About the Magazine | Editor's Note | Contact / AD Info | Subscribe Features Seeds to Success The future for UAE’s Mall environment looks secure. With deposits in hand for 10 million square metres of booked mall...   The Mall Challenge With retail business booming, YourBusiness questions the challenges for SME retailers to operate within UAE Malls. With his exhaustive trade experience...   Why small Business’s fail? Small businesses expand, some of them succeed, others fail at an early stage and certainly, failure rates outnumber success...   Feature Company formation Links Group are the company formation specialists. With a successful track record in this field...   Setting up Franchisee Tracey Furey is managing director at FDS, Dubai and a specialist in strategic marketing, brand building, and business development activities...     know more How To Prepare a great Business Plan A business plan is like a route map to your destination that you can actually implement. Such a plan helps in four ways. It gives your business a sense of direction...   The key elements of a Business Plan Short and concise plans are better than big and impressive-looking ones. A single A4 page may be all that is necessary. Jargon, far from being compulsory...   Basic characteristics of a Business Plan There is no set format for a business plan. The important thing is that you show you have considered all the questions and issues listed above...   Check List Be clear in your own mind what you want before attempting to convince others. Set aside time to think... know more About the Awards Celebrating excellence in the SME sector First & only media led SME Awards initiative Independent & objective judging process   Country & sector neutral Will develop credible benchmark standard Fostering best practices & innovation   know more   YourBusiness Magazine © 2007 Dabbagh Information Technology Group Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Registered in Dubai Media City. No. 30064. Registered office: 122, Building 9, Dubai Media City, Dubai, UAE