I am looking for a "complete" sample busines plan, to include
financials, for a "brick-n-mortar" gift shop specializing in arts,
crafts, and curios.

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Request for Question Clarification by websearcher-ga on 16 Dec 2002 20:14 PST

Hi hawkeye1:

Thanks for the interesting question. I've already been able to find a
couple of potential sample plans for you. However, they either cost
additional funds or they (may) require some specialized software to
take full advantage of them,

Are you willing to spend additional funds to acquire these samples? If
so, what is your budget for this? I can make a list of good candidates
for you and tell you the cost for each, if that will fill the bill.

Thanks!

websearcher-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by websearcher-ga on 16 Dec 2002 20:20 PST

Hi hawkeye1:

Another question...

I looked at some of your previous postings and want to ask whether the
"sample" you are looking for needs to be from an actual existing
company - or whether a ficticious (yet complete) sample will suffice.
I feel that it will be very difficult to find a "real" sample -
businesses tend to hold onto them pretty tightly.

Thanks. 

websearcher-ga

Hi, 

This page here :
http://www.mplans.com/spm/#P

Seems to have the closets to what you are looking for, the title of
the Plan is Pottery--Custom Dishware. The software that this was made
with has several reviews on the web which I ran across several times.
It's all over the place, even on the SBA website, which says something
at least, of course the Canadian Small Business Plan Creator is on
there too, so ??? take that as it comes.

Below you will find several links which I came across while looking
for this for you, and found them good reads or full of information.
Some times they were even both good reads and full of information.

On the page I gave you are several other completed plans, and I've
found several others which I've linked to for you below.

These first 2 here are PDF files which I'm posting copies for you. 


Large Articles on Business Planning (Large as in full books)
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/GTBPlanGuide01.pdf

http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/EYOutlineBPlan.pdf



Links

SBA Starting Your Business - Business Plans
http://www.sba.gov/starting/indexbusplans.html

http://www.sba.gov/hotlist/businessplans.html

MootCorp Business Plan Competition
http://www.businessplans.org/mootcorp.html

bpsample
http://www.bulletproofbizplans.com/bpsample/Sample_Plan/sample_plan.html

Business Plan Templates 
http://bus.colorado.edu/faculty/lawrence/documents/templates.htm

Sample Business Plans Resource Center
http://www.bplans.com/sp/

So you want to open a gift shop? 
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1229/761724.html

Writing a Business Plan
http://www.businesstown.com/planning/creating.asp

Online Business Plan Creator
http://www.nebs.com/NASApp/nebsEcat/business_tools/bptemplate/index.jsp?GXHC_JSESSIONID#Company


Sample Plans
http://orlando.obp.com/tools/buspln_m.cfm

http://orlando.obp.com/tools/retailer.rtf

Sample Candle / Soap Business Plan Overhead
http://candleandsoap.about.com/library/blbizplan03.htm

Creating a Business Plan
http://entrepreneurs.about.com/cs/businessplan/

Small Business Guides
http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca/guides/index.html#sample

Harvard Business Review Articles
http://www.sba.gov/classroom/harvard/bizplan.html




Thanks,

webadept-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by hawkeye1-ga on 17 Dec 2002 19:23 PST

CLARIFICATION

A "COMPLETE"  FICTICIOUS  "SAMPLE"  BUSINESS PLAN WILL SUFFICE AS LONG
AS IT COVERS THE REQUIRED SUBJECT MATTER.

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 17 Dec 2002 21:37 PST

Hi, apparently the link I gave you for the BP wasn't working for you
or something of that nature. So I built the plan that is shown there
here :

http://www.lucidmatrix.com/bp/bp.html

I also made some slight changes to make it more to the area you were
looking for.

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

Thanks. The adjustments work.