Business Plans Handbook

By Lynn M. Pearce

Book Overview

Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. For those looking for examples of how to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1414468334
• ISBN13: 9781414468334
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 11.7"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book that will help the reader train himself or herself to research and write a stellar

VOLUME 12. I love this resource. I cannot say enough positive things about it. I am a SCORE (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) volunteer who provides business coaching services via email and in-person. I have recommended on almost every occasion that my "clients" who are starting a business and need to prepare a business plan search out for this volume and the others that follow it at their public library, community college library, or university library. A business plan is a 25-35 page written document that includes the following ten sections: 1. Business History and Outlook 2. Description of Product or Services 3. Market Examination (target market) 4. Description and analysis of Competition (competitors serving target market) 5. Marketing (various options and a plan) 6. Operations 7. Administration and Management 8. Key Personnel 9. Potential Problems and Solutions to those Problems 10. Financial Information (BS, IS, Stmt of Cash Flows) Included in this volume are the following sample business plans: 1. Beauty Salon 2. Campground 3. Car Wash 4. Concrete Coating Company 5. Custodial Cleaning Company 6. Daycare 7. Dentist's Office 8. eCommerce Web Site Producer 9. Entertainment Production, Distribution, and Performance Company 10. Food Distributor (template) 11. General Staffing Company 12. Go-cart Designer and Supplier 13. Hardware Store (template) 14. Home Inspection Company 15. Information Technology Personnel Agency 16. Online Payment Services 17. Online Woodworking Manufacturing and Retailing 18. Plumbing Service 19. Senior Care Facility 20. Sports Bar and Grille 21. Sports Tournament Organizer None of the above plans are 25-35 pages long. And few if any have good Financial Information. But what they do provide the reader is examples of how business plans are supposed to present information. You will no doubt see big holes in the sample plans. It is those holes you need to be aware of so you can fill them in when you prepare your own business plan. Read the plans as if you were going to use them to start a similar business. Ask yourself what you still need to know after reading each plan that you must have an answer for in order to use the plan as a blueprint for actually running your own business. As you do this for each of the plans you will become expert at analyzing and critiquing business plans. And that is what you need to be able to do well when you write your own business plan. 5 stars!