Getting a business plan written – expenses, contents and benefits
If you have your business plan prepared by an expert, then you will get a bankable document with everything that bankers and investors need for their decision. With a professional business plan and a confident appearance, you will most likely receive your financing.
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My name is Roland Giebitz, your business plan expert.
As a former private equity exec and management consultant at McKinsey, I know the requirements for your business plan to be accepted by the bank.
With a professional business plan and a convincing appearance at the bank, you will most likely receive your financing.
Company presentation
Concise and interesting presentation of your company
Many business plans are not well crafted. They are written in a too technical and too complicated jargon, sometimes redundant and unclear, and often simply boring. Such business plans – even if the business idea is good – provide a strong incentive for the banker or investor to quit reading.
From me you will receive a business plan that has been revised several times and is oriented towards the needs of the reader: concise, clear and understandable and written in an interesting way.
All financials in one place
An integrated cash flow model for sustainable success
When your banker asks you “What happens if the prices you’re getting are 5% lower and your customers take 20 days longer to pay their bills – will you still have enough cash flow to pay interest and repayments on our loan?”
Then you need a financial planning tool that gives you a robust answer to that question.
Then you need a financial planning tool that gives you a robust answer to that question.
You will receive from me an integrated financial plan that provides answers to such questions, from sales and costs in the P&L to investments, current assets and sources of financing in the balance sheet to the resulting cash flow.
Best- und Worst Case Analyses
Sensitivity analysis of success factors
Financial planning is based on an Excel model; from this you can extract important information. It shows you which variables of your business model have the greatest impact on your profit.
This gives you hints as to which variables you might need to analyze in more depth. And you get scenario analyses that show you how your business will develop in a negative scenario and in a positive scenario.
Who are you competing against?
Detailed market analyses
Many founders who give me a draft of their business plan write extensively about the product and the technology and their own qualifications. The parts that most often get neglected are market analysis, distribution channels and your approach to winning customers.
When I write your business plan, you will get a market analysis that is as comprehensive as necessary and as lean as possible to suit your needs.
The optimal marketing mix
The right sales measures
Bankers not only expect you to present coherent budget figures. Investors also expect you to explain what sales and marketing measures you intend to implement in order to achieve these figures. Your business success depends heavily on the fact that the planned sales actually materialize. And your actions in sales and marketing are key to that.
Together with you, we will develop an actionable set of measures.
Together with you, we will develop an actionable set of measures.
What is the collaboration process when you get your business plan done?
Our cooperation follows these 12 steps:
- We have a telephone conversation and you explain your project to me.
- I estimate the scope of the project and you receive a quote from me.
- We meet for an online kick-off meeting to get to know each other personally.
- You mail me the information that is already available.
- I create, or review, the financial planning numbers.
- We exchange ideas about the assumptions, the parameters, the conclusions, etc.
- The final financial plan shows the capital requirements for your project.
- I work out the chapters of the written part of the business plan.
- You will receive the new versions for proofreading.
- We finalize the business plan by incorporating your change requests.
- You receive the finished business plan as a PDF file.
- We select suitable banks and investors and send the business plan, if desired.
Our work process
What my customers are saying:
Tim Katthoefer
Headhunting firm
Roger Fangemann
Solar plant engineering
Christiano Pereira Koeters
Hair salon chain
A business plan tailored to you individually:
Business model description
- Gathering all relevant information,
- Elaborating growth opportunities and risks,
- Analysing the most important success factors,
- Formulating and editing the text section.
Development of financial forecasts
- Forecasting P&Ls: deriving sales forecasts and cost forecasts,
- Forecasting balance sheets: planning investments and working capital, as well as equity and debt financing,
- Forecasting cash flow statements: deriving forecast cash flows from forecast P&Ls and forecast balance sheets,
- Presenting and explaning these statements and the forecasts.
Market analysis
- Analyzing market size and market segments,
- Analyzing the competitive situation,
- Analyzing market growth and trends.
Development of marketing and sales measures
- Defining target customers,
- Narrowing down the range of products and services,
- Determining distribution channels,
- Determining communication channels,
- Developing the advertising budget.
Preparation for negotiations with banks
- Elaborating a presentation,
- Sparring for critical questions from bankers,
- Accompanying you to bank meetings,
- Answering questions from the bankers / investors.