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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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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. When developing your ideal patient profile, consider: Who you enjoy working with.

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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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UW-Madison Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrating SBDC Day. Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) can help. What is a Small Business Development Center (SBDC)? Many centers also offer access to LivePlan , a business planning software with budgeting, forecasting, and benchmarking capabilities.

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

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They’re constantly hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. “We The Hughes brothers developed a solid business plan and built a core team to bring their vision to reality.

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The Art of Good Inventory Management

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Cost of goods sold may be increasing in relation to total sales, squeezing the profits in the business. Revenues may be decreasing, showing customers are not interested in purchasing the merchandise your business has for sale. First, develop a forecast: What inventory is needed for each cycle of business over the next year?

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How to Balance Cash Flow in a Seasonal Business

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Seasonal businesses are very common, especially in locales where travel and tourism are important industries, where weather has an impact on outdoor business operations, and where retail sales slow during the winter months. To ensure sufficient cash flow through the slower sales season, business owners employ various survival techniques.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

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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. We really encourage you to think about your sales lines in terms of those big major categories. So think about sales goals.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

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Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. We wanted ice cream that we make from scratch,” Emily says, “to showcase local, Oregon dairy, and using local, seasonal fruit, berries, and produce.”. Again, sales tripled. “By

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