Planning your green business? Thinking about what you will offer as a product? Organizing your service offerings for the green businesswomen community?

I’m not a big fan of “analysis paralysis” but you do need a plan to help you organize your overall thinking.

Create at least a three-page draft of your “big idea” whittled down into basic items such as:

1) The need: what is the need that your business fills?

2) The market: who is going to buy your product or service? Specify, specify, specify.

3) Price point: how much do you need to sell to break even? How much do you need to sell to make a profit?

4) Distribution: how will you get your product or service into the hands of your customers? Are you going after your local market, a national market, or the international marketplace?

5) Marketing: how will you promote your business? How will people know about your product and service?

As you do more and more thinking, you'll get a better sense of if the business is worth starting or not.

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