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Plan for Success

Have you got a business idea?

Writing a business plan is the secret to testing your business concept's feasibility and making it work! It will help you identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges unique to your venture, and it will serve as a guide when you take those wobbly first (and second, and third) steps.

A Model to Guide You
Business Plan Template
This guide, developed by the UNI SBDC, will give you an idea of what information you might include in your plan and how to organize it.

Sample Business Plans
ABC Company: (Word document)
This sample business plan is taken right from our client files - with the names changed, of course. Use this as an example when writing your own plan.

Bplans.com: The Planning People
View sample plans from real businesses and get lots of juicy business information at the same time.

Morebusiness.com: By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs
Find sample business and marketing plan templates and tools to assist you in doing your own.

Software Makes it Easy
Stop by our office to test-drive this business planning software:

Business Plan Pro
Jian Biz Plan Builder Interactive
Microsoft Office Business Planner