Modern Business Planning System Supports Teaching and Achieving Goals for Small Business Development Center Advisors
When You Work with Entrepreneurs & Business Owners…
Empower your clients to produce better business plans.
Get More Clients to Bankable Status — Faster.
How SBDC advisors can serve more clients. Easily.
We so much appreciate your years of experience and expertise — we want to make your job easier as well as expand the gratification you feel when you help every entrepreneur who walks through your door.
Goals Business Power Tools can support you to achieve:
- Support more aspiring entrepreneurs to achieve access to capital.
- Increase the number and amount of financing deals for clients.
- Accelerate the success of new SBDC advisors.
- Additional tools and templates offer more opportunities to help clients.
More quality time with clients
- Engage clients to participate in the business planning process.
- Enables easy collaboration with clients to work together on business plans.
- Clients can do more of the work so you don’t have to.
- More efficient — Advisors can go to the source of what clients are doing.
- SBDC advisors’ work can be more meaningful because clients can continue to build on their own.
Keeping your clients in business as well as helping them build their companies is
good for business — all businesses.
These proven and popular business tools teach best business practices as well as provide the templates
for doing it right. Best of all, they are priced modestly and only make your job better and easier!
In Just a Few Minutes Exploring How this Unique System Works,
You’ll See How Much More You Can Accomplish for Your Clients.
Save hours / days / weeks helping clients with their startups, funding, hiring, and growth.
All of our tools are easier to use than Office and easily accessible via our visual document management dashboard.
Listen to what this prominent Venture Capitalist says about funding, business plans, raising capital…
And what he’s looking for. (1:37)
Used several business plan applications and like BizPlanBuilder the best…
“Please accept my thanks and appreciation for such an excellent product. It was very good when I started using it years ago, and it has improved from there. I am an adjunct instructor at Chemeketa Community College (Small Business Development Center) in Salem, Oregon. I have used several business plan applications and like BizPlanBuilder the best. I recommend it to clients when appropriate.”
~ Gary Richards, Business Broker, M&A, Salem, OR
More robust and flexible than LivePlan…
“I have used BizPlanBuilder and it has an incredible amount of information, templates, spreadsheets, sample content, and tools in it. It is a very robust system (way more robust and flexible than LivePlan, if you ask me)! Burke has decades of experience with business financing and business planning software. I have also used Burke as a guest speaker to talk about pitch development and pitching angel investors, etc., as part of the ScaleUp program. Burke is a great resource for us to have available to us! ”
~ Liz Jamieson, Certified Business Advisor, Washington SBDC, Washington State University
Got them to profitability sooner…
“While I was with the Wharton Small Business Development Center, I wrote 70 or 80 business plans over a 4-5 year period using your BizPlanBuilder (all of our clients bought copies). Most business owners knew how to make products, but didn’t know how to really run a business. Mainly, we introduced them to budgeting, got them to profitability sooner and enabled them to be more effective and efficient in their business practices. Also, we did lots of ‘what if’ to help them to expand their marketing areas… and that was all with the older version of BizPlanBuilder! This new version is quite a bit more powerful. The new financials give you a lot more flexibility—a lot of nice stuff in there!”
~ William Parsons, Philadelphia, PA
Our Advanced Version of a Business Canvas – More Depth & Detail
Try it right here. Now. The dashboard below is live. Click on it.
See how much more it offers than the typical business model canvas ↔ Most sections are copied from BizPlanBuilder.
Click Login to join as a guest user, Open “My Account” (top right), Insert your logo and business information. Then click around!
SBDC ADVISOR FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Click the button above and we will give you a full subscription for free.
Immediate help with business planning… For you and your clients.
Content, structure, and guidance are in place — Quickly and easily customizable by your clients with your coaching.
Share our competitive advantages
At best, most other business plan apps or templates provide a bunch of empty pages with brief instructions for what to do…
Business Power Tools takes everything to another level entirely with specific direction for what to do and and how to do it, including:
← What to say and how to say it is expertly drafted for clients to complete in their own words.
← The green text is us providing ideas, suggestions, warnings…
← Easily insert images, graphics, links, and format it any way they like.
← Menu tree at the far left enables access to any section you recommend.
← Checking the blue box includes a section (they may not need all of them!)
A.I. can’t / won’t do this for they — They can try, but the money they think they’re saving will set them back 3-5 months in getting these projects done and in place.
Maximize valuation?
- What if your clients could make a better case for a higher valuation?
- How much more of their company would they keep?
- What would it be worth to them to produce a better plan?
We know this. We’ve lived through it.
And we developed BizPlanBuilder to deal with it.
All of it.
We’ve also used it ourselves with Angels and VCs,
an SBA loan, Lines of Credit, Vendor Financing,
an Acquisition, even with Mom!
100% Customizable Financial Models Do All the Arithmetic for You
Easy for not-so-financial people, magical for pros, makes complete sense to investors.
BizPlanBuilder includes CPA-Tested Financial Models − Built in Excel® → Easily Project Revenue, Costs, Profits, Cashflow, Valuation… And Potential Ownership Give-Up of Any Investor Deal
Completely configured, fully integrated and
tastefully formatted.
Easily play “What-If?” with your ideas.
No need to be a spreadsheet or financial expert.
If you are, everything is 100% customizable.
SBDC ADVISOR FREE SUBSCRIPTIONIf they’re un-bankable?
When banks send you their loan applicants who need help getting their businesses in order to qualify,
now you have a proven tool enabling your clients to go back to the bank with a proper loan package.
Used both Business Plan Pro (LivePlan) and BizPlanBuilder…
“I have used both Business Plan Pro (LivePlan) and BizPlanBuilder 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 Business Power Tools’ BizPlanBuilder, 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
Embedded Videos Save Time Teaching Business Planning
“The Thinking Behind Your Business Plan”
Use this free video to teach your clients about business planning…
~ a 90-minutes
- The developer of BizPlanBuilder business plan software and author of Business Black Belt speaks to an audience of entrepreneurs…
- Give your members a head-start on investors, hiring employees, managing and marketing…
- Why bankers want your first born!
- Making sense of financial models
- Amusing anecdotes make important points stick
- Save yourself hours of explanation
Brief video tutorials introduce each section of the business plan
Save teaching time.
1-5-minute videos coach on what investors are looking for in each section of a business plan.
There are buttons within BizPlanBuilder, but you can access them individually here.
A System for Entrepreneurs Built By Entrepreneurs
In the exhilarating sprint to grow businesses, some critical elements can get overlooked…
Everything about this system is about simplifying the tasks necessary to build a business of lasting value.
The Most Templates and Tools
All Apps Work Alike and Together
- Almost ZERO learning curve!
- Does the job of hundreds of apps
Without you wasting your time
learning to use every. Single. One.
- Easy-to-use system
Complete critical projects quickly- All tools are built on the same platform
- Ongoing updates included
- Collaborate without conflicting copies
- Click from project to project
Each works just as you’d expect- Mindfully curated
Developed and evolved over 30+ years- Edited by a former Sharper Image®
catalog copywriter
Everything is Fully Customizable
Your Business Your Way
- Private label — Insert your own branding
- Include your logo / slogan / tagline
- Customize any / all of the templates
- Company data fills in automatically
Saves typing, speeds completion- Upload your own content
Create new, re-usable custom templates- “Priorities” lists for every area
- Excel-Based calculators
Do / show all the math for better decisions
100% customizable for your business- Insert your preferred RSS feeds
- Consultants save time educating clients
- Expedites due-diligence for
Faster funding or sale
Include Unlimited Team & Advisors
Secure Collaborative Workspace
- Teams engage and buy-In to priorities,
Changes and what they Help create- Remote work empowered
All team members, advisors, and investors
Collaborate, contribute, or review- For now, just +$1 / month each
- CRM system tracks VIPs, projects,
campaigns, proposals, events- Complete and secure control over
Everything anyone can access- App by app — Each with admin,
edit, or read-only privileges- System keeps all documents secure
Organized for easy access- Serves as a “Secure Data Room“
Think About this When You’re Tempted By the Free Stuff
How much time can you afford to waste figuring out what to do and how to do it?
Expertly composed, 100% customizable software-driven templates demonstrate what to say and how to say it!
Here’s what you often get for free…
Really? That’s it? In This Case… NOTHING?!??
A blank form?
What are you supposed to say here?
What are investors, lenders, and others looking for?
Isn’t that why you’re here?
There’s Often a Good Reason it’s Free
They want to tease you toward buying something else.
Many are just devices (“lead magnets”) to capture your contact information.
This is no time to fool around with empty “click bait.”
Just get it done. No more books, classes or webinars…
Before someone else beats you to it!
Compare that with what you get with Business Power Tools
NO BLANK PAGES. NO WRITER’S BLOCK!
Company info inserts in all the right places, saving even more typing.
Any blanks are filled-in with multiple-choice prompts you can actually use.
Easily customize everything to describe your unique business your way.
Just edit the parts you need, add your ideas, and build as you go.
Beyond Business Planning…
More tools for continued growth and success
When clients come looking for more help
Beyond business planning and supporting access to capital,
now it’s easier to assist in other areas of business development.
With their business plan is in place, you can now leverage Business Power Tools to…
- Hire with Job Descriptions
- Produce Employee Policies and a handbook
- Craft a Marketing Strategy
- Engage the Media with Public Relations and Press Releases
- Negotiate Agreements with plain-English Contracts
- Establish solid Sales Processes
- Implement effective Operating Procedures
- Assure proper Safety Training
FREE Subscription for SBDC Advisors
Please contact us directly for special discounts or programs for your clients. Definitely get a subscription for yourself – Contact us for a tour… 1-800-346-5426 [email protected]
You can further leverage your business practices and help even more entrepreneurs when you offer Business Power Tools professional-grade software tools.
Send entrepreneurs home with pages full of notes from your sessions together, plus access to an online business planning system to make sure they complete the task.
The Business Power Tools dashboard / toolbox enables easy collaboration and oversight of the entire project.
Please… Add BizPlanBuilder to your list of suggested business planning systems.
Subscriptions start at just $27 / mo
Speed to Success
With 80% done-for-you narrative, customizable Excel-based financial models, and guided pitch deck
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