The Business Mentor CD-ROM™

The Entrepreneur's Business Planning Advisor

It's your business. You want it to grow. Now there's a tool to help you. With the assistance of The Business Mentor™, the process of creating and growing your business just got easier…and smarter.

The Business Mentor is a suite of powerful business assessment and planning tools including mentors that will guide you through the process of defining your product/service, writing a marketing plan, developing financial projections, and more.

It's Just a Click Away

Follow The Business Mentor's simple question-and-answer format to build, save, and print a comprehensive business plan or feasibility plan. Helpful links direct you to value-added information about specific topics, including resources, sample business and feasibility plans, interactive stories from successful entrepreneurs, and more. The Business Mentor provides the tools you need to:

• Assess your business needs.
• Evaluate the feasibility of your business venture.
• Develop a plan for starting, operating, or growing your business.
• Prepare financial projections for determining feasibility, planning, and financing.
• Learn more about successful business strategies.

Information at Your Fingertips

The Business Mentor empowers you to learn in a way that meets your unique needs and preferences. You can choose to have your personal business mentor guide you through the assessment and planning tools or explore the CD-ROM on your own. Either way, you'll have access to outstanding resources and solutions that inspire you to follow your entrepreneurial dreams. Access the information you need with The Business Mentor's powerful, intuitive features:

• Easy-to-use templates, in step-by-step Q&A format, to build a printable feasibility or business plan.
• Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets to generate reports for financial feasibility, start-up costs, financial ratios, budget assumptions and monthly cash flow.
• A personal business mentor to guide you through the planning process, challenge your thinking and direct you to resources and solutions.
• A Mentor's Office that contains all of the CD-ROM's resources in one easy-to-access location. Search the glossary, find a valuable resource or a sample business plan, watch a video of an entrepreneur's success story…and more.

Built from the Best

The Business Mentor is based on the curriculum and experience of the renowned FastTrac program, which has provided training to tens of thousands of entrepreneurs. The world of entrepreneurship has never been so accessible!

Contact the FastTrac Fulfillment Center to order The Business Mentor.