No matter what your business, a sample small business plan can inspire creativity in your own business plan. That is why EVERY SINGLE 7 STEP BUSINESS PLAN CONTAINS SAMPLE BUSINESS PLANS, such as these:
Some have a dozen or so. Some have hundreds. But each and every one has sample small business plans for your review.
While these businesses are very different, in the 7 Step Business Plan series, they have several things in common. First, each and every one of our business plan sets contain:
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Your workbook. Over 90 pages,
stuffed full of everything you need to know. Step by step, work your
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Your business plan template, formatted
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Excel spreadsheets, with charts ready to be automatically generated. Get as creative as you want to be -- This is a program you already know, too. |
We include more than one sample small business plan in each set for very good reason: You will not be able to take anyone else's business plan, copy it and make it your own.
Consider the Restaurant business plan. There are literally thousands of different styles of restaurants. There are small vendors and huge convention style restaurants. There is just no way that one sample small business plan can serve as the model for all possible restaurant business plans.
So Mix and Match
The very best advice we can give if you want to use a sample small business plan is to mix and match from all the sample business plans that we provide.
Perhaps one has a great color scheme. Use it.
Perhaps another has a nice set of charts. Use them.
Perhaps a third has great ideas for an introduction page. Use it.
The Inside Scoop
One of the great secrets of professional business plan writers is that they don't look just their own category of business plan. They look in lots of places for inspirations for style and presentation. A business plan for credit repair may find its inspiration in a business services plan; a graphic designer may be inspired by a business plan for a dance studio. Look around. Capture ideas from all over.
One of our favorite places to look isn't even in business plans. It is in annual reports. Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make great annual reports. Use the ideas that you discover there and incorporate them into a sample small business plan for your business.
It seems like a daunting task: creating a successful business plan. And it can be. So we've made this as easy to use as possible. Using a sample business plan or two, your business proposal will be finished in no time, in 7 easy steps.
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I think part of the reason that we are successful so
far is that originally we didn't really want to start a business. We
were doing research at Stanford university. Google sort of came out of
that. And we didn't even intend to build a search engine originally.
We were just interested in the Web and interested in data mining. And
then we ended up with search technology that we realized was really
good. And we built the search engine. Then we told our friends about
it and our professors. Pretty Soon, about 10,000 people a day were
using it.
LARRY PAGE,
Co-founder of Google
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