Looking to write a business plan for your startup idea? Trying to revamp your current business plan to help bring you more money? Look no further than our list of the Top 50 Business Plan Posts of the Year.

We've searched through millions of blogs to find the best individual posts that deal with writing a business plan over the past year. Some are by well known bloggers while others are new upstarts but, either way, you are sure to get valuable information on how to kick your business plan into high gear this year! Enjoy!

The Top 50 Business Plan Posts of the Year

1) The Zen of Business Plans How to Change the World by Guy Kawasaki In my day job, I not only hear a lot of PowerPoint pitches, but I also read a lot of business plans. The PowerPoint pitches explain my Meniere's disease, but the business plans explain my recent need for reading glasses. One of my goals for blogging is to reduce the external factors that are causing the degradation of my body, so this entry's topic is the zen of business plans. Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer where he was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. Guy is the author of 8 books including The Art of the Start and The Macintosh Way.
2) Quick Start Business Planning Quick-Start Business Planning for Small Businesses by Susan Ward Business planning is like water to a thirsty plant. It keeps our businesses vital and thriving. Without business planning, your business will never be as healthy as it could be and may even sicken and die. But many small business owners don't do the business planning they should, because they're hard-pressed to find the time to do it. How many times have you thought that you should do some business planning - if only you weren't so busy taking care of business!
3) Marketing Plans Before Business Plans Marketing Profs Daily Fix by Mike Schultz Often times, businesses don't need a plan. That's why they don't have one. Why? Strategy at professional services firms is different than strategy at other types of companies. At many firms, strategy boils down to a set of industries to target, services to offer, and geographies to serve.
4) 5 Tips to Create a Blog Plan for Long-Term Success Blogging Tips by Susan Gunelius In marketing, we create plans for just about everything you can think of - marketing plans, advertising plans, sales plans, new product development plans, you name it, we've got a plan for it. As bloggers, we can leverage that planning craze by developing plans for our blogs.
5) The Magic Ten For a Business Plan NAFASG Being your own boss is the goal that everyone in every walk of life wants to achieve. Most of us would believe that setting up a business is the gateway to attaining that goal. But it does not just take self-belief to make a business materialize. You need to be affirmed of it! That affirmation can only be concrete if you pen your thoughts of your ideal business down. In other words, you would need a business plan.
6) The Business Plan of Life Dream Think Act by Edith Yeung I went to my friend's Patrick's meetup group event tonight and their guest speaker was Jim Horan, the guy who wrote this book called "The One Page Business Plan". The concept was simple. Just one page. While you are developing this one page plan, you will start asking yourself some really simple but important questions about your business.
7) Stupid Question: When *WILL* Having A Business Plan Matter? Deep Jive Interests by Tony Hung I only ask because, as you may or may not have heard, the ambient broadcasting / continuous partial attention phenomenon that is Twitter has stepped up to the big leagues and has acquired VC funding - so that it may continue to expand its Twittering services and provide this valuable service to more and more people at a great price.
8) How I Stopped Listening To Experts And Started Making Money Self Made Chick by Christine OKelly If I could trade all of the time I have spent writing business plans in my life for something that actually generated income, I’d probably be a lot further ahead. I have been working on starting businesses part time for most of my life and most of those ideas never got out of the idea stage because I spent too much time planning and not enough time pulling the freakin’ trigger!
9) How to Write a Business Plan Bizcovering by Devora Sage "To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands..." Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Before you can hope for success in business, you need to know exactly what else you want: Where do you want to go? When do you want to get there? How do you want to travel? And what's your starting point? A solid business plan is your first step on the road to success.
10) Plan As You Go Business Planning Small Business Trends Radio by Staci Wood The fundamentals of business are still the same. Except that now business is valued on Internet traffic as opposed to actual dollars. But planning, implementing, reviewing, revising, strategizing - it's all still the same.
11)	Plan-As-You-Go Business Planning
	Planning Startups Stories by Tim Berry
12)	A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish
	Casual Keystrokes by Char
13)	Writing a Business Plan?
	StartupNorth by Jevon MacDonald
14)	Writing a Business Plan - What Makes a Good One
	PBOO.net by PBOO
15)	Why do you need a business plan?
	Search For Blogging by Mert Erkal
16)	Fundamentals of Preparting an Effective Business Plan
	WorkOnInternet.com by William King
17)	How to Write a Business Plan - Part 1 of 8
	Small Business Tips by Michelle Cramer
18)	To Plan, or Not to Plan
	Seeds of Growth
19)	Starting your Business with a Good Business Plan
	Physician Entrepreneur by Jose DeJesus
20)	Things to Consider when Writing a Business Plan
	GetEntrepreneurial.com by Klaus Wiedemann
21)	Must Haves for Your Business Plan
	bizthreads.net by Buzz
22)	Avoiding strategic errors in your small business plan
	Small Business Info
23)	How To NOT Write A Business Plan
	Who Has Time For This? by David Cowan
24)	Better Business Basics -- The Plan
	Not John Chow dot Com by Not John Chow
25)	10 Critial Steps to Writing a Business Plan
	4 Entrepreneur by Jay Maharjan
26)	Solid Business Plan
	Business Directory and Resources
27)	Steps to Becoming My Own Boss
	Dimples' Divine Domain: My Journy to Financial Empowerment by Dimples
28)	How to Write a Business Plan for your Home Business
	Women Owned Business by Tammy Ames
29)	How to Write a Killer Business Plan
	The Business Coaching Blog
30)	Business Plans Pro's
	Enterprise Nation
31)	The Board Meeting & The Business Plan
	16th Letter by Melissa Chang
32)	Business Plans 101
	Riri N' Rere
33)	My Business Plan and Mission Statement
	Teens Today by Vanessa Van Patten
34)	The Plan. Yes, THE plan.
	The Cycling Artist by Tina Mammoser
35)	Writing a Business Plan - What Does that Really Mean?
	CFO Yourself by Cworall
36)	How To Write A Business Plan
	by Kathryn Holguin
37)	Ten Things to Consider When Writing a Business Plan
	Jay Maharjan & Associates by Jay
38)	Should You Have A Business Plan?
	The Black Business Coach by Dante Lee
39)	A Guide to Writing Your Infopreneur Business Plan
	Kzyo Cash Casts by Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian
40)	Top 10 Business Plan Myths of Solo Entrepreneurs - A Review
	hafihz by Terri Zwierzynski
41)	How To Make Your Business Plan More Sound
	Indocquent's WordPress Blog by Bruce Tucker
42)	How to Write a Marketing Plan
	Carson and Company by George Carson
43)	How To Write A Business Plan
	How to Start Your Own Business Today by Dixita
44)	The 7 Most Common Business Plan Mistakes
	Money Towers by MT
45)	Writing a Business Plan (35 years ago)
	Learfield by Clyde
46)	Writing A Business Plan
	Small Business Startup Guide
47)	Write a Successful Business Plan On Your Own
	Money Crashers by Erik Folgate
48)	How To Write a Business Plan
	Merchant Circle
49)	How To Write A Business Financial Plan and Stick to it
	BusinessKnowledgeSource.com by DF
50)	Business Plans 101
	The Ethical Black Business Coach by Cathy Harris

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