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 [...]

Business Proposal Writing – Hyperlinking a Proposal

Hyperlinking a Business Proposal is easy, isn’t it? We’ve all read hyperlinked documents on the web. They’re a joy to browse and read. Such a timesaver for the time-poor reader. You only need to read the bare minimum. Just sufficient for your knowledge needs.  If only the rest of life was this efficient!

Proposal Writing Graphics – A Brief Word About Colour

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In my last posts I said I would be going into a little bit more detail on the images used in Proposal Writing and Executive Summary preparation.  This post discusses colour schemes for proposals. Your proposal will look better and more “together” if thought has been given to the colour schemes used both in the Proposal [...]

Executive Summary Graphics – 3 Step Planning Process

Develop a Template Focussed on What You're Trying to Achieve

I mentioned in my last post that executive summary and proposal graphics is a large and important topic and that I would dedicate individual posts to it. This is the first of these. More will follow: There are two principal objectives for graphics: the first is to communicate information; and, the second is to influence [...]

Executive Summary – On a Single Page

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You have about 30 seconds to grab your customer’s interest and keep it. To do this they have to understand at a glance how your solution addresses their pressing problems. Your whole offering should be able to be described on a single page. Don’t forget – you are selling, not describing – so the benefits [...]

Executive Summary – It should sell, not describe!

An Executive Summary MUST sell how your offering addresses the customer's main Hot Buttons

If you are at all interested in Executive Summary writing, you’ve probably already read several articles, web pages – even books – about writing the perfect business proposal executive summary, maybe as part of trying to find out how to write a business proposal. Most of them offer a wealth of well-intended suggestions about all [...]

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