that your mission statement is the first
stepping stone for growing your business.

Walks you through mission statement development word for
word.  You will also receive customized coaching until you are
satisfied with your mission statement.  Coaching includes
guidance, suggestions, and review to completion.
Organizing Your Business to Meet the Market

Just as your products fits your customers needs, so
also does your management team fit the business
needs.  A well-managed business has personnel in the
right place with clearly defined roles and
responsibilities.

A five step development plan for your management team and
how to place them where each becomes most effective in the
business.  This application is for businesses with two or more
owners or managers.  This module also has the option of
customized coaching until you are satisfied.  Coaching includes
guidance, suggestions, and reviews to completion.
Identifying Opportunities for Your Business

Opportunity is the door through which your business
enters the marketplace.  Ideas serve as catalysts for
opportunity. This module guides you outside of the box
for identifying opportunities that relate to your current
business offerings.  It opens the door to greater
revenue possibilities.

You offer more than you think.

Five steps toward identifying business opportunities, means of
pursuing them, and ways of identifying their revenue stream and
costs
.  This module also includes customized coaching until you
are satisfied.  Coaching includes guidance, suggestions, and
review to completion.
Defining and Planning for Risks
Adversely Affecting Your Business

Risk is part of managing a business.  You either
engage them directly or prepare an exit strategy.

Prevent Fraud, embezzlement, theft, and
other property and casualty losses to your
business

A five step process module to enable you to identify external
risks that could adversely affect your business and how to
answer each one with a successful plan of action.  This section
also includes customized coaching until you are satisfied.  
Coaching includes guidance, suggestions, and review to
completion.
Developing winning strategies

Business growth requires intentional action that begins
with proper definition, focus, and strategic plan.  Do
you have a strategy for growing revenue and your
business?

This module takes you through the steps for developing practical
strategies for developing your business for reaching customers.  

This module also includes customized coaching until you are
satisfied.  Coaching includes guidance, suggestions, and review
to completion.  This is a standalone product or one that can be
integrated with any one of the other modular products.
Setting Objectives A proactive Approach for
Business Growth

A five step process for establishing effective objectives
that align with your business strategies.

This module guides you through a proven method for setting
realistic and attainable objectives for satisfying and achieving
your strategies.   This module also includes customized coaching
until you are satisfied.  Coaching includes guidance,
suggestions, and review to completion.  This is a standalone
product or one that can be integrated with
Strategies for Your
Business
.
Convincing & Realistic Forecasted Financial
Statements

How much revenue will you realize from your strategies
and objectives?  How much will they cost you to
implement?  Implementing a business strategy or
objective without realizing what they will produce in
revenue or expenses could lead to over extending
your business.  You will then run the risk of failure.

This section identifies your revenue stream and expenses for
each strategy and corresponding objectives you implement.  
This module also includes customized coaching until you are
satisfied.  Coaching includes guidance, suggestions, and review
to completion.
AFB Business Solutions and Business Planning and Strategy Solutions
Get started today on the right track by calling (866) 314-0344 or e-mailing us at
info@afbbusinesssolutions.com