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CrystalGraphics presents the world's largest collection of famous quotationsinspirational quotes, funny quotes, love quotes, and more. Finding the perfect quote is fast and easy, with more than 45,000 famous quotes conveniently searchable by topics, author, keywords and source. PowerPlugs: Quotations is the only program of its kind that works directly inside Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. No other sourcenot even the fattest, heaviest bookhas as many quotations as PowerPlugs: Quotations. It's better than hunting all over the Internet and much better than quotations books. Why bother with them when PowerPlugs: Quotations can serve up the perfect quote for every needquickly, affordably, easily and accurately? The size and convenience of PowerPlugs: Quotations make it superior to any on-line quotations database you'll find. As an Microsoft Office Plug-in, it's there whenever you need it, without having to connect to the Web. With a few simple clicks you can select and insert the perfect quote right into your PowerPoint presentation, Word document, or Outlook mail message. There's no re-typing involved, and no pop-up ads will slow you down. Get PowerPlugs: Quotations and much more in PowerPlugs: Ultimate Combo 15! ... Read more

Features

• Over 45,000 famous quotations - the largest collection of quotes commercially available!
• Faster, easier, and more comprehensive than any book!
• Built-in searching helps you find the perfect quotation in a flash!
• Add the perfect quotation to your PowerPoint presentation, Word document, or Outlook mail message!
• Directly accessible from PowerPoint, Word, or Outlook!

Amazon.com Product Description

Business Plan Pro 2003 includes more than 400 sample plans and is an easy, fast, and efficient way to create a winning business plan. Great for both novice and expert entrepreneurs, the software includes a plan wizard, automated spreadsheets, hundreds of financing leads, $300 in partner discounts, and much more.

Business Plan Pro includes thousands of industry profiles to help you run your business's financial numbers. You can also include your own graphics, and automatically develop full-color, 3-D charts. Import data from QuickBooks, and Microsoft Word and Excel. Business Plan Pro 2003 offers everything you need to define your business, compare industry ratios, set schedules, create personnel and mini marketing plans, and find funding. ... Read more

Reviews (25)

Couldn't pick a better software
Business Plan Pro 2003 walked me through a system that wrote my business plan for me. It took me 3 weeks to do my business plan and I can use the program over and over again in the future.

Not a magic bullet
My assessment of Business Plan Pro, after using it for several months is that, in summary, it is a tool, not a magic bullet. If you don't understand business, it could render you a fool. But if you've never written a business plan before and have no idea where to start, its great for showing you what goes into a business plan and helping you organize your thoughts.

A Business Plan Pro business plan is composed of text, tables and charts. The system has a book that gives you some guidance on what to discuss for each text section but it's not really much. The two books that my box included were: Hurdle - The Book on Business Planning, and the manual. Hurdle was just OK. Moreover, the software is a divided screen with panes that guide you with text describing what you should write and where you are, but they leave a lot to be desired. The sample business plan for my company, a small computer consulting firm, was a joke.

But if you don't know what a Balance Sheet or a Cash Flow are, you're just plain screwed. I had a SCORE counselor review 2 business plans that I wrote with this product and he just hated them. The numbers were all wrong and non-sensical and I didn't even know what the reports meant. Moreover the reports, which are automatically generated, include tons of stuff that is very high level and generic. For example, one line item is "Sales Tax, VAT, HST/GST Received," which appears to be relevant in Canada and Europe and thus shouldn't be included here. Moreover, does that make sense in a business that is a service and doesn't have any employees? Also, there were many items that were there but had "0" values, such as "New Current Borrowing." The maker, Palo Alto Software, is selling a one-size fits all package. Beware!

I'm a programmer, not a businessman. And if you're not a businessman, this is the problem you'll have with this product. That's why I say its a tool, not a magic bullet. As my SCORE counselor said, "It won't magically produce a business plan for you."

Ready Proof that 'Better' is the Enemy of 'Good Enough'
I heartily agree with other reviewers that MS Word & Excel templates are plenty sufficent for the -- apparently unavoidable -- time-consuming business planning task.

Business Plan Pro's attempts at simplicity only make it obtuse.Rather than permitting business owners to focus on the priorities of their particular business, BPP users will find themselves answering off-topic questions and dealing with other near-useless distractions that add little to no value.

Moreover, what good are 400 samples if _they can't be imported for use as a template_??Selling the software on the basis of making all these great 'samples' available (when they most definitely cannot be used directly) is a borderline scam in my opinion.

Great program!
This is a great program. I have used it, and earlier versions, to improve business plans I have written in the past. In every way it succeeds. From the sample/template business plans you can follow to the easy to use question answer format.

I would recommend it to anyone just starting out in a new business.

Cautious
I have use an older version of this softaware and found it to be awkward as will many business plan software.Most bus plan software in general tries to make a basic task, that can be time consuming, but relatively straight forward, simplier.Actually a good MS Excel and MsWord templete would do the same thing.I have reviewed several types of BP software, I don't think any of them would making my job much easier. ... Read more

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Get the tools you'll need to help make your business thrive. Includes everything you will need to turn your great ideas into the business you've always dreamt of. Includes forms for: Business and Marketing Plan Writer, Advertising and Publicity Plan Writer, Financial Planner, Strategic plans, advertising and much more! ... Read more

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A High schooler's review
As a high school student, I personally found this product very helpful.The templates were fairly easy to work with and ran affectively on my school (1995) computer.The templates were relatively self-explainatory and easy to work with.

Like your previous critique, I was surprised that the product was only templates organized within a web like interface.I really expected more.

Not What I Thought
The packaging to this product positions it against Business Plan Pro.I thought I would get a similar solution and was looking for a cheaper business planning tool, based on the advertising.The bottom line is that the product is 40.00 worth of templates, most of which you can find similarly at Microsoft's Template page. The templates in BPD are very remedial and shoddy looking.If I could get my money back, I would - I felt ripped off.

For the same price, buy Business Plan Maker (a competitor to Business Plan Pro).A much better (true business planning software) product. ... Read more

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If your business is on the fast track to failure, this program is for you! Don't fail because you don't know essential success strategies. You'll find the precise, proven and practical ways to rescue your company from the clutches of bankruptcy- the same survival strategies taught by turnaround pro Dr. Arnold Goldstein to more than 1000 financially troubled companies. The program is based on proven business-saving strategies that can work for any kind of enterprise. ... Read more

Features

• Find Your True Goals.
• Sharpen Your Survival Instincts.
• Key Recovery Strategies.
• Winning Ways To Get more Money.
• How To Settle With Creditors For Pennies On The Dolllar!

Features

• Get a complete overview of ASP.NET and how to use it for better programming
• Begin working with Web Forms, and the system.Web Namespace
• Work with the SessionState Object, HttpServerUtility Object and other tools
• Use the File and Event Log tools, and send & receive messages through ASP.NET
• Access databases and data through ASP.NET and work with XML applications

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What type of legal entity is right for your business?What are the differences among corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies?Business Formations Made E-Z provides all the information, explanations, and instructions, as well as sample forms in clear, easy-to-understand language.With the click of your mouse, you can have at your fingertips the kind of information that would cost hundreds or thousands to obtain from a lawyer.Also included are the forms and information you need to form your own corporation, partnership, or limited liability company. ... Read more

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Palo Alto Software's Business Plan Pro is the only business plan software with management and implementation built in--plan vs. actual analysis and concrete milestones tracking. This program gives you a business plan in your own words, with your own ideas and numbers, with complete flexibility to make it yours, not ours. Business Plan Pro automatically publishes your business plan to a password-protected site on the Internet.

Develop a plan with guidance and the reassurance that you're doing it right. Business Plan Pro automatically merges text, tables, and charts into a beautifully formatted final document. It takes all of the individual components you've created; collates them as well as blends your text with charts, tables, and other graphics; and prints a well-formatted, professional-looking business plan. ... Read more

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Employee Appraiser for the Macintosh, the world's bestselling management software, puts the knowledge and experience of Human Resource experts at your fingertips to take the pain out of writing employee evaluations. The secret is more than 600 professionally written phrases and paragraphs that you can use to get started. With a touch of a button, you can select the appropriate phrase, edit it, change it, or leave it as it is. When you've got the paragraph you want, you can select it, choose Writing Tuner, and adjust the tone or intensity of the paragraph with one mouse click.

Simply put, Employee Appraiser helps you develop your most important resource: your employees. With the knowledge of HR professionals, business professors, managers, and labor law experts built right in, it helps you reinforce the positive aspects of your employees' performance, offer constructive criticism, and address difficult topics with professionalism and sensitivity. There's even a Coaching Advisor to offer new ideas to solve performance issues and motivate employees. From head-start text to final personalized evaluation, Employee Appraiser is the fastest way to write concise, correctly worded evaluations. ... Read more

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Fleet managers, lubrication sales representatives and private individuals now have an automated method for selecting or recommending motor oil, with the best set of properties, to help maximize fuel efficiency, engine longevity & performance, oil drain intervals and bottom line.The system is designed to eliminate the guesswork and help make motor oil selection a straightforward, educated process for anyone. Using data for close to twenty various oil properties, and intangibles, such as manufacturer marketing claims and personal experience factors, the software calculates a composite score for an oil product. Auto care do-it-yourselfers will find this immediately useful, since the score can be used to quickly track down oil with top-ranked properties. Oil sales reps may prefer to select oil using their own criteria and will find the custom data filter, report generator and user-updatable, 200-plus oil product database useful in locating products with the properties their customers desire. In addition, fleet managers will find the included oil change module very useful as it tracks subsequent product performance, for an unlimited number of vehicles. This allows the user to update the system's personal experience factor and correspondingly increase the accuracy of the product's score."Experts know that the quality of motor oil can be the single greatest factor that influences an engine's reliability and performance. With the large number of new motor oil products on the market, we have a greater variety to choose from than ever before. When you include price differentials easily eclipsing 500% and oil property differences greater than 250%, it's easy to want to avoid sifting through hundreds of products and instead choose the 'ignorance is bliss route,'" says Michael Frank, marketing director. Frank also notes that, "With Engine Oil Selector, the oil selection task becomes highly automated, consistent and even addicting." ... Read more

Features

• Helps you select motor oil with top-ranked properties.
• Helps you maximize fuel efficiency, engine longevity & performance, oil drain intervals and bottom line.
• Makes oil selection a more scientific, educated process.
• Eliminates confusion in selecting best motor oil.
• Includes database of over 200 motor oils.

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EZ-Writer by Winworks is an automotive service work order writing software system with built in parts and labor estimating. Integration with QuickBooks and Marketing functionality can be easily added. When your shop grows, EZ-Writer can be upgraded to the Winworks AutoShop Professional Management system without data conversion. EZ-Writer makes adding new customers and vehicles easy with automatic fill-in for Cities, States and Zip Codes (based on previous entries), and year, make and models including displacement and cylinder options. You can store up to 5,000 part numbers, and the surcharge feature is a convenient way to add a shop supplies charge or tire fee. EZ-Writer prints 5 accounting based reports including accounting summary, payments, sales and sales tax reports. Paragraph length description fields allow you to describe in detail service comments for your customer. EZ-Writer comes complete with a full 60 days of toll-free support and a 30 day money back guarantee. ... Read more

Features

• Automotive Repair Service Writing System creates work orders and invoices.
• Work orders can contain parts, labor, surcharges and detailed comments.
• Built in parts and labor estimating guide including part graphics.
• Detailed work order and service history tracking included.
• Ability to add QuickBooks integration and customer reminder marketing.

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Fee Schedule Analyzer 2005 allows Gynecologists to create, manage, analyze and optimize fee schedules in seconds and determine if their practice is running at peak finanacial performance. ... Read more

Features

• Analyzes and optimizes fee schedules and makes sure that Gynecologists are running their practice at peak financial performance.
• Assists Gynecologists in revising fee schedules, challenge payment reductions by third party payers
• Determines the percentage fees need to be increased to maintain financial peak performance
• Determines quickly if proposed fee schedules are worth accepting
• Allows Gynecologists to increase their revenue and be paid fairly for their services

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Fee Schedule Analyzer 2005 allows Pediatricians to create, manage, analyze and optimize fee schedules in seconds and determine if their practice is running at peak finanacial performance. ... Read more

Features

• Analyzes and optimizes fee schedules and makes sure that Pediatricians are running their practice at peak financial performance.
• Assists Pediatricians in revising fee schedules, challenge payment reductions by third party payers
• Determines the percentage fees need to be increased to maintain financial peak performance
• Determines quickly if proposed fee schedules are worth accepting
• Allows Pediatricians to increase their revenue and be paid fairly for their services

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Fee Schedule Analyzer 2005 allows Urologists to create, manage, analyze and optimize fee schedules in seconds and determine if their practice is running at peak finanacial performance. ... Read more

Features

• Analyzes and optimizes fee schedules and makes sure that Urologists are running their practice at peak financial performance.
• Assists Urologists in revising fee schedules, challenge payment reductions by third party payers
• Determines the percentage fees need to be increased to maintain financial peak performance
• Determines quickly if proposed fee schedules are worth accepting
• Allows Urologists to increase their revenue and be paid fairly for their services

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KiBizSystem- Basic is a completely integrated multi-user business management system that contains 8 essential business modules, that fosters greater productivity and efficiency. KiBizSystem, a 9 year old world recognized program, will pay for itself in a short time by saving a company countless staff hours because staff will enter business data only once, and use it in multiple ways. It eliminates the need for many piecemeal business software programs that most people use. Small businesses can't afford to miss this opportunity to make your Business more Profitable by automating and accelerating all your business processes. Easily manage all of your contacts, staff, sales, orders, invoices, purchases, inventory, and much more. Send targeted promotional emails, email your quotes, order confirmations, invoices, and purchase orders directly from the KiBizSystem. Know exactly what is going on when you run any of the over 100 reports contained in the KiBizSystem! Customize the fully accessible KiBizSystem to suit your specific needs. The KiBizSystem is used by retailers, distributors, manufacturers, professionals, corporate work groups, and many other types of businesses. The KiBizSystem can be accessed remotely, and has an integrated eCommerce solution, as well as, as ability to synchronize with Palm applications. KiBizSystem-Basic includes the following modules: Contact Management, Staff Organizer, Inventory Control, Sales Management, Order Processing, Invoicing, Purchasing. Personnel. A 90 day free trial version can be downloaded at: http://www.kibizsystems.com ... Read more

Features

• Enter data once, use it in hundreds of ways
• Know where your Business stands with Management Dashboards
• Automate & Accelerate Business Processes
• Easy to Set-up and Customize to Create Perfect Fit
• Save Time & Money with this Powerful Business Tool!

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PlanWrite Business Plan Writer Deluxe from Nova Development will help you develop and document a high-quality, professionally structured business or marketing plan to inform potential investors and provide direction for internal management. With Business Plan Writer Deluxe's example plans, you can develop ideas, and make effective business and marketing plans quickly. This product is ideal not only for product-oriented and service businesses, but also for Web-based businesses, and includes sample plans for actual Internet businesses. Includes 125 real plans for virtually every kind of business; 10,000 business graphics, spanning 40 industries; 500 TrueType fonts, ideal for business correspondence; and more. ... Read more

Reviews (6)

NO WORDS ARE BAD ENOUGH!!!
Can I give this a negative number of stars?This is without a doubt the worst piece of software I have ever used.Editing is ridiculous.The finalized plan can only be sent to the 'book binding' feature once, so multiple items have to be saved so changes can be made after sending.Sections do not print that have been included and items that have been 'excluded' do print with nothing in them.I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

Straight forward business plan writing
This program helped me with get past my writer's block, and the financials helped me to see the money that was really involved in starting my own business.

what a mess
This business plan software is a mess, it takes you to nowhere during the whole process. Dont waste your time in dealing with the bugs. Go for another one.

WORTHLESS!!!
This product must have been developed by a Intro Visual Basic programmer!It use 3/4 of the screen for the developer's menu and buttons. It locks up and you cannot get to the plan you have tried to develop.I returned it!It is a shame that we can't give it a ZERO!

Nova fixed the problems
I used this program and with the simple step by step instructions i was able to complete the plan in 3 days.The charts and graphs printed with now problems and I was able to get money from my first investor with-in 1 week.The only problem I encountered was awnsered by e-mail before I even signed off line.For the price, I feel it is a very good program, but you must have some business sence to understand where they are guiding you.If you do not, you will spend your whole time in the dictionary provided. ... Read more

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PowerPlugs: Presentations to Go includes 23 sets of professional presentation shells and corresponding tips and techniques presentations. Topics include the following-- Category Review Change Proposal Communicate Bad News Company Overview Company Strategic Analysis Convincing People of a Problem General Format Identify Potential Problems Identify the Problem Investor Relations New Project Proposal Persuasive Presentation Product Launch Project Progress Report Recommend an Alternative Satisfying Your Customers Sell to the Customer Interests Share Information Strategy Recommendation Teach Skills Technical Presentation Technical Sales Work Update ... Read more

Features

• Complete library of 23 topic-specific presentation "shells"
• Each presentation shell includes custom graphics and expert tips
• Helps you quickly organize your ideas so you can get a head start on your presentation creation!
• Works with PowerPoint 97 through 2003!