Here are some free online business plan samples for an apparel business – just change them to suit your own business

Gree Design
Retail Clothing

Other resources that can help you write your business plan:

- SBA Business Plan Basics
- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section
- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section,,00.html

You may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:

- Bplans.com
- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners
- VFinance – View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format.
- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan.
- PlanWare Planning software and information.
- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan.
-SBA Business Planning Guide
- Small Business Advancement Center
- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center.
- Business Plans Index – A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

I am sure you have an idea or product or service in your mind. According to the marketing genius, Seth Godin, everybody is an expert in some field. I have successfully started my online business on Squidoo. It is the best place for anybody to show his talent or to sell anything plus it gets good traffic if one follows the instructions and advice.

Read what Seth has to say:
” People are looking for you.

It’s easy.No IT department. No programming. No credit cards.

It’s all about the community.

You can generate income and traffic

You can raise money for charity

You can sell stuff

You can sell stuff from eBay too

The Best Reason of All :

Your lens can show people the way
You can use your lens to share your expertise and light a path for people looking for something online.
You can highlight the best websites
You can teach people about a concept
You can do a poll to gauge what people think
You can highlight an eBay auction
You can point people to political action opportunities
You can establish your identity
You can make a difference ”

All it takes to make a Squidoo Lens (i.e., website) is hardly 5 minutes!

It normally takes 2 to 3 months to start getting a decent traffic to your lens. You get paid monthly depending upon the performance of your lens. There is no limit to the number of lenses you publish.

The following tips deserve attention:

1. Choose your lens name carefully. Try Google’s Keyword Tool for help since there should be good traffic for your chosen niche. Check with Word Tracker too for traffic count.

2. Use tag cloud generator to find appropriate tags or keyphrases.

3. Estimate Keyword Difficulty with SEO Tools.

4. Get keyword / keyphrase synonyms using Google & Yahoo Suggestions. Check their traffic with Word Tracker.

5. Build your lens using good title – 5 to 7 words starting with the niche keyword / keyphrase.

6. Write a good intro starting with niche keyword / keyphrase in bold and other major / minor keywords / keyphrases.

7. Split the content into different sub-topics.

8. Use relevant ads from eBay, Amazon etc. (which are available as modules in any lens).

9. Use Plexo links using relevant quality content.

10. Start a blog on the same topic on Blogger, Word Press etc. and regularly update them with link to your lens.

11. Use promotional tools like Flickr and some social bookmarking / networking sites.

12. Use OnlyWire to ping your blog.

13. Write articles on the same topic and publish in ezines like EzineArticles, GoArticles etc.

14. Not but not the least join relevant forums and keep inter-acting without spamming.

I think this should solve your difficulty.

You may be interested to know that one lensmaster made $ 1000 in a month only from one lens!