Security Guard Business Plan


Security Guard Business Plan


Opportunity

Problem

This business launches in the right climate. There are increasing concerns about terrorist activity and a growing political climate. The business will target large retail stores and building management companies first in order to establish a strong base of clients in Coastalburg.

Solution

Batten-Hatchez Security removes the concern for clients who need security guards for their events, buildings, or facilities. The company provides exceptional customer service and in-depth training of their employees.

Market

[Note – Marketing info is out of date. It is only included for illustration. Dates have been altered.

According to IBISWorld there were 41,000 security service firms in the U.S., with 56,000 locations. The average size of a firm was $700,000 revenue per year based on these numbers, meaning that the industry includes both small and larger companies. As long as you meet the basic legal requirements, there are no barriers to entry. Capital investment is also very low. The industry depends on a supply of labor, often using retired police officers as security guards.

As security guard services are sold business-to-business, marketing and advertisement is generally targeted on the markets and industries the security companies seek to serve. Businesses generally search for security guard providers on the Internet or through referrals from other companies they trust.

Competition

[Note – Marketing info found here is out of date. Dates have been changed.]

Top players in the industry include Securitas AB, Allied Security LLC, The Brink’s Company, and G4S plc. Huge players provide services for a huge range of markets, including governments, chemical and petrochemical, colleges and universities, commercial real estate, financial institutions, health care facilities, manufacturing and industrial, residential communities, shopping centers, and temporary security services.

Why Us

Batten-Hatchez Security removes the concern for clients who require security guards at their events, buildings, or facilities. The company provides excellent customer service, as well as in-depth training and support for employees.

Expectations

Forecast

The business expects respectable revenues of in the initial year, nearly doubling by the end-of-the third year. Based on the ratio of guard labor costs to billings, gross margins will be comparable to the industry average. After the initial funding and launch, the business will have a lean second year. The establishment of an office in the second and training space the third year will allow it to expand via its own financing. Once the business has proven to be viable in additional cities, it may be sold to the founders and investors.

Financial Highlights Year-by-Year

Finance is required

The $76,700 investment in the following:

Louis Giordano $15,000

Jared Case $15,000

Unspecified friend/family investment: $46,700


Custom Pottery Business Plan


Custom Pottery Business Plan


Kaolin Calefactors is an Oregon-based company that designs, manufactures and markets custom dishware. The designs can be anything that the customer would like, however, Sue Glazer’s genre is modern or popular art. A typical customer would be someone buying handmade gifts for friends/relatives or someone who is interested to own unusual everyday dishware.

Kaolin Calefactors gives Sue Glazer an opportunity to combine her passions for ceramics and make money.

Kaolin Calefactors will leverage their competitive advantage of a customer-centric business model to rapidly gain market share in the custom dishware niche. Month nine will bring profitability, and revenue for year three is projected to be $78,000.

1.1 Objectives

These are the three-year objectives.

  • To build a company that exceeds customer’s expectations.
  • To increase the number ocustom clients by 20% per year.
  • To create a sustainable start up business that turns a hobby into an actual business.

1.2 Mission

Kaolin Calefactors’ mission is to design and construct the finest dishware pottery. We aim to maintain and attract customers. This maxim will guide everything else. Our services will surpass the expectations of customers.

1.3 Keys To Success

Innovative design and a customer-centric approach are key ingredients to your success.


Tobacco Retail Business Plan


Tobacco Retail Business Plan


Introduction

Kiowa Smoke Shops LLC has been in business as a family company since the early 1960’s.

The tobacco industry has been in serious decline for the past ten-years due to increasingly hostile regulation, judicial decisions and tobacco opposition groups. Kiowa has suffered a falling client base and increased costs. It also faces increasing difficulties in distributing its products. The first time in history, management was forced to lower staffing levels and implement pay cuts. This is why the company is trying to develop a future revitalization plan. This plan includes reducing costs, improving efficiencies, new distribution and marketing channels and a new venture into a combined cafe and tobacco store.

The Company

Kiowa Smoke Shops Limited Liability Company is a class-C Limited Liability Company that has been officially registered in Kansas. Kiowa is exclusively owned by Mr. Fernando Renaldo and his wife, Elizabeth. The company does not expect to hire new owners in foreseeable future.

Carlos Armando Renaldo with his family fled Cuba for America in 1960. They had been tobacco growers in Cuba for many generations. But the communist revolution there had limited opportunities for growers to escape from government-controlled areas. Once in America, Mr. Renaldo leveraged his family connections there to create Santiago Cigar Store in Orlando, Florida. Santiago&#8217, which was catering to the rapidly growing Cuban population, opened his shop in Orlando, Florida. It grew over the next 18years. Fernando Renaldo bought the business from his father in 1979 and relocated it to Kansas City. To conform to the image of the midwest, the younger Renaldo changed the name to Kiowa Smoke Shop. Since then, the company is thriving enough for Renaldo’s purchase of two other tobacco shops.

Products

Kiowa Smoke Shops offers the widest variety of specialty and named brand tobacco products in the Kansas-Missouri area. These include cigars from Mexico, Spain, India, the UK, and other tobacco producing areas. We also carry cigarettes, both national and international brands, and roll-your-own tobacco products for clients who want to create their own cigarettes.

The Market

The United States is both the world’s largest tobacco importer and exporter, and also the second largest tobacco producer in the world, just behind China. The majority of U.S. tobacco is used to make cigarettes. But, cigarette use and exports have both fallen 16 percent in the last decade, while other tobacco products have also suffered a decline. The current market is very unfavorable for Kiowa Smoke Shops. The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), signed in November 1998, has forced cigarette companies to raise prices due to the payments. Consumers have been less likely to smoke because of higher prices. The long-term decline in cigarette consumption due to non-economic factors continues as well, as private tobacco opposition and health care organizations continue to push for the elimination of all smoking throughout the nation.

Kiowa offers a number competitive advantages. These include established supply chains and their various cost advantages, multiple locations throughout the Kansas City area, as well as our future combined cafe/tobacco store that will produce more volume and increase client loyalty. This facility will serve as a pilot to test the long-term economic viability of the idea. If it proves successful, we plan to expand our facilities in order to provide this unique experience to all customers.

Kiowa can only do a limited amount of marketing. We do plan to advertise with specialty publications like Smokehouse, Cigar Connoisseur, etc. We also plan on advertising in a few local magazines, such as Kansas Highways, Midwest Life or others that target upper-income persons. To create links to our informational website, we are looking to form partnerships with other internet companies. When we launch our online ordering features we will intensify these efforts.

Financial Considerations

Kiowa, a company that has limited debt, intends to continue being so. We expect to see increased profits from our revitalization efforts by the end of Year 1. In the coming three years, we anticipate that a large portion of our profits will go towards our new website and café ventures. We don’t anticipate any cash problems.

1.1 Objectives

The overall decline of tobacco has led to lower profit margins as well as increased risks and costs. The following goals have been set for a revitalization program to help us remain a viable business.

  • Reduce costs by 15% over the next three years and ultimately by 20%, specifically concentrating on inventory overhead.
  • Expand our customer base through the launching of our new website and our online ordering distribution outlet. Select national advertising can increase market awareness of our products.
  • Create a tobacco cafe to enhance our patron’s buying experience

1.2 Mission

Kiowa Smoke Shops is committed to providing high-quality products and brands at a fair price. Kiowa wants to provide an exceptional experience to its patrons. The shop carries the most diverse tobacco products, and creates a cozy and relaxing environment for specialty and recreational customers. Kiowa will continue to maintain the highest standards of service in the tobacco industry.

1.3 Keys to Success

With the industry being increasingly pinched by declining numbers of customers and more and more hostile judicial and federal regulations, we must insure the following priorities:

  • To ensure sufficient profitability, we need to expand our customer base.
  • High-quality customer service will increase customer retention.
  • To reduce collection days, improve accounting practices and increase cost assessment, and decrease costs.

Auto Inspectors Business Plan


Auto Inspectors Business Plan


Portland Mobile Auto Inspectors allows prospective car buyers to inspect used cars from their mobile phones. Portland Mobile Auto Inspectors provides all the necessary testing equipment to inspect used cars and travels around Metropolitan Portland. Service calls can be made at any hour of the day or night. Customers can schedule an appointment to meet the Portland Mobile Auto Inspectors where their vehicle is located. The inspection can be completed in one to one and a half hours. A detailed printout is then provided detailing the results of the tests and how they were performed.

Portland Mobile Auto Inspectors will end the dilemma faced by used car buyers. The mechanics offer inspections during normal business hours that are not available to most people during the day.

Portland Mobile Auto Inspectors, which is a sole proprietorship by Portland, will reach profitability in the six-month period and generate $93,000 in revenue by year three.

1.1 Objectives

The objectives for the first three years of operation include:

  • To create a service-oriented company whose primary goal to exceed customer’s expectations.
  • To increase customer base by 20% annually.
  • To develop a sustainable start-up business.

1.2 Mission

Portland Mobile Auto Inspectors’ mission is provide convenient, thorough, and affordable used car inspections. We exist to retain and attract customers. This maxim will guide everything else. We exceed our customers’ expectations.

1.3 Keys for Success

Delivering a service that exceeds customer expectations is key to your success.


Tutoring Service Business Plan


Tutoring Service Business Plan


Opportunity

Problem

Schools are often underfunded. Children need schooling. Tutoring is a way for children to learn.

Solution

Bryan&#8217’s Tutoring Service offers tutoring services in a range of academic subjects. You can arrange private sessions or have students form groups to tutor. While private sessions provide intensive individual assistance, groups sessions are more cost-effective and encourage a team-based approach. Bryan’s Tutoring Service, which is based on The Atkinson, offers a wide range of past exams. This collection can be invaluable for studying the material or for exam preparation. Bryan’s Tutoring Service employs the Systematic Analysis Framework (SAF) for all students. This unique problem-solving approach is used by students to tackle all subjects they come across in school. This system provides students with a method to better solve their own questions. This system is different than most tutors. They are focused on answering student&#8217s immediate questions, but not teaching them basic problem solving skills for future application.

Market

Bryan’s Tutoring Service identified several target markets that they will pursue. Willamette Business students is the largest market segment. Bryan has strong relationships with the majority of business program professors. This allows Bryan tailor the tutoring to suit the course material and to receive referrals. There will be three types of clients in this market segment: international students, non-quantitative customers, and quantitative clients. Bryan’s Tutoring Service is available to undergraduate students at Willamette College and other nearby colleges.

Concurrence

Tutoring is as old as students. As long as students become overwhelmed, tutors are needed to help them catch up with their classmates. To make certain materials understandable, some need to be explained differently.

While tutoring is an important need, most tutoring on the market today is unorganized and infrequent. What sets this company apart is its experience and the attention paid to individual needs of students.

Why Us?

Bryan&#8217’s Tutoring Service exists in order to assist students. Our unique teaching method helps students to connect with the material they need to master. Through personalized and focussed teaching processes, our students develop the tools they need for ongoing success in their fields of study. Our success is dependent on our ability to listen to our clients and help them succeed.

Expectations

Forecast

This is a personal tutoring firm. Bryan will be able make enough money during the school year in order to support his needs as students are less and June July and August come around. He will need to pay rent, eat, etc. between group sessions.

Financial Highlights by Year

Financing Needed

Bryan will use his savings for this venture. He doesn’t require much but enough to cover his first month of rent


Document Storage Business Plan


Document Storage Business Plan


Shaw’s Records Management & Data Storage (Shaw’s) is a full service, computerized records management firm that provides secure storage and indexing for paper records, digital media, and other business-critical information. This includes computer disks and tapes as well as optical disks, microfilms, audio and video tapes, blueprints, and medical records.

Our customer’s records are safe in our 30,000 square foot facility. The comprehensive security system has both interior and exterior cameras to ensure 24-hour monitoring.

Shaw offers a personalized service that includes data conversion and ORC, records relocation, and retention schedules. We provide specially designed boxes and other supplies which make handling records easier.

Shaw&#8217, gives customers competitive edge with state of the art technology, unprecedented security, quick-response and unmatched customer service. Our computerized facility can be found in the northeast corridor and is easy to reach from Monroe or Tracy. The northeast corridor is home to over 5,000 companies that are constantly seeking advantage in the marketplace.

Our customers have a competitive advantage in today’s business environment by having quick and easy access of critical information. Shaw’s records management and storage can be outsourced to them. This will allow them to store their records in an organized manner and increase the speed and ease with which they can access them.

Shaw’s Record Management and Data Storage owner Martin Shaw has more than twenty years of industry experience. He is a key figure in the creation of record management systems with Alco Industries. Promerit.

1.1 Mission

Shaw’s mission is to ensure that customers have control over all information. This will improve their regulatory compliance and increase their cost effectiveness.

1.2 Objectives

Shaw’s objectives are:

  • Within the first year of operations, reach your sales goals.
  • Reach 200 companies as a customer base
  • Increase sales with modest stability during the second year of operation.


Document Shredding Business Plan


Document Shredding Business Plan


There are ever-growing security concerns due to theft, vandalism and industry espionage. There are too many horror stories resulting from confidential information getting into the wrong hands. A business’s ability to deal with today’s information explosion can prove devastating. Increased use of computers and office copiers has led to an explosion of sensitive data being generated and then discarded.

Security First Shredding is a professional shredding company that provides the most efficient, cost-effective, simple and secure method of destroying confidential information in a company’s business. Security First Shredding offers complete document destruction services, both on-site or off-site. Security First Shredding services Madison-area companies. This company is familiar with product destruction and the destruction of credit cards, microfiches, computer tapes, and other media storage.

Each invoice will include a certificate of destruction. We also offer a recycling program for non-confidential papers.

Janet Wilson, coowner of Security First Shredding has ten year experience in the field. Before moving to Madison last year, she worked in New York at Capital Shredding and Shredd-All.

Security First Shredding’s two disposal trucks are state-of-the art and can shred documents at the site of the business or transport them into a recycling facility for disposal.

1.1 Mission

Security First Shredding’s mission is to offer a cost-effective service for document destruction that meets our customers’ security needs.

1.2 Objectives

Security First Shredding’s objectives are as follows:

  • Achieve sales goal during first year of operation.
  • You can reach 100 companies.
  • During the second and third years of operation, we saw a 15% increase in sales.


Houseboat Rental Business Plan


Houseboat Rental Business Plan


Houses on The Lake will establish a viable business model to rent vacation houses on Lake Shasta. Instead of buying houseboats, the company will rent out small housesboats to young couples and families (up to six persons) from their existing owners. To compete with luxury vacation houseboat operators, the business will provide vacationers with other services. It will also offer moorage and revenue sharing to existing owners. The loan financing is required for the launch of the business.

Robert Hopkins, the founder and owner of the business, will make it profitable within its second year. The company will also be very profitable in its third year. Rent rates will be very low for the market and start at about $600 for three days in an off season.

Objectives

Three vacation houseboats will be the first to go on Houses On The Lake’s business. Houses On The Lake will achieve the following goals in the first three years:

  • Marina and marina rental land
  • A pool of eight houseboats can be created by current owners who are interested to rent them out.
  • Steadily growing revenues each year
  • Achieve a 50% retention rate of customers from year 2 to year 3

Mission

Houses On Lake will offer affordable vacation houseboat rental options for couples and families looking to enjoy Lake Shasta. Families and couples will find the right balance of excitement and relaxation in this business. There are many options available for activities that can be tailored to each person or group.

Keys for Success

The following are key factors to your success in the business of vacation houseboats:

  1. For the comfort and luxury of the accommodations, the boat rental must be maintained at a high standard.
  2. Many activities and services available to suggest and promote family involvement
  3. Seasonal pricing to encourage year-round utilization of the boats


Tattoo Parlor Business Plan


Tattoo Parlor Business Plan


Tablature Tattoo, a new tattoo parlor will be opened in suburban Greenwood NJ. It will offer a place for tattoo enthusiasts and collectors to get their tattoos done by two well-known, skilled artists. The business offers basic tattoos, one-hour tattoos, and full sessions with the artists. The artists are available to offer extended consultations as well as custom design work. The business will sell clothing and posters with designs by the artists. Jake Hunt and Julie Hunt, husband and wife, are seeking a $10,000, 3-year loan to start the business.

Because the business has low capital requirements, and because the company intends to use low cost marketing techniques and direct sales to attract initial customers, $22,200 is all it takes to launch. With a low startup cost, and high margins of tattoo work (around 75%), this business will generate positive cash flows within six months. They can also repay their loan easily. Based on the full-time employment of these three people, sales will surpass $300,000.

Objectives

Tablature Tattoo’s first three years of operations will see it achieve these objectives:

  • Reach annual revenues of approximately $330,000 in year three
  • Successfully create 5446 tattoos over three years
  • You can earn net profits to the owners for a substantial total compensation including salaries, dividends and other payments.

Mission

Tablature Tattoo creates safe and impressive tattoo art for Greenwood, NJ customers through tattoos as well as other products featuring artwork by the shop’s tattoo artists. Jack Hunt and Julie Hunt seek to make the business a full-time business, sharing their income with an additional employee artist to help build the business.

Keys for Success

These are the keys to success in the business of tattoo shops:

  1. Encourage customers to come back for more sessions with artists.
  2. Making the health and care of customers and tattoos a top priority to ensure the safety of the customers, employees, and business
  3. Encouragement of creativity and collaboration with talented artists


Amusement Park Business Plan


Amusement Park Business Plan


I&B Investments is an investment company with limited liability that was created by the laws of Utah.

This document provides information about our business, including the company’s structure, future goals, venture capital requirements, investment analysis, and industry trends.

I&B Investments has made the family entertainment industry its primary focus. The company has worked to develop one or more family entertainment centers (FECs) to provide quality entertainment for the Weber County, Utah community.

Focused on family entertainment in a family-oriented community, I&B Investments is a company primed to take advantage of an expanding and profitable industry.

Entertainment is now a hot topic in the new millennium. David L. Malmuth (senior vice president, TrizenHahn Development Corp.), observed that “people aren’t interested in just buying things.” They desire an experience. This is why authenticity, fun and participation are the key to creating memorable experiences. Americans are able to spend money and will use it for entertainment. Statistics show that the United States spends more on entertainment than it does on clothes or health care.

Quality family entertainment is the focus of I&B Investments. In the first phase of development detailed below, construction and commercialization one FEC are included. FECs designed by the company are intended to offer the type of family entertainment that the current market needs.

The first proposed site is a ten-acre parcel in Weber County, with a second site to follow within five years.

The Company expects to seek funding from the Government Redevelopment Agency in order to purchase land for the development of the sites.

A U.S. Census Bureau recent census revealed that from 1990 to 1998, personal amusement and recreation consumption increased by $31.5B. With an industry total of $56.2B, this is a staggering increase. Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Statistical Abstract of U.S. 2000 &#8211: The National Income and Product Accounts for the U.S., 1929-1994, Vol.

Based on entertainment prices and local revenue structures, we expect that FEC&#8217’s would have the potential to make several million dollars in their first year.

We expect a steady, minimum five percent annual growth with our solid management team and aggressive marketing plan.

1.1 Objectives

The company’s aim is to develop quality FECs that offer full-service FECs and will win the approval of the LDS community.

Our goals include:

  1. In our first year, we had a 10% market share.
  2. We saw a modest increase in our gross profit margins in the second year.
  3. A minimum of 10% market share increase for each of our five first years.

Currently, there ARE no quality FECs in Weber County, or the surrounding areas (for a radius of 50 miles). It believes that it can be a leader in FEC in the Northern Wasatch Front by getting in on the market first and establishing quality facilities.

We are driven by the fundamental goal of realizing how we can impact the communities in which we do business. Knowing that our efforts will be sustained if local residents support and approve of us, we are certain to stand the test.

1.2 Mission

I&B Investments was established solely to make I&B Investments a successful and well managed business. However, I&B Investments also strives to create an atmosphere that is fun and exciting for the whole family.

1.3 Keys to Success

Based on our research, our primary targeted market is parents and their children (ages 5-15 to 54). We have designed our facilities with this in mind. However, we also plan to consider secondary markets like teenagers and young adults.

We believe the following are our key keys to success:

  • Popular entertainment activities that are diverse and appealing
  • You can park in a lot of places and be sure to keep your vehicle safe.
  • Indoor entertainment for all seasons
  • The use state-of the-art technology
  • Accessibility is easy

  • To maximize public exposure, focus on high-traffic locations
  • Design facilities that reduce overcrowding
  • Team of experienced managers

    • We believe we can reduce certain risk factors through:

    • Initial capitalization to support operations through year one
    • Low overhead with multi-skilled employees, and ongoing training
    • Through aggressive marketing, you can build a strong customer base
    • Strong community ties and involvement
    • Establishing cash/credit/debit only facilities will eliminate collection costs