Step Three: Business Plan > Create Your Business Plan

Ready to get started on your business plan? The Table of Contents listed below contains all of the sections that your business plan will need. Click on each link below and, when the page opens, follow the instructions at the top. You will have options to save, erase and print each section.

Ready to get started on your business plan? The Table of Contents listed below contains all of the sections that your business plan will need. Click on each link below and, when the page opens, follow the instructions at the top. You will have options to save, erase and print each section. View a sample business plan (.PDF) before you get started.

Important Notices

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In order for the business plan software on this CD to work, you must take the following steps:

  1. Click here to download a Microsoft patch.
  2. Close Internet Explorer.
  3. Double click on downloaded file called patch.reg.
  4. Answer Yes to applying the update.
  5. Click OK to acknowledge that the update was applied successfully.

Due to Microsoft's ongoing updates in virus protection, you may encounter an error message while running the business plan software, even after you have installed this patch. If you encounter such an error message, please re-run the patch, following the same instructions above.

The software running on this CD is subject to changes that may occur whenever Microsoft or other companies upgrade internal system operations through security upgrades, patches, and other changes to the way the system operates. If you experience problems with the operation of this CD, check for an upgrade patch at the Community College Workforce Alliance web site.

The software system included within this CD is new in design, and requires several systems of your computer to interact that normally function separately.

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A list of steps that should be taken to ensure the proper operation of this software can be found by clicking here. If after taking these steps, you still experience problems with the operation of this CD, check for additional information at the Community College Workforce Alliance website: http://www.ccwa.vccs.edu/sbCD.cfm

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Additional Note on Printing: If you would like the pages of the business plan to print without unnecessary headers or footers, please take the following steps before proceeding. Go to "File" on your browser menu. Select "Page Setup." Underneath the section titled "Headers and Footers," delete anything in the field next to "Headers" and also delete anything in the field next to "Footers." These two fields should be blank. Click "Ok."

You are ready to print!

Business Plan Table of Contents

Step One: Cover Sheet

Step Two: Background Information

Step Three: Description of Product(s) and/or Service(s)

Step Four: Organization Matters

Step Five: The Marketing Plan

Step Six: Competitive Analysis

 


Step Seven: The Financial Plan

Step Eight: Conclusion

Step Nine: Executive Summary

Step Ten: Appendix

Print Your Business Plan

 



For best printing results: From your browser, go to "File" then "Page Setup".
Set left and right margins to 0.25" and be sure portrait mode is selected.

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