Customer Reviews

BizPlan Builder 8.0 Interactive

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(0)
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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I am suspicious of most of the 8 users who wrote the reviews. I bought this product and it is not user friendly. It seems to be WORD, with categories for a business plan and types of business plans and a book on writing business plans. I am planning on returning it ASAP. When I looked at the written recommendations that were part of my decision to purchase this item, they are all written on one date and seem to be from one person! All of them with similar titles, ie, "software user from "city" and thecomments are all great. I think this might have been a promotion- GASP! Only one author of a review sounds like a real person and he rated it low. I too feel burned and will return this software and try another approach.

Bought it. Tried it. Absolutely hated it. I have purchased and used many packages from CAD to photo manipulation. This is one of the most difficult to use.

I had a unique hang up in the software so I called their tech support. No call back. So I searched the website (most user unfriendly). Downloaded and installed a patch. No go. To make a long story short, I had three calls without answer and I am returning the package to the company. The best thing about the software is that they back it up with a money back guarantee for 60 days. If you buy it, you may need it!

Poor software. Terrible support. The box has a tag line "From vision to plan in a weekend." Not in this lifetime.

The last reviewer was correct in saying there's something fishy about the other reviews, especially those written by Burke Franklin. He gives all the products from JIAN 5 stars. Could it be because they published his book? (See "Business Blackbelt," by, you guessed it, Burke Franklin) As far as BizPlan 8 is concerned, it's okay if you happen to have a business that resembles their sample plans, but if you have a unique product or service, it's only marginally beneficial.

The software is basically a sample plan in the form of a word document. It appears that this same company also offers an online business plan service. The description of the online product, alone is filled with run-on sentences and unintelligible phrases. This does not inspire me to take the chance on a product that has a "no refund" policy.

Over the past seven years I have successfully started four software companies.
I now spend most of my time looking over young company's business plans. A majority of these plans do not look too good.
I have been instructing the authors of these plans to purchase this software and to use the Jian product to correctly remake their plans.
The end results are without fail nice pieces of work. The product is very easy to use, gives great suggestions on format and context, and has done a great job in helping to make professional looking business plans.

I used BizPlanBuilder to raise millions to build a 1st class (NBC) TV station. And I got the equipment manufacturers to underwrite the largest cost. The business plan convinced them that it made sense. The bankers said it was the best business plan they'd ever seen.

At the end of 1991 I decided to start a company. I had an idea and had previous experience but was having difficulty organizing my thoughts. I found it especially difficult to articulate my plan in a manner that would attract investors and the bank. I purchased BizPlan Builder and developed my plan. There is a lot of detail in between, but, to get to the point.....my plan, thanks to BizPlanBuilder, became a multi-million dollar company located in five states, went public in 1996 and recently sold to a larger public company for more than $75,000,000.

We used biz plan and bought a building. Our bankers said they don't normally see so much depth in a business plan. Our past financials weren't going to qualify us for the building but because we had a strong business plan and projections that did it. Most people don't realize this.

As Manager of Corporate Market Research for Hughes Aircraft, I've found that BizPlanBuilder is an invaluable resource, taking prodigious volumes of input from globally dispersed field marketers and crafting workable business plans in astonishingly short periods of time. BizPlanBuilder is a must for anyone working to coalesce the thinking of multinational business teams!

When I worked at Nation's Bank, I was very successful articulating a project that I was working on within the bank thanks to BizPlanBuilder... I am a good example of intrapreneurship (using the business plan and being entrepreneurial within a large organization), and I think Nation's Bank should offer BizPlanBuilder to their small business customers!