Forum Sponsor (Advertise with us)

#1 (permalink)   01-30-2008 Tess Senior Member Company name: Codehead, LLP Latest blog post: SEO Q&A   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 9,071 Blog Entries: 3 Excellent resource for business planning 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. __________________ Get the Become a Virtual Assistant eBook 2nd Edition + 35 FREE sample contracts, business documents, and worksheets!

#2 (permalink)   01-30-2008 Office Goddess Senior Member Company name: The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC   Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 2,981 Re: Excellent resource for business planning Good stuff, Tess! I have bookmarked this page to do more follow-through, listen to the webinar, etc. this weekend. __________________ Lily Chambers, The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC Author "How to Do Your Own Small Business Bookkeeping"

#3 (permalink)   01-31-2008 ciboney Active Member Company name: Ciboney Virtual Solutions   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Grenada, USA Posts: 596 Re: Excellent resource for business planning Thanks for sharing Tess. __________________ Carlana Charles - Ciboney Virtual Solutions Web: http://ciboneyvirtual.com Blog:http://ciboneyvirtual.com/blog

#4 (permalink)   03-18-2008 cjmccall Guest Company name: Click here to learn how to add your Company Name! Latest blog post: Click here to learn how to add your blog feed! My latest Twitter: Click here to learn how to set up your Tweets!   Posts: n/a Re: Excellent resource for business planning Thanks for the link. Haven't done the business plan yet, but this will help!

#5 (permalink)   03-18-2008 Prime Admin Solutions Active Member Company name: Prime Admin Solutions   Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 753 Re: Excellent resource for business planning 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. __________________ Julia

#6 (permalink)   03-19-2008 Ask Viki! Contributing Member Company name: Ask Viki! Ltd. New Help w/ Old-Fashioned Values: How to create content for your newsletter My latest Twitter: I'm at Ask Viki Ltd. (Hamilton, Ohio) http://...   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Wayne Township Ohio Posts: 223 Blog Entries: 7 Re: Excellent resource for business planning 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. __________________ Need Help? Ask Viki!

#7 (permalink)   04-04-2008 Ellen New Member   Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 17 Re: Excellent resource for business planning Where do you get Business Plan Pro? Ellen

#8 (permalink)   04-05-2008 Ask Viki! Contributing Member Company name: Ask Viki! Ltd. New Help w/ Old-Fashioned Values: How to create content for your newsletter My latest Twitter: I'm at Ask Viki Ltd. (Hamilton, Ohio) http://...   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Wayne Township Ohio Posts: 223 Blog Entries: 7 Re: Excellent resource for business planning Originally Posted by Ellen Where do you get Business Plan Pro? Ellen Click here, it's the Palo Alto web page for it. __________________ Need Help? Ask Viki!

#9 (permalink)   04-25-2008 cjherzog New Member   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Buffalo, Minnesota Posts: 36 Re: Excellent resource for business planning 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!

#10 (permalink)   05-06-2008 kagome Contributing Member   Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 52 Re: Excellent resource for business planning I haven't made a business plan yet so these are very useful indeed!