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Remember, there is no single way to forecast any business. Magda was looking at forecasting sales for a small restaurant. The point of this example is simply that Magda has to find a way to make sense of her forecast. Magda should get on a computer and put her forecast in a spreadsheet. It’s often very creative.

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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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Review your business plan regularly. Committing to regularly reviewing your business plan and financials is a good step toward making more informed, smarter spending decisions, that can have a big impact on a new business’s long term viability. Many brewers avoid that due to perceived qualitative differences,” says Patrick.

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Next month I’ll have another round of it, judging both the University of Oregon New Venture Competition and the Rice Business Plan Competition. With that in mind, I’ve recently reviewed an early post, and updated the 10 things I hate most when they come up in business pitches. Here’s the latest. Your pitch was boring.

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On Bplans and in business planning software like LivePlan, our free sample business plans are all real business plans written by real people. That might have been fine in 2001, but if you were opening a kennel in the state of Oregon today, you’d get in big trouble with those numbers, since you’d be planning to pay your staff $.50

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Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary. If you’ve never written a business plan before, Bplans also offers a library of sample medical business plans that you can review or even download to use as a model. Encourage your patients to review you online, too.

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This is Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software. Don’t set a sales goal or a sales forecast with a hundred line items in there. You’ve got a three year forecast with your goals, monthly for the first 12 months, and then yearly for the next two years. I’m going to introduce to you our guest from MasterCard.

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