(Washington, DC) - Be sure to visit DSLBD’s Enhanced Business Information Center (eBIC) to use our two new tools for planning your business: Business Plan Pro and Marketing Pro.

Business Plan Pro has many features, including over 500 complete sample business plans that are in the preferred format of lenders, investors, and the SBA. Giving you step-by-step instructions and advice, you can create a business plan using many different tools, including step-by-step financial guide to help you through the process of forecasting your sales, expenses, and cash flow. You can also save your plan to Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF, or PowerPoint.

Marketing Pro is marketing plan software that allows you to plan marketing activities to grow your business. It guides you through development of an action-oriented marketing plan that helps you: define your ideal customer; develop your marketing message; find new leads and customers; forecast sales and expenses; schedule your activities; and track your progress.

Along with these new tools, the eBIC’s regular treasure trove of business tools is available to visitors. These include: business magazines and books, computer access, one-on-one business assessments, and a regular register of monthly training classes and workshops that address a broad variety of start-up and development issues, including establishing a business, building business credit and loans, business management and development, accounting, marketing and business certification in the District.

For more information or to take advantage of all of these offerings, please call (202) 727-2241 or stop by and visit the eBIC, located within the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW.