Business Plans

Business Plan Development, $800+

A business plan is either utilized in-house to maintain vision or circulated outside of your company to attract investors. The business plan lays down the risks and expected rewards, showing potential investors exactly how your company will reward their investment. Are you looking to start a new business, expand an existing business, or take out a loan for equipment or other improvements? You need a business plan.

The basic rate assumes that your plan requires no more than about 10,000 words and that you have the required information at hand. The rate for additional research is $30/hour and Lloydwrites will provide an estimate of any overruns in advance. Unless you’re opening something entirely novel or high-budgeted (expected first-year revenues of $10,000,000 or more), this basic rate covers most circumstances. New or unique business models might incur additional costs.

On the other hand, business plans for which Lloydwrites has experience might cost less, depending on the amount of material already available.


Why not just use a template?


The template you find with an Internet search or in business-planning software was probably written for another market, by an owner with different background and skills sets, and with different funding in mind. Creating a business is extraordinary complex enterprise. Copying and pasting fails to get the funding you need; more importantly, it fails to ask the hard questions before you invest your money. Lloydwrites asks those questions and helps you find the answers.


Why not use Business Plan Software?


If you plan to write several business plans because you haven’t yet decided what you want to do, then investing in software might be helpful. You’ll spend anywhere from $100 to well over $200 for the software, and then spend up to 50 hours going through tutorials and developing your plan. You won’t have the personalized help that LloydWrites provides. You won’t have a writing professional prepare your text for you. Your business plan will be an obvious template, which could have a negative impression on your lender. Your lender might wonder if you’ll approach your business decisions with the same casual attitude as your canned business plan.


What exactly does a Lloydwrites business plan do for you?


We’ll help you organize your thoughts concerning your prospective business by asking the questions lenders will ask. We have standard sources for demographic information like population, income, and education to help your planning. We can alert you to potential pitfalls in a lease a landlord has offered. In the Jacksonville, Florida area, we can propose specific areas that best meet your company’s needs. While we can’t guarantee that your credit is good enough for a loan, we’ll present the plan in the most favorable light possible to maximize your financial institution’s confidence in your business. 


We also provide the all-important financials that lenders want to see—specifically your break-even analysis and cash-flow projections that explain in simple terms where the money comes from and how fast it comes in. Most small businesses fail, and most of the businesses that fail collapse because they failed to accurately estimate how much capital reserve they would need to keep from going bankrupt before sales started paying the bills. We’ll crunch those numbers to make sure you’re not one of those failures.


How to Get Started

E-mail with your name, a brief outline of your business, and what you need. Include your phone number and a good time to reach you. We’ll reply by phone or e-mail by the next business day and discuss your exact needs.