AI Quick Tips 69: Get help creating a plan for your new business

There are a lot of reasons to create a business plan, including:

• Determining your financial needs
• Choosing a revenue model
• Creating your vision
• Creating a roadmap to achieve your vision
• Identifying your target customer(s) and their problems
• Determining how to market your product or service
• Having a way to measure success and track progress
• Having a business plan is necessary if you want to raise or borrow money
• Etc.

The main reason that people don’t create business plans is that “it takes too long.”  Well, it doesn’t have to.

You can use an AI tool like ChatGPT to get you started and do a lot of the heavy lifting for your next business plan.

Here is a sample prompt -

You are an expert business planning consultant.  You are also an expert in {the field your business is in}

Outline a business plan structure for {description of your business}

You can, of course, add more details, but this is enough in most cases.

Here’s a filled-out example -

You are an expert business planning consultant.  You are also an expert in photography

Outline a business plan structure for a headshot photography studio.

Output -

Now, instead of starting from scratch, you are filling in details.  Add and remove sections as necessary.