SCORE has a very slick website that will match you up with an "advisor". I used them about a year or 2 ago, when I wrote a business plan for some friends up in Vermont, the key thing was, after the business plan was finished to get "letters of intent" from customers. The SCORE advisor was very helpful in explaining how that worked & what format the banks were looking for. I still might have the business plan & associated spreadsheets around, E me if you want them. It took a big chunk out of me to create them. Keith Deterling