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 …
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 …