Business Plan Sections

Using templates and software almost always falls short, neglecting important sections and sub-sections needed in business plans including, but not limited to, exit strategy and risk factors. Each section of your business plan needs to be complete, thorough, detailed and yet concise, and that they must have synergies and connections to other sections.  For example, does your marketing plan section and competitive analysis; with market share and market penetration subsections substantiate the critical revenue and related expense assumptions in your Forecasts? 

Each section needs to stand-alone yet support various items and conclusions in other sections.  To understand each business plan section, which is relative to the size and scope of the plan, please see the following links and pages:

• Top Ten Business Plan Traps

• Competitive Analysis & Market Share

• Executive Summaries

• Forecasts & Projections

• Strategic Marketing Plans

• Executives & Key Employees

• Exit Strategy

• Risk Factors

• Uses of Funds

• Exhibits & Appendixes

These aren’t all the Sections needed, and some needed depending on the type of business, like a plan of substance centered on website that needs section(s) on the website, design, SEO, etc. or a plan with new technology, as two examples. 

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