{"id":4063,"date":"2020-12-24T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2020-12-24T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:45:17","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-business-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/thoughtful-thursdays-business-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Business research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week&#8217;s Thoughtful Thursdays <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/17\/thoughtful-thursdays-what-is-a-business-plan-and-is-it-a-good-idea-to-have-one\/\" title=\"THOUGHTFUL THURSDAYS \u2013 WHAT IS A BUSINESS PLAN AND IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE ONE?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>, said that research is the footing on which a business plan is built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research influences almost every part of a business plan. Information gained from conducting research leads to insights that impact setting of goals, objectives, strategies and tactics. Research is an ongoing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When developing your business plan, research will often be conducted in multiple areas concurrently. Be mindful that while your plan may be written in a linear fashion, research findings can affect multiple areas of the plan. Going back and editing your plan is common and to be expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Areas to research for the Company Profile include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Business name<ul><li>Uniqueness<\/li><li>Likeability<\/li><li>Availability of preferred website address<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Legal structure<ul><li>Sole proprietorship<\/li><li>Partnership<\/li><li>Corporation<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Location<ul><li>Bricks and mortar<\/li><li>Online<\/li><li>Mobile<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several online resources available to help you with this research. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/services\/business\/start.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"The steps to consider before operating a business in Canada.\">Government of Canada<\/a> site is a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another great resource is a business advisor. This is someone who will review your work and provide objective feedback. This feed back is what you need to hear, not necessarily what you want to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next week we will talk about research and development of the Marketing Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good selling,<br>Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s Thoughtful Thursdays post, said that research is the footing on which a business plan is built. Research influences almost every part of a business plan. Information gained from conducting research leads to insights&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/thoughtful-thursdays-business-research\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,108,103],"tags":[106,109],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-plan","category-research","category-starting-a-business","tag-business-plan","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}