I'm just a sucker with no business plan

Heard Offspring's "Self Esteem" on the way home for lunch today - that will get you pumped up and ready to launch a killer business.

Anyway, just a real quick posting here, nothing too special. Just taking a 5 minute break to cool down my brain.

So one of my main goals in the next week or so is to try and get someone to actually pay me money to do something for them. I think if I sat down with someone face to face, I could make a good case and come up with an idea to help their business out, but the problem is most of the businesses I've identified that I think I could help out are not local.

This means what I lack in personal interaction I'm going to have to make up for with professionalism to help legitimize the business. So I'm trying to balance getting setup as a formal business i.e. a good sales pitch, marketing material, official website, demo software to give the customer etc. etc. with just going out and contacting someone.

I actually have a pretty good business plan to start from that I worked on for a couple of months when I approached a large business about a possible joint venture, but it needs to be modified for a stand along business.

I contacted the Wisconsin business answerline today about getting someone to review my revamped business plan (and also motivate me to quickly get it done) and they alreaday sent me a bunch of useful information and questions used to evaluate a business plan.

So now I just have to hammer out a new version of the business plan which will force me to think through a lot of the details I haven't totally hashed out yet. I'm guessing it'll take about 20 hours of work, but I've got the rest of today and the weekend to get a good start.