College of Business Research Support

Business Plan Examples

• Business Plans via Library online databases
  • In Virtual Reference Collection (Gale) database, search for "Business Plans Handbook."
•  Business Plans via the Internet
  • Writing a Business Plan -US Small Business Administration
  • Bplans.com -500 free business plan examples. 
  • Entrepreneur.com Business Plans - How to Create & Examples.
  • Inc.com -  "How to" guide.

Building Your Business Plans

• Customers and target area demographics; rules & regulations, etc.
  • Library Databases:
    • Demographics Now
• Pinellas 
  • Pinellas Planning Council -   http://www.pinellascounty.org/boards/ppc/special.htm
  • Pinellas County 
    •  County Profiles Pinellas | County description  - growth and climate
    • Zoning laws for Pinellas - http://www.pinellascounty.org/Plan/default.htm
• Tampa Bay area
  • Tampa Chamber Of Commerce 
  • Tampa Bay Business Journal - http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/
  • Tampa Bay Business Journal - http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay
• National
  • www.city-data.com- great information by zip code
  • Population Reference Bureau
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Fedstats  |  https://nces.ed.gov/FCSM/reports.asp
  • Information Please Almanac
  • Tax Administration - State Comparisons
  • USA Statistics In Brief (US Census info)
  • U.S. Census Bureau 

 Salaries

• http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm - Bureau of Labor Statistics - wages   
• https://www.payscale.com/salary-calculator