These things NEVER go in a proposal
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A proposal is not a negotiation document. It’s not a place where you indicate gifts or incentives may come to the buyer. Don’t stick a bunch of charts in the proposal they’re just going to make the proposal hard to understand. A proposal is not a place for a detailed list of deliverables. A simple…
Crafting a Successful Proposal
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Today we’re going to talk about how to craft a successful proposal. Before we start, though, let’s step back and consider the goal of a proposal before we dig into the details of what actually goes into it. The sole job of a proposal is to lead the buyer into a purchase with you. It…
Want to earn more, offer options in your proposals
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I hope you don’t just send a prospect a single price in a proposal and then hope they say yes. Not sending options is going to cut your earnings and gives your prospects a binary decision. They can only say yes or no. If you take just a bit more time and dig just a…
Defining Deliverables, Outcomes, Metrics and Values
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Real business owners who want to take their business to the next level aren’t interested in airy-fairy notions of how your work will help their company. They want tangible, concrete evidence by which they can measure the success of a project. They want to know that you both line up in your thoughts on the…
Stop wasting time by sending proposals to the wrong people
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You may think that sending proposals to anyone that asks is a good thing. That volume will win the day and be reflected in your income. But you’d be wrong. A proposal is for a single person in an organization and only that one person. Watch today’s video to find out who all the wrong…
4 reasons you rush a proposal and why they hurt you
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What is your proposal win percentage? Are you happy with the rates you get on the proposals you win? If that win percentage is below 80%, or you’re not happy with your rates, you’re most likely rushing through the proposal phase. I did the same thing when I was starting out. Someone would call me…
Distraction
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They sit around us, no that’s not right they don’t sit. Distractions jump and kick and scream and pout and punch and scream some more. What they want is a fleeting moment of our attention and to get it they act like an over stimulated, over sugared, tired 5 year old to get it. The…
Want to win proposals, don’t make these 2 mistakes
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We all want to win the proposals we send but it doesn’t happen. Here are 2 reasons that you don’t win proposals. 1. You never talked to the buyer You just talked to the peon that got sent out to collect proposals and they really don’t know what the economic value is of the project.…
Lets make your 2016 crush your 2015 together
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Merry Christmas to you and Happy New Year (in a few days). All month we’ve been talking about planning your business. We’ve covered everything from your client vetting process to long-term follow-up marketing with awesome clients. You can see all the content in this series on the sidebar. I know that all the stuff experienced…
We all are trying to find our skin
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We each have a unique honest self. A state of being where we feel at rest in our own skin. The problem is that we are all trying to find where that place actually is. Finding that dwelling place is hard because it’s not a single place. It’s a moment in time combined with a…
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