The Do-it-Yourself Business Plan Template is designed to take a daunting, time-consuming task and make it manageable. It's that simple. Unlike convoluted manuals on business planning or sprawling software programs, this straightforward Microsoft Word document walks you through the ideal content of a business plan, step by step. What points should you make about your service? Where do you look for stats that quantify your market opportunity? And how exactly do you come up with a marketing plan? The answers are all inside. The Do-it-Yourself Business Plan Template closely follows the preferred layout for business plans—the one the SBA and major investment groups are accustomed to seeing. Filled with data-ready tables and placeholders that link to the Do-it-Yourself Full 3-Year/5-Year Financial Model, this template is the answer you've been looking for. Writing a business plan from scratch is a draining process with lots of dead-ends—but having a great foundation is all the advantage you need. So take the headache out of business plan writing with the Do-it-Yourself Business Plan Template. You'll be presenting your idea for funding before you know it.
Unless you're a CPA or majored in Finance, you probably approach the modeling component of the business plan with something between anxiety and dread. There's a reason CFOs get paid so handsomely—making reliable forecasts that you can actually execute is tough work. But with a comprehensive financial model already built out and interlinked in Microsoft Excel, your job gets a little easier. This spreadsheet can't poll your buyers or call around for insurance quotes, but once you give it some baseline numbers, it will forecast your growth, reveal your investment ratios, and gauge how long it will take your business to break even. The Full 3-Year/5-Year Financial Model from MasterPlans was developed in-house by expert financial modelers, and we used it to great acclaim for thousands of paying clients. Now we've upgraded, and this model is yours as part of the Do-it-Yourself package. Plug in your basic figures for sales and expenses and watch your profit and loss, cash flow, and balance sheets come to life—the outputs are suitable for lenders or investors. Other companies now re-sell this very file for hundreds of dollars. With MasterPlans Do-it-Yourself, it's yours virtually free.
This might surprise you, but in many circles, a business plan isn't really what the audience is looking for. Sure, it's what a bank granting SBA loans requires, and the old adage "you won't get your foot in the door without a business plan" holds true with virtually every investor. Yet time and again, the most compelling pitches VCs and angels talk about have almost nothing to do with 25–30 dry pages of market research and pro forma. This is where a Microsoft PowerPoint slide deck comes in. If you put it together intelligently—with the right information front-and-center—a concise PowerPoint can be your most versatile tool in the capital raise. But where do you begin? Start with the PowerPoint Presentation Guide from MasterPlans. This slide-by-slide template is your roadmap to a successful presentation. With the optimal slide layout already in place and easy to follow bullet points in each section, you can make yourself a hard-hitting presentation in no time. Complete, accessible, and adaptable to your own brand, this PowerPoint Presentation Guide is an entrepreneur's best ally.
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