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Business Plan
Free Business Plan Template
Save a lot of time and energy: With the business plan template, you can bring your business idea to life step by step. And on paper.
Business Plan Template: Your Benefits
Save time and energy
Step-by-step instructions for presenting your business idea
Professional decision-making basis for potential investors
Why do I need a business plan?
- A business plan is an important and useful tool for any entrepreneur. Whether you're still in the planning phase or already well established in the market, a business plan is there to help you address the following topics:
- Analysis of the current situation
- Definition of business objectives
- Budget planning
- Financing and capital requirements
- Management and control tools
- Collaboration with external stakeholders
- What should a good business plan look like?
What should a good business plan look like?
Focus on your objectives
Ask yourself the following questions:
Who is your business plan for?
What are your objectives?
- Always adapt your business plan to your audience. To do this, carefully consider your questions, arguments, wording, and supporting documents. Have several versions ready just in case.
- Make a good impression right away
- First impressions are always important, including when it comes to a business plan.
- Present an attractive package with relevant and easy-to-understand supporting documents.
- Use our business plan template as a guide.
- Adapt the structure and content of your business plan to your own requirements.
- Stay consistent
- Check if the content of your business plan is consistent. For example:
- Can you achieve your sales goals with the marketing activities you've set and staff planning?
- Will changes to your infrastructure keep pace with growth?
- Have all necessary costs and investments been taken into account?
- Is the implementation timeline realistic?
- Imagine the worst-case scenario
- We recommend that you consider all scenarios when planning your finances:
- A realistic management scenario, aligned with your budgeted objectives.
- A worst-case scenario, in which everything lasts, for example, twice as long and costs twice as much, while generating half the revenue.
Review your plan regularly
The business plan provides the necessary framework for monthly monitoring. In other words: a close comparison between objectives and performance, including customer contact, orders, revenue, expenses, and especially liquidity.
Consider criticism and questions from banks and other partners as an opportunity to optimize your business plan.
Constantly update your business plan based on current developments and new priorities.
Incorporate the findings of your monthly monitoring into your business plan (at least once a year).
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