You can find information about what a business plan is on the wikipedia encyclopedia website. Alternatively if you wanted tips on how to make your own business plan then you could check the entrepeneur website or inventers section on the about website for tips and guides.

Advice for writing a successful business plan can be sought out from a number of places. Forbes and Entrepreneur have websites with guides on how to write an effective business plan. Banks such as Barclays also offer this information online.

A business plan is similar to a sat nav, it shows you how to get where you wish to get. It answers the question, "Where are we now? Where do we want to get? How do we get there?

Yes there are software programs that can help you make a business plan from a template. Some of the programs I know of that could do this for you would be: Business Plan Pro Premier, PaloAlto, and Business Plan Maker Professional.

A business plan for a gas station would contain the same elements as a business plan for any other type of retail establishment - particularly a convenience store. Here are a few links to several sample gas station business plans that you can use as a basis for building your own: * http://www.firstbusiness.ca/guides/GasStation.pdf * http://firstbusiness.ca/guides/ConvenienceStore.pdf * http://www.sanmarcos.net/lulusostrich/