Continuing with our small press business plan, I recently wrote the section entitled “Market Competition.” This is not as easy as it sounds. Firstly, there are a gazillion small presses out there, from unofficial ones started by individual authors for their book to incorporated ones funded by a group of …
As I continue to write our business plan for our small press, I have come to the section where I’m forced to analyze our customer. In our publishing company, we will be creating and publishing a general fiction book and an art business book to start off. We want to …
I read a back issue of The Writer magazine (April 2011) from the library. On page 11, writer Sarah C. Lange discusses Kickstarter, “an online platform that allows writers and other creative workers to appeal for funds to complete a project.” So I went onto Kickstarter and checked it out. …
As I continue writing my business plan for my small publishing company, I hope you’re joining me. Today, I wrote the Expense Assumptions section, which actually took a fair amount of time, considering I had to look up all the expenses. These assumptions I started a couple weeks ago and …
As defined by the Center for Business Planning, a mission statement “should be a clear and succinct representation of the enterprise’s purpose for existence. It should incorporate socially meaningful and measurable criteria addressing concepts such as the moral/ethical position of the enterprise, public image, the target market, products/services, the geographic …
This is a continuation of my earlier post entitled Business Plan for a Small Press, Where to Begin. Let’s start with the Executive Summary, which encompasses the subsections of: Company Information, Summary of Business, Mission Statement, Financial Summary and Assumptions. The Executive Summary sets up the business plan for you …
If you read the About section of Pencey X Pages, our final goal is to start a small press/publishing company with my novel as the first product. The best way to start any business is with a detailed business plan. My business partner, Sarah, had already written an incredible business …