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Biz Plan Builder Professional - Business Plan Software
Business Model... Strategy... Organization... Cooperation... Capital... Growth...
This is the proven business plan software recommended by thousands of bankers, consultants, entrepreneurs, and investors to organize, finance and grow your business
The business plan software praised by investors and lenders for financing & growth
All the investment-winning features you expect from JIAN. PC World's "Best Buy" & TopTenReviews #1 business plan software for 2010.
Biz Plan Builder Professional – Business plan software includes:
- The time-tested, proven JIAN business plan structure & customizable narrative text templates
- Professionally programmed GAAP business financial forecasting models – easily customized usign Excel
- PowerPoint "pitch" template
- Step x step instructions explain everything and offer best practices from start to finish
- 20+ years of refinement, business plan aggregation – more than any other
- Expert advice from investors, lenders, and consultants compiled into comments throughout
- MIDAS Business Plan Wizard – sophisticated document management system organizes your documents and leads you every step of the way
- Bonus: Comprehensive Handbook of Business Planning (pdf ebook)
- Bonus: "65 Ways to Finance Your Business" (pdf ebook)
- Bonus: Video/Seminar: The Thinking Behind Your Business Plan Video/Seminar
- Bonus: 60+ financing support documents & worksheets to support financing
- Includes instant download after purchase
Very easy to learn and use...
I've seen no other business plan package that comes close to what this one can do.
Overall Rating: A+
~ Joe Miller, Editor's Choice Magazine
Download the most mature business planning software to write your strategic plan
Your business plan may be the most important document you'll ever write. It's both a business model blueprint for you as well as a financing proposal for investors. Many seasoned entrepreneurs often don't even know where to begin when they want to organize their ideas into words and numbers. Today developing a good business plan is much easier to write than it ever used to be. With Biz Plan Builder business plan software, most of the work has already been done for you
I researched business planning software very carefully... I needed a plan that really made me look good to investors and showed my business in the best light... I have a unique business and wanted a financial model that I could customize... I needed something practical to bridge the gap between myself and investors... some of these guys are old school! When I asked around, almost everyone recommended JIAN's Business Plan Builder.
- Brad Axelrad, Founder, Law of Attraction Center, Newport Beach, CA
Write a business plan for bootstrapping – that appeals to investors and lenders...
Your business model is everything — what you do, how you do it, and how you make money. Biz Plan Builder makes it easy for you to organize your ideas, calculate your costs, your profits, and express your business model with clarity. That's why Biz Plan Builder is so widely valued as the best business plan software by bankers, investors, consultants and so many successful entrepreneurs and business owners.
Business plan software reviews & success cases in most industries
"JIAN's focus on business planning is tighter and more concise than many of its competitors,
with a strong dose of sales and marketing insights that help the plan serve as a working document rather than just a financial tool."
- Dave McClure, Accounting Today
"The better job you do on your business plan, the better deal you'll get!"
The Biz Plan Builder business planning system makes it as easy as 1-2-3...
- Complete the sentences and fill in the blanks, using Microsoft® Word and Excel
- Perfect your presentation with Biz Plan Builder's proven PowerPoint® investor pitch template
- Compile your custom plan, print and present - it's that easy!
Users compare Biz Plan Builder to other business plan software
Ranked #1 of 10 in Business Plan Software 2010
See the side-by-side comparisons.
The Biz Plan Builder software application includes everything needed for a customizable, professional business plan. For all this, the price tag is reasonable, however, comparably the price is much higher than many of its main competitors. Relatively speaking the price is negligible compared to the value of a professional business plan; many other software applications can do a similar job.
So what makes this piece of software worth the additional cost to your wallet? Everyone knows that functionality is important, but all those pretty words and numbers won’t help you when you get up in front of a committee of investors asking how the numbers were derived. The distinction of Biz Plan Builder over other business plan software is the extensive step-by-step help, the wealth of documentation and business articles to help with strategy and business development, and the range of internal and online help and support.
While other business plan software applications can help users create formatted and professional-looking plans on paper, what JIAN’s Biz Plan Builder does in addition, is help users create an understanding of their business to help sell themselves to investors and bankers. That is, after all, the whole point of building a business plan, and Biz Plan Builder provides all the tools; the user need only bring passion and desire to see it through.
The presentation I gave today resulted in my receiving a $32,000 check which was being delayed for lack of a business plan. The best $139 I ever spent. Thanks!
- Steve Kaufman, Executive Director, Access Roaring Fork
Think about this: You too are an investor and lender...
and you must be very careful with your own money. Biz Plan Builder brings together an experienced group of entrepreneurs and investors and shares their knowledge on what it takes to build a viable company in the current climate, and what advice can be gleaned from past experience.
- Build a "Capital Efficient" business that's good for you
- Collaborate over a network, server or online with consultants, partners and colleagues
- Where do you find the people & resources for next to nothing?
- Ideas help you generate revenue straight out of the gate
- If you can generate revenue and have minimal expense, you may not need Venture Capital
- What investors are looking for in a business plan (Avoid what makes them cringe.)
- Learn the rules of investor etiquette
- Clearly identify benefits, core philosophies, and business goals
- Avoid the common blunders that guarantee failure
- Include data lenders & investors demand to back up your plan's assumptions
- Incorporates the best practices in defining marketing and sales strategies and projecting costs
- Presentation template that will capture your prospect's attention and keep your plan on top of the stack
JIAN's Biz Plan Builder is our BEST BUY because it cuts through the complexity of developing a plan and helps you produce slick-looking results. Its exhaustive template walks you through the every step from cover letter to appendix, with plenty of samples... Biz Plan Builder also offers a better collection of financial tables, ratios, and projections than any competitor.
Whether you are bootstrapping or raising $5,000 to $50 million...
The Biz Plan Builder business plan system will help you produce a professional business plan more quickly and with less effort than ever before. Now you can quickly express your business ideas in easy to understand terms that investors and lenders will appreciate. Even if you don't need outside capital right now, you can use Biz Plan Builder to reinvent your company to run more efficiently. Best of all, business advice and example text is provided at every step to ensure your success and get your business plan done fast. For example, look what these people accomplished with Biz Plan Builder business planning software:
$3,000,000 Aviation Start-Up
In 1991 Darrin Perdue had three partners, with ten years combined flying experience and a vision for a jet charter company.
His plan was to first raise money and then buy a jet. The first investor laughed him out of his office. Then, while pursuing other investors, Darrin remembered that he knew a gentleman who owned two Lear Jets. Darrin used his business plan to convince the jet owner to let Darrin's company, SP Aviation, manage the planes. The company prospers to this day!.
Recently, Darrin used his business plan once again to approached a large corporation to manage the chartering of their Gulfstream G4 business jet. Today, Darrin’s company has 12 pilots and is on call 24 hours a day—providing jet charter services to executives, celebrities and medical transplant teams throughout Northern California. How did he do it?
" My business plan wasn't extremely complex.
I just edited through the Executive Summary, following the easy
instructions that Biz Plan Builder gave me, and then put it all together. "
- Darrin Perdue, President & CEO, SP Aviation
Important Lesson Here:
Darrin originally thought he needed money, until he remembered that his goal was jets. There are many ways to get what you need to build your business—it doesn't always take lots of money. The most important ingredients are an imagination, some nerve and a logical and thorough plan of action.
$700,000 SBA Loan for Wellness Center
My talented wife/business partner and I have used Biz Plan Builder annually to clarify our business ideas to help us keep score as we compare our business to those of our competitors in the health/fitness/spa services industry. The self-assessment questions in Biz Plan Builder have helped us stay lucid and eloquent about our business growth strategies and profitability. Our preparedness paid off when we went to the bank for an SBA loan to purchase a $700,000.00 wellness center in San Mateo,CA. I truly believe Biz Plan Builder helped give us a roadmap to follow to be ready for an opportunity just like this.
As a member of the first Olympic Sports massage Team, I developed a body-therapy technique that helps boost sports performance and eliminate pain for thousands of people from all walks of life.
After a brief pre-qualifying interview, the branch VP pulled out a stack of forms to fill out. Usually the forms require most applicants up to six months to have their act together and their story straight. We were back in 3 days, with everything they needed to process the loan.
With Biz Plan Builder it was easy to compile our information to suit the bank and the Small Business Association. Yes, we had the credit history and business income to make the loan work. However, I truly believe Biz Plan Builder helped give me a roadmap to follow to be ready for an opportunity just like this.
- Aaron Ulysses Parnell, www.AaronParnell.com
$65,000 bank loan for a pet store
In 1992 Linda Bleoo was working as an employee at a pet store in Mississauga, Canada. After she discovered that the company was going bankrupt, her friends convinced her to buy the store for herself and run her own small business.
At first, she didn't think she could do it. Besides, seven established pet store chains were competing for the deal she wanted.
The Bank of Montreal chose to back Linda and gave her the $65,000 she needed. (No SBA guarantee here!)
" I don't know how I would even have started a project like this without Biz Plan Builder. I was up against seven big players in the pet industry and managed to beat them all out because of the professionalism in my business plan. "
- Linda Bleoo, Classic Pets, Montreal, Canada
Since Linda purchased her business, she's made a quite a success of "Classic Pets" located in South Common Mall. It's amazing what you can do when you go for what you want and use the right tools.
$5,000,000 to Acquire an Athletic Club
As someone who had never turned on a computer, I used biz plan builder and raised $5 million in capital to buy a large health
club because of your software.
I still get compliments on my first biz plan when folks want to see what we did to raise our original capital. I always send them your direction!
- Bob Shoulders, Fayetteville Athletic Club, Fayetteville, AR
I don't know if you remember me telling you this story but when I was raising capital, I had one venture capital guy take me to lunch and tell me good news bad news scenario....... the bad news is I'm not gonna do your deal. the good news is if you don't get it done, I would like to hire you to write business plans for me.
$100,000 SBA loan for a Spa!
In 1995 my wife and a business partner had the opportunity to open and own a franchise of a local very successful Day-Spa operation. Both my wife and her partner were employed as managers in the Day-Spa operation at that time. I became the background financial guy. I knew we needed a business plan and I didn’t have a clue how to begin so I purchased your Biz Plan Builder off the shelf at a local computer outlet. I did not even own a computer at that time. Had one at the office, but couldn’t use it because of restrictions. I took the software over to my best friend’s house (he had a computer and knew how to use it) and we installed the software. It took a while; some trial and error, lots of re-writes, but we finally finished. When we took the business plan to the bank and applied for SBA financing, it was a snap. The financials were in order. They complimented us on the organization of the plan. They liked our vision. The plan had everything they required to get the loan process moving. In the end we were successful. The SBA loaned us $100,000 based on the experience of the partners and the business plan. We now have two Day-Spas operating in the New Orleans French Quarter. Come see us!
- Lewis Cocke, Spa Aria at the Hotel Montelone and Shine Spa and Specialty in the French Quarter)
Incorporates the best of thousands of real, successful business plan elements
As you can see, people from all walks of life have built real businesses using Biz Plan Builder software. We've studied thousands of investors, lenders, deals and business plans over the past 20 years and combined the best content into the Biz Plan Builder business planning system. If your business is unique, you will benefit from our industry cross-pollination approach that gives you more to work with. A competitor claims "500 sample plans...," but Biz Plan Builder is focused on the successful elements required to appeal to investors and lenders. (The equivalent of those 500 plans can be created by changing the database elements within Biz Plan Builder - the rest is easily customizable to give you exactly what you want.)
I’m sending you this email to let you know that I think you have an excellent product. I’ve used Business Plan Pro and it doesn’t come close to being as robust as Biz Plan Builder. It used to be frustrating to get my plans looking the way I needed them to look. Thanks again for offering such a thorough and complete. Feel free to quote me on this!
- David Vallejo, President/CEO, LatinsOnline, Monterey Park, CA,
You'll find that this method is far more robust than deconstructing and rebuilding a limited so-called industry-specific cookie-cutter plan template. Biz Plan Builder Professional provides the knowledge, tools, ease and the know how needed to write a winning business plan fast. More about business plan content...
I have used both Business Plan Pro and Biz Plan Builder in my past management positions. With all the so-called sample plans in Business Plan Pro, it's easy to think you have the final product. You really don't, it's not really that user friendly, especially if you are not comfortable writing the narrative. Instead, with JIAN's Biz Plan Builder, it's much easier for me to help a client develop a professional business plan that I don't have to entirely rewrite.
- Sajata Strong, Area Director, Clark Atlanta University SBDC, School of Business Administration, Atlanta, GA
Expert comments throughout provide step-by-step direction
The next best thing to having us do the work for you is to have an expert sitting next to you as you develop your business plan. Throughout every section, you will find expert advice, comments and suggestions explaining what to do and why. It's a little irreverent, but you need to understand it like it is. (Only you will see them—they don't print.)
People come to us all the time seeking funding and we use Biz Plan Builder to show them the business plan content and format we'd like to see. We refer to it on a regular basis... it makes life a lot easier for all of us.
- David Wilt, E.D. Wilt Investments, Inc., Washington, D.C.
20 years studying what investors & lenders actually finance
Our customers report having raised over $2 billion through venture capitalists, investors, banks, the SBA and corporate management. While many investors will tell you they want just a 2-3 page plan (use the Executive Summary), it will actually take a lot more than that to attract a real investment. Given our unique experience, we help you anticipate investors' and lenders' questions
The Biz Plan Builder was a life saver in dealing with SBA loans and investors.
You have to be so perfect & the Biz Plan Builder allowed me to do so. Thanks.
- Shirley Duncan, Duncan Enterprises, Wheeling, IL
Enables true team business modeling / planning collaboration
Biz Plan Builder - business plan software enables you to collaborate with colleagues over a network or the Internet to get your plan done faster. (No, not just emailing and cutting & pasting! OMG, that will drive you crazy!) Run the app on your PC, and share the datafile on a server.
Unlike other business plan products you NEVER need to export your plan to Word or Excel in order to edit or format because Biz Plan Builder uses MS Office from start to finish to guarantee professional hassle-free results fast. Each partner needs their own copy of Biz Plan Builder: half-price on additional licenses. More about business plan collaboration...
I teach a class for SCORE on how to prepare a business plan. You will be pleased to know that most of our counselors recommend Biz Plan Builder to our clients. Thank you!
- Terry Little
How much money do you need? How much money will you make? When?
Whether you're writing a formal business plan for investors or developing a meaningful forecast for your business, the Biz Plan Builder financial models are straight-forward and flexible Excel® integrated workbooks, tastefully formatted — easy for both novices & experts to use and especially for investors and lenders to read. You don't have to be a spreadsheet or financial expert. (If you are, you can customize everything in Excel.)
The sections of your plan that a lender will focus on include those addressing historical performance, projected future performance, and management experience. (If you need help putting together an appropriate business plan, try using JIAN's Biz Plan Builder software tool. It is easy to use and recognizable to most lenders.)"
- Doug Hood, Venture Capitalist, Atlanta, GA
What if I'm freaked-out about financial models?
Not surprisingly, it seems that many people are. Especially if you are right-brain dominant, an artist, idea person, a big picture thinker who enjoys quality over quantity and feels uncomfortable doing the math... And by "business." That was Burke's problem way back when, and he developed the original financials so they made sense to him. Being a marketing guy, he also wanted them to act like a 'brochure' — demonstrating, explaining, and selling to the financial types what was going on financially in the business and convincing them (himself too) that the business made sense. More about business plan financial models...
“We've been using your financial model for many years for financial analysis, partnering, M&A, and VC analysis here in Silicon Valley and in Europe. I have used a few other programs that cost $1500+ and yours are better, more accurate and more detailed. I can trust the integrity of the BizPlanBuilder financial models.”
- Geir Ilstad, Principal, Prudent Management, Los Altos, CA
Includes the supporting documents you need for business financing
While a great business plan is necessary, only Biz Plan Builder includes all of the crucial supporting documents to use for presenting your plan and raising capital. For example:
- Sample letters inviting potential members to join your Board of Directors
- Prospective investor tracking worksheet
- Private Offering Disclaimer
- Click here to see the entire list
I'm a general contractor. I invented a new construction tool and I needed some money to build a prototype and launch a new business. I pretty much knew what I needed to do and I had a potential investor lined up, but he wanted to see a business plan before he invested a dime. I bought Biz Plan Builder on Monday, wrote it on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and on Saturday he gave me $45,000.
~ Mark Martinez, Oceanside, CA
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I needed to put together a company wide strategy... Biz Plan Builder really worked like a charm. I thought this is a goldmine – it has a nice structure and lots of great content & ideas. I expected a political nightmare as I introduced it across the company, but it actually got people to focus and work together. We pulled a team together and interviewed about 30 people. I could have called McKinsey and spent a gazillion $ and sure it would have had some more spit & polish, but it wouldn't have been a better performer than your template. Our VP Corp Mfg presented our resulting document all over the world! I definitely think Biz Plan Builder helped me and it really drove the HP's focus and strategies for many years.
~ Greg Jacobus, Manager of Mfg Education & Strategy, Hewlett Packard
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