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American
Express Small Business Site
American Express Small Business Services site is full of helpful
and important information for any stage of your business.
However, one of the best tools available is the Small Business
Exchange Business Plan Workshop. This workshop walks through
the primary elements of a business plan: Introductory Elements,
Business Description, The Market, Development & Production,
Sales & Marketing, Management and Financials.
Small
Business Plan
This allows business owners to test their planning skills on
a fictional business plan. It examines the plan for Bellašs
Biscotti, a start-up that hopes to supply biscotti to gourmet
shops in a fictional Metro City and its suburbs. During the
exercise, you are presented with a step in the planning process
and a description of three options for what Bellašs Biscottišs
owner could do next. You select which option is best, and the
workshop explains why that option is or is not the best of the
three.
Canada/British
Columbia Business Center
The Canada/British Columbia Business Service Centre has a
business planning outline on the web at . Although it does
not walk you through the process through a question and answer
process, it is a solid outline with an explanation of each
piece of the business plan puzzle.
Deloitte
& Touche
Deloitte & Touche, a major management consulting firm, offers
a primer on writing a business plan. This article outlines
the features of a plan the most important elements.
Free
Course on Writing Business Plans
A free short course on writing business plans put together
by a professional marketing communications expert. Check it
out for tips on writing either a technology-oriented or traditional
business plan.
Getting
Money Business Plans
A chapter on writing business plans from Getting Money: A
Getting-into-Business Guide, by Dan S. Kennedy. This chapter
includes information on aspects of business planning from
the cover letter that goes with the plan to a full sample
plan.
College programs donšt just post sample
plans, some also post tools that can help you as you develop
your plan. Here are a few of the most helpful:
The
Howard University Small Business Development Center
The Howard University Small Business Development Center has
put together a comprehensive outline of what needs to be in
a business plan. This outline includes lists of questionsif
you can answer them and put the answers in narrative form,
you will have a thorough business plan.
University
of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Entrepreneurship
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Entrepreneurship
has posted three business plan templates in Microsoft Word
95 format. They are easy to use and modify with your own business
information.
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