“I want to start my own business, I have my own unique idea, nobody did it before, it will be fantastic. Oh wait, there is a sample business plan to something close to what I am thinking off, oh well that can’t hurt, I will use it and make it even better…”

“Wait a minute, what was I thinking off before, is this part better then mine, should I really do this instead of that…hmm?

The above scenario is what a lot of business people and entrepreneurs experience before they start their business. Many people will try to fit somebody else’s shoes, take their ideas and make it better all while forgetting your own. Remember the quote from students when doing a multiple choice exam, “ often times the first answer you choose is the right one, changing it you get it wrong”. When it comes to starting a business and planning to build a business plan, it is the same problem.

You may have a perfect vision, as shown in the above example where there was a perfect plan, a perfect idea and a product/service never before seen by anybody, however when a sample of something similar was found the vision was lost and blurry. Now, many times depending on the part of a business plan this is not such a bad thing, as others can give you ideas that you would not have through of.

When you start making second guesses if you should have done this instead of that, that’s when you get in trouble. One way to avoid this is to build your own custom business plan from scratch without the help of samples or templates, but hiring a professional writer who will work along with you to build a better plan, still following your vision and goals.

Every business is unique, every product even though it might be the same it will not be from the business owners perspective. When you read a business plan sample online you may see a business owner selling red tennis balls as their key product, but that business owner does not see it as just red tennis balls, but as tennis balls that are unique to the entire world, see the ball being hit across a tennis court and as it is on fire.

Sample business plans are not finished plans you can take and say this is my business plan. Sample plans are simply a simple layout of what a business plan in a similar industry can look like. A template is simply a layout of the components a business plan is composed of. Not to say samples are horrible, you can take a sample and hand it over to a fund investor and still get approved, however this is after you have completely changed the sample into your own personalized business plan directed at your own business, your own products and your own market, with not a slight indication it was ever a sample business plan.

A business plan should not be a problem to do, It should be a task you wish to do. The final result of this task will mean success in business, or if done wrong failure in business. A business plan is not a project that you work on and then go to school to hand in. A business plan is what you work on, keep working on and after your company has grown into a multi-billion dollar corporation, you keep working on it. You need to work along with your business plan, until you are able to take a pen and re-write your business plan not by looking at it but by thinking of the components it is comprised of.