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Submit Your Business Plan
Essential Tools for Creating The Winning Pitch
Resources for writing a Business Plan:
Sample Business Plans
Planware
Irish website offering free business plan templates and cash flow forecast software.It also has advice and information on how to write a business plan.
Biz-in-a-Box
Offering a five stage business planning process guide.
Business Link Business Planning
Offering a checklist of what your business plan should include, such as how to complete financial forecasts, looking at your markets and competitors, defining your marketing and sales strategy, staff skills and how to present your business plan.
Business Plan Index
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s site offers a list of subject links to sample business plans.
Royal Bank of Scotland
Free business plan software which can be downloaded to your desktop.
Bulletproof Business Plans
An effective guide that provides sample business plans. The components outlined include covers, table of contents, disclaimers,executive summary, the enterprise, the market, operations, the organisation, key risks, prospective financials and an appendix.
Bplans
American site that has free samples of completed business plans to view online.
Centre for Business Planning
American site provides information on every area of planning a business including acquiring venture capital, market analysis,competitive analysis, production management, preparing financial statements and writing a business plan.