Business Development – When trust breaks down

Trust

Let me tell you a story. Every now and then I have real life experiences which prove to me that what I teach here on this site holds good. I consult as a bid manager and am often asked to return for repeat work. Relationships. I help out by leading bid teams or by providing coaching and [...]

Proposal Management Plan

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Everybody involved directly in the production of the bid documents needs to understand how it is to be managed. An obvious statement, maybe. But the form in which they can receive this information can vary depending on the size (and geographical spread) of the team and the size of the opportunity. The workload of the bid and [...]

Writing a Proposal – How would you ideally want to write about it?

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It’s the eternal dilemma when writing a proposal; how to structure the proposal. Ideally, you want to choose how to tell your story.  That way you’re more in control and the selling story can be written with an elegant and relevant logic. Imagine telling a friend or a colleague about your clever widget or a [...]

Proposal Writing – Making your message stick

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Proposal Writing is never far from my thoughts because of what I do – both here and offline.  I was talking with a friend the other day whilst driving home from work.  In passing she mentioned a newspaper article she’d read which said that people who read information using a Kindle didn’t recall information – [...]

Proposal Writing – Do I eat my own dog food?

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For the last 8 weeks I’ve been leading a small team of people developing the costs, producing the price and writing a proposal to supply equipment to a government customer. That’s what I do in my time away from here. I enjoy it a lot. I must because all the horror stories you hear about [...]

Proposal Writing With Virtual Teams Across Continents and Time zones

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Effectively building a large virtual proposal writing team located across continents is among the major challenges in the bid and proposal world. Imagine a multi-million dollar bid in which the prime contractor in America, with contributing authors located in the different time zones of Minnesota, Chicago, Washington and California, is teaming with a company in Hyderabad, India [...]

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