How to Write a First Class Business Plan Proposal

A business plan proposal outlines your business, your market and how you want your product or service to be delivered to potential customers. Think of it this way: It is a mix of both a business plan and a business proposal. While a business plan is used to sell your business to investors, a business proposal caters to a client. Ultimately, they are both used for sales. Much like a sales document, it is designed to persuade the client to hire your company instead of a competitor. The business plan proposal addresses a specific need of a specific client. These require careful attention. 

Getting started: 

The first steps of writing a business plan proposal involve introducing your company. This is quite similar to an executive summary, where you outline what you do and who you are. Here, you should focus more on establishing credibility, and how your business can fulfill the client's needs. It is also a good idea to let the client know about your history and what you've done before.

Researching and planning is always a pre-requisite. Spend some time and effort in researching what the client's actually needs in order to tailor your proposal according to what the client wants.

Paying attention to logistics is an absolute must. The client should be well informed beforehand on how, where and when the product will be delivered. The same case applies to a service delivery as well as a direct sales company. This clears up any confusions, and lessens the changes of lawsuits being filed when a client feels he has not been fully satisfied.

There is usually no hard and fast format specified for a business plan proposal, so feel free to tweak it a bit. Some of the areas that you must cover are the goals of your proposal, the time and cost requirements for the whole proves and the benefits the client will receive by taking up your recommendations. It should highlight the company's strengths and dispel and reservations the client may have.

At the end stage:

You can apply the finishing touches to your business plan proposal by making sure the information is arranged in a proper manner. You should also have someone proofread the proposal to catch spelling and grammatical errors. If you keep all of these pointers in mind, you will soon have lots of clients thanks to the best business plan proposal ever drafted!

Products Are the Key

This quote from Seth Godin couldn't be more accurate regarding Direct Sales business. What happens sometimes is that the direct sellers are more focused on finding new customers in order to enroll their client list, but they tend to forget sometimes the clients they already have, the loyal ones. So here's an advice: find products for your costumers, and don't focus too much on finding new customers for your products!

How to Prevent Cancellations

No matter how good of a seller you are, and how professionally you deal with clients, sometimes they just cancel the order, and it can be very upsetting. So here's some tips on how to deal with it and not lose the client at all:

• Communicate: perhaps it's not a bad idea to create a .pdf with your business rules up front, this way your clients will take you and your business a bit more seriously;
• According to the order volume, you can ask for a percentage up front, to secure the order. 10% to 20% is acceptable ;
• Create a policy agreement and publish it in your website, blog or social networks. If a client bails on you, address him directly and copy & paste the link where your business policy is written;
• If a client constantly cancels the order, don't hesitate to stop receiving any more order from him. The energy you spend chasing him and dealing with these issues can certainly be used in making new contacts and potential (and better) clients.