Business Plan Writing workshops are scheduled several times a year. A choice of one- or two-day sessions is offered, each teaching the foundation and basics of writing a comprehensive business plan specifically geared towards the small lodging industry. The workshops are hands-on, and ideal for potential or current owners of bed and breakfasts, country inns, motels and boutique hotels who wish to be able to construct their own business plan suitable for presentation to lenders or other investors.

Curriculum

• Introduction - The Basics of Business Planning
• Who is my audience?
• Setting the Goals
• Structuring the Plan
• Understanding Financing
• SBA and other Guarantees
• Financial Analysis
• Defining your Product
• Researching the Market
• Formalizing your Strategy
• Putting it Together

Each workshop provides personal participant attention from instructors, with the two day sessions limited in size to allow more comprehensive and detailed coursework. Participants are encouraged to bring whatever materials they currently have for preparing a business plan and a notebook computer equipped with a wireless adapter for accessing the Internet.

Workshop Fee

• 2-Day residential workshops: $475 per person or $695 per couple (includes tuition, workbook materials, 2 nights accommodation with breakfast, light lunch both days, snacks and refreshments, all taxes).
• 1-Day workshops: $195 per person (includes tuition, workbook materials, light lunch, refreshments, taxes).

Workshop Schedule 2008
Both Residential and 1-Day workshops are held at inns and B&Bs across the country including at our own facility, the Admiral Peary House, here in Maine.

2-day workshops start at 9:30am and end at 5pm on the first day; 9:30am and 3:00pm on the second, with morning and afternoon breaks and an hour for lunch (included). 1-Day workshops are often organized by state or local Innkeepers or Lodging associations and generally run from 9am - 5pm.