My top ten tips for creating winning proposals

One job in which I’ve been involved many times over the years, both directly and for my clients, has been writing proposals, and material for proposals. From my years selling contact centre software and telephony and drafting lengthy, complex proposals and responses to tender, through to working as a freelancer and drafting my own (far shorter) proposals, and assisting clients with their own output, there’s nothing in the proposals arena that I haven’t had a hand in, in some form or another; Q&A databases; standard proposal frameworks; proposal layouts and structure; proof-reading and quality control; corporate text and product descriptions; features and benefits; products and services; from massive multi-phase corporate tender responses to making a two-page quotation into a selling document. Along the way, I’ve helped transform some dire documents into strong sellers.

Click here to download my Top Ten Tips for getting it right when it comes to crafting winning proposals.
 

16th Apr 2011