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MAY 18, 2011

Remember, there is no single way to forecast any business. Magda was looking at forecasting sales for a small restaurant. Magda isn’t turning to some magic information source to find out what her sales will be. The point of this example is simply that Magda has to find a way to make sense of her forecast.

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MAY 24, 2011

Tweet The Palo Alto Software team is at the National Restaurant Association Conference this week and Bplans is featuring articles and resources for restaurant owners. Remember, there is no single way to forecast any business. Magda was looking at forecasting sales for a small restaurant. It’s often very creative.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Next month I’ll have another round of it, judging both the University of Oregon New Venture Competition and the Rice Business Plan Competition. Real businesses make profits like 7 percent, 9 percent, occasionally even low double-digit profits (stated as a percentage of sales). Instead of that, validate sales by bottoms-up assumptions.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary. Here’s a brief example: The problem : There is a lack of affordable pediatric and gynecological care available in coastal areas of Lane County, Oregon. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Many centers also offer access to LivePlan , a business planning software with budgeting, forecasting, and benchmarking capabilities. Usually, they need to revisit their sales forecast , their cash flow (and whether they’re getting paid on time), or some other element of their financial plan.

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JULY 31, 2014

This is Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software. What is it about your business that made you think you’re going to make it this much in sales and yet somehow you didn’t achieve that. This means you need to set goals in sales and expenses. Don’t set a sales goal or a sales forecast with a hundred line items in there.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. Jonathan is doing RIDE’s forecasting and financial planning with LivePlan , a cloud-based business planning software. Right now, prevention is a hassle. But it doesn’t have to be.

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