A Basic Business Plan Template

Catie has been an inventory manager at a veterinary hospital for almost six years. And started her own soap business back in 2018.

A Basic Business Plan

Business plans can be easy or hard, simple or difficult, or you can pay someone else to do it for you. I have put a couple of business plans together recently and thought that others may be able to use this simple business plan template to copy and paste into their word processor of choice.

A Straight Forward Template Was Hard to Come By Without a Download, So Here You Go Folks!

Doing Business As: (Business Name)

(Business Name w/ LLC or other title)

(Your Name(s))

(Date you started working on your business plan)

Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Goals & Objectives
• Products, Services, Pricing & Packages
• Market Opportunity & Analysis
• Strategy & Implementation Plan
• Operations
• Management
• Financial Plan
• Appendix

Executive Summary

• What problem are you solving and what kind of business are you creating?

Goals & Objectives

• Mission Statement
• Vision Statement
• Three short term goals
• Three long term goals

Products, Services, Pricing & Packages

• What is your time worth?
• KPIs
• Any pricing you are predicting and the research & the evidence to back it all up

Market Opportunity & Analysis

• What/who/where/why/when is your target market?
• When will you run out of clients/customers?
• How will you reach your clients/customers?

Strategy & Implementation Plan

• What are your first year's goals and how will you make that happen?
• How will you get your first client/customer?
• What do you have to do in the meantime?

Operations

• Once you're up and running, what will your day-to-day look like?
• What will your weekly schedule be?
• Will you have to hire anyone else? What will their weekly schedule(s) look like? How much will you pay them?

Management

• How will your management structure work? Is it just you or do you have multiple CEOs?
• Do you need a general manager?
• Your management structure/ladder will go here
• How will employees move up within the company?

Financial Plan

• Start-up costs
• What will you do with revenue?
• What will you do with profit?
• Will you use credit cards? Checks?
• What will you pay your employees?
• Bonus structure
• Corporate social responsibility

Appendix

• Think of this as works cited.

This Template is By No Means Perfect

Get creative with your business plan. Add, subtract, or multiply whatever you want on this template!