Recommended Business plan & financial templates:
Business plan & financial templates
1. Starting a Business:
- This document outlines all the necessary steps to start up a business in Minnesota checklist.
- This is a publication put out by Positively Minnesota – Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), it is titled “Guide to Starting a Business in Minnesota.” The publication contains a wealth of information and resources for entrepreneurs.
- This is great resource published by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. It is a guide to “Starting a Food Business in Minnesota.”
- If you’re starting a food business, this is a nice tool to help you determine if you need to be licensed by the Dept. of Agriculture.
2. Business Plans:
- This is a great business plan template for any business.
- This template gives startup businesses ideas on how to write a business plan.
- This template gives established businesses ideas on how to write a business plan.
- This is a good business plan template to use for service-based businesses.
3. Marketing:
- This is a template for a SWOT analysis. It is utilized to identify your company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats relative to your competition.
- This is a great template for a marketing plan.
4. Finance:
- This is a comprehensive financial projection model published by SCORE.
- This is a break-even analysis model. Break-even points are calculated to determine how much sales volume a business needs before realizing profits.
- This document outlines criteria that lenders look for from a potential borrower.
- This is a loan amortization schedule excel sheet.
- This is a very simple 12-month cash flow projection model.
- This is a great budgeting template that allows businesses to monitor projected and actual monthly expenditures.
FUNDING SOURCES FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA BUSINESSES:
Blue Earth County Revolving Loan
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF)
MN Dept of Ag Value Added Grant
Also, check with your local city and/or county. There may be other loan funds available to small businesses.
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The South Central Minnesota SCORE Chapter gets an exclusive in-kind donation rate from Palo Alto Software for South Central Minnesota SCORE Clients of $65 for the first 6 months (save $54.70 off the regular price of $19.95/month).
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WEBSITES FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Lots of good information for everything related to small businesses
Lots of great webinars for entrepreneurs, many are free
A good source for general entrepreneur information
Good resources to learn about inbound marketing
IRS Tax Calendar Link: http://www.tax.gov/calendar/