Once your business is underway you will find that not all of your plans are tenable. What looked perfect in paper may not be practical in actual practice. Or your assumptions may have changed. Flexibility is a quality of a good manager trying to make a business work. Have a second and third look. Consider factors that you are just now discovering and revise your business plan. Your plan will be a work in process for a while but don’t fret. Before you know it, with hard work and tenacity, everything will fall in place.
Monitoring a business plan is one thing; developing the business is another. Business development assumes that you have gone through the growing up pains and is now ready to start really growing. To do this, you have to gather more information about the business, learn more about your customers and look for possible areas of growth. It means selling more to your loyal customers and enlarging your base by attracting new customers. Trying to develop your business will involve collecting facts and figures; but in the final analysis you have to depend a lot on your gut feel.