1. American Express - Creating An Effective Business Plan
   This workshop will help you create a business plan to guide your business through the start-up or growth phase, a search for capital, or any other endeavor your small business undertakes. They've distilled the typical business plan into seven key elements listed below. For each and every element you will find a description, instructions for creation, for many, tips for avoiding common pitfalls. But reading about something isn't always enough, so they have also provided "Toolboxes" full of samples, worksheets, and glossaries that will clarify and walk you through the process.
   home3.americanexpress.com
   
   
2. BizPlanIt.com
   This unique and free on-line resource mirrors the major sections of a business plan - enabling you to point and click your way to the information you need to write and improve your business plan.
   www.bizplanit.com
   
   
3. Center for Business Planning
   The Center for Business Planning provides any business manager or entrepreneur with a set of resources to help in creating a business or managing a business. Information is provided on every area of planning a business including: acquire venture capital, define new products, market analysis, competitive analysis, production management, tax problems, legal issues, prepare financial statements, write a business plan and much more.
   www.businessplans.org
   
   
4. Placeware
   PlaceWare offers a complete virtual conference center for you to hold meetings and give presentations over the Internet. PlaceWare is ideal for business communications.
   www.placeware.com
   
   
5. The Fine Art of Writing a Business Plan
   An excellent series of articles and resources to help you write your business plan.
   www.inc.com
   
   
6. The Planning Resource Center
   An extensive resource containing sample business plans, marketing plans, wizards to help you generate a plan and just about anything else you can think of to make planning your business productive.
   www.bplans.com
   
   
7. Yahoo Small Business Center
   An extensive collection of information, resources and tools to help you plan and operate your business.
   smallbusiness.yahoo.com
   
   

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