Business Plan Pro 15th Anniversary Download

Business Plan Pro 15th Anniversary Edition [Download]

Need a business plan to start or grow your business? Business Plan Pro software is the fastest, easiest way to create a business plan. With prebuilt spreadsheets, SBA-approved document output, and expert guidance at every step, Business Plan Pro enables any business owner or entrepreneur to produce a complete, accurate plan with a minimum of time and expense. Write your business plan quickly and easily Business Plan Pro has everything you need to create a plan today, all proven and error free. The software automatically customizes your plan outline to match your business type. Just answer a few simple questions and you're on your way to creating a professional business plan that gets results.

The software automatically creates the spreadsheets, charts and graphs that investors are looking for. Business Plan Pro allows you to focus your time on executing your business strategy and growing your business. Simple or detailed, it's your choice New for 2009, Business Plan Pro has a "keep it simple" option to get from start to finish in less than 15 steps. No other software offers a faster way to get your business plan done. If you need more, you can expand your plan at any point to provide the financial and strategic details you want, including SWOT analysis, marketing strategy, and web site plan. Recommended by experts, trusted by entrepreneurs Business Plan Pro is the most popular business plan software on the market for nearly a decade, outselling all others combined.

It is the recommended choice of: • The Wall Street Journal • Entrepreneur Magazine • PC World • Inc.com • PC Magazine • Guy Kawasaki Get started quickly with 500+ sample business plans Say goodbye to writer's block.

Business Plan Pro comes with over 500 real business plan examples to give you inspiration. You can browse the sample plan library by industry type, view a summary of each plan, or skim plans in a printable format.

Product Features:

1. Over 500 editable sample business plans included for all sorts of businesses; find a sample plan and use it as a guide to write your own
2. Easy step-by-step instructions and expert guidance every step of the way; get from start to finish in less than 15 steps
3. Built-in market research for 9,000+ industry profiles; compare your projections to industry averages
4. Printed and electronic document output options in SBA and lender-preferred formats; export to Microsoft Word or Excel, or to Adobe PDF format
5. New for 2008 features include streamlined plan setup, new options for simpler business plans, Spanish language support, certification for Windows Vista, and an improved user interface

Product Details:

1. Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
2. Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
3. ASIN: B001V9K91Y
4. Date first available at Amazon.com: March 1, 2009

Most Helpful Customer Reviews:
Don't buy it!, July 9, 2010 By Scott Irving
The business knowledge side of the software seems pretty good, so I assume the creator was a good business planner. BUT they weren't good programmers. This software is garbage. Your better off doing a little research on the web, then use a word processor and Excel to create your business plan.

My complaints:
1. It's clunky. In particular it's really hard to get a handle on what is going on because the spreadsheets feed data to each other, but not in any clear manner.
2. It doesn't cut and paste cleanly with other software. For example I pasted in sections from a word document that included a trademark symbol. This software can't handle it.
3. The software functions are limited and buggy. I tried to do a find and replace to fix the trademark issue. They can find the pasted gibberish that was the trademark symbol, but can't paste their own trademark symbol. Manual correction was the only choice.
4. The online support is pretty limited. Heavy on installation info, although installation went pretty easily.
5. Some of their own tables don't fit the pages correctly. They wrap in a way to make them almost unreadable.
6. They have a task list which could have been a nice idea. However the implementation is such that it misses any additional sections or tables the wizard or the user inserts. Why? This really wouldn't have been that hard to do right.
7. When you delete a default section the task list didn't seem to figure this out either.

The good:
1. The tech support folks are pretty quick to respond. Unfortunately due to software limitations, there isn't much useful they can tell you.
2. The generated table of contents is automatic. Too bad the numbering of sections is screwed up. Each section restarts the numbering.

Glad I didn't pay list and didn't pay extra for the "premier version". I'm certainly not going to buy any other software from them.

Exactly what is needed, September 10, 2010 By Brian Gustin
There is a little bit of a learning curve, but once you get your head wrapped around it - I recommend using the wizards for your first business plan all the way through , and then examine how its all laid out - once you see it in the whole, it's easy to go back and make your revisions. It's very well laid out, the automation of calculations is excellent, the graphs are impressive, and it produces an excellent presentation. So far, the people who have reviewed my business plan have been very impressed. Before buying I did see a few "semi-negative" reviews as to how complicated things were, how hard it was to use, but from my experience, it's very easy to use, and pretty straightforward if you follow step by step and pay attention to the documentation and examples. This is one of the better pieces of software I have ever used, and it does exactly as advertised. Worth every penny I spent and then some!

Crap, May 22, 2010 By jpf578 "jpf578"
After spending HOURS working on a business plan, I find I cannot open it due to an "Error attempting to open this file". Attempted to email customer support only to find their contact website does not work. Their FAQ site also does not work. What a waste of money and a crappy company.