A well-conceived business plan can be the most important factor in the success of a business. A business plan can help you determine if your business will be a financial success, define your business goals, and identify the best methods for achieving those goals. It can be used internally to communicate goals and strategies to key employees - and can be used externally to obtain funding.

Many investors want to know the "ins and outs" of your business. As a result, your business plan needs to explain your products and services, markets, competition, industry, operations, and opportunities. Without a solid plan, a business may lose focus, market share, customers, money, and potential investors, or a new business may never get off the ground.

BizFilings' Ultimate Business Planner guides you through each business-planning step quickly and easily. Developed for entrepreneurs by small-business experts and small-business owners, Ultimate Business Planner simplifies the process of writing a business plan and gives you expert advice, tips, and hints based on proven business practices.

You don't need any special business expertise to use Ultimate Business Planner. Its easy-to-use, step-by-step approach breaks down the process of writing a business plan into two main sections -- forecasting your financials and writing your plan.

Ultimate Business Planner prepares your business plan using the recommended format preferred by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), bankers, lending institutions, venture capitalists, and many more. Plus, Ultimate Business Planner includes information about different SBA loan packages and links to on-line loan documents.

Business plan financials estimate how well your business will perform based on certain assumptions. They identify what will happen to a business if everything goes as planned, or if business is much better or worse than expected. Financial projections are not only essential for potential investors. They also determine whether starting or expanding a business makes financial sense.

In just minutes, Ultimate Business Planner will help you build a comprehensive set of financial projections, complete with reports and charts. You'll not only know whether your idea will make money, but when it will make money. Unlike spreadsheets, you won't have to deal with complicated calculations, create formulas, or design and build reports or graphs. Ultimate Business Planner does it all for you.