Business Plan Template: Your Comprehensive Guide to Securing Funding

If you need a reliable business plan template, you’re in the right place. This comprehensive 31-page template is specifically designed for businesses looking to raise finance or secure funding. It covers every critical detail that investors or funding agencies expect, giving them everything they need to make a thorough assessment of your business or idea.

Simply click on the image to access the template instantly. It’s a Google document, but converting it to Word is easy—just go to “File” and download it as a Word document. This template ensures you have a professional, detailed plan that sets you up for success. Start building your business plan today!

Business Model Canvas template:-

Business Model Canvas is one page business planning tool. It’s ideal for developing new or documenting existing business models. It is a visual chart with elements for describing a business or product’s value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances. If this is your first time in producing a business model canvas then here’s a great youtube video that explains the process. This is a google document but you can easily convert this to word by simply going to file and downloading it as word document.

Profit and Loss / Cashflow template:-

One of the fundementals of business planning is knowing how much profit your business will make and what the cashflow will look like. This is a straight forward template where you can input your sales revenue and costs and the spreadsheet will do the rest for you. This is a google sheet but you can easily convert this to excel by simply going to file and downloading it as excel document. The formulas will still work.  A word of warning, this spreadsheet is for indicative purposes only and you should consult a professional if you intend to use this for any other purpose. 

Pricing Tool template:-

Setting your price is one of the most fundimental functions of business managment.  However, setting the right price is often one of sheer guess work. This pricing tool template is designed to allow product sellers (not services) to model their pricing based on various scenarios.  If you want more information on how to set the right price have a read of my blog on this here.  This is a google sheet but you can easily convert this to excel by simply going to file and downloading it as excel document. The formulas will still work.  A word of warning, this spreadsheet is for indicative purposes only and you should consult a professional if you intend to use this for any other purpose. 

Competitive Analysis Tool:-

A SWOT Analysis has been one of the fundamental tools of business planning for the last 50 years now. SWOT analysis was invented in the 1960s by a management consultant named Albert Humphrey at the Stanford Research Institute. It enables the business to take a hard look at what makes them successful (or not) and what opportunities there are for them, along with external threats. This tool asks you a series of questions designed to produce the analysis. It also allows you to measure your business against 2 competitors (providing you have a good knowledge of them and their business).

Also included is a tool that allows you to visualise your competitive positioning. Click on the image to get access

Step By Step Strategy To….Creating A Gap Analysis:-

A gap analysis is an examination of your current performance for the purpose of identifying the differences between your current state of business and where you’d like to be. A Gap analysis is the quantitative (the numbers) and qualitative comparison (the quality of something) of a business or an
individual’s current performance (i.e., present state) with potential performance (i.e., future or target state). If you’re looking for further funding of your business this is a very useful tool.

Step By Step Strategy To….Creating Your Marketing Plan:-

The marketing plan is a key component of your business plan. This document is a step by step process to creating your marketing plan. A marketing plan outlines all the important pieces needed to successfully and consistently market your business. A marketing plan does not have to be lengthy or complicated. Creating a simple marketing plan is something every small business should have.

Step By Step Strategy To….Identifying Your Ideal Customer:-

The first step in building a successful business is identifying your ideal customer. Identifying the your ideal customer allows you to taylor both your product and your marketing messages to them.  This means that your marketing will be significantly more effective. This step by step strategy not only allows you to identify them but to also to build your USP, Marketing message and media strategy. All of which are vital when you’re producing a business plan.

Step By Step Strategy To….Creating A 90-day Action Plan:-

Business planning is not all about raising funding, the most successful businesses use the planning process to ensure their success. 90 days is the ideal time frame to focus on a goal. You all know the feeling of being excited about something new. You’re focused and dedicated and those feelings translate into working hard. Hard work inevitably builds momentum and brings desired growth. After 90 days have passed, you’ve probably run into some road blocks, your goals might need tweaking. You generally start to lose focus and enthusiasm and get frustrated when growth slows down.

Step By Step Strategy To….Creating A Value Proposition:-

A value proposition is a promise of value to be delivered. It’s the primary reason a prospect should buy from you. In a nutshell, value proposition is a clear statement that:-
It explains how your product solves customers’ problems or improves their situation (relevancy), It highlights how you deliver specific benefits (quantified value), It informs the ideal customer why they should buy from you and not from the competition (unique differentiation).