Should I Buy a Business Plan Online?

Everyone who is considering on becomingfor free like how to do a bike-a-thon, car wash
self-employed and starting a business fromfundraiser, etc.
scratch should spend a little time writing aOne thing I have found with business plans that
business plan that they can use as a tool toare for sale is that most of them are cookie
evaluate the worthiness of the project and tocutter, bland and not as relevant as you might
help guide them along in the never ending planningthink. I have purchased a bunch over the years
process of running a successful business. But,from places like Entrepreneur Magazine and
what if you've never written a business planelsewhere and always have been underwhelmed.
before? Should you go out and buy one?It's like someone started by doing a business plan
There are websites that have business plans onfor "Boat Sales" or "Accounting Company" or
them and websites where you can get a freesome unique business type and then simply
business plan outline to help you with this process.modified it for every other type of business.
Recently, a start-up entrepreneur asked meThat's no good.
about Good to Go Business Plans and I told them;Sometimes buying a business plan is like cheating
"I do not know of this; Good to Go Business Planon a term-paper, you see, it is the importance of
Kit, but, you can get business plans for suchbusiness planning that you should be concerned
things all over the place."with. If you adopt someone else's ideas without
Microsoft has "Business Plan" samples online forthinking are you really planning? No, then why
those who purchase Microsoft Office, and therebother, and further, if you are not going to plan,
are business plans for community events around,you are planning to fail, and in that case, you'd be
I've seen them, like how to do a bake sale, silentbetter off not starting your own business at all.
auction, etc. I've made some and put them onlineThink on this.