Business Plan Outline

Here is the business plan outline for the SBA preferred format. Look it over, but try not to let it intimidate you. At first glance it does look complicated and scary. But I will show you just how easy it can be write your own business plan. I have developed simple step-by-step techniques so that you really can write your own business plan.

    • Executive Summary

    • Business Description
      1) Business History
      2) Growth and Financial Objectives
        a. Growth Potential Yr 1
        b. Anticipated Earnings Yr 1
      3)Legal Structure and Ownership
      4)Location and Facilities
      5)Financing the Business
        a. Break Even Analysis

      • Owner/Management
        1) Owner’s Background
        2) Management

      • Market Analysis
        1) Marketability
        2) Industry Analysis
        3) Target Market
        4) Customer Profile
        5) Major Competitors

      • Product/Service
        1) Competitive Comparisons
        2) Pricing Strategy

      • Marketing Plan
        1) Advertising

      • Financial Plan
        1) Initial Capital Requirements
        2) Estimated Start-Up Capital/Monthly Expenses
        3) Income Projection
        4) Cash Flow Statement Yrs 1-3
        5) Balance Sheet
        6) Assumptions Detail

    DON'T PANIC! It only looks impossible. It took me two full years to get up the courage and set aside the time to finally write my first business plan. Once I started writing I discovered it was really not that difficult.

    One of the required items was the business description. Within that section was to be a description of the competition. Easy. The reason I knew my idea was a winner was because there was very little competition in the immediate and surrounding area. I simply did a short write up describing those businesses and added a quick comparison showing how my idea differed from and improved upon those existing businesses. One section was completed.

    That wasn’t so hard. With newfound confidence I forged ahead to the next section. Marketing. More specifically defining my target market. A couple of paragrahs described my target market and customer. Voila! Another section completed.

    Believe me once you write your first section the rest of it starts to fall into place and off you go! You are that much closer to starting your own small business! And remember, you don't need to figure it all out yourself. I show you the step-by-step techniques so that you can write your own business plan. Click here to get my manual so you can finally start writing your business plan!

    Business Plan Outline
    Business Plan Outline