Building a Sustainable Business
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Title | Building a Sustainable Business | ||||
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Description | “Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses” was conceived in 1996 by a planning team for the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA), to address the evolving business planning needs of beginning and experienced rural entrepre neurs. From the onset, the planning team envisioned a truly useful guidebook that would be relevant to the alternative farm operations and rural businesses of today. There are certainly more detailed business planning, strategy building, succession planning, marketing and financial planning resources available. It was not our intention to replace these materials. Many of these existing resources are listed in an extensive “Resources” section at the end of this Guide. Instead, our objective was to compile information from all available resources, including farmers and other business experts, that could be used to create a business planning primer—a guide that will help today’s alternative agriculture entrepreneurs work through the planning process and to begin developing their business plans. | ||||
Top Content | A Brief History of Your Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assess Your Current Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Product: What is our product? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Customers: What markets do we serve? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unique Features: What are the unique features that distinguish our products? . . Distribution: How do we distribute our products? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pricing: How do we price our products? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Promotion: How do we promote our products? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Market and Industry: How is our market changing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operations Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What physical resources are available for our farm business? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What production systems are we using? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What management and management information systems do we have in place to support our farm operations? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Human Resources Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current Work Force: Who is involved in our business and what roles do they play? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Skills: What are our unique skills? What skills do we lack? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change: Will our labor situation change in the near future? Will someone enter or leave the operation? . . . Financial Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
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Building a Sustainable Business
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