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Hello, have you looked at the obvious for inspiration like the Princes Trust templates or the DirectGov, or the choices of many scattering the Internet.Hello everyone I am looking at starting a small window cleaning business to complement my income and was wondering if there is a basic goto business plan that I could download and adjust as necessary.
Hello AustinHello, have you looked at the obvious for inspiration like the Princes Trust templates or the DirectGov, or the choices of many scattering the Internet.
If you use the government website and navigate through the BS you'll find the small business start up section
Welcome to the forum by the way. Didn't catch your name. An introduction would be nice as we are all friendly family here.
Kind regards Austin
https://www.gov.uk/write-business-plan
I completely agree Ched. 90% are fictional goals and figures with a load of BS about where you see yourself, what services you offer and generalised yawning material.Maybe a silly question but why do you need a business plan? Is it that you are trying to get finance? If not then you might be over complicating things. While it's good to have goals most of the business plans I have ever read are 80% garbage, they are just based on optimistic guesses to try and impress someone. The ones I have read wouldn't help the businesses succeed or grow faster as the people who write them don't actually know how to run a business in the sector they are intending to compete in.
You need to be able to do a good job cleaning windows, be friendly, earn enough to pay yourself and keep money back for tax, sickness, holiday pay, equipment etc.
Yeah I agree completely and it seems to me there is a simple fundamental for any business - aquiring customers. How are you going to get enough new customers to survive? And what sort of budget do you have for this?Maybe a silly question but why do you need a business plan? Is it that you are trying to get finance? If not then you might be over complicating things. While it's good to have goals most of the business plans I have ever read are 80% garbage, they are just based on optimistic guesses to try and impress someone. The ones I have read wouldn't help the businesses succeed or grow faster as the people who write them don't actually know how to run a business in the sector they are intending to compete in.
You need to be able to do a good job cleaning windows, be friendly, earn enough to pay yourself and keep money back for tax, sickness, holiday pay, equipment etc.
Just so you know I haven't started cleaning windows yet due to shielding since last Feb! I have started, and successfully ran 3 businesses, and subsequently sold 2 of them.
Keep it simple ?You can have my business plan
Find customer
Clean
Repeat
Repeat
Good luck
That's the best way to do anything ? at least that's what the wifes says!KISS - keep it simple stupid ?