Business Planning Software and Search-Related Services
Ultimate Business Planner
A well-conceived business plan can be the most important factor in the success of a business. A business plan can help you determine if your business will be a financial success, define your business goals, and identify the best methods for achieving those goals. It can be used internally to communicate goals and strategies to key employees — and can be used externally to obtain funding.
Many investors want to know the "ins and outs" of your business. As a result, your business plan needs to explain your products and services, markets, competition, industry, operations, and opportunities. Without a solid plan, a business may lose focus, market share, customers, money, and potential investors, or a new business may never get off the ground.
You don't need any special business expertise to use Ultimate Business Planner. Its easy-to-use, step-by-step approach breaks down the process of writing a business plan into two main sections -- forecasting your financials and writing your plan.
Plaza Company Wizards' Ultimate Business Planner guides you through each business-planning step quickly and easily. Developed for entrepreneurs by small-business experts and small-business owners, Ultimate Business Planner simplifies the process of writing a business plan and gives you expert advice, tips, and hints based on proven business practices.
System Requirements:
- Pentium or higher
- Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP or higher
- 16 MB RAM
- 20 MB free hard disk space
- VGA or higher resolution monitor (800 x 600 recommended)
- CD-ROM Drive
Pricing
Plaza Company Wizards' Ultimate Business Planner sells for $105.
Trademark Explorer™
Need to trademark your business name? Leverage Plaza Company Wizards' online incorporation services and trademark search expertise to trademark your selected business name.
Selecting the "perfect" business name for your company is a hard enough process. You don’t want to complete this process just to find that your ideal name has already been taken. If you are going to invest time and money in creating a brand name and developing the marketing materials to promote your company, the costs of a name change could be staggering.
If you are thinking about applying for a trademark registration, you first will want to know if there are pre-existing registrations or pending applications which may interfere with, or prevent, your successful registration. Knowing before you go through the time and expense of filing, rather than after, is always preferable.
Plaza Company Wizards' Trademark Explorer™ is a comprehensive screening tool that saves you time and legal fees by identifying terms and logos that are already trademarked by others. Trademark Explorer™ has advantages over the free screening tool by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and those of other websites because it uses advanced logic to reduce the number of searches and expertise required to achieve meaningful results.
Pricing
Try Trademark Explorer™ without risk. Initial search results are free. Detailed trademark reports can be viewed quickly and affordably for $24.95.
Each paid report is also delivered to you by email for future viewing.
State Name Check
Incorporating a business? Consider using Plaza Company Wizards' Name Check services when choosing a company name to ensure that your desired company name is available in the state where you plan to form your business.
Naming a new business is a step that should be given careful consideration. A name helps customers find and remember your company and to tell them what your company does. Given the prevalence of online commerce today, business owners are often thinking about a website and potential website address when they are naming their companies. Another factor to consider when choosing a company name is whether your desired company name is available in your intended state of formation.
The name of a corporation, limited liability company (LLC), limited partnership (LP), limited liability partnership (LLP) or nonprofit corporation must be distinguishable on the records of the state government. If the name is not unique, the state will reject the company’s formation documents.
Pricing
To ensure that your company's name is available in your state of formation, Plaza Company Wizard includes a preliminary Name Check as a part of our all of our formation services as well as our foreign qualification service. Plaza Company Wizard also offers Name Checks as a stand-alone item for a fee of $45.
State Name Reservation
Reserve your corporate or llc name before you incorporate your business to ensure your corporate or llc name is available when you incorporate.
If you are not yet ready to incorporate or form a limited liability company (LLC), but would like to reserve your business name, Plaza Company Wizard offers state Name Reservations. Once a Name Check is performed, we can reserve that company name for you for a certain period of time. Allowed reservation time frames depend upon the state.
The name of a corporation, LLC, limited partnership (LP), limited liability partnership (LLP) or nonprofit corporation must be distinguishable on the records of the state government. If the name is not unique, or if it is already in use by another business formed in that state, the state will reject the formation documents.
Pricing
The cost for a state Name Reservation, with name check, is $65 + state fees.