Business Plan Example Format
business plan example format
Examples of a Business Plan: Don’t Follow Too Closely
If you look hard enough, either online or through speaking with other entrepreneurs, you should be able to find examples of business plans to help guide your business planning process. However, there are dangers in taking any one example as your only model for your own plan. When using examples as a guide, it is best to reconcile multiple examples from different sources to create your own, unique plan.
The Quality Question
First of all, there will always be a definite question as to the quality of any example business plan you come across. High quality is determined not just by how well written the plan appears to be, but by whether the plan was successful in helping an entrepreneur raise funds to launch the business. A plan can be extremely well-written and still fail on this front if it does not present a clear, compelling picture of a business. While some assurances and a personal relationship with the example plan’s writer may make you feel more comfortable about whether it was a successful plan, you would do best to not use any one example as your primary guide.
Every Business Is Different
Furthermore, every business is different. Even if the example plan you are looking at is for the same sector as your business, you will be in a different competitive situation, have managers with different skills, and may choose different marketing and operational methods. Because of all of these differences, you should take care to use an example as a loose guide for how to structure, format, and write your plan, but should always check against other resources and examples. To be specific to your business, you may need to focus on different areas within your plan, and trying to adapt a given example sentence by sentence will not work.
About the Author
Eric Powers is associated with Growthink, a business plan consulting firm. Since 1999, Growthink business plan writers have developed more than 2,000 business plans. Call 800-506-5728 today for a free consultation. If you’re writing your own business plan, you can access a proven template, here: http://www.growthink.com/products/business-plan-template.
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