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Top Pros And Cons Of Starting A Tutoring Business

The Startup Magazine

While the potential market is substantial, you will have to work hard to promote yourself and offer something differentiated from your competition to win over clients. Entering the world of tutoring means that you will likely face fierce competition from other established and qualified tutors. Bottom Line.

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How to Write a Business Plan

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You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. It’s time to dig into the process of actually writing a business plan. In this step-by-step guide, I’ll take you through every stage of writing a business plan that will actually help you achieve your goals.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

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Recently, Palo Alto Software CEO Sabrina Parsons hosted a webinar for our Bcast members on how to use LivePlan to create a better business plan, pitch your idea to investors, and track your business. As a successful small business owner, Sabrina wanted to show off how LivePlan’s many features can help boost your business.

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How to Build a Restaurant Sales Forecast

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Instead, she summarizes and aggregates enough to make a useful forecast that she can track, review, and revise as needed with the ongoing business. Notice here that Magda doesn’t try to break lunches down into sandwiches, soup, burgers, ham versus cheese, turkey versus beef, or any of that detail. Estimating direct costs.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds. Meanwhile, the VCs surveyed indicated that their firms are only doing a few deals every six months and go through one hundred business plans to close one deal. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. Add to this that 72.7%