5 business planning books may help you create your perfect plan

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HOWTOBUSINESS

3 min readDec 16, 2019

Every business needs to have a written business plan, A business plan is a written description of your business’s future, to provide direction and attract investors, it’s a document that tells what you plan to do and how you plan to do it. But, how to do you write a business plan?

Here are 5 business planning books that will help you writing you perfect business plan that achieves your goals:

1. The Pumpkin Plan

The Pumpkin Plan is an incredible book in all aspects. The main example in the book is of the business strategies and methods used by award-winning pumpkin farmers. Although the example seems a bit crazy, it exemplifies the business world. The Pumpkin Plan method will either save your business from disaster or help it to grow rapidly.

It will help you to clearly see some of the drastic errors you’ve been making before anything bad happened and also gives you a clear plan to follow, to enable you to quickly move your business several levels up.

2. How To Write A Business Plan

This book is a step-by-step way of writing a business plan, It covers every aspect of what you need to write your own business plan. It also gives insight on common mistakes most people make when starting out or writing their own business plan with no complicated examples. Highly recommend for anyone who’s starting their own business.

3. Writing Winning Business Plan

This book takes a look at business plans a little differently than other books, Writing Winning Business Plans discusses all the key elements for a successful plan. Topics include focusing your business vision, understanding your financials and analyzing your competition. Also covered are how to really use your business plan as a tool and how to attract funding for your new or existing businesses.

This book clearly explains why you need a business plan, what goes into one and how to build it.

4. The Secrets to Writing a Successful Business Plan

Shelton presents of what a business plan should cover and get right in order to secure finance and to have the business taken seriously, especially during the early stages. It’s a very short book, very clear, very direct and very useful. The book will enrich anybody who is trying to write his business plan. Easy to read, good information.

5. Write Your Business Plan

A very useful book. Packed with lots of information and very well organized.
This book is divided into three sections: Before Writing Your Business Plan, Writing Your Business Plan, and Enhancing Your Business Plan, it”s goes over a lot of what you need to know for a successful plan. It’s a great resource!