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Writing Business Plans That Get Results

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Contains insightful tips and helpful questions to help business plan writers generate ideas and keep moving. As the founder of BizPlanIt.Com, an internet-based business plan consulting firm, I can state with experience that this book is a must have for serious business plan writers.

It's going to seem strange that I "highly recommend" a book that I am giving only 3 stars. I hope I can accurately explain my reasoning. WRITING BUSINESS PLANS THAT GET RESULTS: A STEP BY STEP GUIDE by Michael O'Donnell only has a total of about twenty pages of text that actually explain to the reader anything about a writing a business plan that "gets results". The remainder of the book is nothing more than a well-constructed outline for writing your business plan.

To say all of that a little differently; you're not going to learn much by reading this book. That's why the low rating. However, once you have studied other more conducive books on preparing your business plan, this book is an excellent format for actually putting it together.

The book outline breaks your complicated business plan into bite-sized morsels by using modules for each topic. A word of caution. When using modules, be careful to tie each module together appropriately, otherwise the entire document will become discombobulated.

O'Donnell's book will make constructing and organizing your BP easier. But don't look to this book for the answers you need to make your BP a winning one that will garner the funding you are looking for.

Only gave it a cursory look. This was required for grad school and is likley a very good book.

From what I read it was very good.