Everyone who is considering on becoming self-employed and starting a business from scratch should spend a little time writing a business plan that they can use as a tool to evaluate the worthiness of the project and to help guide them along in the never ending planning process of running a successful business. But, what if you've never written a business plan before? Should you go out and buy one?
There are websites that have business plans on them and websites where you can get a free business plan outline to help you with this process. Recently, a start-up entrepreneur asked me about Good to Go Business Plans and I told them; "I do not know of this; Good to Go Business Plan Kit, but, you can get business plans for such things all over the place."
Microsoft has "Business Plan" samples online for those who purchase Microsoft Office, and there are business plans for community events around, I've seen them, like how to do a bake sale, silent auction, etc. I've made some and put them online for free like how to do a bike-a-thon, car wash fundraiser, etc.
One thing I have found with business plans that are for sale is that most of them are cookie cutter, bland and not as relevant as you might think. I have purchased a bunch over the years from places like Entrepreneur Magazine and elsewhere and always have been underwhelmed. It's like someone started by doing a business plan for "Boat Sales" or "Accounting Company" or some unique business type and then simply modified it for every other type of business. That's no good.
Sometimes buying a business plan is like cheating on a term-paper, you see, it is the importance of business planning that you should be concerned with. If you adopt someone else's ideas without thinking are you really planning? No, then why bother, and further, if you are not going to plan, you are planning to fail, and in that case, you'd be better off not starting your own business at all. Think on this.
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