About Us

CorporateBusinessPlan.com

In the fall of 2009 two friends were at a church camp out for father and sons and were sitting around a campfire talking and eventually got chatting about their jobs. Both work in printing and marketing and work with many small to medium businesses on a daily basis. As they discussed the challenges that those businesses face, and consequently how those challenges affected them in their support roles to small business. They recognized that one of the weakest areas for many small businesses is planning, as they discussed the challenges they realized that there was an opportunity to create tools and information channels that could be of great benefit to small business. While the internet has tons of information available, there was not a clear refining of that information for small business. The two friends realized that together they had some unique skills to bring together to potentially create a product and business to help small businesses succeed! They got to work and in 2010 released their first product that trains small business on the basics of creating a viable business plan, beginning with market and business analysis, mission and vision statements, creating goals and objectives and finally an introduction to financial statements. In the Summer of 2010 they brought another partner and friend in to help round out their company. The following is a short biography of each of the partners and the skills they bring to the table.

Dale Bohman

Dale Bohman

Dale has worked in printing and marketing since his senior year in high school when he took a job doing old school layout and paste up for a small printing company. At 19 he served a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Finland and speaks fluent Finnish! He later came to manage that same printing company he started with while he completed a degree in accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is now the General Manager and one of the owners of a PIP Printing & Marketing franchise in Kissimmee, Florida. Dale’s store was recognized as the National Franchisee of the year in 2008 and also in that same year name Small Business of the Year by the local Chamber of Commerce. In 2006, 2007 and 2008 he was also awarded the franchise Southeast Regional salesperson of the year and has done several presentations to the PIP Printing network nationally. Dale has always been heavily involved in the companies sales and working directly with his customers to help them grow their businesses and be successful. It has been in this role that he has observed many small businesses struggling and recognized that while their owners had great primary skills in their business or trade, they had never received training in business management. Based on his experience in running his own company and observing the struggles of other businesses, Dale created a large amount of the content of the Business Plan course and teaches the lessons. Dale also has a marketing blog that can be found at www.PIPMarketing.com and you can see his company’s website at www.PIPMarketingGroup.com. He is happily married to his wife of 23 years and has 3 sons, and is also actively involved in the Boy Scouts and is an Eagle Scout himself.

Jim Rowland

Jim Rowland

Jim has owned his own Internet Marketing Company since 2006. His most successful website, UmbrellasAndBeyond.com, has shown consistent growth since its inception, even through our country’s recent downturn!  Jim has used his extensive knowledge of SEO to rank over 100 keywords in the top 5 slots in Google’s organic search results! JDK & Associates, now employs a professional staff that handle the daily operations so he can focus on family and other interests.  Jim started his business as a part time endeavor with his son to teach his son about business and to create residual income to secure a successful retirement.  Throughout his professional career, Jim has assisted small to Fortune 500 size companies reach their sales and marketing goals while representing a very large commercial printer.  Jim’s standard of providing “Positively Outrageous Service” has earned him long term, loyal customers who call upon his extensive knowledge in the print business to solve many impossible objectives.  In the past few years, Jim has taken the time to learn internet marketing and found success in implementing these lessons in a variety of ways.  Jim has come to understand the power of the internet and new media and the many business opportunities they represent!  Jim is happily married to his wife of 21 years and has 2 sons and 2 daughters.

Craig Wakefield

Craig Wakefield

Craig Wakefield has a B.A. from Brigham Young University, a Juris Doctorate Degree from the University Of Nebraska School Of Law and a Master of Law in Taxation from the University of Miami.  Craig spent over 25 years counseling people as an attorney.  He specialized in business and asset protection planning, real estate and bankruptcy.  Craig over the past thirty years has focused on  helping people structure and start businesses; handle litigation that involved those businesses; worked to protect the client and their companies from creditors; and when needed helped with bankruptcies.  To round out his experience Craig obtained and used at various times licenses as a mortgage broker, real estate agent, life insurance agent, title insurance agent and stock broker.  Craig has owned and operated a variety of businesses that have ranged from title insurance companies, mortgage brokerage companies, life insurance companies, to various internet related businesses.  Craig was the President of Osceola County United Way and served on the boards locally for Greater Orlando United Way, Boy Scouts of America, the American Cancer Society, and Junior Achievement.  He is married to his wife, Laura, for thirty plus years with four children.