I am preparing a business plan for a mobile photography studio. Do I have to have a fixed location?

Question

tips on budgeting, needed information to prepare the business plan

Answer 1

Bplans.com has a free sample business plan on photography, but it is for pets. Nonetheless, you can get some ideas on how you can create a business plan through this example http://www.bplans.com/spv/3004/

Here are some general resources that can help you write your business plan:

- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm
- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html

You may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:

- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm
- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners
http://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html
- VFinance - View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&ToolPage=bps_main.asp
- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_m.asp
- PlanWare Planning software and information. http://www.planware.org/
- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html
-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
- Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/businessPlan.pdf
- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_FE/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid
- Business Plans Index - A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Some recommended books are :

- Business Plans Kit for Dummies
- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan
- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide
- Business Plans For Dummies®
- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan

You may also want to read the article Starting a Home-Based Photography Business http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol56/photography.htm for a general direction on how to start a photography business.

Some recommended books:

- How To Start a Home-Based Photography Business
- How You Can Make $25,000 a Year With Your Camera
- The Business of Studio Photography : How to Start and Run a Successful Photography Studio
- How to Operate a Successful Photo Portrait Studio
- Photographer's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion
- Sell & Re-Sell Your Photos : How to Sell Your Pictures to a World of Markets a Mailbox Away

Hope that the above resources help

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Answer 3

WOW, "imisidro" did a better lineup of information than what I had!

I'm going through a similar process of looking into starting a business. Your area small business administration office is the place to start for developing a business plan, budgeting, etc., and you can talk to a real person too if that's what you need.

Check out the Sirolli site too, below, to get more information.

You'll need some sort of "fixed" location for reasons of having a business license, reporting taxes, getting supplies for your studio, mailing out direct mail advertising, etc. If you don't want to use your home adders for legal reasons, or you might be moving, or ..., consider getting a P. O. Box. Better yet, consider getting a box at a place like "Mailboxes Etc.," "UPS" Store," etc.

Answer 4

If you are applying for funding, this will matter and may be the same as your primary residence. For billing, certainly obtain an address, I'd suggest a PO Box if you don't want clients coming to your home. You will need to disclose your "home base" to lenders, and it is completely acceptable for this type of business to have it be your home. With regards to writing a business plan, the SBA funds consulting centers call SBDCs (Small Business Development Centers). They are often located on or near university campuses and can be located on the internet.

Answer 5

12 Angry Men Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Rope Long Day's Journey Into Night A Streetcar Named Desire (I suppose) Cast Away (I mean, c'mon, for the most part) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is mostly one place... OH!! The Shining.... yeah.... that's the hotel and nothing other than their house for about six minutes... That should count.... There's a lot more.. Rear Window! Yeah. That would have to be one.

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