What is BizPlanBuilder?
Your Ready-Made Toolset for Framing the Foundation and Direction of Your Business
Organize Ideas, Re/Model Your Business, Raise Capital, Attract Customers, STAY in Business & Laugh All the way to the Bank!
I‘ve been helping entrepreneurs and business owners for more than 40 years...
mostly from within our Business Power Tools software apps and templates, and thru my blogs and book, "Business Black Belt."
In the early ’80s, I was the electronics buyer and copywriter for the Sharper Image catalog.
Later, I also sold some really cool word-processors in Silicon Valley.
After Macs and PCs became popular, I started my own business creating sales literature for tech companies.
A friend had a deal going to sell his engineering software to Apple.
They wanted to see his business plan to be sure his company would stay in business to upgrade and support the system.
At the time, I viewed a business plan as an elaborate brochure that sold his concept to people at all levels, and responsibilities with various perceptions, biases, and interests.
(I learned that from selling word-processors.).
We Got the Deal.
Over the next year, people came to me with some brilliant ideas, but their plans weren’t getting funded.
I helped them fill in the missing parts to succeed.
Along the way, I saw that business plans have a fundamentally universal structure.
Hmmm…
What if I took all the content I’d developed, redacted everything proprietary, but filled in the blanks with a variety of customizable multiple-choice options, and offered it as a software template that many people could use?
This became BizPlanBuilder.
And it became a hit!
We followed-up with MarketingBuilder, which picked-up where BizPlanBuilder left off, then we went even further with PRBuilder which included sample press release templates…
In another direction, we added EmployeeManualBuilder and SafetyPlanBuilder full of actual policies and procedures.
Altogether, we had 10 products in about 3,500 retail stores and built a $12 million company with 30 employees…
Today, all of our products have been integrated into a streamlined online dashboard.
And we’ve become the leader in business development software templates.
Along the way, I was elected to the White House Conference on Small Business and
was nominated for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year" award.
My book, Business Black Belt, applies lessons from 40+ years of personal development
workshops, martial arts, and real-world business success to building companies.
It’s important to me that good companies, products, and people succeed!”
The Business Power Tools® dashboard is ideal for startups, small / growing companies, and business advisors.
My Mission:
"Make the best tools to help inventors, entrepreneurs and business leaders start, build and promote their companies for their personal success as well as the benefit of our world."