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Strategy and Implementation Summary
What is your common approach to make your business a winner and how will you achieve this?
Software Marketing Strategy
What are the definite ways you are going to use in order to promote your Software business to your existing and impending customers. You can as well add the costs involved in doing this and strategies involved in lowering your marketing outlay and how your marketing strategy can seek out your customers better. For example if you are using PPC as a strategy to target Software patrons you possibly will employ long tail keyword search phrases preferably than succinct generic words. This ought to slash your Pay Per Click outlay as well as laser targeting your patrons; even though it will of course take longer to set up. Read more about marketing strategy.
Software Pricing Strategy
How did you work out your price points services and products? Are you going to use cost-plus pricing, limit pricing, loss leaders, market-oriented pricing, penetration pricing, price discrimination, premium pricing, predatory pricing, contribution margin-based pricing, psychological pricing, dynamic pricing, target pricing, absorption pricing, high-low pricing, marginal-cost pricing, odd pricing, freemium or pay what you want pricing?
Check out this article on pricing up your products
Promotion Strategy
What promotion strategies are you going to put into service to get the word out concerning your products and services to your potential patrons - are you going to do media releases, hold events, networking, sales pitches, follow-ups, have promotional products?
Business Competitive Edge
Do you have some advantage over your rivalry that you can exploit to your gain? Are you capable of keeping your outlay lower than your competition so that you are continually the cheapest? Do you have a premier place? Are you the original or the only one to provide a product or service? Are you capable of staying ahead of the rivalry and if so what enables you to do this? Do you have a good name, trademarks, patents or a licence?
Web Strategy
Are you just going to have nothing at all or an all singing and dancing website with bells and whistles on? In most scenarios it's going to be something in-between these two, and you need to deliberate long and hard where your business is going to position itself. You can pay a visit to this website and get more information regarding putting your Software business online.
Sales Strategy
How are you going to get sales for your Software business in the first place and how are you going to build up or uphold sales as time goes on? How much are your sales going to cost you? Make definite you know what questions to ask of your likely patrons and know the answers to likely questions they will ask you. How are you going to encourage a relationship with your patrons to get prospective sales from them? How are you going to scrutinize your sales? Do you want to increase your sales?
Formulating a good business proposal will increase your chances of getting a sale. Use this sample Software business proposal to assist you.
Management Summary
Management Team
Who are the central players in your business?
Software Organizational Structure
What is the structure of your business - who is in charge of each division inside your organization?
Personnel Plan
This should be a listing of everybody in your business, how much they are paid and what if any share options they have for now and in the future. You can also add what type of contracts they have, short and long term and whether that is likely to change in the future or not.
Software Financial Plan
Will you supply all your own funding or will it be a fusion of your funds, bank loans, or angel investors? Do you need help in writing your financial plan?
Software Break Even Analysis
How long will it take to get your investments back in terms of capital outlay through sales of your products and services. You should represent this in a graphical format. You can obtain free breakeven analysis including a spreadsheet and simple examples.
Software Profit and Loss
You can embody this usually in the form of a monthly and yearly bar chart as well as tables. Clearly these ought to be revised as your business goes along on a monthly basis. You can obtain a free profit and loss spreadsheet to assist you.
Software Cash Flow
You ought to have tables and charts to explain your cash balance and your net cash flow. Download a free cash flowspreadheet.
Appendix
This ought to add in all your critical info which makes your business operate efficiently. This should be your business financials - so all your tables of numbers, tax returns, inventory estimates and personal and business credit history information. The information in the appendix is highly confidential and should only be given to potential investors.
Exit Strategy
How exactly are you going to sell your Software Business?
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