Business Plan
Business Plan: Progressive Consulting
What follows is a complete business plan for a hypothetical company. Please copy or save to your disk and use as an example in developing your own business plan.
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1. 0 Executive Summary
Progressive Consulting will be formed as a consulting company specializing in marketing of high technology products in international markets. Its founders are former marketers of consulting services, personal computers, and market research, all in international markets. They are founding Progressive Consulting to formalize the consulting services they offer.
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3 Company Services
Progressive offers expertise in channel distribution, channel development, and market development, sold and packaged in various ways that allow clients to choose their preferred relationship: these include retainer consulting relationships, project based consulting, relationship and alliance brokering, sales representation and market representation, project-based market research, published market research, and information forum events.
2. 4 Company locations and facilities
The initial office will be established in A quality office space in the Los
Angeles County " Dearborn Valley" area of California, the heart of the U.S. high tech industry.
3. 0 Services
Progressive offers the expertise a high-technology company needs to develop new product distribution and new market segments in new markets. This can be taken as high-level retainer consulting, market research reports, or project-based consulting. 3. 1 Service Description
1. Retainer consulting: we represent a client company as an extension of its business development and market development functions. This begins with complete understanding of
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