Should I hire someone to write a business plan for me?
In general, I'm against that. I mean, because I don't think anyone knows it as well as you do - knows your idea. And I know that people are uncomfortable if you've never done one before, but guess what? The first time I did it, I'd never done it before either.There are so many guides and books and everything. Get one that you're comfortable with, just follow the instructions and work your way through it. Pay the price, because you'll know that much more about your business. You're going to have to do that, you're going to have to know your business, anyway. Yeah, there are people that can do these things for you. It may or may not increase your chances of success as far as getting a loan, if that's your primary purpose of doing it. Some of them charge an awful lot of money. An awful lot of money. So much so that I'm myself suspicious of those that don't charge very much. It's not that they're cheating or anything like that, because they have to do this research. That's another reason it costs so much: you know a lot of the answers already yourself, or know where to go. They don't know, so they have to get that information, if it's a good business plan. And that costs money to do that.
