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This essential step-by-step guide for anyone launching or expanding a successful business has been used by over a million entrepreneurs. It includes expert help, worksheets to jumpstart the process, a sample business plan, tips on impressing funders, winning tips for competitions, and more. Used in the top business schools throughout the nation, the book covers every aspect of a successful business plan, from the components of the actual plan, to making the plan compelling, to presentation methods, to looking for money, and much more.



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Rhonda Abrams

Rhonda Abrams has helped millions of people launch and grow successful businesses. Her first book, Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies is the bestselling business plan guide of all time and is considered the definitive guide to business planning. It was acclaimed by Forbes magazine as one of the two best books for small business and by Inc. magazine as one of the six best books for startups. She has authored 19 books, which have sold more than 2 million copies and been translated into 30 languages, including the popular Six-Week Startup, Business Plan in a Day, and Entrepreneurship: A Real-World Approach. She has a deep knowledge of the small business market and a passion for entrepreneurship. Her books, written with the express purpose of enabling people make their business vision a reality, are clear, concise, actionable, and practical. Rhonda is also an entrepreneurship/small business columnist for USA Today but she not only writes about entrepreneurship - she lives it! She has started four businesses and is currently the founder/President of PlanningShop. She knows what it takes to meet payroll, pay vendors, reach and keep customers, find and impress investors, and get products out the door. You can find out more about Rhonda at www.RhondaAbrams.com.



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