Make a reference for Small Business 1-2 person owned and operated

[kmphillips]

I am a new small business owner, operator. I market my own product
successfully. I would be helpful to have a reference to a small business
plan. It would also be helpful to locate other small businesses and discuss
step to step prodcedures, what worked, what has not worked. This this from
the developmental point of an idea or dream into a profitable business. What
would you do differently? What forms were helpful to develop for your
business. How long did it take your business to "turn around" and be a
profit making business? What parts of your business did you contract out and
at what stages?

On microsofts office site, the other thing I would find increably helpful
would be if there was a template that was designed so it could take your logo
and selected information and apply it through a set of templates. For
example: You set up a business card with your info and logo and then are
prompted for Do you want to set up matching stationary, then the prompts
could continue for matching price lists, inventory, envelopes, post cards,
thank you cards, and other forms. Each screen would also have to have a
finish button so at any point in the process you could finish but also have a
next and previous selection button so if you had to stop on a particular form
you could also resume the development. This would make it much more friendly
rather than having to search for a standard template then doing the
individual downloads and then having to do the form development.

 

[Bob I]

Try the SBA site and the SCORE site.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

KM

This is a help site for those having problems with Microsoft products in the
MS Office range.. it is NOT a business advisory service..

Secondly, once briefly accustomed to the functions within MS Word and
Publisher, it should not take too long to produce company templates that can
be used in your business.. one could produce a 1000 templates to be included
into the MS Office product, but there is a good chance that none would quite
cut it and would, therefore, require adaptation/change..

There are paper suppliers with ranges of pre-printed business stationery,
but they do charge well for it.. a Google search should bring up info..

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi K.M.,

On your second suggestion, some of that can be done
through using MS Office Publisher (i.e. setup your business
data and logo and use it in a set of matching stationery,
ads, business cards.
http://microsoft.com/Office/publisher/prodinfo/
and http://office.microsoft.com/publisher
On your first request, while it's primarily for selling more
MS software, you may want to visit the MS Small Business Center
http://microsoft.com/smallbusiness/

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I am a new small business owner, operator. I market my own product
successfully. I would be helpful to have a reference to a small business
plan. It would also be helpful to locate other small businesses and discuss
step to step prodcedures, what worked, what has not worked. This this from
the developmental point of an idea or dream into a profitable business. What
would you do differently? What forms were helpful to develop for your
business. How long did it take your business to "turn around" and be a
profit making business? What parts of your business did you contract out and
at what stages?

On microsofts office site, the other thing I would find increably helpful
would be if there was a template that was designed so it could take your logo
and selected information and apply it through a set of templates. For
example: You set up a business card with your info and logo and then are
prompted for Do you want to set up matching stationary, then the prompts
could continue for matching price lists, inventory, envelopes, post cards,
thank you cards, and other forms. Each screen would also have to have a
finish button so at any point in the process you could finish but also have a
next and previous selection button so if you had to stop on a particular form
you could also resume the development. This would make it much more friendly
rather than having to search for a standard template then doing the
individual downloads and then having to do the form development. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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