Proposal Writing – Do I eat my own dog food?

Dog Food

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 [...]

Proposal Writing – Choosing Your Proposal Team – Gordon or Winston?

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Listening to ‘The Brown Years’ recently, about ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on BBC Radio  – with its catalogue of ‘who didn’t get on with who, who was incompetent, and who didn’t suffer fools gladly’ etc, I was reminded of how often the success of a major undertaking depends on the careful selection of the [...]

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 [...]

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