Business Plans For Dummies (For Dummies Series)

A well written and an easy to read book on business plans. If you can get past the word "dummies," this is as good a textbook on business plans as you will find. It helps insure you ask the right questions. "Business Plans for Dummies" is a good refresher for people who are experienced in business, and an essential for those trying to start a business. I've used the book, and have given away several copies to individuals wanting to start a business.

Not having used a business plan for many years I found this book to be easy to refresh my memory as to how to accomplish this task. This is a necessary initial step in business planning and this book made it easy to proceed step-by-step without confusion. I would recommend this to anyone considering a start-up of a new business.

Sent this as a gift for my daughter. She said she appreciated it and that it gave her some good ideas.

I have no idea how to write a business plan. I have great ideas for my own practice as a Nutritional Therapist and Personal Trainer but am clueless as to how to translate those ideas into a business plan. Got this book and within the first chapter I learned a lot! Everything is laid out in an easy to follow format. And I might be a dummy about writing business plans, but I'm pretty darn smart about buying books to help me not be a dummy any longer. Really helped me get things out of my head and onto paper.

I have to say that this book is very thorough and that I have learned a lot from it. Still, I found the book a little boring and cryptic because of its lack of examples and stories. There are so many ideas which are thoroughly explained conceptually, but are hard to visualize - although, in fairness, there are a ton of good stories and case-in-points. [See, for example, how your local paper would explain why Pepsi decided to close a bottling plant, or how Microsoft went about improving Windows 7 - now that's something you can relate to.] Maybe, just maybe, this book is a good refresher for people who did go to business school. I, a high school graduate and avid reader, failed to digest about 35% of the material.

Often, a copywriter is approached to "write a business plan". "Writing" is but a small part of preparing a business plan. This book will guide the entrepreneur, consultant or copywriter through the research and planning work that makes it a plan. The book complements the "Idiot's" equivalent. Buy them both.

I have purchased two books for Dummies so far and intend on buying others in the future. Very informative, helpful and easy to understand for those who haven't a degree in such subjects.

Very useful book for those who doesn't have an idea of writing a business plan. I recommend it also to those who have basic knowledge.

Ein Buch, dessen Autoren nicht nur eine umfassende Sachkenntnis beweisen, sondern auch für das eher trockene Thema "Business Plans" brennen und die Leser/innen ebenfalls "entzünden" können. Bereits nach dem Vorwort hatte ich sehr viel Neugier auf den Rest des Buches. Prägnant dort, wo wesentliche Information notwendig ist; ausführlich dort, wo Ausführlichkeit angebracht ist. Der deutsche Leser kann zwar die Beispiele dort nicht "eins-zu-eins" übernehmen, doch wer sich mit Businessplänen beschäftigt, kann eine Transferleistung auf seine eigenen Bedürfnisse problemlos vollziehen. Dieses Buch ist tatsächlich nicht nur für "Dummies" geschrieben, auch Personen mit vorhandenem BWL-Wissen werden diese Lektüre als Einstieg zum Thema "Businesspläne" genießen.

I bought an older used version and it doesn't really hold up to today's needs. I really wanted an almost "template" that would be easy to follow. This was a very general book without the templated stuff we needed.