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@mequoda 1 Forecasting the Future Master the Art of Proxy Metric Modeling
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@mequoda 2 Why Do We Need Business Plans? Exploration Documentation Capitalization
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@mequoda 3 Exploration
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@mequoda 4 Documentation
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@mequoda 5 Capitalization
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@mequoda 6 Digital Strategy Model 5.0 Beta
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@mequoda 7 Executive Summary
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@mequoda 8 Online Summary
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@mequoda 9 Magazine Summary
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@mequoda 10 Digital Retail Summary
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@mequoda 11 Overhead Summary
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@mequoda 12 Executive Summary
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Strategic Business Plan Management Team Audience Profile Revenue Mix Marketing Strategy Website Design Infrastructure Plan Five-Year Forecast
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Management Team
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Organizational Structure Staff Biographies Job Descriptions
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Organizational Strategy
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CEO & Founder Rose Harper – CEO & Founder Created Hidden Gardens in 1995 Created Gardens Daily in 2001 Lifelong master gardener Author of 12 best-selling gardening books Experienced publishing executive
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Chief Content Officer John Ashby – CCO Editor of Hidden Gardens in 2005 Experienced book editor Former Director American Horticultural Society Award-winning gardener MBA/JD Harvard University
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Chief Marketing Officer Robert Caswell – CMO Responsible for all print and online marketing Hired in 2011 Former Group Publisher with Readers Digest Award-winning gardener MBA/JD Harvard University
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Chief Financial Officer Trevor Wells – CFO Responsible for all finance, operations and production Hired in 2010 Former group controller with Meredith Corporation Award-winning amateur photographer MBA Wharton
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Chief Technology Officer Jane Doe – CTO Pending hire 2012 Currently CTO for successful special-interest publisher Experienced online system manager Deep network of freelance and vendor resources Avid amateur gardener MBA Wharton
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Audience Profile
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Market Size Demographics Spending Power
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Americas #1 Hobby
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Target Reader Profile –55 and older –college graduate –married –$75,000 household income –living in the South –no children at home [Source: http://www.gardenresearch.com/index.php?q=sho w&id=2989] http://www.gardenresearch.com/index.php?q=sho w&id=2989
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Population is Aging In 2020, 45-84 year old adults will number 131M Up 41% Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2004
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Trends Gardening is Americas #1 hobby [Source: Huliq.com] $28 billion in retail sales in 2010 $363 per household spent in 2010 on do-it- yourself lawn and garden activities [Source: http://www.gardenresearch.com/]http://www.gardenresearch.com/
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Revenue Mix
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User Revenue Sponsor Revenue
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Product Sales Mix Legacy Product = Magazine Expansion Products = Books, Videos, Digital Magazine & Live Events
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Sponsorship Strategy
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Year 5 Revenue Mix
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Marketing Strategy
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Branding Traffic Engagement
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Gardens Daily Brand Wheel
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Gardens Daily Media Pyramid PREMIUM CONTENT EMAIL & SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE 305K 743K 8.4M
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Gardens Daily Market Clusters
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Affinity Content Calendar
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Year 5 Website Visitor Mix
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Magazine Circulation Mix
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Website Design
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Open Content User Community Product Sales Subscription Sales Event Sales
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Gardens Daily Blog
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Gardens Daily Community
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Gardens Daily Shop
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Gardens Daily Magazine
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Gardens Daily Events
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Infrastructure Plan
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Software Hardware ASP Partners Affinity Partners Newsstand Partners
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Software Open Source 100% GPL Code WP Compatible Fully Portable
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Hardware 24/7 Data Center Management Cloud Hosting On-Demand Scaling Predictable Costs
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ASP Partners
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Affinity Partners
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Newsstand Partners
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Five-Year Forecast
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Audience Growth Revenue Growth Profit Growth
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Audience Growth
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Revenue Growth
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Profit Growth
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Investment Opportunity
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Cash Requirements Terminal Value Funding Sources
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Cash Requirements $1 Million
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Terminal Value
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Funding Sources Operating Cash Flow Debt Financing Enterprise Equity
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@mequoda 65 Don Nicholas Chief Executive Officer Mequoda Group, LLC Don@Mequoda.com (508) 358-9689 Kim Mateus Chief Content Officer Mequoda Group, LLC Kim@Mequoda.com (571) 313-8779 Thank You www.mequoda.com/dpb12
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