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Your local bank is supposed to give you some information. But you can also search the web; the government sites could be helpful.

Good luck.
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Talk to someone at SCORE if you live in the US

Check out this link. http://paloalto.com/resource-kit There are many useful resources on this site from Entrepreneur Magazine.

You should be able to do a search for "Business Plan" and you will get a bunch of websites in return that will guide you thru it. The Small Business Administration site should be able to help you.

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?r.l2=1074433147&r.l1=1073858790&r.s=tl&topicId=1073958998

Hope this helps.

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/act…
or
http://www.business.gov.au/Business+Entr…

http://www.hostexel.co.uk

These can help!!!

There is a web site that offers templates for business plans.

I have an idea for you..

Call a local college business professor, and ask him if there is a student or class who could use this as a project.

Otherwise, stick to your bank, or the Small Business Administration.

hi,
when i started my business…..i simply went to my bank.
they had a CD Rom which was a superb template for a business plan.
All ihad to do was to fill in the details of estimated earnings, profits etc.

If you have the main components, the order doesn’t matter that much, but here’s the order I suggest.

Executive Summary: Write this last. It’s just a page or two of highlights.
Company Description: Legal establishment, history, start-up plans, etc.
Product or Service: Describe what you’re selling. Focus on customer benefits.
Market Analysis: You need to know your market, customer needs, where they are, how to reach them, etc.
Strategy and Implementation: Be specific. Include management responsibilities with dates and budgets. Make sure you can track results.
Web Plan Summary: For e-commerce, include discussion of website, development costs, operations, sales and marketing strategies.
Management Team: Describe the organization and the key management team members.
Financial Analysis: Make sure to include at the very least your projected Profit and Loss and Cash Flow tables.
I don’t recommend developing the plan in the same order you present it as a finished document. For example, although the Executive Summary obviously comes as the first section of a business plan, I recommend writing it after everything else is done. It will appear first, but you write it last.

Standard Tables and Charts

There are also some business tables and charts that are normally expected in a standard business plan.

Cash flow is the single most important numerical analysis in a plan, and should never be missing. Most plans will also have Sales Forecast and Profit and Loss statements. I believe they should also have separate Personnel listings, projected Balance sheet, projected Business Ratios, and Market Analysis tables.

I also believe that every plan should include bar charts and pie charts to illustrate the numbers.

Lotsa resources, samples, etc.

http://www.theresourcequeen.com/favorite…

For less than $100, you can buy a business plan software. But the software is merely a guide — you need to research and think of the contents of the business plan. Once you think you have the information you need, then check out Palo Alto's Business Plan Pro software http://www.bplans.com/mk/bpp.cfm?affilia…

Here are some resources that can help you write your business plan:

- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/pla…
- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/busi…
- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,72…

You may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:

- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.c…
- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners
http://www.businessplans.org/businesspla…
- VFinance – View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&T…
- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_…
- PlanWare Planning software and information. http://www.planware.org/
- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html
-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/pla…
- Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/b…
- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServe…
- Business Plans Index – A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/b…

Some recommended books are :

- Business Plans Kit for Dummies
- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan
- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide
- Business Plans For Dummies®
- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan

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