| Everyone who is considering on becoming | | | | for free like how to do a bike-a-thon, car wash |
| self-employed and starting a business from | | | | fundraiser, etc. |
| scratch should spend a little time writing a | | | | One thing I have found with business plans that |
| business plan that they can use as a tool to | | | | are for sale is that most of them are cookie |
| evaluate the worthiness of the project and to | | | | cutter, bland and not as relevant as you might |
| help guide them along in the never ending planning | | | | think. 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 plan | | | | elsewhere 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 on | | | | for "Boat Sales" or "Accounting Company" or |
| them and websites where you can get a free | | | | some 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 me | | | | That'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 Plan | | | | on a term-paper, you see, it is the importance of |
| Kit, but, you can get business plans for such | | | | business 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 for | | | | thinking are you really planning? No, then why |
| those who purchase Microsoft Office, and there | | | | bother, 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, silent | | | | better off not starting your own business at all. |
| auction, etc. I've made some and put them online | | | | Think on this. |