Burke Franklin
Burke Franklin is the Creator & CEO of BusinessPowerTools.com,
best known for BizPlanBuilder® software which has sold more than 2 million copies enabling business leaders to raise more than $3 Billion to fund their companies...
Burke is an entrepreneur with marketing & management experience of more than 40 years.
He says, “It's crucial that your innovations succeed in our world. This means that your business must be profitable and sustainable – WITHOUT LOSING CONTROL, YOUR MIND OR YOUR SHIRT!!”
The hardest part of building and running a business is finding the time to actually build and work ON your business.
There are so MANY things to do, and so many fires to put out, that you rarely have time to clearly define your vision… priorities… policies… and procedures… in context of everything going on… AND communicate it with your employees and investors. ESPECIALLY when you have to create it all from SCRATCH!
This is where Business Power Tools can save your bacon.
It's loaded with professionally-scripted and formatted document and spreadsheet templates you can easily customize to your business.
Burke was elected to the White House Conference on Small Business and nominated for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year." Burke’s book, Business Black Belt, applies lessons from 40+ years of personal development workshops, martial arts, and real-world business success.
What Burke's Clients & Subscribers say...
Ernie Neve, CPA
“It’s been awhile, but I have been using BizPlanBuilder in my own business, and in my capacity as a successful CPA / Consultant, for many years now.
It is a terrific product, extremely useful,
with output that is well received by lenders and investors. Trying to get my own business to the next level, pursuing growth and acquisitions, immediately thought of you
and your products. I love the updates!”
~ Ernie Neve, CPA, CVA, CTC, CVO
The Neve Group, LTD
Dr. Paul Wendee
Investment Banker
“As you know, I’ve advised entrepreneurs growing businesses for more than 30 years.
Their problems?
How to handle the everyday challenges of organizing, planning, funding, managing, marketing, policies, procedures, sales…
and everything else!
Our relationship often begins with a single issue, but they keep me on to guide them through the endless challenges.
As you might imagine, there are hundreds of apps to address these issues. But who has time — not only to address the issues, but to learn all the apps?
Initially, I tried digging up and repurposing some old documents, and downloading some random templates for free, but there was no coordination or continuity between them.
~ Dr. Paul M. Wendee, DBA, MBA, CFP®
Investment Banker, Management Consultant
Managing Director & Chief Value Officer
Liz Jamieson
Certified Business Advisor,
Washington SBDC
“I have used BizPlanBuilder and it has an incredible amount of information, templates, spreadsheets, sample content, and tools in it. It is a very robust system (way more robust and flexible than LivePlan, if you ask me)! Burke has decades of experience with business financing and business planning software. I have also used Burke as a guest speaker to talk about pitch development and pitching angel investors, etc., as part of the ScaleUp program. Burke is a great resource for us to have available to us!”
~ Liz Jamieson | Certified Business Advisor, Washington SBDC at Washington State University
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