Setting Up Your Own Home Based Catering Business

Are you one of those people who love to cook? If you love cooking, you might want to put your talents to work and set up your own home based catering business. The good thing about setting up your business at home is that you get to earn money while keeping an eye on the kids.

Formulating your business plan

Before to start your business, be sure that you have a sound business plan. Always bear in mind that your business plan is very important if you want to succeed in your business. You don’t really need a complicated business. All you need is a list of things that you need to do to get things started, have a business goal, a timeframe and a budget. Now, don’t runaway yet, it’s not really as complicated as it sounds. You don’t need to have a PhD to write your business plan. To make a simplified business plan, just get a piece of paper and divide it into four columns. The first column should be allocated for particulars where you will write all the things that you will to do, the second column could be for time frame where you get to write the time and date when you will need to perform the task that you listed in your column for particulars, the third column will be for your expected expenses and the fourth column will be for your expected output.

When formulating your business plan, make sure that you list all the things that need to be done, preferably in a chronological order or in your order of priorities. For instance, since you are setting up a home based catering business, you will need to get cooking equipments. On your fist column, you may write purchase of equipments and cooking utensils. Make sure that you identify all the equipments and utensils that you need. You may write them according to your priorities. On the second column, write when you will purchase these things. In case you are not planning to purchase all your equipments all at the same time, write the different target dates you have. For your third column, estimate how much money you need to get you equipments. You may also write in your business plan where you intend to get the money from.

The fourth column of a simplified business plan can be a bit tricky. Here you will make some business projections. If you are buying equipments, you will need to project how you will be able to recover the cost of your investment. Be realistic in your projections. Always bear in mind that it will not do you any good to be overly optimistic. Always be conservative when making projections. It is always better to exceed your projected income than to fall miserably below it.

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About the Author:
Sheila enjoys working part-time from home. She also enjoys sponsoring and mentoring others, and helping them find success with their work from home base business. Click here to contact Sheila and learn how you can start a work at home-base business.