Asking for $2.5 million in loan to purchase and develop land and construct a 6,000-foot travel center.
Competitive issues -- Center will be located between Hwy 45 and 635; there is high visibility, good access, limited competition, good traffic potential.

Market segmentation -- Will offer gas, convenience store items, restrooms, showers, game rooms, trucker lounge, scales, parking -- meant to be a regular stop for truckers on busy U.S. route.

Staff -- Initially run by management team; with supplemental hourly wage staff for check out, cooking, dining, hotel maintenance, etc. Owners to take $50K each for salary, total payroll just under $500,000 per annum.

Silvera and Sons Coffee Export -- Prepares green Arabia coffee beans grown in Brazil for export to the U.S. (specialty roasters) and then sell to Brazilian wholesalers. Asking for investment to expand from 72,000 bags per year to 120-160 bags per year. Coffee differentiates because it is high end,….

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Combative Fighting Systems

Martial arts school that teaches Jeet Kune Do concepts / Kali / Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Opened July 1995

Westminster Ave, Westminster, Ca. 90630 (714) [HIDDEN]

Martial art instruction for children through adults.

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) training, coaching. Physical fitness

Business owner/operator

More info online Google Ken Gabrielson Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu.

"Dirty Dozen," Gracie Jiu-jitsu Black Belts. Combative Fighting Systems.

Fighters trained: John "Machine" Lober

Todd Medina El Tiburon

Infrastructure

Key Activities:

Provide mixed martial arts training and coaching, including: Jeet Kune Do concepts / Kali / Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Provide an avenue for children and adults to develop physical fitness

Key esources:

"Dirty Dozen," Gracie Jiu-jitsu Black Belts, and Combative Fighting Systems

Superbly trained staff: John "Machine" Lober, Todd Medina, El Tiburon (have I got this right

Facility in Westminster, California

Partner Network:

Chamber of Commerce, Westminster

Mixed Martial Arts Association (MMAFA)

International Mixed Martial Arts Association (IMMA)

Offering

Value Propositions:

Combative Fighting Systems provides optimal training experiences in order to develop optimal self-defense and fighting capabilities in the men, women, and….

"A strategic plan is not a wish list, a report card or a marketing tool. It is certainly not a magic bullet or a quick cure for everything that ails an organization -- especially if the plan winds up on the shelf. What a strategic plan can do is shed light on an organization's unique strengths and relevant weaknesses, enabling it to pinpoint new opportunities or the causes of current or projected problems"(Ten keys, 2010, TCC).
Simply the process of creating a strategic plan can be useful: "No matter how relevant its original mission, no organization can afford to shackle itself to the same goals, programs and operating methods year after year" (Ten keys, 2010, TCC). Strategic planning demands the continual reevaluation of methods and methodology. It provides standards of accountability for people, programs, and resources to ensure that no aspect of the organization becomes irrelevant.

The best planning process is….

People and services are not easily moved among the various countries. Although securing work and permits in the United States for Mexican and Canadian immigrants, NAFTA has also caused considerable concern in terms of legislation.
This is particularly the case in Canadian lawmaking. Several disputes resulted from NAFTA trading activities in the country. Such disputes for example include gasoline additives and possible related health concerns and nerve damage (Weintraub, 2004). Canada was also engaged in a long dispute regarding a 27% duty on softwood imports to Canada. This lasted for years before it was finally resolved in 2006. Significantly however, the decision was not ratified by either Canada or the United States (Weintraub, 2004). According to the U.S. Court of International Trade, imposing the duty was contrary to the United States law.

Other problems include the fact that Canada has lost more than 10,000 companies to foreign takeovers since NAFTA has….

Additionally, businesses must anticipate seasonal shifts in demand when allocating and anticipating costs. A toy company cannot assume that the revenue it enjoys after a Christmas marketing a 'hot toy' will be sustained all year 'round.
In terms of taking a long-term view, a business should treat its employees in an ethical fashion. If employees are treated in a respectful manner, they are likely to perform better and show more loyalty to the organization. Additionally, if a company is found to be exploiting its employees, as was the case of Nike and the 'sweatshop'-type conditions of its offshore operations, this negative publicity can deter individuals from buying from the company. Employee costs in the long and short-term, in terms of compensating employees for overtime and giving them reasonable benefits, must also be included in the business plan. Also, the possibility of stock options, should the company incorporate, is another issue….

Business Plan -- ocky Mountain Sports Fishing, LLC
Business Description

Definition of the Market

Services Offered

Organization/Management

Marketing Strategy

Financial Management

ecreational fishing is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, both for salt and freshwater. Conservative estimates show that there are upwards of 30 million individuals with more than a 1-2 time/annum interest in the sport. This has an overall impact on the economy of $125 billion (Williamson, 2012). Consumer demographics show that it is primarily a male oriented event. Mobility and technology have improved the sport in the last two decades, as well as maps, surveys, and handheld sonar and GPS devices. For this reason, as an organized sport, it is chiefly an upper middle and above income sport that also may require several thousand dollars in travel expense. There are even contests for ice and sport ice fishing in the U.S. And Canada.

Sport fishing is tied to the economy in our niche because….

..ERP combines them all together into a single, integrated software program that runs of a single database so that the various departments can more easily share information and communicate with each other." (Pang, 2001) the work of Les Pang (2001) entitled: "Manager's Guide to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems" published in the Information Systems Control Journal informs this study that over the past ten years an organizations have significantly experienced "changes in their core business applications. These applications have moved from a centralized mainframe platform towards distributed client-server architecture, changed from monolithic customized software systems to commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) system modules with graphical development tools and expanded from a local area network environment to one with the broad reach of the World Wide Web. usiness applications have changed to support the globalization of their organization with the addition of multisite and multicurrency functionalities." (Pang, 2001)
The desire of a great number….

We have decided to take this option for several reasons. Firstly, the size of our restaurant will be able to entertain almost 500 people and with such a large space we need a huge market to fill it up. Secondly, Americans of all age-groups dine-out regularly (almost 4 times every week, according to last year's statistics.) thirdly and lastly, this figure is only going to increase with time.
Selling tactics

Contending against both "informal-dining-steakhouses" and "family-steak-restaurants," we will be offering these benefits: (1) Low pricing for complete buffets, (2) customers will not be giving tips since the restaurant will be self-service, (3) giving speedy service to all customers at all times, (4) offering variety in meals all the way through the week and (5) diners can watch their favorite sports during their meals.

The sales annual projections for the next 3 years are summed up below in table 3 below.

Table 3: Sales….

To run a business profitably, especially in the modern times where business is dome at the speed of thought, achieving business stability and growth can be made possible by setting goals that have to be achieved and using the proper tools and methods. (Elkin, 1998) Enhancing the business can be achieved by reaching the predetermined point where the investments match the output and there is a situation where the investment has begun paying. This point is called the break even point. In every business there is a great element of risk. A business becomes successful only when the risks are minimized. isks cannot altogether be eliminated but can be minimized. This is done by structuring the credit risk and adjusting the spending and other influential patterns of the entity. (Culp, 2001)
Sometimes the very core of the business need be redefined to achieve the objective of making profits. Strategic redefinition….

However, as Nick is unqualified for the position, the medical question is moot -- Nick would not be hired because he has no experience.
Michelle has some past experience and would be under consideration. Under the terms of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy in employment. The Act does not explicitly prohibit Mei-Lin from inquiring about the pregnancy, but it is recommended that she refrain from doing so, as that inquiry could be used against the company in a discrimination suit should Michelle not be hired. Although ethics are not encompassed in the law, from an ethical point-of-view it would be irresponsible for SureBuild to hire Michelle, as working as a jackhammer operator would put the fetus at risk, there could be legal action taken against the company as a result for failing to provide the fetus with adequate duty of care.

Eric is experienced, but….

However, collection of information about customers, necessary as it in any form of relationship marketing, has different challenges on the Internet than in face-to-face marketing and/or data collection and research programs. First, web clients may often be anonymous -- consumers may be whomever they wish to be over the Internet and the researcher has no way of verifying such. Second, consumers are increasingly wary of providing personal information about themselves over the Internet for fear of cybercrime, misuse of data and even companies purporting to be market research and collecting information for something entirely different. Thus, the trust and accuracy level diminishes on both sides when someone is not physically present -- even though the amount of data collected and the cost per collection is quite low (Lee, 2001, 12-14). Sources of consumer information, then, must be vetted in a way to preserve their authenticity -- that information may….

Figure 1. epresentative Starbucks' Logo

Source: Hoots, 2010

Starbucks' Pricing Strategy

The company's pricing strategy varies from country to country (Andrews & Chompusri, 2003) but generally speaking, Starbucks uses a sales-oriented pricing strategy based on careful market research and customer analyses to identify pricing levels that the majority of their consumers are willing to pay for their products (Dawson, 2013).

Product Life Cycle of Starbucks

The company's product life cycle has expanded significantly over the past 45 years to include the wide array of products and brands noted above; however, when the company opened its first store in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971, the company only sold packaged roasted coffee beans (oos, 2013). The company has also made three unsuccessful sorties into the publishing world as well, including efforts to sell books and publish its own literary magazine (oos, 2013). The life cycle of these Starbucks' products are set forth in Table 1 below.

Table….

Threats due to weather include floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards. Planning for weather events should be very realistic in nature. Major weather events usually occur in 25, 50 and 100-year cycles. Disease outbreaks are also a big threat. A potential flu pandemic could be detrimental to many businesses. For example, the bird flu pandemic scenarios that are floating around are being modeled on the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. That global outbreak killed 500,000 people in the United States and more than 20 million people worldwide. Since that time there have been two other smaller scale flu pandemics, each that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The flu is just one disease that can cause a business disaster situation around the world (Business Continuity during a Disaster, 2008).
ecent years have also shown that terrorism threats are a real possibility that needs to be considered. Terrorism is a great….

Strategic Goals
The author of this report has been charged with offering some strategies that would be used to "define, prioritize and meet short-term goals." Short-term goals would be those that have an impact over the next one to four years, mostly. It will also be included how those goals would support flexibility over that same time period in an "ever-evolving world." Further, there will be an assessment of a "futurist context." Specifically, this would meant that strategies that would be used for long-term goals, meaning over the next fifteen to twenty years. While looking five, fifteen or twenty years down the road may seem like a stretch to many, it is important to plan things out in advance as much as is reasonably possible based on what is currently desired for the company and what is known about the proverbial playing field.

Analysis

In terms of strategies and how they would be….

business scalable? Discuss the limitations and challenges.
One thing that often holds companies back from scaling up is the presence of "irreplaceable" staff or management, or management that believes itself irreplaceable. A company is not scalable if the management duties cannot be delegated or trained. Too often entrepreneurial ventures rely solely on the time, energy, vision and skills of one person. Even before the financials are brought into play, Alison should carefully consider whether or not opening another location would even be possible within her vision of tight control and being involved in the minutia of everyday decisions.

Beyond whether or not the business is scalable in terms of Allison, the question then needs to be answered in terms of financial considerations. As she moves more inventory and can buy more inventory from jean manufacturers, her incremental costs will decrease based on her higher volume of purchases. One thing which may….

A paper that focuses on topics like strategic decision making, strategy, leadership, management control systems, entrepreneurship, or organization changes can take two approaches.  You can thoroughly explain one of the concepts, for example describing that strategic decision making is a method of business planning that looks at long-term goals.  The other approach is to do some sort of case study looking specifically at events to determine how one of those topics either impacted or was impacted by a company’s decision-making process.  So, the first thing you need to do is decide what type of paper....

Understanding Business Failure: A Comprehensive Analysis of Causes, Consequences, and Mitigation Strategies

Introduction

Business failure is an unfortunate reality that affects a significant number of enterprises worldwide. Understanding the causes, consequences, and potential mitigation strategies for business failure is crucial for entrepreneurs, managers, and policymakers alike. This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of business failure, exploring the factors that contribute to its occurrence, the impact it has on individuals, organizations, and the economy, and the measures that can be taken to mitigate its effects.

Section 1: Causes of Business Failure

1. Economic Factors: Economic downturns, recessions, and changes in market conditions can....