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The 30 Minute Business Plan: Business Model Canvas Made Easy. See also ‘Workshop-Business Model Canvas‘ What’s the Business Model Canvas? If you’re already familiar, you can skip to the next section, ‘How do I get started?’. The Business Model Canvas (BMC) gives you the structure of a business plan without the overhead and the improvisation of a ‘back of the napkin’ sketch without the fuzziness (and coffee rings). The Canvas has nine elements: Together these elements provide a pretty coherent view of a business’ key drivers– Customer Segments: Who are the customers? The Canvas is popular with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs for business model innovation. How do I get started? The first time you engage with the canvas, I recommend printing it out or projecting it on a whiteboard and going to town (see below for a PDF).

If you’re ready to put together something a little more formal (for distribution, presentation, etc.) here’s a Google App’s template you can copy or download as MSFT PowerPoint: *Omnigraffle a popular diagramming program for the Mac.

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8 Online revenue model options for Internet businesses. Selecting the best revenue options for Internet startups I’m often contacted by site owners with an idea for a new site who are trying to work out how much revenue they’ll be able to raise depending on the number of visitors to their site. There’s no simple answer to this, but to help, several years ago I created this spreadsheet model which also features in my books as an activity to help students working on this topic. It shows the main parameters you need to set – blue fields and it works how the revenue earning – orange fields. The Site Ad revenue model If you plug in some average figures for pay-for-performance-based advertising options like cost per click or cost per action approaches li as shown below it shows why fixed fee and CPM models tend to be preferred by publishers.

It also shows that you need substantial traffic to to make much money through advertising. How to use the revenue model calculator It allows these parameters to be set: The 8 Internet revenue model options 1. 2. 3. 8 Online revenue model options for Internet businesses. Business Model Canvas. Create a new Business Model Canvas - Canvanizer. The Business Model Canvas was proposed by Alexander Osterwalder based on his earlier book: Business Model Ontology.

It outlines nine segments which form the building blocks for the business model in a nice one-page canvas. You can find a detailed explanation in his bestselling book "Business Model Generation". If you want to try it a Business Model Canvas without entering your email address, please use our Canvanizer 2.0 Business Model Canvas Demo for a first impression. The Business Model Canvas reflects systematically on your business model, so you can focus on your business model segment by segment. This also means you can start with a brain dump, filling out the segments the spring to your mind first and then work on the empty segments to close the gaps. The following list with questions will help you brainstorm and compare several variations and ideas for your next business model innovation. Who are your key partners/suppliers?