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(More customer reviews)This is a fantastic product that really walks you through setting up a business plan step-by-step. It calculates things in the background and basically prepares a professional-looking document for you. You'll be surprised what you are able to throw together in just a few days, and it really gives you a sense of accomplishment, which may be lacking in the early days of a startup. The customer service is pretty good. They usually get back to you the same day if you send them an e-mail, though they can be a bit short with you if your question is too obvious to them. They're not long on explanation, though, so if you're looking for a more thorough understanding of the product you won't get it there.
The major objection I have to this product, though, is the formatting of the actual plan. Though it's licensed by Microsoft Word, it really doesn't have any of Word's tools, and so there are all kinds of spacing and margin problems that arise for which there is no cure. If you're a regular Word user, you'll expect to be able to do certain things to the text you're working on and believe me, you can't! I'd say about 40% of Word's features are included in BPP. If you export it to Word, you can use Word's tools there, but it doesn't export that well, you can't re-import, and it's basically just a very clunky proccess. So this product is great for setting up your report, but lousy for finishing it. Plan on having to re-format a lot of your plan before actually presenting it to anyone if you care at all about aesthetics and complicated things like page breaks.
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Business Plan Pro 2007 is the easiest way to create a practical, successful business plan. If you need to finish your plan and accomplish your goal in the most Professional and most efficient way possible. Develop a successful, profitable business plan; put your ideas on Paper and turn them into a viable plan that investors & banks will be attracted to. You can produce a professional plan that will be respected by business colleagues, in just a few clicks Advanced collaboration tools -- assign portions of the plan to team members and then combine it all into a complete planNew Wizard-driven Financials that can be exported to Microsoft Word and Excel, PowerPoint, or to Adobe PDF documentsPublish to a secure Website and create logins for trusted readers to view your plan
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