How can a written business plan fix the number one mistake therapists make when starting private practices? Are you doing what you want to be doing with your business? How can you blend financial projections, market needs, and competition analysis into a simple and effective plan?

In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok discusses exactly how to write a business plan with Dave Lavinsky. 

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Meet Dave Lavinsky







Dave Lavinsky is an entrepreneur, author, and business-plan expert with over 25 years of experience helping more than a million founders launch and grow their companies. He is the Co-Founder and President of Growthink, creator of BusinessPlanTemplate.com, and founder of PlanPros.ai, an AI-powered business planning platform. Dave is also the author of the bestselling book Start At The End and has been featured in outlets like Forbes, Entrepreneur, and The Wall Street Journal.

Visit BusinessPlanTemplate, PlanPros.ai, GrowThink, and connect on Facebook and LinkedIn.

In This Podcast



* Work with your financial model 

* “Why am I uniquely qualified to succeed?”

* Look at the market needs

* Competition, marketing, and operations plans

* Dave’s advice to private practitioners



Work with your financial model 

The most common mistake that people make when it comes to business planning is not having a plan at all! A basic business plan works with numbers, and that’s one of the easiest and most effective ways to plan out your new business well. 

So, say you were starting out and launching your own new private practice, a basic yet successful financial plan would look a little something like this: 



Decide on the financial model and how much you will charge per hour

Use your hourly rate to work out how much revenue you will generat...