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Pull Investors to Your Business Plan With a Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation).

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Eight Ways To Get Past The Fear Of “No”  And Start Risking Rejection

YoungUpstarts

One of the main reasons why hopeful business owners don’t succeed is not because they don’t have a worthy product or a well-thought-out business plan, but because they’re afraid of rejection. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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Give Investors an Executive Summary That Rocks

Startup Professionals Musings

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation).

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1001 Serial Articles for Entrepreneurs & Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t yet realize the low-cost potential for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, direct marketing and e-commerce. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site.

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Investors Love a Concise Executive Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation).

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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

YoungUpstarts

Business plans sit in boxes or on hard drives as their creators wait for the right conditions: funding, free time, better economic conditions. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy. Thinking Aloud business risk risk Tom Panaggio'

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