Get started with the most comprehensive business development system on Earth.
Proven tools to raise capital, win SBA loans, and build a business investors believe in.
Strategically crafted by experts, easier than AI, and trusted for over 35 years.
Here’s the fastest, simplest way to frame the foundation and direction of your business.
If this isn’t your first business, you’ll appreciate the time and effort these tools save.
If it is, you just got your first big break…
Why Business Power Tools… Why you… Why now…
- Start a new business with proven guidance & examples.
- Detailed blueprint for self-funding / “bootstrapping” growth.
- Evolve your organization, strategy, and model.
- Fix a free business plan lacking inspiring content.
- Collaborate with your team for buy-in on priorities.
- Plan for succession — Document your knowledge.
- Prep your business to sell with a high-value presentation.
- You’re resisting planning but you know it’s the smart thing to do.
- Your SBA loan application requires a business plan.
- Save $3,000 – $10,000 paying someone else to do it for you.
- You’re tired of pitching investors who just “don’t get It.”
Or, they do get it, but a summary plan and pitch deck just aren’t enough? - Business Advisor? You want a structured planning system you can use
over and over with clients. (Do it with them: $3,000-$10,000)
Business isn’t necessarily hard, but it does demand doing the right things the right way.
You’re about to get your hands on the smartest way to go about creating and communicating the BIG picture.
When Michael Gerber saw it, he said…
“Wow! It’s the customizable encyclopedia of everything
you need to know about your business…
but were afraid to ask!”
~ Michael E. Gerber, Author: “The E-Myth”, Michael E. Gerber Companies
Investor recommends the financial models to his clients.
“Now I can recommend a standardized financial proforma that all of my clients can use. BizPlanBuilder’s financial model has just the right level of detail (without too much!) in the same format every time, eliminating the crazy-making submissions from so many amateurs I used to get.”
~ Robert Steven Kramarz, Partner, Shepherd Ventures III, Executive Director, Intelliversity, The Funding Academy for Innovators
Investors are looking at handful to 100 other deals…
“More and more investors these days are “Betting on the jockey, not the horse.”
That means you and your team. As you probably know, horse races are often “won by a nose.” The difference between gold and silver in the Olympics can be as little as a 1/100th of a second. Details matter. And you cannot BS your way through this even with AI.”
~ Burke Franklin, Creator & CEO, Business Power Tools
Accelerated strategic business development toolset works for you
from concept to funding to market to ongoing operations… Even sale.
Many founders can be so obsessed with their product that they neglect developing the business that generates revenue.
This is your plan of purpose, organization, traction, etc. to actually operate as a successful business.
“BizPlanBuilder is our BEST BUY because it cuts through the complexity of developing a plan and helps you produce slick-looking results. Its exhaustive template walks you through every step from cover letter to the appendix, with plenty of samples…
BizPlanBuilder also offers a better
collection of financial tables, ratios,
and projections than any competitor.”
~ Mike Hogan, PC World Magazine
It’s mission-driven strategic planning with team collaboration.
You’ve got a lot to do… You need all the help you can get.
You’re bringing something to the world and you must get it right.
BizPlanBuilder was created for you.
BizPlanBuilder also doubles as your secret weapon distancing you
from others competing for the same resources.
All along your business journey, your detailed blueprint / roadmap
evolves with you as you progress:
- Start-Up – Your blueprint and reality check for getting started the right way, minimize mistakes,
and “bootstrap” growth. Perfect for covering all the bases and coordinating your team.
- Raising Capital – Build credibility and demonstrate believability with investors & lenders.
SBA loans require a business plan. (Investors & lenders actually read them.)
Can shave 3-6 months off the time it takes to get the money you need.
- Non-Profit – Demonstrates to donors that you will maximize their “Return on Impact”
- Growing – Your roadmap for repeatable, scalable processes for organization, building teams,
and leading your people. Control the chaos before it starts and continue growing smoothly.
- Onboarding – What faster way is there to get new team members engaged
and up-to-speed in your business?
- Struggling?!? – This sucks, but we’ve been there back when and our business plan
pulled us out of the ditch! This deal is easily within your reach and just may save your bacon.
- Marketing – It’s your foundation upon which you can base and coordinate all of your marketing.
The problem(s) you solve, customer demographics, competitive advantages…
- Deal with a Big Corp – Your sophisticated, winning proposal to management.
Builds credibility and proves you can deliver on a big deal.
(Business Power Tools started with a business plan for a friend to land a deal with Apple.
That evolved into our BizPlanBuilder and everything else.)
- Ongoing Strategic Planning – It’s good to regularly revisit your “first principles:”
What’s changed? What do you want to change? Engages your team in a guided,
collaboration process that motivates them and makes it work.
- Licensing – Your alternative to building a company is licensing your product / intellectual property to an
established company with the resources, distribution, and sales force. Paint the picture, collect royalties.
- Sale – Builds your case for a profitable future upside and validates valuation.
Add the processes and systems that make it attractive to sell faster at a higher price.
- Succession – Everything your kids / new owners need to successfully continue what you started.
If you carry-back some of the financing, this is especially critical for you.
- All-of-the-Above – BizPlanBuilder is your growing, progressive catalog of everything about your business.
Why start from scratch?
Or with an empty fill-in-the-blanks template?
BizPlanBuilder’s organized system walks you step-by-step
through the process of preparing an effective plan / playbook.
Customizable sample business plans, flexible Excel financial models,
PowerPoint pitch template can be easily accessed anytime from anywhere
and enables secure collaboration with your team, advisors, or clients.
Our secret to your success is in the professionally drafted,
sample text refined over 36 years, annotated with pro tips throughout,
and intro videos inspiring and leading you through exactly what to say
and how to say it.
- Easily editable into your own words.
- Insert infographics, add images, and format everything your way.
It’s a detailed done-for-you roadmap for prioritizing your objectives,
defining your customers, planning your go-to-market strategy, and
making sure you’ve covered all the bases with your team and contractors.
It can save 3-6 months getting in front of investors.
It’s the fastest and easiest way to produce an investment-grade plan for funding.
And it’s a dramatic headstart on otherwise time-consuming Due Diligence.
It’s your “brochure” to distinguish your deal amongst investors,
partners, licensees, and ultimately acquirers.
Even share it online with investors (like a “Secure Data Room”).
Making ongoing changes is a cinch, so it’s easy
to improve your plan as your business evolves.
BizPlanBuilder has been repeatedly vetted with Banks, SBA lenders,
Angel investors, and Venture Capitalists worldwide with
more financing successes than any others.
Way more robust and flexible than LivePlan
“I have used BizPlanBuilder and it has an incredible amount of information, templates, spreadsheets, sample content, and tools in it. It is a very robust system (way more robust and flexible than LivePlan, if you ask me)! Burke has decades of experience with business financing and business planning software. I have also used Burke as a guest speaker to talk about pitch development and pitching angel investors, etc., as part of the ScaleUp program. Burke is a great resource for us to have available to us! ”
~ Liz Jamieson | Certified Business Advisor, Washington SBDC at Washington State University
Content, structure, and guidance are in place — Quickly and easily customizable by you and your team.
We’ve reinvented “business planning” to become a multi-purpose, coordinated catalog of everything about your business.
Add a million+ $$$ to your valuation?
- What if you could make a better case to improve your pre-money valuation by a $1,000,000+?
- How much more of your company would you keep?
- What would it be worth to produce a business better plan / roadmap / playbook?
← What to say and how to say it is expertly drafted for you to complete in your own words.
← The green text is us providing ideas, suggestions, warnings…
← Easily insert images, graphics, links, and format it any way you like
← The menu tree at the far left enables access to any section you want
← Checking the blue box includes a section (you may not need all of them)
Much of your appeal is won or lost
in your meetings after your pitch…
Investors are real people, many are very disciplined, and most are skeptical.
They fear losing their money more than striking it rich. They’ll have a lot of questions!
They’ll contact their advisors and friends, and
they’ll come back to you with more questions.
They’re looking at other opportunities too.
You’ve got to be more convincing and their best bet for succeeding.
We know this. We’ve lived through it.
And we developed BizPlanBuilder to deal with it.
All of it.
We’ve also used it ourselves with Angels and VCs,
an SBA loan, Lines of Credit, Vendor Financing,
an Acquisition, even with Mom!
SCORE counselors recommend BizPlanBuilder
“SCORE consultants recommend BizPlanBuilder business plan software. “I teach a class for SCORE on how to prepare a business plan. You will be pleased to know that most of our counselors recommend BizPlanBuilder to our clients. Thank you!”
~ Terry Little
“BizPlanBuilder employs a refreshing combination of the philosopher and expert mentor approach.”
~ Gerald Herter, CPA, MBA, Accounting Technology
“So much of company building I realized was about having a strong foundation.
I saw countless “hot” startups rise fast and then fail hard because they didn’t take time to build the right team,
the right foundation, and the right operating system to run a company.”
~ Taweed Kadar, Founder & CEO, ToutApp
100% customizable financial models do all the arithmetic for you.
Financial models that make sense to you and are believable to investors.
BizPlanBuilder includes CPA-tested financial models − Built in Excel® → Easily project Revenue, Costs, Profits, Cashflow, Valuation… And potential ownership give-up of any investor deal.
Completely configured, fully integrated,
and tastefully formatted.
Easily play “What-If?” with your ideas.
No need to be a spreadsheet or financial expert.
If you are, everything is 100% customizable.
“Burke and I have been acquainted for a number of years, and I’ve used and recommended his software solutions for business owners even longer. Let’s face it, writing a business plan is not at the top of the list of what most of us like to do. It’s a daunting task, and a tedious undertaking. Business Power Tools changes all that. You’ll find yourself creating a new plan or updating existing plans in record time, and you’ll feel confident in the quality like never before. I’d urge you to check it out. I think you’ll be truly surprised.”
~ John Kiser from Money Mentor (an MMOT, LLC enterprise)
Our advanced version of a business canvas — More depth & detail.
Try it right here. Now. The dashboard below is live. Click on it.
See how much more it offers than the typical business model canvas ↔ Most sections are copied from BizPlanBuilder.
Click Login to join as a guest user, Open “My Account” (top right), Insert your logo and business information. Then click around!
Why you. Why Business Power Tools. Why now.
In the exhilarating sprint to grow your business, some critical elements can get overlooked…
Here’s your simplified system to successfully scale your company to millions and beyond.
“…like Office + Netflix® + Legos® + Cliff’s Notes® → Online, for Business.”
The Most Templates and Tools
All apps work alike and together.
- Almost ZERO learning curve!
- Does the job of hundreds of apps
without you wasting your time
learning to use every. Single. One.
- Easy-to-use system.
Complete critical projects quickly.- All tools are built on the same platform.
- Ongoing updates included.
- Collaborate without conflicting copies.
- Click from project to project.
Each works just as you’d expect.- Mindfully curated.
Developed and evolved over 35+ years.- Edited by a former Sharper Image®
catalog copywriter.
Everything is Fully Customizable
Your business your way.
- Private Label — Insert your own branding.
- Include your logo / slogan / tagline.
- Customize any / all of the templates.
- Company data fills in automatically
saves typing, speeds completion.- Upload your own content.
Create new, re-usable custom templates.- “Priorities” lists for every area.
- Excel-based calculators do / show
all the math for better decisions.
100% customizable for your business.- Insert your preferred RSS feeds.
- Consultants save time educating clients.
- Expedites due-diligence for
faster funding or sale.
Include unlimited team & advisors
Secure, collaborative workspace.
- Teams engage and buy-In to priorities,
changes, and what they help create.- Remote work empowered.
All team members, advisors, and investors
collaborate, contribute, or review.- For now, just +$1 / month each.
- CRM system tracks VIPs, projects,
campaigns, proposals, events.- Complete and secure control over
everything anyone can access.- App by app — Each with admin,
edit, or read-only privileges.- System keeps all documents secure
and organized for easy access.- Serves as a “Secure Data Room“
Think about this when you’re tempted by the free stuff.
How much time can you afford to waste figuring out what to do and how to do it?
Expertly composed, 100% customizable software-driven templates demonstrate what to say and how to say it!
Here’s what you often get for free…
Really? That’s it? In This Case… NOTHING?!??
A blank form?
What are you supposed to say here?
What are investors, lenders, and others looking for?
Isn’t that why you’re here?
There’s usually a good reason it’s free.
They want to tease you toward buying something else.
Many are just devices (“lead magnets”) to capture your contact information.
This is no time to fool around with empty “click bait.”
Just get it done. No more books, classes or webinars…
Get in front of investors, lenders, or buyers as much as 3-6 months sooner!
Before someone else beats you to it!
Compare that with what you get with Business Power Tools.
NO BLANK PAGES. NO WRITER’S BLOCK!
Company info inserts in all the right places, saving even more typing.
Any blanks are filled-in with multiple-choice prompts you can actually use.
Easily customize everything to describe your unique business your way.
Just edit the parts you need, add your ideas, and build as you go.
You can do this…
“BizPlanBuilder really shines.
Quite simply, it’s the best way that I know to create a business plan that will get you the investors that you need to be successful.”
~ Brian Underdahl, Author, Small Business Computing for Dummies
Bonus: Contact Relationship Management (CRM) system
It’s built-in to the dashboard.
Business Power Tools CRM is an easy to use online contact management and small business marketing solution designed specifically to help growth and impact entrepreneurs get off the ground and build lasting value in your company.
We don’t claim to be an Infusionsoft, Ontraport, or SalesForce type of marketing automation system.
Instead, think of the Business Power Tools CRM for all of your internal communications and project management.
(You’re probably not going track your packaging vendor, close advisors, or VIP customers using a marketing automation system.)
Manages much more than just contacts.
Because it’s all online you can access your information securely from work, home or the road, and stay in touch with your customers anywhere / anytime.
- Calendar shows due dates for everything: Meetings, Events, Campaign Deadlines,
- Tasks: Your To-Do lists for everyone
- Contacts: Build comprehensive records — find and contact by multiple criteria
- Leads: The Sales process starts here
- Notes: Builds your business “brain trust”
- Events: Schedule & coordinate all activities
- Marketing Programs: Collaborate on all marketing campaigns
- Proposals: Track the progress of deals
- CRM Details Here
Scroll Down — See how you can get this CRM system FREE!
SEE TOOLSET PRICINGBonus: The ultimate employee and team motivation.
Shares of ownership.
Save cash, inspire your team with stock.
Here’s the legal paperwork you need to set up an incentive stock option plan to compensate key employees and contributors with stock options — Saving cash for growth while engaging your people even further.
Manages your Cap Tabl.
Easily track shares and options issued.
It also includes a comprehensive Excel®-based “Stock and Options Issuance Register” — just fill in the variables and print.
It’s a perfect complement to BizPlanBuilder when raising capital.
Details Here
If a better business plan would make you smarter and get you closer to investors and funding sooner,
the best investment you can make right now is in this toolset. Scroll down.
A synthesis of advice, books, classes, posts, videos, and webinars…
Blended with expertly drafted templates enabling you to create a coordinated and practical plan of action as you go:
Upgrade to the Complete Strategic Business
Growth Plan / Roadmap Development System
Updated BizPlanBuilder Business Planning System
Ideal for growing the company / Strategic planning / Financing
Bootstrapping / Concept evaluation / Budgeting
Start-ups raising capital / Pre-money valuation
Teaching students "Real World" business
Efficiencies for advisors & accelerators- Our Best Deal for Start-ups, Early stage, Growing companies, & Non-profits
Includes the most tools & template options
+ Expanded dashboard - Compatible with All Browsers
Progressive & scalable — Start small, Come back to edit or add more
Modular system with drag 'n drop sequencing — Follow step x step or jump in anywhere. - Includes Full Access to ALL Content on Selected Panels
Home, Business Plan, Finance, Legal, Management, R&D - Pre-Written, Done-For-You Sample Business Plans
150+ Industry-Specific Sample Plan Templates Get You Going
"SWOT" analysis crucial for strategic planning prioritizes
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & ThreatsUnlike every other business plan templates, we actually intend for you to be able to use our copy vs. having to delete it or rewrite it. - Wizard-driven Financial Model
Makes it Easy to Project Sales, Costs, Profits, Headcount - 3 Fully customizable Excel-based financial workbooks
"Visionary Funding", "Expansion Plan", and Non-Profit models
Easily adaptable to model your organization.
Just plug-in your numbers, no formulas, no need to be a CFO..
CPA reviewed.If you are an Excel user, you'll love the total flexibility to customize your financial model.
Need an Excel expert? You can find them in our Expert Referral Network! - Includes PowerPoint / Keynote
Investor presentation ("Pitch" deck) template
Tutorial guides you step-by-step through a successful presentation.
Comprehensive Handbook of Business Planning adds useful insight into raising capital. - Tutorial Videos Introduce Each Section
How to make it count!
What Investors & Lenders are looking for. - Supplemental Intro Letters, Templates, and Worksheets
Invite Advisors & Board Members
Cover letters to Friends & Family, Investors, Lenders...
"Elevator" pitch worksheet hones your perfect 30-second intro - Includes Incentive Stock Options Plan.
All necessary document templates.
Shareholder ownership tracking. - Includes Corporation & LLC formation Doc Templates
Articles, By-Laws, Operating Agreement, Unit Allocation... - Funding Resources
Sources of Angel Investors, Venture Capital, and Lenders.
"Funding Plan" strategy for attracting investors. - CONTACTS (CRM System) Manages:
VIPs, Vendors, Investors...
+ Tasks + Events + Programs + Proposals - Global 24/7 Secure Access
Automatic Back-up & Restore - Month To Month Subscription
No Contract, No Commitment, Cancel/Suspend Anytime
All your work is automatically saved.Use the system as long as you need it.
You may want to keep it open and allow investors and certain others read-only access. - Add Unlimited Number of Team, Advisors to Collaborate
for $1 / mo each.
Also between PCs Macs.
You control all access to panels/apps.Add an unlimited number of users...
Selected members of your team can access any/all of the apps in your subscription -- You control access as well as read / write or read-only permission. - * Secure Data Room for Sharing Investment Docs *
Include Investors, Lenders, Professors as Users
to Access & Review Plans, Models, and Pitch Deck