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You can create custom flow charts, organization charts, business and network diagrams and more! Choose from professional templates or start from scratch - using 600 predefined drag-and-drop symbols. ... Read more

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Marketing Plan Pro is a step-by-step guide to writing a successful marketing plan. This complete solution includes complete text, flexible tables, and colorful charts to add to your plan. Instructions and examples customized for your plan type and row-by-row help for every table make writing your plan easy. Wizards will also walk you through the entire process.

Marketing Plan Pro will help you build an outline for your plan. Answer a few questions and the Plan Wizard will build a custom outline for you, with tables, charts, and text included. Detailed or simple, you can choose which main topics to include: situational analysis, marketing strategies, financials, budgets, forecasts, and/or controls. Custom tables bring it all together, from target market and sales forecasts, to market, growth, share, and competitive analysis. Include historical data and sales and expense breakdowns. Automatically generate color 3D charts, and see your results graphically with the click of a mouse. Charts include target markets, target market growth, market forecast, monthly sales forecast, milestones, break-even analysis, and sales vs. monthly and yearly analysis.

Marketing Plan Pro includes 10 sample marketing plans, a 90-day subscription to LivePlan.com, and an online glossary that defines common marketing terms in plain language. ... Read more

Reviews (4)

Great Software for Marketers
This was an amazing experience in creating a marketing plan.Everything that I needed was there, along with great help and guidence throughout. The graphics the software created for my marketing plan was worth the investment.I recommend Marketing Plan Pro without question.

Marketin Plan Pro
I like this product very much for the expamples it gives.Unfortunely entering data is difficult and confusing.I gave three stars becuase it is a useful example program.

Marketing Plan Pro 4.0 Review
Marketing Plan Pro 4.0 is an excellent software that help you write a marketing plan. It gives you instructions and examples that you can follow.

Unfortunately, it seems that the program does have its problems with regards to: formating tables and graphs; exporting into Word; importing file; general text formating; adding new tables and linking it to a new graph; etc.

It has been an absolute WASTE OF TIME typing and entering data into Marketing Plan Pro 4.0. It is better to follow their ideas and type everything in Word. Because the program would be used ONLY as a guide, a book on how to write a plan could be better and cheaper!

3 stars only because of the examples. Otherwise, 1 star.

What a Great Product!
I have a small business, and I was looking for ways to drum up more business, but I'm not an expert in marketing.A friend suggested Marketing Plan Pro, and I'm glad he did!

Marketing Plan Pro guided me through writing a complete marketing plan with helpful instructions and examples, which has really helped me increase my sales and made my marketing efforts more successful.

If you have a business or work for one, then you need Marketing Plan Pro! ... Read more

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Flow! is a tool for creating well-designed professional-looking charts and diagrams to maximize your business documents. It provides a familiar, Office-like interface and Web linking features.

Layout tools include a customizable grid, guidelines, rulers, align, distribute, and layers. There are over 600 drag-and-drop symbols from 20 Smart Symbol Libraries. You can automatically grow shapes to fit text, and take advantage of autorouting connecting lines. Formatting options include start, end, center, and repeating arrows; fountain fills for shapes, lines, and shadows; and repeating pattern lines and fills for shapes and shadows. Easily transform any shape, icon, or clip art image into a hyperlink. Import and export the most popular file formats, including JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF, TIF, PSD, EPS, CMX, CGM, WPG, WMF, EMF, and PCT. ... Read more

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QUIMICO
ESPERO UN GRAN PROGRAMA QUE FACILITE EL TRABAJO DE DISEÑO ... Read more

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Harvard Graphics Easy Presentations offers a four-step process for the creation of attractive and effective presentations: 1) choose a prebuilt presentation template, 2) add your titles, 3) add your content, and 4) choose your output media.

There is a variety of features to make the process simple and effective:

• The Advisor feature gives you step-by-step guidance on design and content.
• Quick Tips points you to the common tasks to get your presentation done quickly, and without the need for mastering a complex interface.
• Design Tips offers helpful pointers for the design novice.
• Design Checker keeps all of your ideas in the proper order and layout. Before you finalize your presentation, Design Checker will check for style or design problems, and fix them automatically.
• Quick Looks takes the guesswork out of choosing the appropriate layout. Experiment with different options--titles, bullets, tables, or charts--to find the look that you want, without having to modify your current slide.

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Just what I was looking for!
Harvard Graphic was exactly what I was looking for to present aschool presentation. It had most of the capibilities of"Powerpoint" without spending the money. Easy Directions, great color!For the presentation beginner, this is all you'll need. ... Read more

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PowerPlugs: SuperShapes adds television-style still and animated shape effects to your PowerPoint presentations. SuperShapes goes way beyond the static 2D world of PowerPoint's AutoShapes with artistically designed, colored and animated 3D shapes such as arrows, buttons, text frames, banners, separators and more! These professional quality shape effects will visually direct your audience's attention to your key points by pointing, surrounding, and underlining them. SuperShapes is not a clipart package. It has as its foundation a powerful software engine that lets you easily browse and select from a wide variety of pre-created shape effects. It also lets you edit the effects to your heart's content. For example, you can change colors, timing, and size, even proportions! But, the greatest thing about SuperShapes is that you can usually get the exact effect you want with just a few clicks. Its interface is very intuitive. And it works right inside Microsoft PowerPoint, which helps make it even easier to use! ... Read more

Features

• Over 140 still and animated effects per volume!
• Buttons, text frames, animated arrows and more!
• All shapes are antialiased!
• All shapes are customizable!
• Quick and easy to use!

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Corel iGrafx FlowCharter 2003.Enjoy improved productivity and ease-of-use when creating flowcharts, process maps, and other business diagrams with iGrafx FlowCharter(TM) 2003, the newest version of the award winning ABC FlowCharter(TM). Document even the most complex processes, systems, or organization charts in record time using the intuitive drawing features of iGrafx FlowCharter 2003, then output to Web, print or presentations. ... Read more

Features

• Cross-platform compatibility between Mac & PC
• All new Classic, Refined & Designer font styles with extended font families
• International character set, including Euro symbol
• New FontManager that can view installed fonts in TrueType, Postscript & OpenType format
• Improved language support and smaller font file size

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MacFonts 2
I am an amateur to the world of mac /computers in general, so with that being said... I have chosen, "Mac Fonts 2" for my first review!!! I found the installation to be a little confusing and very time consuming. I was hoping to be able to install all fonts at once, instead of clicking on each individual font. The good news however, is that the" Mac Fonts 2" has 1000 fonts to choose from and a great variety for whatever the occasion may be. The quick reference guide provided with this software indicates thatboth true type,and open type fonts are available; the open type format is designed to work cross platform on macs and pc's, however, you must have compatible software. I give this software a 3 for moose rating. ... Read more

Features

• Works with Avery and other standard business papers
• Work with a number of industry-standard templates
• Match your cards to letterhead & envelopes
• Customize templates, insert logos and images
• Prints to any inkjet or laser printer

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

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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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Business Cards define the essence of your Company. With Quickstart Business Card Maker Pro you can make business cards with a professional âlook and feelâ in minutes! Unleash your imagination with professionally designed layouts, spectacular images, brilliant backdrops, and patterns; plus distinctive fonts and bold headlines. ... Read more

Features

• Layouts, clip art and fonts are all included -- start working as soon as you install
• Select from multiple layouts, images, backdrops and patterns for truly distinctive fonts and headlines
• Import artwork and designs from other programs and store them in a searchable database
• Create an eye-catching business card in 3 easy steps - Chose a Business Card Type, enter your info and print it up
• Includes thousands of fonts for Mac and PC

Features

• New templates and Express Check Designer helps you design the perfect checks every time
• Print out informative business reports for your home or business
• Create personal and business-size checks, for printing or sending by email
• Schedule your bill payments for accurate, on-time payments of outstanding or upcoming invoices
• Simple one-pass check printing from Quicken, Quickbooks and Money

Amazon.com Product Description

Marketing Builder features tools to plan, create, and measure your marketing projects and programs. It dramatically simplifies the process of creating a marketing program and also includes tools for everyday marketing tasks: advertising and direct-mail analysis, press releases, and more. For small or medium-sized businesses, Marketing Builder is perfect for planning projects and programs, creating marketing materials, and measuring the results and effectiveness of those programs. Use Marketing Builder to turn individual projects into an organized program that builds brand awareness, positions products, and analyzes marketing options. ... Read more

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Terrible customer service and technical support
Unnervingly bad customer service and technical support make this product more than just a waste of money.This product will cost you time and effort.I suggest Palo Alto software's Market Plan Pro and Ad Plan Pro as an alternative.

Please, don't suffer what I had to at the hands of these amateurs!

This is a VERY STRONG product!
I doubt that the first reviewer wasn't on the staff of a competitor.This is a very good program and is very user-friendly.The menus are well laid out and the interface is smooth.The marketing ideas recommended are time-proven and effective.There are no fadish or gimmicky marketing tools here.Just practical and well presented information.Good job JIAN!

Not very strong
I found Marketing Builder to be a product that was not very reliable or helpful in building my marketing plans.I usually wasted more time with the software then writing.I'd recommend using a different marketing plan software.

Marketing Builder Interactive Rview
I haven't used this product yet but my friend told me that it got his marketing off to a great start. he was just an entry-level marketer and now he has clients from around the state trying to get his product. Hopefully this software will do the same for mine. ... Read more

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NEW! A fifth volume of the ever-popular PowerPlugs: Transitions from CrystalGraphics! Adds innovative television-style 3D effects to your presentations with just a few mouse clicks! PowerPlugs: Transitions produces stunning visual effects and realistic, synchronized sounds in your PowerPoint presentations. This brand new collection of innovative 3D effects allows you a sure way to grab your audiences' attention and make your message more memorable. The software is incredibly easy-to-use-- it plugs directly into PowerPoint, enabling you to add 3D animated transitions right from PowerPoint's Slide Show menu. PowerPlugs: Transitions V is based on 20 innovative styles, including Emerald Screens, Magical Doors, Space Cubes, Virtual Billboard and more. Plus, you can now insert your own images on many of the transition effects! Get all five volumes of PowerPlugs: Transitions and much more in PowerPlugs: Ultimate Combo 14! ... Read more

Features

• Energizes your presentations with eye-catching 3D transition effects!
• Many of the effects allow you insert your own images!
• Adds synchronized sound effects automatically!
• Incredibly easy to use and handsomely affordable!

Features

• Using a set of Smart Wizards, users can easily create new letterhead, business cards, posters, flyers and more
• Multiple clip art images and fonts make your publications fit your personal style
• Powerful word processing tools allow for multi-page text flow, spellchecking, word wrap, justification, tabs, indents and more
• Customizable templates help you get started creating the great-looking documents and brochures you need to keep your business growing!