Software for Organizing a Business Plan
Writing a business plan involves putting your ideas for starting a company on paper to help you figure out how to get your enterprise off the ground. Business plan software programs can help to simplify that process, and help you gather information about how to market your business, analyze your competition, create a budget and make financial projections.
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Business Plan Pro
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Business Plan Pro software has received favorable reviews from many business and technology publications including The Wall Street Journal, Inc. and PCWorld. The software is designed to guide users through the business plan creation process with over 500 sample plans and thousands of industry profiles to help in creating projections and analyzing competition. Other features include Microsoft Office integration, exporting to PDF and HTML, budgeting tools and video tutorials. Customers have a choice of two versions of the software: standard or premier. The premier version includes visual tools and a management dashboard that compares the plan to real-life results. The software can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. As of 2011, the premier version costs $149.95 and the standard version costs $99.95. It runs on Windows computers.
Biz Plan Builder
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Biz Plan Builder is cross-platform software that runs on Windows and Macintosh computers. The software's business plan organizing tools include features for creating financial forecasts, market analyses, marketing strategies and business contracts. The software helps users organize their business ideas with templates that provide step-by-step guidance. Documents created in Biz Plan Builder can be exported to Microsoft Office programs, PDFs, and HTML. Users can export their plans to PowerPoint for usage in business pitches and create custom templates. The program can be downloaded for $149.95 as of 2011.
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Ultimate Business Planner
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Ultimate Business Planner is geared toward small business owners. The software provides step-by-step instructions on how to create business plans. It includes over 1,000 templates and 25 complete samples to help potential business owners formulate a plan. The software can export to Microsoft Word and Excel and to PDFs, and also works with data from QuickBooks. Ultimate Business Planner also provides information on U.S. Small Business Administration loan programs and other government business programs. The software runs on Windows computers. It can be purchased and downloaded from the manufacturer's website for $99 as of 2011.
Plan Write for Business
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Plan Write for Business uses wizards to guide users through the process of organizing and creating a business plan. The software includes hundreds of sample plans and industry profiles to help customize plans. Plans can be exported to HTML and Microsoft Office programs including PowerPoint for presentations. Plan Write also has collaboration features so teams can work on organizing business plans together. The software runs on Windows computers and can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website for $129.95 as of 2011.
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