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My company is deciding whether it would make sense to add a new franchised restaurant to our portfolio of about 6 other franchised restaurants. I live in SE Asia, so available market research is scarce. I've been given the following parameters for the business plan:

Background: we are interested in bringing XXXX brand into Cambodia as a franchised restaurant chain.
Purpose of the mission: build the business plan which will include the items below (given as example) -Executive summary

-Description of the business (business concept, SWOT, business objectives, etc.)
-Marketing plan (market analysis, consumer preferences, competition, marketing mix, etc.) -Operational plan (construction, supply chain & logistics, operating hours, POS)
-Management plan (owners and managers, organization chart of the brand locally, franchisor support, etc.)
-Financial plan (financial assumptions, forecasted P&L, capex required, etc.)

As I've never done this type of assignment before, does anybody have any advice on the best way to get the above information? Any useful tools you can recommend?

Many thanks in advance!

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Whole Foods' 2018 Business Plan

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Ryanair Irish pilots vote to strike for the first time

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Student Organization Advice

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:19 AM PDT

A little background. I am part of my university's FSAE team. FSAE is an international student competion ran by SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers), where students deisgn and manufacture small formula style vehicles for a fictional contracter and judged in multiple categories. Obviously, engineering and manufacturing a small car is expensive, and the responsibility of funding falls on the students. The vast majority of money for most teams comes in the form of sponsorships. Where it is in the form of materials, time on test equipment, lending machines, or cash, a lot of funding comes from companies. Other sources of income come from the university's budget, personal donations, and fund raisers.

Budgets for teams vary greatly. There are teams like mine who have a modest budget, and there are teams who have budgets close to or over a million each season. This can depend on a variety of factors. Generally, the more you win at competion the more money sponsors give to have their company logo on your car. More prestigious or STEM focused universities give more to their teams.

My team has been improving rapidly over the last 3-4 years, placing in the top 40 with teams who have a lot more money than us. But there is the issue that is repeated to me over and over, money. Our team is currently full of really good engineers, but the business side of the team has been lacking. I want to try to keep the momentum of the team going, and I want to do so by improving marketing and looking for new sources of income. There are ideas floating about right now, specifically trying to recruit business and econ majors, and setting up an online store to sell merchandise.

I was curious if there are any fundementals or ideas that I can use going forward into this next season. Just because we have an online store doesn't mean people will buy stuff from us. What would make people want to? How do other student orgs or non-profits increase income? Are there any good rules to stick to when trying new marketing strategies? Are there any absoluely do nots? Are there any cheap or free services to help us?

Any advice will help as this is a new avenue for me and the team, thanks!

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Jaguar Boss: Brexit threatens investment

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How to Start a Business (Company) in China ?

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Business Loan

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:34 AM PDT

I am a small business owner. Interested in getting a business loan to fund buying property and putting a 5k sqft building on it.

Is this idea far fetched? Are the requirements high?

Not too many rental options in area. Currently working out of home garage and im acquiring large machinery soon.

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Canadian energy giant (Enbridge) to sell business arm for $4.31bn

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How Google's parent company is paving the way to become a transportation giant

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How To Manage Churn Better and Improve Your Revenue

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 06:17 AM PDT

Customers come and go. Some stay with you for a few weeks or months, while others have been with you ever since your first year and are still with you up to now. The coming and leaving of your customers is called churn and in a lot of sense, this is not good for your business. Over the years, business owners and managers have devised ways in order to keep customer churn within the accepted margin.

An article I have come across recently talks about how successful businessmen and entrepreneurs combat customer churn.

Here is a sneak peek of that article:

3 TYPES OF CHURN:

Account Churn - when the customer is completely no longer paying for the product or service.
Product Churn - when the customer has chosen a cheaper plan compared to what he used to pay for.
Decreased Spend - when a customer has decreased his usage of the product or the service.

4 BEST PRACTICES TO REDUCE CHURN:

Understanding your customers: their needs, their pain points, and the value that is being provided by your product or service to them. As a business, you should fundamentally know how you are going to solve your customers' problem(s) with your product or service and understanding and knowing what part of your product they are having difficulty using or understanding. You can do this by studying the data at hand.
Segmenting your customer profiles and data. Doing this allows you to create personalized services to a certain group of customers and delivering their needs speedily and accurately.
One of the proven ways that successful SaaS companies were able to reduce their churn rate was putting together an efficient and highly reliable customer success team. This team of people is the ones who are in constant connection with all your customers. They not only strengthen the beliefs of your loyal customers that they chose the right SaaS, but they are also on constant lookout for those individual customers who are likely to bolt and dismiss your services.
Analyzing data thoroughly and comprehensively. Data is extremely useful when it comes to understanding your customers' behavior and in order to provide the right solution at the earliest opportunity.

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Male Ear Piercings in a Professional setting?

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:51 AM PDT

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong subreddit for this post; I'm not entirely sure where else to reach the audience I am asking.

I am an 18 year old male college student and have wanted to pierce my left ear for quite some time. However, I am majoring in CIS and fully plan to have corporate interactions for the foreseeable future. My question is: Does the hole left by an ear piercing stand out to interviewers and does it carry a negative impression? I have no intention of actually wearing the jewelry in a professional environment - I'm much more concerned about the hole left by the piercing.

This concern alone has kept me from piercing my ear for a couple years now, and I was hoping to gather input from people who work in a professional environment.

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Uber Is in Talks With Careem to Merge in Middle East

Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:46 AM PDT

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Where Can Blockchain Be Used? Alternative Spheres

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Kynectme pronounced (connect-me). Simple add your skill and email address looking to build network.

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