Write a business plan that ensures financial success!

• Bankers
• Lending Institutions
• Venture Capital Firms
• Family and Friends
• Angel Investors
• Small Business Administration
• Partners
• Private Investors
• New Business Units
• Executives and Managers

Everything you need to plan and launch your business!

• Easy, Step-by-Step Interview Wizards
• Powerful 5-Year Financial Forecasting
• Hundreds of Sample Plans Save You Time
• Recommended for Bankers, Investors and SBA

Easy, Step-by-Step Interviews
Get started quickly and easily. An interactive wizard guides you through each stage with advice, examples, and tips. A Step-by-Step Guide is always available to help you to navigate to any section. Clearly communicate your ideas to investors. Friendly reminders and Smart Tips help you review your plan to ensure you'll never overlook important items.


Write a Professional Business Plan That Gets You Funded!
Any business plan writing software can help you organize your thoughts into a business plan, but Business PlanMaker is the only brand that focuses on your finances first so you can create a plan that supports your financial model. You'll demonstrate not only how your ideas will be profitable, but when.

• Easy, Step-by-Step Interviews - Get started quickly and easily. An interactive wizard guides you through each stage with advice, examples, and tips. Simply answer a few, plain-English questions and quickly visualize the business of your dreams.
• Samples and Recommended Phrases - Never start from scratch. Get started with professionally written sample plans for hundreds of businesses, each pre-written by professional consultants for most industries and indexed for easy searching.
• Fast, Accurate Financial Forecasts - Build a comprehensive set of financial projections, complete with 65 effective graphs, charts, and reports. Powerful financial tools automatically project sales, expenses, and cash flow quickly and accurately. So you'll never deal with complicated formulas, reports, or graphs again.
• Publish in Preferred Format - Your plan is prepared using the recommended format preferred by executives and investors. Enhance your plan with graphics, photos, and cover illustrations. Then print, e-mail, create a PDF or export to Word and Excel.

Professionally Written Sample Plans for Hundreds of Businesses
With plans authored by professional business plan writers, you'll see the higher quality difference instantly. Each plan includes 20-30 pages of essential information and up-to-date financial figures for your business model. All plans are 100% customizable so you can get started more quickly.


Publish in the Preferred Format
Your plan is prepared using the recommended format preferred by executives and investors. Enhance your plan with graphics, photos, and cover illustrations. Then print, e-mail, create a PDF (Portable Document File), or publish to the web. Exports to Word and Excel.


Everything You Need to Launch Your Business!
Never written a business plan before? Business PlanMaker includes exclusive training and online resources that are essential for first-time entrepreneurs!

• Check Your Plan for Errors - Review your business plan for financial accuracy and completeness. Catch missing sections or areas that are not ready for publication.
• Professor Teaches Business Planning - An interactive tutorial offers concise, comprehensive training to help you plan and run your new business successfully.
• Connect to Business Resources You Need - Get help launching your business with 750 resources, valuable government programs, a list of investors, publications, and business resources you'll need to get started. Save over $500 in discount offers on future business services.
• Learn From Professionals - Draw on the experiences of successful entrepreneurs and learn beforehand how to avoid costly mistakes.  Book excerpt written by Jan Norman, Award-Winning Business Author 
• Organize Your Business - Take control of your schedule, to-do list, and contacts. An intuitive design helps you get started quickly. Everything you need to stay organized is included-you'll wonder how you ever survived without it!
• Visualize Your Organization Chart - Illustrate the organizational structure of your company to your management team and key decision makers. Build scenarios quickly and create great looking org charts.
• Computer Training - With Professor Teaches Excel, you'll learn how to forecast sales and analyze data with the most complete training program for Excel.
• Works with QuickBooks - Easily import existing financials from QuickBooks Financial Software to create business plans and financial projections.

Ten Ways Business PlanMaker Ensures Your Success

• Define Your Business:  Turn your dreams into reality. Chart a new course for your business.
• Organize Your Thoughts:  Assemble your ideas into a presentation that sells your proposal.
• Identify Opportunities:  Discover opportunities, analyze risk & identify unforeseen challenges.
• Ensure Financial Success:  Illustrate the financial benefits of implementing your plans.
• Beat the Competition:  Define products/services, identify customers, & capture the market.
• Achieve Your Goals:  Establish direction for your business, set objectives & monitor progress.
• Provide Leadership:  Convey key messages to employees, partners, & executives.
• Share Your Vision:  Sell your proposition to investors, bankers, family & friends.
• Generate Excitement:  Build the momentum your business needs to reach the next stage.
• Receive Funding:  Create a persuasive, compelling plan that gets the funding you need.

• Windows 2000, XP, Vista
• Intel Pentium or equivalent processor
• 250 MB of Hard Drive Space available
• CD-ROM Drive
• SVGA video or higher
• Windows Printer