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Get Help With Your Business Plan : What Consultants Can Do
Jan 5th
Business plan consultants can offer you the help you need to create a winning business plan. A winning business plan, in this sense, means a plan that creates no barriers to you getting funded and also gives you a valuable management tool for the business going forward.
Expertise on What Funders Want
Having gone through the process before, consultants know what funders (and specific types of funders) will look for in the plan, and can offer specific feedback to help target your plan. Even before offering this feedback, they can check that you are going after the right type of funding for your business opportunity. If not, they may recommend you switch your target to another funder class more likely to be interested. This can stop you from wasting time chasing deals which aren’t just going to happen because your business offers the wrong mix of risk and return for the funder.
Strategies That Work
Having worked with entrepreneurs many times before, consultants will be able to tell you whether your strategy is likely to work. They also generally have access to case studies and other research. With this they can offer ideas for other strategies to break into the customer markets you are targeting based on past successful businesses. They can also look at businesses that have entered into similar competitive situations and suggest how to carve out your own positioning in a crowded market.
Financial and Legal Advice
Business plan consultants have a legal, financial, and accounting understanding of startup businesses, allowing you to use their advice in all of these areas rather than seeing multiple professionals. They can be a bit of a one-stop-shop in this respect, saving you money and a great deal of time. Good consultants will also know when your questions or needs exceed their expertise in these areas and to refer you to a lawyer or accountant at this point.
Fashionable Stylish Consultants
Jan 4th
As women we are meant to be natural born shoppers and our own style consultants. We are meant to go into department stores or boutiques and enjoy the whole experience. But very often shopping isn’t like that at all. We enter a store feeling intimidated by the assistants and overwhelmed by the amount of choice of colours and styles. We may head straight for the black trousers and safe blouse for work. We may try something more adventurous for a party we know we have to go to but aren’t really sure if it suits us. The sales assistant declares it to be fabulous and we buy it on impulse. Sometimes, we wish Susannah and Trinny would pop up and say, “Why are you buying that? Try this instead.” We long for some guidance and assurance that what we’re buying is right. And when we get home, we hang the new items next to the other ‘mistakes’ in our wardrobes. When the party day arrives, we put on our newly acquired garments and ask the husband, “Does my bum look big in this?” as if he’d be brave enough to give an honest answer. The kids aren’t much help either. They will either be overly gushing, hoping for a pocket money rise, or will screw up their noses and shrug, which tells you everything you need to know!
So where can you get some honest advice and how can you avoid all these shopping disasters in the future? Why not get some professional advice from a style consultant? A personal image consultant will be able to give you impartial advice about what suits you best. They are not a sales assistant on commission or your best friend who only likes certain colours. They will be able to look at your colours (eyes, skin tone and hair) and analyse which colours will flatter you most, making you look young and healthy. They will show you how to use these colours and put together a wardrobe so that you will have many combinations that mix and match.
Next, your style consultant will help you establish what’s best for your style. Often in TV makeover programmes there has to be a huge contrast between the ‘before’ and ‘after’ and you often get the feeling that the makeover recipient is never going to cope with the killer heels, the high maintenance make-up and hair routine and the glamorous new clothes in her everyday life. You wonder how she will look two weeks after the cameras have left.
In real life, your personal image consultant will listen to your needs, your lifestyle, and budget, and they’ll assess your personality as there may be some styles that will suit your body shape but that you just won’t feel comfortable in. For instance, if you are usually very casual, a satin shift dress with bold print will be of no use to you however great it looks. So your consultant will take into account your lifestyle and personality as they look at your body shape and proportions and advise you which styles will flatter you most and what you need to avoid. They will help you put together a look which highlights your best features and hides the worst. You will end up with a wardrobe full of clothes that you may have walked past in the shops but which are perfect for you.
With the right image advice, your shopping will become a joy! And armed with the knowledge of what you should be buying, the task of shopping will become so much easier.
To find a personal image consultant for you, speak to some of the style consultants in your area. You may be surprised at how reasonable a consultation can be, especially when you consider that their advice will last for years and will mean no more mistakes in your wardrobe. Use the web to find your nearest style consultants.
