A 5-year business plan will help you manage your company and seek loans or investment money. This term is familiar to most commercial loan officers and small business investors. Learning how to write ...

For the entrepreneur, knowing how to start writing a business plan can be as exhilarating as it is overwhelming. The business plan is a foundational document and the blueprint of your business and is ...

We’re now halfway through January, meaning New Year’s resolutions are in full swing. If yours has already fallen flat, you’re not alone—fewer than two-thirds of people make it through the first month, ...

Every business startup, from one person home operations on up, requires some form of business plan. For small to medium businesses, it's possible to write your own business plan for free. For larger ...

A few weeks back I wrote a post on how writing a plan could help companies to determine ROI on social media, which generated a lot of great discussion by the Daily Fix readers. The same day I asked on ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is ...

Most business plans are written for an audience. The most common audience is investors and lenders. Another audience might be your employees. Make sure you write your plan with your key audience in ...

Strategic plans both ground us and free us to move forward. Developing a plan creates a common understanding of where we’re going so that we can tell others and invite them to join in. Plans provide a ...

Absolutely! says David F. McShea, partner at law firm Perkins Coie. Absolutely not! says Will Hsu, co-founder of the LA-based start-up accelerator MuckerLab, and an entrepreneur in his own right. Here ...

The business plan is the blueprint for your business, the who, what, where, when, how, and why. It provides a single place to keep all your ideas, the roadmap that will help you pursue these ideas, ...