Excellent resource for business planning - Virtual Assistant Forums

Tess · #1 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008

Take a moment to peruse the amazing plethora of information at the Business Planning Blog - and check out it's parent site BPlans.com - a great place to start your info-gathering and research when starting up or fine tuning your practice. You'll find loads of tips on marketing, business planning and development, as well as a whole page full of calculators to help you determine such things as start up costs and more.

Office Goddess · #2 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008

Good stuff, Tess! I have bookmarked this page to do more follow-through, listen to the webinar, etc. this weekend.

ciboney · #3 (**permalink**) 01-31-2008

Thanks for sharing Tess.

#4 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Thanks for the link. Haven't done the business plan yet, but this will help!

Prime Admin Solutions · #5 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Here are a couple more resources for business plans:

http://www.bdc.ca/en/business_tools/...ookie%5Ftest=1

Interactive Online Business Planner: http://www.canadabusiness.ca/ibp/en/

These are from Canadian sites but they may be useful to folks in other countries.

Ask Viki! · #6 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008

I have Business Plan Pro, it comes with sample biz plans...even a Virtual Assistant plan! All I have to do is change the basic information, adjust the numbers to match my practice and viola, a business plan! If anyone wants any info off of it let me know...btw, Tim Berry is the author of the book that accompanied the software.

Ellen · #7 (**permalink**) 04-04-2008

Where do you get Business Plan Pro?

Ellen

Ask Viki! · #8 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008

Originally Posted by Ellen

Where do you get Business Plan Pro?

Ellen

Click here, it's the Palo Alto web page for it.

cjherzog · #9 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

Originally Posted by Ask Viki!

I have Business Plan Pro, it comes with sample biz plans...even a Virtual Assistant plan! All I have to do is change the basic information, adjust the numbers to match my practice and viola, a business plan! If anyone wants any info off of it let me know...btw, Tim Berry is the author of the book that accompanied the software.

Viki:

This is exactly what I've been looking for! A VA business plan we can use and tweak it to our own specs.

Thanks a million!

kagome · #10 (**permalink**) 05-06-2008

I haven't made a business plan yet so these are very useful indeed!

#11 (**permalink**) 05-17-2008

thanks for the sites, I will be looking through them later. I am just collecting all the information I can...

e-ssistant · #12 (**permalink**) 08-28-2008

Thanks Tess, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Avocet · #13 (**permalink**) 10-25-2008

Thanks Tess!

This looks like a very useful resorce! I've bookmarked it for future use.

Avocet

mkimble · #14 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008

Thanks! I really appreciate all of the help I have been getting from this website!!

kkaiser · #15 (**permalink**) 01-09-2009

Love the idea of industry specific plan templates of the software but cant spend $$ on extras now